Density Functionals: Theory and Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. Fundamentals of density functional theory

   • Walter Kohn

   Pages 1-7

3. Density functionals for non-relativistic coulomb systems

   • John P. Perdew, Stefan Kurth

   Pages 8-59

4. Hybrid methods: Combining density functional and wavefunction theory

   • Matthias Ernzerhof

   Pages 60-90

5. Density polarization functional theory

   • Richard M. Martin

   Pages 91-115

6. A guided tour of time-dependent density functional theory

   • Kieron Burke, E. K. U. Gross

   Pages 116-146

7. Relativistic density functional theory

   • Reiner M. Dreizler, Eberhard Engel

   Pages 147-189

8. Back Matter

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This book is an excellent introduction to density functional theory for electrons. Largely written in review style, it will also serve as an excellent overview of recent developments.
Nonrelativistic and relativistic approaches are discussed and conventional ground-state as well as polarization density functional and time-dependent density functional formalisms are introduced. A careful discussion of the exchange-correlation functional and approximations is presented and a chapter is devoted to an analysis of hybrid wavefunction/density-functional approximations.

• Theoretical physics
• density functional theory
• functional theory
• polarization density
• relativistic density functional theory
• time-dependent density

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