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A first-principles electronic structure study of orthorhombic, monoclinic and rhombohedral LiMnO$_{2}$ has been carried out using the full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave method. The exchange and correlations have been treated…

We calculate the screened electron-electron interaction for the charge-disproportionated insulator CaFeO$_3$ using the constrained random-phase approximation (cRPA). While in many correlated materials, the formation of a Mott-insulating…

In this paper, we propose an efficient implementation of combining Dynamical Mean field theory (DMFT) with electronic structure calculation based on the local density approximation (LDA). The pseudo-potential-plane-wave method is used in…

In this work we reexamine the LDA+U method of Anisimov and coworkers in the framework of a plane-wave pseudopotential approach. A simplified rotational-invariant formulation is adopted. The calculation of the Hubbard U entering the…

Electronic structure of bcc Np, fcc Pu, Am, and Cm pure metals under pressure has been investigated employing the LDA+U method with spin-orbit coupling (LDA+U+SO). Magnetic state of the actinide ions was analyzed in both LS and jj coupling…

First-principles calculations within the Local Density Approximation (LDA) or Generalized Gradient Approximation (GGA), though very successful, are known to underestimate redox potentials, such as those at which lithium intercalates in…

A novel approach to investigation of correlation effects in the electronic structure of magnetic crystals which takes into account a frequency dependence of the self energy (so called ``LDA++ approach'') is developed. The fluctuation…

We present first-principles investigation of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of uranium monochalcogenides: US, USe, UTe. The calculations were performed by using recently developed LDA+U+SO method in which both Coulomb and…

The electronic structure of lanthanide and actinide compounds is often characterized by orbital ordering of localized $f$-electrons. Density-functional theory (DFT) studies of such systems using the currently available LDA+$U$ method are…

In the framework of ab initio dynamical mean field theory for realistic electronic structure calculations a new perturbation scheme which combine the T-matrix and fluctuating exchange approximations has been proposed. This method is less…

An algorithm for first-principles electronic structure calculations having a computational cost which scales linearly with the system size is presented. Our method exploits the real-space localization of the density matrix, and in this…

We have applied the Finite Element Method to the self-consistent electronic structure calculations of molecules and solids for the first time. In this approach all the calculations are performed in "real space" and the use of non-uniform…

A non-trivial balance between Coulomb repulsion and kinematic effects determines the electronic structure of correlated electron materials. The use electromagnetic fields strong enough to rival these native microscopic interactions allows…

We propose an adaptive planewave method for eigenvalue problems in electronic structure calculations. The method combines a priori convergence rates and accurate a posteriori error estimates into an effective way of updating the energy…

We introduce in detail our newly developed \textit{ab initio} LDA+Gutzwiller method, in which the Gutzwiller variational approach is naturally incorporated with the density functional theory (DFT) through the "Gutzwiller density functional…

The results of first-principles electronic structure calculations for the nitrogen-rich nickel nitrides $ {\rm NiN} $ and $ {\rm Ni_2N} $ are presented. The calculations are based on density functional theory and used the generalized…

We present the first principles results of point defect energetics in silicon calculated using the LDA+U method: a Hubbard type on-site interaction added to the local density approximation (LDA). The on-site Coulomb and exchange parameters…

We present a first-principles method for deriving effective low-energy models of electrons in solids having entangled band structure. The procedure starts with dividing the Hilbert space into two subspaces, the low-energy part ("$d$…

We calculate the electronic structure of several atoms and small molecules by direct minimization of the Self-Interaction Corrected Local Density Approximation (SIC-LDA) functional. To do this we first derive an expression for the gradient…

A scheme to calculate the electronic structure of systems having a spiral magnetic structure is presented. The approach is based on the KKR (Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker) Green's function formalism which allows in combination with CPA (Coherent…