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We present a model intended for rapid sampling of ground and excited state potential energy surfaces for first-row transition metal active sites. The method is computationally inexpensive and is suited for dynamics simulations where (1)…
We demonstrate an algebraic construction of frequency-dependent bath orbitals which can be used in a robust and rigorously self-consistent DMFT-like embedding method, here called $\omega-$DMFT, suitable for use with Hamiltonian-based…
Materials with correlated electrons often respond very strongly to external or internal influences, leading to instabilities and states of matter with broken symmetry. This behavior can be studied theoretically either by evaluating the…
An investigation is presented of the utility of semiclassical approximations for solving the quantum-impurity problems arising in the dynamical-mean-field approach to the correlated-electron models. The method is based on performing a exact…
The single-impurity Anderson model is studied within the i-DFT framework, a recently proposed extension of density functional theory (DFT) for the description of electron transport in the steady state. i-DFT is designed to give both the…
Two of the primary sources of error in the Cluster dynamical mean-field theory (CDMFT) technique arise from the use of finite size clusters and finite size baths, which makes the development of impurity solvers that can treat larger systems…
The simulation of strongly correlated quantum impurity models is a significant challenge in modern condensed matter physics that has multiple important applications. Thus far, the most successful methods for approaching this challenge…
We present a fast iterative solver for scattering problems in 2D, where a penetrable object with compact support is considered. By representing the scattered field as a volume potential in terms of the Green's function, we arrive at the…
We present a solver for plane wave scattering from a periodic dielectric grating with a large number $M$ of inclusions lying in each period of its middle layer.Such composite material geometries have a growing role in modern photonic…
The Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition is studied within a simplified version of the Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) in which the coupling between the impurity level and the conduction band is approximated by a single pole at the…
We examine the quality of the local self-energy approximation, applied here to models of multiple quantum impurities coupled to an electronic bath. The local self-energy is obtained by solving a single-impurity Anderson model in an…
Optical conductivity of the weakly doped two-dimensional repulsive Hubbard model on the square lattice with nearest and next nearest hoppings is calculated within the generalized dynamical-mean field (DMFT+\Sigma_p) approach which includes…
We introduce DMET, a new quantum embedding theory for predicting ground-state properties of infinite systems. Like dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT), DMET maps the the bulk interacting system to a simpler impurity model and is exact in the…
Perturbative schemes utilizing a spectral moment expansion are well known and extensively used for investigating the physics of model Hamiltonians and real material systems. The advantages they offer, in terms of being computationally…
This PhD thesis conducts a focused study of strongly correlated materials with localized electron orbitals. We have studied two real materials (LuNiO$_3$ and VO$_2$) and one model system, i.e., the Anderson impurity model. The thesis is…
We present a family of integral equation-based solvers for the linear or semilinear heat equation in complicated moving (or stationary) geometries. This approach has significant advantages over more standard finite element or finite…
We present an inhomogeneous dynamical mean field theory (I-DMFT) that is suitable to investigate electron-lattice interactions in non-translationally invariant and/or inhomogeneous systems. The presented approach, whose only assumption is…
A technique allowing for a perturbative treatment of nonlocal corrections to the single-site dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) in finite dimensions is developed. It is based on the observation that in the case of strong electron…
We investigate the Mott transition in a two-band Hubbard-Kanamori model using Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) with the Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) and the Numerical Renormalization Group (NRG) as impurity solvers. Our…
We consider a formulation of the equation of motion technique for Green's function in which the unknown averages are computed by solving a linear system. This linear system appears solvable for all finite temperatures, but depending on the…