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PbPdO$_2$, a ternary compound containing the lone-pair active ion Pb$^{2+}$ and the square-planar d$^8$ Pd$^{2+}$ ion, has attracted recent interest because of the suggestion that its electronic structure, calculated within density…
The virtual (i.e., fundamental many body quantum theory-based, computational) synthesis method is used to establish electronic templates of about 30 non-stoichiometric nanosystems composed of nickel and oxygen atoms and ranging from about 6…
We have studied polyacene within the Hubbard model to explore the effect of electron correlations on the Peierls' instability in a system marginally away from one-dimension. We employ the projector quantum Monte Carlo method to obtain…
Exact thermal studies of small (4-site, 5-site and 8-site) Hubbard clusters with local electron repulsion yield intriguing insight into phase separation, charge-spin separation, pseudogaps, condensation, in particular, pairing fluctuations…
A first-principles coupled electron-nuclear dynamics simulation based on real-time, time-dependent density functional theory and Ehrenfest dynamics quantitatively repro-duces bimodal translational energy loss and angular distributions…
Quantum embedding methods have recently developed significantly to model large molecular structures. This work proposes a novel wave function theory in density functional theory (WTF-in-DFT) embedding scheme based on pair-coupled cluster…
Composition, atomic structure, and electronic properties of TM$_x$Mg$_y$O$_z$ clusters (TM = Cr, Ni, Fe, Co, $x+y \leq 3$) at realistic temperature $T$ and partial oxygen pressure $p_{\textrm{O}_2}$ conditions are explored using the {\em ab…
This paper presents a new clustering algorithm for symmetric positive semi-definite (SPSD) matrices, called K-Tensors. The method identifies structured subsets of the SPSD cone characterized by common principal component (CPC)…
We propose the entanglement bipartitioning approach to design an optimal network structure of the tree-tensor-network (TTN) for quantum many-body systems. Given an exact ground-state wavefunction, we perform sequential bipartitioning of…
Pseudoentangled states are defined by their ability to hide their entanglement structure: they are indistinguishable from random states to any observer with polynomial resources, yet can have much less entanglement than random states.…
We report an improved implementation for evaluating the analytical gradients of the random phase approximation (RPA) electron-correlation energy based on atomic orbitals and the localized resolution of identity scheme. The more efficient…
The direct variational optimization of the two-electron reduced density matrix (2RDM) can provide a reference-independent description of the electronic structure of many-electron systems that naturally captures strong or nondynamic…
The pair-coupled-cluster doubles (pCCD) method has emerged as a viable approach for quantum-chemical studies of strongly correlated systems. Despite its lower formal scaling (O(N$^4$)) compared to other versions of coupled cluster (CC)…
Hydrogen bond is often assumed to be a purely electrostatic interaction between a electron-deficient hydrogen atom and a region of high electron density. Here, for the first time, we directly image hydrogen bond in real space by…
Analysis of nanoscale short-range chemical and/or structural order via (scanning) transmission electron microscopy (S/TEM) imaging is fundamentally limited by projection of the three dimensional sample, which averages informational along…
We have studied the fundamental process of hydrogen binding at interstitial, vacancy and grain boundary (GB) in palladium crystals using Density-Functional Theory. It showed that hydrogen prefers to occupy the octahedral interstitial site…
Due to their ability to reversibly absorb/desorb hydrogen without hysteresis, Pd--Au nanoalloys have been proposed as materials for hydrogen sensing. For sensing, it is important that absorption/desorption isotherms are reproducible and…
We report an experimental study of 2D dipole clusters formed by small magnetic particles floating at the air-water interface. The particles form hexagonally ordered clusters due to interplay between dipole-dipole repulsion and confining…
A multiscale approach was adopted for the calculation of confined states in self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). While results close to experimental data have been obtained with a combination of atomistic strain and…
The recent discoveries of many metal superhydrides provide a new route to room-temperature superconductors. However, their stability and structure trends and the large chemical driving force needed to dissociate H2 molecules and form H…