{"id":208425,"date":"2025-03-12T07:20:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/density-functional-theorys-self-interaction-correction-falters-in-transition-metals-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-03-12T07:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:20:53","slug":"density-functional-theorys-self-interaction-correction-falters-in-transition-metals-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/density-functional-theorys-self-interaction-correction-falters-in-transition-metals-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Density functional theory\u2019s self-interaction correction falters in transition metals, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/density-functional-theorys-self-interaction-correction-falters-in-transition-metals-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Density functional theory (DFT) is a cornerstone tool of modern physics, chemistry, and engineering used to explore the behavior of electrons. While essential in modeling systems with many electrons, it suffers from a well-known flaw called self-interaction error. A recent study has identified a new area where a correction for this error breaks down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Density functional theory (DFT) is a cornerstone tool of modern physics, chemistry, and engineering used to explore the behavior of electrons. While essential in modeling systems with many electrons, it suffers from a well-known flaw called self-interaction error. A recent study has identified a new area where a correction for this error breaks down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}