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In this work we address the Multiscale Spectral Generalized Finite Element Method (MS-GFEM) developed in [I. Babu\v{s}ka and R. Lipton, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation 9 (2011), pp. 373--406]. We outline the numerical implementation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Ivo Babuska , Robert Lipton , Paul Sinz , Michael Stuebner

Here we present a density matrix based KS inversion method formulated entirely within a Gaussian basis representation to optimize a KS potential matrix that reproduces a target electron density. Inverse Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Ziwei Chai , Sandra Luber

This paper presents an integrated framework to construct local-energy solutions to fairly general nonlinear diffusion equations for initial data growing at infinity under suitable assumptions on local-energy estimates for approximate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Goro Akagi , Kazuhiro Ishige , Ryuichi Sato

Density functional theory (DFT) has emerged as one of the most versatile and lucrative approaches in electronic structure calculations of many-electron systems in past four decades. Here we give an account of the development of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Abhisek Ghosal , Amlan K. Roy

We present a substantial extension of our constraint-based approach for development of orbital-free (OF) kinetic-energy (KE) density functionals intended for the calculation of quantum-mechanical forces in multi-scale molecular dynamics…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 V. V. Karasiev , R. S. Jones , S. B. Trickey , Frank E. Harris

Due to efficient scaling with electron number N, density functional theory (DFT) is widely used for studies of large molecules and solids. Restriction of an exact mean-field theory to local potential functions has recently been questioned.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Robert K. Nesbet

Inhomogeneities in real-world data, e.g., due to changes in the observation noise level or variations in the structural complexity of the source function, pose a unique set of challenges for statistical inference. Accounting for them can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Danny Panknin , Stefan Chmiela , Klaus-Robert Müller , Shinichi Nakajima

We proposed in Ref. [arXiv:1812.09285v2] a way to improve energy density functionals in the density functional theory based on the combination of the inverse Kohn-Sham method and the density functional perturbation theory. In this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Tomoya Naito , Daisuke Ohashi , Haozhao Liang

Molecule-optimized basis sets, based on approximate natural orbitals, are developed for accelerating the convergence of quantum calculations with strongly correlated (multi-referenced) electrons. We use a low-cost approximate solution of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Gergely Gidofalvi , David A. Mazziotti

We propose to expand the territory of density functional theory to strongly correlated electrons by reformulating the Kohn-Sham scheme in the representation of fractionalized particles. We call it the ``KS* scheme.'' Using inhomogeneous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Bo Zhao , Jingyu Zhao , Zheng Zhu , Jian Wu , Zheng Liu

We introduce the sparse operator compression to compress a self-adjoint higher-order elliptic operator with rough coefficients and various boundary conditions. The operator compression is achieved by using localized basis functions, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Thomas Y. Hou , Pengchuan Zhang

The electron density of a molecule or material has recently received major attention as a target quantity of machine-learning models. A natural choice to construct a model that yields transferable and linear-scaling predictions is to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Andrea Grisafi , Alan M. Lewis , Mariana Rossi , Michele Ceriotti

First-principles calculations based on density functional theory have been widely used in studies of the structural, thermoelastic, rheological, and electronic properties of earth-forming materials. The exchange-correlation term, however,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. H. Lee , Jones T. K. Wan

Based on exact limits and quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we obtain, at any density and spin polarization, an accurate estimate for the energy of a modified homogeneous electron gas where electrons repel each other only with a long-range…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Simone Paziani , Saverio Moroni , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Giovanni B. Bachelet

We generalize to the time-dependent case the stationary Internal DFT / Kohn-Sham formalism presented in Ref. [14]. We prove that, in the time-dependent case, the internal properties of a self-bound system (as an atomic nuclei) are all…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-04-22 J. Messud

The force-balance equation of time-dependent density-functional theory presents a promising route towards obtaining approximate functionals, however, so far, no practical correlation functionals have been derived this way. In this work,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Markus Penz , Michael Ruggenthaler , Angel Rubio

The accurate prediction of electronic response properties of extended molecular systems has been a challenge for conventional, explicit density functionals. We demonstrate that a self-interaction correction implemented rigorously within…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Körzdörfer , M. Mundt , S. Kümmel

We introduce a new approach to density functional theory based on kinetic theory, showing that the Kohn-Sham equations can be derived as a macroscopic limit of a suitable Boltzmann kinetic equation in the limit of small mean free path…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Mendoza , S. Succi , H. J. Herrmann

Orbital-free density functional theory as an extension of traditional Thomas-Fermi theory has attracted a lot of interest in the past decade because of developments in both more accurate kinetic energy functionals and highly efficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Hong Jiang , Weitao Yang

We present an approach to solid-state electronic-structure calculations based on the finite-element method. In this method, the basis functions are strictly local, piecewise polynomials. Because the basis is composed of polynomials, the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. E. Pask , B. M. Klein , C. Y. Fong , P. A. Sterne