English

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 10710^7 atoms was realized by a workstation. The parallel efficiency is shown upto 1,024 CPU cores.

Keywords

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

R2 v1 2026-06-21T20:13:04.686Z