Category:ACFDT

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Theory

RPA/ACFDT provides access to the correlation energy of a system. It can be understood as an infinite sum of all bubble diagrams in Feynman's diagrammatic language, where excitonic effects are neglected. RPA/ACFDT is used as a post-processing tool on top of a DFT calculation to obtain a more accurate ground-state energy.

For the full theoretical background, see RPA/ACFDT: Correlation energy in the Random Phase Approximation. This category is part of Many-body perturbation theory.

How to

A practical step-by-step guide: ACFDT/RPA calculations.