> Shrodinger's model of the electron wave function corresponding to a charge density (probability aside) is controversial among physicists It's more than "cont

> Shrodinger's model of the electron wave function corresponding to a charge density (probability aside) is controversial among physicists It's more than "controversial"; it was shown not to work way back in the 1920s. That's why Born's probability interpretation was adopted--it was the only one left standing. > I suspect most chemists doing DFT agree with it. If all you ever have to deal with is atoms and molecules, the Schrodinger charge density interpretation sort of works--it's at least a good enough heuristic for that domain. But quantum mechanics gets applied to lots of other domains besides atoms and molecules. The charge density interpretation breaks down in those other domains, whereas the Born probability interpretation does not. And physicists who had to deal with those other domains figured that out, as noted above, back in the 1920s, which is why Schrodinger's charge density interpretation was discarded, at least as any kind of fundamental aspect of quantum theory.