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by datameta 988 days ago
What does DFT stand for here, could you disambiguate please? Because I also do DFT but it stands for Design For Test (on microprocessors).
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Density Functional Theory. It's the bread and butter of computational condensed matter physicists and materials science simulations, but are mostly used as simulation to validate experimental results, rarely are predictive.