Related papers: Fast construction of the Kohn--Sham response funct…
We present a simple way to describe the lowest unoccupied diffuse states in carbon nanostructures in density functional theory (DFT) calculations using a minimal LCAO (linear combination of atomic orbitals) basis set. By comparing plane…
Using a simplified one-dimensional model of a diatomic molecule, the associated interacting density and corresponding Kohn-Sham potential have been obtained analytically for all fractional molecule occupancies $N$ between 0 and 2. For the…
We propose a computational method that simplifies drastically the inclusion of spin-orbit interaction in density functional theory implemented on localised atomic orbital basis sets. Our method is based on a well-known procedure for…
Large atomic-orbital (AO) basis sets of at least triple and preferably quadruple-zeta (QZ) size are required to adequately converge Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) calculations towards the complete basis set limit. However,…
Machine learning is employed to build an energy density functional for self-bound nuclear systems for the first time. By learning the kinetic energy as a functional of the nucleon density alone, a robust and accurate orbital-free density…
Kohn-Sham spin-density functional theory provides an efficient and accurate model to study electron-electron interaction effects in quantum dots, but its application to large systems is a challenge. An efficient algorithm for the…
Within the finite-field Kohn-Sham framework, static electric response properties of diatomic molecules are presented. The electronic energy, dipole moment ({\boldmath$\mu$}), static dipole polarizability ({\boldmath$\alpha$}) and…
We present a computational LCHO-CI approach allowing for the simulation of exchange interactions in gated lateral quantum dot networks. The approach is based on single-particle states calculated using a linear combination of harmonic…
We present an efficient linear-scaling algorithm for evaluating the analytical force and stress contributions derived from the exact-exchange energy, a key component in hybrid functional calculations. The algorithm, working equally well for…
The standard way to calculate the Kohn-Sham orbitals utilizes an approximation of the potential. The approximation consists in a projection of the potential into a finite subspace of basis functions. The orbitals, calculated with the…
This chapter presents the development of a density functional theory (DFT)-based method for accurate, reliable treatment of various resonances in atoms. Many of these are known to be notorious for their strong correlation, proximity to more…
In practical implementations of density-functional theory, the only term where an orbital description is needed is the kinetic one. Even this term in principle depends on the density only, but its explicit form is unknown. We provide a…
In approximate Kohn-Sham density-functional theory, self-interaction manifests itself as the dependence of the energy of an orbital on its fractional occupation. This unphysical behavior translates into qualitative and quantitative errors…
The spectral function for an electron one-component plasma is calculated self-consistently using the GW0 approximation for the single-particle self-energy. In this way, correlation effects which go beyond the mean-field description of the…
Self-consistent calculations of the energy-loss spectra of charged particles moving near a plane-bounded free electron gas are reported. Energy-loss probabilities are obtained, within linear-response theory, from the knowledge of the…
The Gordian knot of density-functional theories for classical molecular liquids remains finding an accurate free-energy functional in terms of the densities of the atomic sites of the molecules. Following Kohn and Sham, we show how to solve…
The accuracy of reaction energy profiles calculated with multi-configurational electronic structure methods and corrected by multi-reference perturbation theory depends crucially on consistent active orbital spaces selected along the…
We show how the path-integral formulation of quantum statistical mechanics can be used to construct practical {\em ab initio} techniques for computing the chemical potential of molecules adsorbed on surfaces, with full inclusion of quantum…
The implementation of the orbital minimization method (OMM) for solving the self-consistent Kohn-Sham (KS) problem for electronic structure calculations in a basis of non-orthogonal numerical atomic orbitals of finite-range is reported. We…
The recently developed selected columns of the density matrix (SCDM) method [J. Chem. Theory Comput. 11, 1463, 2015] is a simple, robust, efficient and highly parallelizable method for constructing localized orbitals from a set of…