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Stochastic and mixed stochastic-deterministic density functional theory (DFT) are promising new approaches for the calculation of the equation-of-state and transport properties in materials under extreme conditions. In the intermediate warm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Vidushi Sharma , Lee A. Collins , Alexander J. White

We introduce in detail our newly developed \textit{ab initio} LDA+Gutzwiller method, in which the Gutzwiller variational approach is naturally incorporated with the density functional theory (DFT) through the "Gutzwiller density functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 XiaoYu Deng , Lei Wang , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

We present a robust algorithm that computes (maximally localized) Wannier functions (WFs) without the need of providing an initial guess. Instead, a suitable starting point is constructed automatically from so-called local orbitals which…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Sebastian Tillack , Andris Gulans , Claudia Draxl

Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is a non-perturbative technique for the investigation of correlated electron systems. Its combination with the local density approximation (LDA) has recently led to a material-specific computational scheme…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Vollhardt , K. Held , G. Keller , R. Bulla , Th. Pruschke , I. A. Nekrasov , V. I. Anisimov

This review is devoted to generalization of dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) for strongly correlated electronic systems towards the account of different types of additional interactions, necessary for correct physical description of many…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-30 E. Z. Kuchinskii , I. A. Nekrasov , M. V. Sadovskii

Local density approximation (LDA) to the density functional theory (DFT) has continuous derivative of total energy as a number of electrons function and continuous exchange-correlation potential, while in exact DFT both should be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-28 V. I. Anisimov , A. V. Kozhevnikov , M. A. Korotin , A. V. Lukoyanov , D. A. Khafizullin

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 propose a dynamical mean field approach for calculating the electronic structure of strongly correlated materials from first principles. The scheme combines the GW method with dynamical mean field theory, which enables one to treat…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Biermann , F. Aryasetiawan , A. Georges

Density functional theory (DFT) embedding provides a formally exact framework for interfacing correlated wave-function theory (WFT) methods with lower-level descriptions of electronic structure. Here, we report techniques to improve the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jason D. Goodpaster , Taylor A. Barnes , Frederick R. Manby , Thomas F. Miller

We propose a computational scheme for the ab initio calculation of Wannier functions (WFs) for correlated electronic materials. The full-orbital Hamiltonian H is projected into the WF subspace defined by the physically most relevant…

We review the basic ideas of the dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) and some of the insights into the electronic structure of strongly correlated electrons obtained by this method in the context of model Hamiltonians. We then discuss the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Kotliar , S. Y. Savrasov

Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) has opened new perspectives for the investigation of strongly correlated electron systems and greatly improved our understanding of correlation effects in models and materials. In contrast to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-16 Dieter Vollhardt

The interface electronic structure of correlated LaTiO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ superlattices is investigated by means of the charge self-consistent combination of the local density approximation (LDA) to density functional theory (DFT) with dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-07 Frank Lechermann , Lewin Boehnke , Daniel Grieger

The electronic and magnetic properties of many strongly-correlated systems are controlled by a limited number of states, located near the Fermi level and well isolated from the rest of the spectrum. This opens a formal way for combining the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-15 I. V. Solovyev

We present the results of numerical studies for selected materials with strongly correlated electrons using a combination of the local-density approximation and dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). For the solution of the DMFT equations a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-11 Arno P. Kampf , Marcus Kollar , Jan Kunes , Michael Sentef , Dieter Vollhardt

A novel hybrid scheme is proposed. The {\it ab initio} LDA calculation is used to construct the Wannier functions and obtain single electron and Coulomb parameters of the multiband Hubbard-type model. In strong correlation regime the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Gavrichkov , M. M. Korshunov , S. G. Ovchinnikov , I. A. Nekrasov , Z. V. Pchelkina , V. I. Anisimov

The sensitivity of Density Functional Theory plus Dynamical Mean Field Theory calculations to different constructions of the correlated orbitals is investigated via a detailed comparison of results obtained for the quantum material…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-12 Jonathan Karp , Alexander Hampel , Andrew J. Millis

We have implemented the $GW$+dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) approach in the Vienna ab initio simulation package. Employing the interaction values obtained from the locally unscreened random phase approximation (RPA), we compare…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-15 Ciro Taranto , Merzuk Kaltak , Nicolaus Parragh , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Georg Kresse , Alessandro Toschi , Karsten Held

The LDA+DMFT (local density approximation combined with dynamical mean-field theory) computation scheme has been used to study spectral and magnetic properties of FeSi and Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$Si. Having compared different models we conclude…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 V. V. Mazurenko , A. O. Shorikov , A. V. Lukoyanov , K. Kharlov , E. Gorelov , A. I. Lichtenstein , V. I. Anisimov

We have formulated and implemented a fully charge-self-consistent density functional theory plus dynamical mean field theory methodology which enables an efficient calculation of the total energy of realistic correlated electron systems.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Hyowon Park , Andrew J. Millis , Chris A. Marianetti