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DFT+U provides a convenient, cost-effective correction for the self-interaction error (SIE) that arises when describing correlated electronic states using conventional approximate density functional theory (DFT). The success of a DFT+U(+J)…

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In the spirit of recently developed LDA+U and LDA+DMFT methods we implement a combination of density functional theory in its local density approximation (LDA) with a $k$- and $\omega -$dependent self-energy found from diagrammatic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-17 Sergey Y. Savrasov , Giacomo Resta , Xiangang Wan

Density-functional theory (DFT) has revolutionized computer simulations in chemistry and material science. A faithful implementation of the theory requires self-consistent calculations. However, this effort involves repeatedly diagonalizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Taehee Ko , Xiantao Li , Chunhao Wang

Density functional theory augmented with a Hubbard correction (DFT+U) is widely used to treat localized electronic states, but its predictions are often sensitive to the choice of the local projection space defining the correlated subspace.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-13 Manjula Raman , Kenneth Park

Correct prediction of the behavior of UO2 crystal, which is an antiferromagnetic system with strongly-correlated electrons, is possible by using a modified density functional theory, the DFT+U method. In the context of DFT+U, the energy of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-29 Mahmoud Payami

In a recent paper we presented a linear scaling Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) code based on Daubechies wavelets, where a minimal set of localized support functions is optimized in situ and therefore adapted to the chemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-08 Laura E. Ratcliff , Luigi Genovese , Stephan Mohr , Thierry Deutsch

DFT+X methods, such as DFT+U and DFT+DMFT, are important supplements to standard density functional theory when strong on-site Coulomb interactions are present. However, the involvement of external parameters in the underlying model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-03 X. L. Pan , H. X. Song , Y. Sun , F. C. Wu , H. Wang , Y. F. Wang , Y. Chen , X. R. Chen , Hua Y. Geng

The ab initio computational method known as Hubbard-corrected density functional theory (DFT+$U$) captures well ground electronic structures of a set of solids that are poorly described by standard DFT alone. Since lattice dynamical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-17 Wooil Yang , Sabyasachi Tiwari , Feliciano Giustino , Young-Woo Son

Localized molecular orbitals are often used for the analysis of chemical bonds, but they can also serve to efficiently and comprehensibly compute linear response properties. While conventional canonical molecular orbitals provide an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Souloke Sen , Bruno Senjean , Lucas Visscher

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

Density functional theory (DFT) has been widely applied to a variety of realistic materials but often struggles to explain the properties of correlated systems. The DFT + U method, which introduces a Hubbard U correction to the DFT, has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-20 Ju Hyeon Lee , Bongjae Kim

Stochastic and mixed stochastic-deterministic density functional theory (DFT) are promising new approaches for the calculation of the equation-of-state and transport properties in materials under extreme conditions. In the intermediate warm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Vidushi Sharma , Lee A. Collins , Alexander J. White

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

The magnetic properties of CrI$_3$ monolayers, which were recently measured, have been investigated considering electronic repulsion and localization effects in Cr 3d orbitals. In this study, we propose a DFT approach using Hubbard U…

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Determining ground state energies of quantum systems by hybrid classical/quantum methods has emerged as a promising candidate application for near-term quantum computational resources. Short of large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 Nicholas C. Rubin

The LDA+DMFT method is a very powerful tool for gaining insight into the physics of strongly correlated materials. It combines traditional ab-initio density-functional techniques with the dynamical mean-field theory. The core aspects of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Eva Pavarini

Density functional theory (DFT) became a universal approach to compute ground-state and excited configurations of many-electron systems held together by an external one-body potential in condensed-matter, atomic, and molecular physics. At…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-30 J. Dobaczewski

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

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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 XiaoYu Deng , Lei Wang , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang