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Empirical tight binding(ETB) methods are widely used in atomistic device simulations. Traditional ways of generating the ETB parameters rely on direct fitting to bulk experiments or theoretical electronic bands. However, ETB calculations…
The elastic properties of $Cu-Al-Mn$ alloys with compositions along the $Cu_3Al \to Cu_2AlMn$ line and $bcc$-based structures, are studied by means of first-principles calculations. From the calculated elastic constants, the Zener's…
Ab-initio dynamical simulation is used to study the liquid Ga-Se system at the three concentrations Ga$_2$Se, GaSe and Ga$_2$Se$_3$ at the temperature 1300~K. The simulations are based on the density functional pseudopotential technique,…
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A new simulation approach of field evaporation is presented. The model combines classical electrostatics with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Unlike previous atomic-level simulation approaches, our method does not rely on an…
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Accelerated discovery in materials science demands autonomous systems capable of dynamically formulating and solving design problems. In this work, we introduce a novel framework that leverages Bayesian optimization over a problem…
Available information concerning the elastic moduli of refractory carbides at temperatures (T) of relevance for practical applications is sparse and/or inconsistent. We carry out ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations at T = 300,…
We present a new method which combines Car-Parrinello and Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics in order to accelerate density functional theory based ab-initio simulations. Depending on the system a gain in efficiency of one to two orders of…
We present optimized tight-binding models with atomic orbitals to improve \textit{ab initio} tight-binding models constructed by truncating full density functional theory (DFT) Hamiltonian based on localized orbitals. Retaining qualitative…
Due to the compound forming tendency, some of the liquid metal alloys show anomalous behavior in their physical and chemical properties. Near the compound forming concentration, their electrical resistivity is beyond the metallic values and…
We present an efficient ab initio dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) implementation for quantitative simulations in solids. Our DMFT scheme employs ab initio Hamiltonians defined for impurities comprising the full unit cell or a supercell…