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A major challenge in using spin-flip time-dependent density functional theory (SF-TD-DFT) for spin-flip-down excitations is the presence of spin contamination. While several improved methods have been developed in the past, a simple and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Hewang Zhao , Zhendong Li

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

Static electric response properties of atoms and molecules are reported within the real-space Cartesian grid implementation of pseudopotential Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT). A detailed systematic investigation is made for a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Tanmay Mandal , Abhisek Ghosal , Amlan K. Roy

In this paper, we investigate the trade-off between convergence rate and computational cost when minimizing a composite functional with proximal-gradient methods, which are popular optimisation tools in machine learning. We consider the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Pierre Machart , Sandrine Anthoine , Luca Baldassarre

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) theoretical framework is increasingly used to interpret particle physics measurements and constrain physics beyond the Standard Model. We investigate the truncation of the effective-operator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Chris Hays , Andreas Helset , Adam Martin , Michael Trott

The investigation of tumor invasion and metastasis dynamics is crucial for advancements in cancer biology and treatment. Many mathematical models have been developed to study the invasion of host tissue by tumor cells. In this paper, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Boyi Hu , Zhongjian Wang , Jack Xin , Zhiwen Zhang

We present a detailed comparison between ONETEP, our linear-scaling density functional method, and the conventional pseudopotential plane wave approach in order to demonstrate its high accuracy. Further comparison with all-electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Chris-Kriton Skylaris , Peter D. Haynes , Arash A. Mostofi , Mike C. Payne

Density functional theory (DFT) provides a theoretical framework for efficient and fairly accurate calculations of the electronic structure of molecules and crystals. The main features of density functional theory are described and DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 Hauke Paulsen , Alfred Xaver Trautwein

In effective single-electron theories, self-interaction manifests itself through the unphysical dependence of the energy of an electronic state as a function of its occupation, which results in important deviations from the ideal Koopmans…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-20 I. Dabo , M. Cococcioni , N. Marzari

Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been…

Optimal power flow (OPF) problem is a class of large-scale and non-convex optimization problem. Various algorithms are proposed to solve the challenging OPF problem. Recent studies show that semidefinite programming (SDP) can either provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Chin-Yao Chang , Wei Zhang

Singlet fission (SF) is a multi-exciton generation process that could be harnessed to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic devices. Experimentally, systems derived from the pentacene molecule have been shown to exhibit ultrafast SF with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 David H. P. Turban , Gilberto Teobaldi , David D. O'Regan , Nicholas D. M. Hine

This chapter presents controlled approximations of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) that enable very large scale simulations. The work is motivated by the study of defects in crystalline solids, though the ideas can be used in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-14 Kaushik Bhattacharya , Vikram Gavini , Michael Ortiz , Mauricio Ponga , Phanish Suryanarayana

Understanding the properties of warm dense hydrogen is of key importance for the modeling of compact astrophysical objects and to understand and further optimize inertial confinement fusion (ICF) applications. The work horse of warm dense…

In this study, we propose Shortcut Fine-Tuning (SFT), a new approach for addressing the challenge of fast sampling of pretrained Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs). SFT advocates for the fine-tuning of DDPM samplers through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Ying Fan , Kangwook Lee

A critical challenge for density functional theory (DFT) in practice is its limited ability to treat static electron correlation, leading to errors in its prediction of charges, multiradicals, and reaction barriers. Recently, we combined…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn , David A. Mazziotti

In order to obtain a reasonably accurate and easily implemented approach to many-electron calculations, we will develop a new Density Functional Theory (DFT). Specifically, we derive an approximation to electron density, the first term of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-23 Gregory C. Dente

A recently proposed local self-interaction correction (LSIC) method [Zope \textit{et al.} J. Chem. Phys., 2019,{\bf 151}, 214108] when applied to the simplest local density approximation provides significant improvement over standard…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Selim Romero , Yoh Yamamoto , Tunna Baruah , Rajendra R. Zope

Recently a novel approach to find approximate exchange-correlation functionals in density-functional theory (DFT) was presented (U. Mordovina et. al., JCTC 15, 5209 (2019)), which relies on approximations to the interacting wave function…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Iris Theophilou , Teresa E. Reinhard , Angel Rubio , Michael Ruggenthaler

Density functional theory (DFT) exploits an independent-particle-system construction to replicate the densities and current of an interacting system. This construction is used here to access the exact effective potential and bias of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-30 Daniel Karlsson , Miroslav Hopjan , Claudio Verdozzi