We discuss several new advances in density functional theory:1) Can density functional theory identify electronic degeneracies: in principle vs in practice2) Some insights into the requirement of nonlocal correlation energy functionals for describing the van-der Waals interactions3) New lessons learned from density functional theory when applied to compute conductance of molecular junctions under Coulomb blockade conditions

Recent progress in problems traditionally hard for density functional theory

240th National Meeting (2010)

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