3.2 Evaluation of 60 exchange–correlation functionals
The usefulness of the three criteria described above can be evaluated on
the set of 60 popular exchange–correlation functional approximations.\cite{kozuch_dsd-pbep86:_2011,goerigk_thorough_2011,goerigk_general_2010,grimme_semiempirical_2006a,mardirossian__2016,grimme_effect_2011,zhao_design_2005,adamo_toward_1999,krukau_influence_2006,henderson_generalized_2008,vosko_accurate_1980,becke_density-functional_1988,lee_development_1988,becke_density-functional_1993,stephens_ab-initio_1994,mardirossian_use_2016,sabatini_nonlocal_2013,mardirossian_mapping_2015,vydrov_nonlocal_2010,head-gordon2014,sun_strongly_2015,zhao_m06_2008,zhang_comment_1997,hamprecht_development_1998,zhao_exchange-correlation_2005,zhao_design_2006,yu_mn15:_2016,boese_development_2004,grimme_consistent_2010,perdew_generalized_1996,perdew_workhorse_2009,peverati_screened-exchange_2012,perdew_unified_1991} \cite{perdew_atoms_1992,boese_new_2002,staroverov_comparative_2002,zhao_exploring_2008,peverati_screened-exchange_2012,perdew_density-functional_1986,wilson_hybrid_2001,peverati_communication:_2011}\cite{yu_mn15-l:_2016,peverati_improved_2012}\cite{hammer_improved_1999,peverati_m11-l:_2012,zhao_new_2006,boese_new_2000,handy_left-right_2001,slater_simplification_1951,hartree_wave_1928,fock_naherungsmethode_1930} The functionals is an expanded set of those that were
originally selected to develop the ASCDB database, and they include a broad set of approximations across all
different rungs of Jacob’s ladder, as well as several decades of
functional development. The list of all used functionals, as well as detailed reference
to their original publications, are reported in the last column of Table \ref{182001}.