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The magnetic state of UO$_2$ was determined experimentally to be anti-ferromagnetic. Starting from this experimental fact, researchers have calculated other properties within the Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory, DFT+U. Up to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-03 Mahmoud Payami

We present a detailed comparison of the self-consistent calculations based on the Hartree-Fock and the spin density functional theory for a spit-gate quantum wire in the IQH regime. We demonstrate that both approaches provide qualitatively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-26 S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko

Plutonium's phase diagram is host to complex structures and interactions that make the description of its ground state properties elusive. Using all-electron density functional theory, we study the thermodynamic properties of $\alpha$-Pu.…

Density functional theory was used to study the nonmagnetic (NM) and ferromagnetic (FM) phases of face-centered cubic cerium. Functionals of four levels of approximations for the exchange-correlation energy were used: LDA, PBE, LDA/PBE+$U$,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-09 Fabien Tran , Ferenc Karsai , Peter Blaha

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) runs at low computational cost that scales linearly with the number of simulated atoms, making it suitable for large-scale material simulations. It is generally considered that OF-DFT strictly…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-05 Qiang Xu , Cheng Ma , Wenhui Mi , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

In this article, we use hybrid density functional (HSE06) to study the crystal and electronic structures and optical properties of well known phase change memory material $\mathrm{Ge_{2}Sb_{2}Te_{5}}$. We calculate the structural…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 T. Kaewmaraya , M. Ramzan , 1 H. Löfås , Rajeev Ahuja

Density-corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT) is enjoying substantial success in improving semilocal DFT calculations in a wide variety of chemical problems. This paper provides the formal theoretical framework and assumptions for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Stefan Vuckovic , Suhwan Song , John Kozlowski , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

It is shown here that the Exact Exchange (EE) formalism provides a natural and rigorous approach for a Density Functional Theory (DFT) of the Integer Quantum Hall Effect (IQHE). Application of a novel EE method to a quasi two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 D. Miravet , G. J. Ferreira , C. R. Proetto

Motivated by the resurgence of electronic and optical property design in ordered fluoride and oxyfluoride compounds, we present a density functional theory (DFT) study on 19 materials with structures, ranging from simple to complex, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-23 Nenian Charles , James M. Rondinelli

The design of novel cathode materials for Li-ion batteries would greatly benefit from accurate first-principles predictions of structural, electronic, and magnetic properties as well as intercalation voltages in compounds containing…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-03 Iurii Timrov , Francesco Aquilante , Matteo Cococcioni , Nicola Marzari

A new density functional theory (DFT) exchange-correlation functional for the exploration of reaction mechanisms is proposed. This new functional, denoted BMK (Boese-Martin for Kinetics), has an accuracy in the 2 kcal/mol range for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Daniel Boese , Jan M. L. Martin

Phonon frequencies at Gamma-point in non-magnetic rhombohedral phase of LaCoO3 were calculated using density functional theory (DFT) with hybrid exchange correlation functional PBE0. The calculations involved a comparison of results for two…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Denis Gryaznov , Robert A. Evarestov , Joachim Maier

We investigate the capability of density functional theory (DFT) to appropriately describe the spin susceptibility, $\chi_s$, and the intervalley electron-phonon coupling in Li$_x$ZrNCl. At low doping, Li$_x$ZrNCl behaves as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-08 Betül Pamuk , Jacopo Baima , Roberto Dovesi , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

Approximate density functional theory (DFT) suffers from many-electron self- interaction error, otherwise known as delocalization error, that may be diagnosed and then corrected through elimination of the deviation from exact piecewise…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-08 Terry Z. H. Gani , Heather J. Kulik

Recent progress in the field of (time-independent) ensemble density-functional theory (DFT) for excited states are reviewed. Both Gross-Oliveira-Kohn (GOK) and $N$-centered ensemble formalisms, which are mathematically very similar and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Filip Cernatic , Bruno Senjean , Vincent Robert , Emmanuel Fromager

In this study, we formulate a density functional theory (DFT) for systems of labeled particles, considering a two-dimensional bead-spring lattice with a magnetic dipole on every bead as a model for ferrogels. On the one hand, DFT has been…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-22 Segun Goh , René Wittmann , Andreas M. Menzel , Hartmut Löwen

Hybrid functionals' non-local exchange-correlation potential contains a derivative discontinuity that improves on standard semi-local density functional theory (DFT) band gaps. Moreover, by careful parameterization, hybrid functionals can…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-06 Viktor Ivády , Adam Gali , Igor A. Abrikosov

The lithium manganese oxide spinel Li$_x$Mn$_2$O$_4$, with $0\leq x\leq 2$, is an important example for cathode materials in lithium ion batteries. However, an accurate description of Li$_x$Mn$_2$O$_4$ by first-principles methods like…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-20 Marco Eckhoff , Peter E. Blöchl , Jörg Behler

We generalize the treatment of the electronic spin degrees of freedom in density functional calculations to the case where the spin vector variables employed in the definition of the energy functional can vary in any direction in space. The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan E. Peralta , Gustavo E. Scuseria , Michael J. Frisch

We introduce the Deep Post-Hartree-Fock (DeePHF) method, a machine learning based scheme for constructing accurate and transferable models for the ground-state energy of electronic structure problems. DeePHF predicts the energy difference…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Yixiao Chen , Linfeng Zhang , Han Wang , Weinan E