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The calculation of electronic properties of materials is an important task of solid state theory, albeit particularly difficult if electronic correlations are strong, for example in transition metals, their oxides and in f-electron systems.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-29 K. Held

Examining phase stabilities and phase equilibria in strongly correlated materials asks for a next level in the many-body extensions to the local-density approximation (LDA) beyond mainly spectroscopic assessments. Here we put the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-26 Daniel Grieger , Christoph Piefke , Oleg E. Peil , Frank Lechermann

The LDA+DMFT approach merges conventional band structure theory in the local density approximation (LDA) with a state-of-the-art many-body technique, the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). This new computational scheme has recently become…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Held , I. A. Nekrasov , N. Blümer , V. I. Anisimov , D. Vollhardt

In this work we analyze the variational problem emerging from the Gutzwiller approach to strongly correlated systems. This problem comprises the two main steps: evaluation and minimization of the ground state energy $W$ for the postulated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-24 J. Kaczmarczyk

The LDA+DMFT method is a very powerful tool for gaining insight into the physics of strongly correlated materials. It combines traditional ab-initio density-functional techniques with the dynamical mean-field theory. The core aspects of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Eva Pavarini

The phase behavior and kinetic pathways of Li1+xV3O8 are investigated by means of density functional theory (DFT) and a cluster expansion (CE) methodology that approximates the system Hamiltonian in order to identify the lowest energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-30 Tonghu Jiang , Michael L. Falk

We propose a method that incorporates explicit derivative discontinuity of the total energy with respect to the number of electrons and treats both delocalization and static correlation effects in density functional calculations. Our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-08 Fei Zhou , Vidvuds Ozolins

We derive a formula for the electric polarization of interacting insulators, expressed in terms of the full Green's and vertex functions. We exemplify this method in the half-filled ionic Hubbard model treated within dynamical mean field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-07 R. Nourafkan , G. Kotliar

We design a quantum molecular dynamics method for strongly correlated electron metals. The strong electronic correlation effects are treated within a real-space version of the Gutzwiller variational approximation (GA), which is suitable for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-12 Jean-Pierre Julien , Joel D. Kress , Jian-Xin Zhu

The Gutzwiller technique has long been known as a method to include correlations in electronic structure calculations. Here we implement an ab-initio Gutzwiller+LDA calculation, and apply it to a classic problem, the ferromagnetism of bulk…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-23 Giovanni Borghi , Michele Fabrizio , Erio Tosatti

We present a joint implementation of dynamical-mean-field theory (DMFT) with the pseudopotential plane-wave approach, via Wannier functions, for the determination of the electronic properties of strongly correlated materials. The scheme…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-08 G. Trimarchi , I. Leonov , N. Binggeli , Dm. Korotin , V. I. Anisimov

We propose a refined scheme of deriving an effective low-energy Hamiltonian for materials with strong electronic Coulomb correlations beyond density functional theory (DFT). By tracing out the electronic states away from the target degrees…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-09 Motoaki Hirayama , Takashi Miyake , Masatoshi Imada , Silke Biermann

The study of strongly correlated electron systems remains a fundamental challenge in condensed matter physics, particularly in two-dimensional (2D) systems hosting various exotic phases of matter including quantum spin liquids,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-01 Hui-Ke Jin , Rong-Yang Sun , Hong-Hao Tu , Yi Zhou

Predicting the compositional phase stability of strongly correlated electron materials is an outstanding challenge in condensed matter physics, requiring precise computations of total energies. In this work, we employ the density functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-28 Eric B. Isaacs , Chris A. Marianetti

For more than three decades, nearly free electron elemental metals have been a topic of debate because the computed bandwidths are significantly wider in the local density approximation to density-functional theory (DFT) than indicated by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-02 Subhasish Mandal , Kristjan Haule , Karin M. Rabe , David Vanderbilt

We present a comparative electronic structure study using DFT and various beyond-DFT (DFT+$U$, $G_0W_0$, DFT+DMFT) methods for ferromagnetic Iron (Fe) to find better approach for describing the spectral properties of correlated magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 Antik Sihi , Sudhir K. Pandey

In the spirit of recently developed LDA+U and LDA+DMFT methods we implement a combination of density functional theory in its local density approximation (LDA) with a $k$- and $\omega -$dependent self-energy found from diagrammatic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-17 Sergey Y. Savrasov , Giacomo Resta , Xiangang Wan

While the traditional local-density approximation (LDA) cannot describe Mott insulators, {\it ab-initio} determination of the Hubbard $U$, for example, limits LDA-plus dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) approaches. Here, we attempt to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-12 M. S. Laad , L. Hozoi , L. Craco

A new wavefunction which improves the Gutzwiller-type local ansatz method has been proposed to describe the correlated electron system. The ground-state energy, double occupation number, momentum distribution function, and quasiparticle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Kakehashi , T. Shimabukuro , C. Yasuda

In this paper, we propose an efficient implementation of combining Dynamical Mean field theory (DMFT) with electronic structure calculation based on the local density approximation (LDA). The pseudo-potential-plane-wave method is used in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Jian-Zhou Zhao , Jia-Ning Zhuang , Xiao-Yu Deng , Yan Bi , Ling-Cang Cai , Zhong Fang , Xi Dai