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Efficient hybrid density functional calculation by deep learning

Materials Science 2023-02-17 v1 Computational Physics

Abstract

Hybrid density functional calculation is indispensable to accurate description of electronic structure, whereas the formidable computational cost restricts its broad application. Here we develop a deep equivariant neural network method (named DeepH-hybrid) to learn the hybrid-functional Hamiltonian from self-consistent field calculations of small structures, and apply the trained neural networks for efficient electronic-structure calculation by passing the self-consistent iterations. The method is systematically checked to show high efficiency and accuracy, making the study of large-scale materials with hybrid-functional accuracy feasible. As an important application, the DeepH-hybrid method is applied to study large-supercell Moir\'{e} twisted materials, offering the first case study on how the inclusion of exact exchange affects flat bands in the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene.

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@article{arxiv.2302.08221,
  title  = {Efficient hybrid density functional calculation by deep learning},
  author = {Zechen Tang and He Li and Peize Lin and Xiaoxun Gong and Gan Jin and Lixin He and Hong Jiang and Xinguo Ren and Wenhui Duan and Yong Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.08221},
  year   = {2023}
}