Home › Forums › density functional theory › XC-functional › Jacob’s ladder This topic has 0 replies, 1 voice, and was last updated 2 months, 1 week ago by Klaas Luyckx. Viewing 1 post (of 1 total) Author Posts October 8, 2024 at 11:11 am #11553 Klaas LuyckxParticipant In the Jacob’s ladder analogy, we use the strategys and functionals that already work. We expand these functionals to include higher order approximations but still use the old functional to start with. Author Posts Viewing 1 post (of 1 total) You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In