The unreasonable accuracy of asymptotic expansions: Why density functional theory works

ORAL

Abstract

I will discuss why local and semilocal approximations work as well as they do (and why they fail where they fail).

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Authors

  • Kieron Burke

    University of California, Irvine

  • Attila Cangi

    University of California, Irvine

  • Donghyung Lee

    University of California, Irvine

  • Peter Elliott

    University of California, Irvine