An order-N electronic structure theory with generalized eigenvalue equations and its application to a ten-million-atom system
Materials Science
2012-04-04 v1 Computational Physics
Abstract
A linear-algebraic theory called 'multiple Arnoldi method' is presented and realizes large-scale (order-N) electronic structure calculation with generalized eigen-value equations. A set of linear equations, in the form of (zS-H) x = b, are solved simultaneously with multiple Krylov subspaces. The method is implemented in a simulation package ELSES (http://www.elses.jp) with tight-binding-form Hamiltonians. A finite-temperature molecular dynamics simulation is carried out for metallic and insulating materials. A calculation with atoms was realized by a workstation. The parallel efficiency is shown upto 1,024 CPU cores.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1202.0098,
title = {An order-N electronic structure theory with generalized eigenvalue equations and its application to a ten-million-atom system},
author = {T. Hoshi and S. Yamamoto and T. Fujiwara and T. Sogabe and S. -L. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.0098},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
9 pages, 3 figures. To appear in J. Phys.: Condens. Matter