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Multilevel domain decomposition for electronic structure calculations

Computational Physics 2007-05-23 v1 Chemical Physics

Abstract

We introduce a new multilevel domain decomposition method (MDD) for electronic structure calculations within semi-empirical and Density Functional Theory (DFT) frameworks. This method iterates between local fine solvers and global coarse solvers, in the spirit of domain decomposition methods.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0511057,
  title  = {Multilevel domain decomposition for electronic structure calculations},
  author = {M. Barrault and E. Cances and W. W. Hager and C. Le Bris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0511057},
  year   = {2007}
}

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36 pages, 23 figures, submitted to Journal of Computational Physics