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With large-scale Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) surveys of thousands of galaxies currently under-way or planned, the astronomical community is in need of methods, techniques and tools that will allow the analysis of huge amounts of data.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-22 Georgios Bekiaris , Karl Glazebrook , Christopher J. Fluke , Roberto Abraham

The package "fhi96md" is an efficient code to perform density-functional theory total-energy calculations for materials ranging from insulators to transition metals. The package employs first-principles pseudopotentials, and a plane-wave…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Michel Bockstedte , Alexander Kley , Joerg Neugebauer , Matthias Scheffler

Ultra-fast electronic phenomena originating from finite temperature, such as nonlinear optical excitation, can be simulated with high fidelity via real-time time dependent density functional theory (rt-TDDFT) calculations with hybrid…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-07 Rongrong Liu , Zhuoqiang Guo , Qiuchen Sha , Tong Zhao , Haibo Li , Wei Hu , Lijun Liu , Guangming Tan , Weile Jia

A very popular ab-initio scheme to calculate electronic properties in solids is the use of hybrid functionals in density functional theory (DFT) that mixes a portion of Fock exchange with DFT functionals. In spite of their success, a major…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Miguel A. L. Marques , Julien Vidal , Micael J. T. Oliveira , Lucia Reining , Silvana Botti

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are employed for a numerical determination of the analytic structure of two-point correlation functions of Quantum Field Theories. These functions are represented through integrals in d-dimensional Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-16 Andreas Windisch , Reinhard Alkofer , Gundolf Haase , Manfred Liebmann

We present a differentiation framework for plane-wave density-functional theory (DFT) that combines the strengths of forward-mode algorithmic differentiation (AD) and density-functional perturbation theory (DFPT). In the resulting AD-DFPT…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Niklas Frederik Schmitz , Bruno Ploumhans , Michael F. Herbst

Heterogeneous interfaces are central to many energy-related applications in the nanoscale. From the first-principles electronic structure perspective, one of the outstanding problems is accurately and efficiently calculating how the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-29 Zhen-Fei Liu

We present a versatile density functional approach (DFT) for calculating the depletion potential in general fluid mixtures. In contrast to brute force DFT, our approach requires only the equilibrium density profile of the small particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Roth , R. Evans , S. Dietrich

The paper presents a parallel implementation of existing image fusion methods on a graphical cluster. Parallel implementations of methods based on discrete wavelet transformation (Haars and Daubechies discrete wavelet transform) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Anas M. Al-Oraiqat , E. A. Bashkov , V. Babkov , C. Titarenko

The marriage of density functional theory (DFT) and deep learning methods has the potential to revolutionize modern computational materials science. Here we develop a deep neural network approach to represent DFT Hamiltonian (DeepH) of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-02 He Li , Zun Wang , Nianlong Zou , Meng Ye , Runzhang Xu , Xiaoxun Gong , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

Massively parallel architectures such as the GPU are becoming increasingly important due to the recent proliferation of data. In this paper, we propose a key class of hybrid parallel graphlet algorithms that leverages multiple CPUs and GPUs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Ryan A. Rossi , Rong Zhou

Perdew et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett 49, 1691 (1982)] discovered and proved two different properties of exact Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT): (i) The exact total energy versus particle number is a series of linear segments between…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-13 Tamar Stein , Jochen Autschbach , Niranjan Govind , Leeor Kronik , Roi Baer

This paper presents an accurate density computation approach for large dark matter simulations, based on a recently introduced phase-space tessellation technique and designed for massively parallel, heterogeneous cluster architectures. We…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 Ralf Kaehler

We demonstrate the use of Google's cloud-based Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to accelerate and scale up conventional (cubic-scaling) density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Utilizing 512 TPU cores, we accomplish the largest such DFT…

One of the most promising techniques used for studying the electronic properties of materials is based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) approach and its extensions. DFT has been widely applied in traditional solid state physics problems…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-06-03 Nicola Varini , Davide Ceresoli , Layla Martin-Samos , Ivan Girotto , Carlo Cavazzoni

Classical density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful framework to study inhomogeneous fluids. Its standard form is based on the knowledge of a generating free energy functional. If this is known exactly, then the results obtained by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-02 S. M. Tschopp , H. Vahid , A. Sharma , J. M. Brader

Density functional theory (DFT) stands as a cornerstone method in computational quantum chemistry and materials science due to its remarkable versatility and scalability. Yet, it suffers from limitations in accuracy, particularly when…

We present a GPU-accelerated version of the real-space SPARC electronic structure code for performing Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations within the local density and generalized gradient approximations. In particular, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Abhiraj Sharma , Alfredo Metere , Phanish Suryanarayana , Lucas Erlandson , Edmond Chow , John E. Pask

An efficient numerical quadrature is proposed for the approximate calculation of the potential energy in the context of pseudo potential electronic structure calculations with Daubechies wavelet and scaling function basis sets. Our…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. I. Neelov , S. Goedecker

This article presents an optimized algorithm and implementation for calculating resolution-of-the-identity Hartree-Fock (RI-HF) energies and analytic gradients using multiple Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The algorithm is especially…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Ryan Stocks , Elise Palethorpe , Giuseppe M. J. Barca