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The speaker says density functional theory is probably the most commonly used simulation method for materials.
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“density functional theory is probably the most commonly used simulation method for materials it kind of comes from Kohn-Hohenberg theorem and Kohn got a Nobel Prize for this when he realized that sure quantum mechanics is very expensive because”Play from 30:56Report a misattribution
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