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We present a formulation and implementation of the DFT+\textit{U} method within the framework of linear combination of numerical atomic orbitals (NAO). Our implementation not only enables single-point total energy and electronic-structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-29 Xin Qu , Peng Xu , Hong Jiang , Lixin He , Xinguo Ren

We propose a systematic approach to the systems of correlated electrons, the so-called $\mathbf{k}$-DE-GWF method, based on reciprocal-space ($\mathbf{k}$-resolved) diagrammatic expansion of the variational Gutzwiller-type wave function for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-06 M. Fidrysiak , M. Zegrodnik , J. Spałek

Density functional theory (DFT), one of the most widely utilized methods available to computational chemistry, fails to describe systems with statically correlated electrons. To address this shortcoming, in previous work we transformed DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn , David A. Mazziotti

Accurate low-order structure factors (Fg) measured by quantitative convergent beam electron diffraction (QCBED) were used for validation of different density functional theory (DFT) approximations. 23 low-order Fg were measured by QCBED for…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-02-26 Xiahan Sang , Andreas Kulovits , Guofeng Wang , Jorg Wiezorek

Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) is a successful method to compute the electronic structure of strongly correlated materials, especially when it is combined with density functional theory (DFT). Here, we present an open-source…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-03 Vijay Singh , Uthpala Herath , Benny Wah , Xingyu Liao , Aldo H. Romero , Hyowon Park

Multicomponent density functional theory (DFT) enables the consistent quantum mechanical treatment of both electrons and protons. A major challenge has been the design of electron-proton correlation functionals that produce even…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Yang Yang , Kurt R. Brorsen , Tanner Culpitt , Michael V. Pak , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

In approximate density functional theory (DFT), the self-interaction error is an electron delocalization anomaly associated with underestimated insulating gaps. It exhibits a predominantly quadratic energy-density curve that is amenable to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Glenn Moynihan , Gilberto Teobaldi , David D. O'Regan

Several methods have been developed to improve the predictions of density functional theory (DFT) in the case of strongly correlated electron systems. Out of these approaches, DFT+$U$, which corresponds to a static treatment of the local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-01 Alberto Carta , Iurii Timrov , Peter Mlkvik , Alexander Hampel , Claude Ederer

The nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) method is a well-established approach for treating nuclei quantum mechanically in molecular systems beyond the usual Born-Oppenheimer approximation. In this work, we present a strategy to implement the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Jianhang Xu , Ruiyi Zhou , Zhen Tao , Christopher Malbon , Volker Blum , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer , Yosuke Kanai

We present in full detail a newly developed formalism enabling density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) calculations from a DFT+$U$ ground state. The implementation includes ultrasoft pseudopotentials and is valid for both insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-21 Andrea Floris , Iurii Timrov , Burak Himmetoglu , Nicola Marzari , Stefano de Gironcoli , Matteo Cococcioni

The density functional theory (DFT)+U method based on the linear response (LR) theory was applied to investigate the electronic structures of Co-based ternary full Heusler alloy Co$_2Y$Si for exploring half-metallic (HM) ferromagnets with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-11 Kenji Nawa , Yoshio Miura

A recently developed dynamical mean-field theory in the iterated perturbation theory approximation was used as a basis for construction of the "first principles" calculation scheme for investigating electronic structure of strongly…

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Originating from a broken spatial inversion symmetry, ferroelectricity is a functionality of materials with an electric dipole that can be switched by external electric fields. Spontaneous polarization is a crucial ferroelectric property,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-03 Yubo Zhang , Jianwei Sun , John P. Perdew , Xifan Wu

Currently, self-induced InAlN core-shell nanorods enjoy an advanced stage of accumulation of experimental data from their growth and characterization as well as a comprehensive understanding of their formation mechanism by the ab initio…

The realistic description of correlated electron systems has taken an important step forward a few years ago as the combination of density functional methods and the dynamical mean-field theory was conceived. This framework allows access to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-15 M. Karolak , T. O. Wehling , F. Lechermann , A. I. Lichtenstein

We present a detailed derivation of the Gutzwiller Density Functional Theory that covers all conceivable cases of symmetries and Gutzwiller wave functions. The method is used in a study of ferromagnetic nickel where we calculate ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-08 Tobias Schickling , Jörg Bünemann , Florian Gebhard , Werner Weber

We present ab initio calculations of the bandstructure of graphene and of short zigzag graphene nanoribbons by the screened-exchange-LDA method (sX-LDA) within the framework of density functional theory (DFT). The inclusion of non-local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-12 Roland Gillen , John Robertson

We present an approach that combines the local density approximation (LDA) and the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) in the framework of the full-potential linear augmented plane waves (FLAPW) method. Wannier-like functions for the…

While methods based on density-functional perturbation theory have dramatically improved our understanding of electron-phonon contributions to transport in materials, methods for accurately capturing electron-electron scattering relevant to…

Many-body perturbation theory in the GW approach is applied to lanthanide oxides, using the local-density approximation plus a Hubbard U correction (LDA+U) as the starting point. Good agreement between the G0W0 density of states and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Hong Jiang , Ricardo I. Gomez-Abal , Patrick Rinke , Matthias Scheffler