van der Waals forces in density functional theory: a review of the vdW-DF method

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Berland, Kristian ^a,e   Cooper, Valentino R ^b   Lee, Kyuho ^c,d   Schröder, Elsebeth ^e   Thonhauser, T ^f   Hyldgaard, Per ^e   Lundqvist, Bengt I ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^f WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density functional theory; Intramolecular forces; London dispersion interaction; Molecular crystals; Physisorption; Sparse matter; Van der Waals forces

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937605982     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/78/6/066501     Document Type: Article

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