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We study the accuracy of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) for warm- and hot-dense matter (WDM and HDM). Specifically, considering a wide range of systems, we perform accurate ab initio molecular dynamics simulations with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Phanish Suryanarayana , Arpit Bhardwaj , Xin Jing , Shashikant Kumar , John E. Pask

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

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a computationally efficient first-principles approach for calculating optical spectra in insulators and semiconductors, including excitonic effects. We show how exciton wave functions can…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-29 Jared R. Williams , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Carsten A. Ullrich

Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) has been traditionally solved by the Self-Consistent Field (SCF) method. Behind the SCF loop is the physics intuition of solving a system of non-interactive single-electron wave functions under…

Over this past decade, we combined the idea of stochastic resolution of identity with a variety of electronic structure methods. In our stochastic Kohn-Sham DFT method, the density is an average over multiple stochastic samples, with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Wenfei Li , Ming Chen , Eran Rabani , Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser

Conventional methods for modeling thermocatalytic systems are typically based on the Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT), neglecting the inhomogeneous distributions of gas molecules in the reactive environment. However, industrial…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Jikai Sun , Jianzhong Wu

A simplified density functional theory (DFT) method for charged adsorbates on an ultrathin, insulating film supported by a metal substrate is developed and presented. This new method is based on a previous DFT development that uses a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-27 Ivan Scivetti , Mats Persson

Orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) offers a challenging way of electronic-structure calculations scaled as $\mathcal{O}(N)$ computation for system size $N$. We here develop a scheme of the OFDFT calculations based on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Fumihiro Imoto , Masatoshi Imada , Atsushi Oshiyama

We show that the energetics and lifetimes of resonances of finite systems under an external electric field can be captured by Kohn--Sham density functional theory (DFT) within the formalism of uniform complex scaling. Properties of…

Linear-scaling implementations of density functional theory (DFT) reach their intended efficiency regime only when applied to systems having a physical size larger than the range of their Kohn-Sham density matrix (DM). This causes a problem…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Marcel David Fabian , Ben Shpiro , Eran Rabani , Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer

Density functional theory (DFT) is the most promising method for calculating quantum properties of molecules and materials at moderate and large scales. However, commonly used density functional approximations (DFAs) have systematic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Yichen Fan , Jacob Z. Williams , Weitao Yang

Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been…

Kohn-Sham density functional theory is the base of modern computational approaches to electronic structures. Their accuracy vitally relies on the exchange-correlation energy functional, which encapsulates electron-electron interaction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-04 Ryo Nagai , Ryosuke Akashi , Osamu Sugino

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

Single-particle methods based on Kohn-Sham unoccupied states to describe near-edge X-ray absorption (XAS) spectra are routinely applied for the description of K-edge spectra, as there is no complication due to spin-orbit (SO) coupling. L-…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-26 Esther A. B. Johnsen , Naoki Horiuchi , Toma Susi , Michael Walter

Pairing the accuracy of Kohn-Sham density-functional framework with the efficiency of a stochastic algorithmic approach, mixed stochastic-deterministic Density Functional Theory (mDFT) achieves a favorable computational scaling with system…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Vidushi Sharma , Lee A. Collins , Alexander J. White

We present a $\Delta$-machine learning model for obtaining Kohn-Sham accuracy from orbital-free density functional theory (DFT) calculations. In particular, we employ a machine learned force field (MLFF) scheme based on the kernel method to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Shashikant Kumar , Xin Jing , John E. Pask , Andrew J. Medford , Phanish Suryanarayana

We present a method for computing optical absorption spectra by means of a Bethe-Salpeter equation approach, which is based on a conserving linear response calculation for electron-hole coherences in the presence of an external…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-12-21 George Pal , Yaroslav Pavlyukh , Wolfgang Hübner , Hans Christian Schneider

We describe a fast parallel iterative method for computing molecular absorption spectra within TDDFT linear response and using the LCAO method. We use a local basis of "dominant products" to parametrize the space of orbital products that…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-04-19 Peter Koval , Dietrich Foerster , Olivier Coulaud

During the last two decades density functional based linear response approaches have become the de facto standard for the calculation of optical properties of small and medium-sized molecules. At the heart of these methods is the solution…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-01-23 Robert Rüger , Erik van Lenthe , You Lu , Johannes Frenzel , Thomas Heine , Lucas Visscher