Density Functional Theory: A great physics success story

COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

Abstract

Last year, more than 30,000 scientific papers were published that used Kohn-Sham DFT. The material with the currently highest ever measured superconducting transition temperate (203K) was predicted from such calculations. I will discuss this wonderfully interdisciplinary field in general, the importance of non-empirical approaches to approximating the exchange-correlation functional in particular, and what the future of the field might bring. As a former student of Walter Kohn, I will include my sense of his approach to theoretical physics.

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Authors

  • Kieron Burke

    Departments of Physics and of Chemistry, UC Irvine, Department of Chemistry and of Physics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA, University of California Irvine, University of California, Irvine, Department of Chemistry and of Physics, University of California, Irvine