Hybrid functionals with local range separation.

Range-separated (screened) hybrid functionals provide a powerful strategy for incorporating nonlocal exact (Hartree-Fock-type) exchange into density functional theory. Existing implementations of range separation use a fixed system-independent screening parameter. Here, we propose a novel method that uses a position-dependent screening function. These locally range-separated hybrids add substantial flexibility for describing diverse electronic structures and satisfy a high-density scaling constraint better than the fixed screening approximation does.

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