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Efficient Isoparametric Integration over Arbitrary, Space-Filling Voronoi Polyhedra for Electronic-Structure Calculations

Materials Science 2013-12-25 v1

Abstract

A numerically efficient, accurate, and easily implemented integration scheme over convex Voronoi polyhedra (VP) is presented for use in {\it ab-initio} electronic-structure calculations. We combine a weighted Voronoi tessellation with isoparametric integration via Gauss-Legendre quadratures to provide rapidly convergent VP integrals for a variety of integrands, including those with a Coulomb singularity. We showcase the capability of our approach by first applying to an analytic charge-density model achieving machine-precision accuracy with expected convergence properties in milliseconds. For contrast, we compare our results to those using shape-functions and show our approach is greater than 10510^{5} faster and 10710^{7} more accurate. A weighted Voronoi tessellation also allows for a physics-based partitioning of space that guarantees convex, space-filling VP while reflecting accurate atomic size and site charges, as we show within KKR methods applied to Fe-Pd alloys.

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@article{arxiv.1105.4888,
  title  = {Efficient Isoparametric Integration over Arbitrary, Space-Filling Voronoi Polyhedra for Electronic-Structure Calculations},
  author = {Aftab Alam and S. N. Khan and Brian G. Wilson and D. D. Johnson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.4888},
  year   = {2013}
}

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12 Pages, 9 Figures, 4 Table

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