Accurate electronic excitations for two alkali-halide systems obtained   by density-functional theory and verified by multi-configuration   self-consistent field calculations
  Use of density-functional theory in a $\Delta$self-consistent field framework result in both the ground- and two lowest electronicly excited states of the NaCl and LiCl. The accuracy of this method is confirmed using a multi-configuration self-consistent field method to obtain the same states. The overall good agreement between the calculated ground and excited potential-energy surfaces speaks promising for the computationally simple $\Delta$self-consistent field method. 
A. Hellman and M. Slabanja