References

Non-SCC DFTB

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  • G. Seifert, D. Porezag, and T. Frauenheim, Calculations of molecules, clusters, and solids with a simplified LCAO-DFT-LDA scheme,Int. J. Quantum Chemistry 58, 185 (1996).

SCC-DFTB

  • M. Elstner, D. Porezag, G. Jungnickel, J. Elsner, M. Haugk, T. Frauenheim, S. Suhai, and G. Seifert, Self-consistent-charge density-functional tight-binding method for simulations of complex materials properties, Phys. Rev. B 58, 7260 (1998).

Spin polarised DFTB

  • C. Köhler, G. Seifert, and T. Frauenheim, Density-Functional based calculations for Fe(n), (n≤32). Chem. Phys. 309, 23 (2005).

QM/MM coupling

  • W. Han, M. Elstner, K. J. Jalkanen, T. Frauenheim, and S. Suhai, Hybrid SCC-DFTB/Molecular Mechanical Studies of H-Bonded Systems and of N-Acetyl-(L-Ala)n-N’-Methylamide Helices in Water Solution, Int. J. Quant. Chem. 78, 459 (2000).

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Van der Waals interaction (dispersion)

  • M. Elstner, P. Hobza, T. Frauenheim, S. Suhai, and E. Kaxiras, Hydrogen bonding and stacking interactions of nucleic acid base pairs: a density-functional-theory based treatment, J. Chem. Phys. 114, 5149 (2001).

Time dependent DFT

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GW

  • T.A. Niehaus, M. Rohlfing, F. Della Sala, A. Di Carlo, and T. Frauenheim, Quasiparticle energies for large molecules: A tight-binding-based Green’s-function approach, Phys. Rev. A 71, 022508 (2005).

Transport

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  • A. Di Carlo, M. Gheorghe, P. Lugli, M. Stenberg, G. Seifert, Th. Frauenheim, Physica B 314, 86 (2002).