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Localized Wannier functions provide an efficient and intuitive means by which to compute dielectric properties from first principles. They are most commonly constructed in a post-processing step, following total-energy minimization.…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-16 David D. O'Regan , Mike C. Payne , Arash A. Mostofi

Approximate semi-local density functional theory (DFT) is known to underestimate surface formation energies yet paradoxically overbind adsorbates on catalytic transition-metal oxide surfaces due to delocalization error. The low-cost DFT+U…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-24 Akash Bajaj , Heather J. Kulik

We unify the Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction (PZSIC) to approximate density functional theory (DFT), the Hubbard correction DFT+U, and Rung 3.5 functionals within the Adiabatic Projection formalism. We modify the Kohn-Sham…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Benjamin G. Janesko

A new DFT+U type corrective functional is derived from first principles to enforce the flat plane condition on localized subspaces, thus dispensing with the need for an ad hoc derivation from the Hubbard model. The newly derived functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-17 Andrew Burgess , Edward Linscott , David D. O'Regan

The aim of this review article is to assess the descriptive capabilities of the Hubbard-rooted LDA+U method and to clarify the conditions under which it can be expected to be most predictive. The paper illustrates the theoretical foundation…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-17 Burak Himmetoglu , Andrea Floris , Stefano de Gironcoli , Matteo Cococcioni

In the present paper, we propose an efficient numerical scheme for Gutzwiller method for multi-band Hubbard models with general onsite Coulomb interaction. Following the basic idea of Deng et al. [Phys. Rev. B 79, 075114 (2009)] and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-18 Shiyu Peng , Hongming Weng , Xi Dai

We present an orbital-resolved extension of the Hubbard $U$ correction to density-functional theory (DFT). Compared to the conventional shell-averaged approach, the prediction of energetic, electronic and structural properties is strongly…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-18 Eric Macke , Iurii Timrov , Nicola Marzari , Lucio Colombi Ciacchi

The density functional theory (DFT)+$U$ method is a pragmatic and effective approach for calculating the ground-state properties of strongly-correlated systems, and linear response calculations are widely used to determine the requisite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-31 Edward B. Linscott , Daniel J. Cole , Michael C. Payne , David D. O'Regan

We introduce natural atomic orbitals as the local projector to define the correlated subspace for DFT + DMFT (density functional theory plus dynamical mean-field theory) calculation. The natural atomic orbitals are found to be stably…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-01 Jae-Hoon Sim , Myung Joon Han

In this article, we propose an energy functional at the level of DFT+U+V that allows us to compute self-consistently the values of the on-site interaction, Hubbard U and Hund J, as well as the intersite interaction V. This functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-21 Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Angel Rubio

We present a new scheme to include the van der Waals (vdW) interactions in approximated Density Functional Theory (DFT) by combining the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator model with the Maximally Localized Wannier Function technique. With respect…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Pier Luigi Silvestrelli

We present in full detail a newly developed formalism enabling density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) calculations from a DFT+$U$ ground state. The implementation includes ultrasoft pseudopotentials and is valid for both insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-21 Andrea Floris , Iurii Timrov , Burak Himmetoglu , Nicola Marzari , Stefano de Gironcoli , Matteo Cococcioni

A self-consistent calculation scheme for correlated electron systems is created based on the density-functional theory (DFT). Our scheme is a multi-reference DFT (MR-DFT) calculation in which the electron charge density is reproduced by an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Koichi Kusakabe , Naoshi Suzuki , Shusuke Yamanaka , Kizashi Yamaguchi

The self-consistent evaluation of Hubbard parameters using linear-response theory is crucial for quantitatively predictive calculations based on Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory. Here, we extend a recently-introduced approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-02 Iurii Timrov , Nicola Marzari , Matteo Cococcioni

Although the density functional theory plus Hubbard $U$ correction method (DFT+U) is broadly used to study electronic structure of strongly correlated materials, the extension of this method to electron-phonon $g$ matrices has received…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-21 Jiale Chen , Youyou Tu , Chengliang Xia , Jin Zhao , Hanghui Chen

First-principles Hubbard-corrected approximate density-functional theory (DFT+U) is a low-cost, potentially high throughput method of simulating materials, but it has been hampered by empiricism and inconsistent band-gap correction in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-16 Daniel S. Lambert , David D. O'Regan

Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) is a successful method to compute the electronic structure of strongly correlated materials, especially when it is combined with density functional theory (DFT). Here, we present an open-source…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-03 Vijay Singh , Uthpala Herath , Benny Wah , Xingyu Liao , Aldo H. Romero , Hyowon Park

We propose a hybrid approach which employs the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) self-energy for the correlated, typically rather localized orbitals and a conventional density functional theory (DFT) exchange-correlation potential for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-16 Sumanta Bhandary , Karsten Held

A versatile method for combining density functional theory (DFT) in the local density approximation (LDA) with dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is presented. Starting from a general basis-independent formulation, we use Wannier functions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Lechermann , A. Georges , A. Poteryaev , S. Biermann , M. Posternak , A. Yamasaki , O. K. Andersen

We develop a generalization of the Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) + Hubbard $U$ (DFT+$U$) method to the excited-state regime. This has the form of Hubbard $U$ corrected linear-response time-dependent DFT, or `TDDFT+$U$'.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-24 Okan K. Orhan , David D. O'Regan