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    Jacob’s ladder refers to a hierarchy of increasingly accurate approximations for exchange-correlation functionals, with each “rung” improving the description of electron interactions. The rungs range from simple functionals like the Local Density Approximation, which only uses the local electron density, to more complex methods like Generalized Gradient Approximations, meta-GGA…

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