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The predictive accuracy of density functional theory (DFT) for alloy formation enthalpies is often limited by intrinsic energy resolution errors, particularly in ternary phase stability calculations. In this work, we present a machine…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-10 Sergei I. Simak , Erna K. Delczeg-Czirjak , Olle Eriksson

With the growth of computational resources, the scope of electronic structure simulations has increased greatly. Artificial intelligence and robust data analysis hold the promise to accelerate large-scale simulations and their analysis to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-27 Lenz Fiedler , Karan Shah , Michael Bussmann , Attila Cangi

Accurate approximations to density functionals have recently been obtained via machine learning (ML). By applying ML to a simple function of one variable without any random sampling, we extract the qualitative dependence of errors on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-01-29 Kevin Vu , John Snyder , Li Li , Matthias Rupp , Brandon F. Chen , Tarek Khelif , Klaus-Robert Müller , Kieron Burke

The formally exact framework of equilibrium Density Functional Theory (DFT) is capable of simultaneously and consistently describing thermodynamic and structural properties of interacting many-body systems in arbitrary external potentials.…

A density functional theory is developed for fermions in one dimension, interacting via a delta-function. Such systems provide a natural testing ground for questions of principle, as the local density approximation should work well for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Magyar , K. Burke

In recent years, kernel density estimation has been exploited by computer scientists to model machine learning problems. The kernel density estimation based approaches are of interest due to the low time complexity of either O(n) or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2007-10-16 Yen-Jen Oyang , Darby Tien-Hao Chang , Yu-Yen Ou , Hao-Geng Hung , Chih-Peng Wu , Chien-Yu Chen

We use density-matrix renormalization group, applied to a one-dimensional model of continuum Hamiltonians, to accurately solve chains of hydrogen atoms of various separations and numbers of atoms. We train and test a machine-learned…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-28 Li Li , Thomas E. Baker , Steven R. White , Kieron Burke

Machine learning has emerged as a significant approach to efficiently tackle electronic structure problems. Despite its potential, there is less guarantee for the model to generalize to unseen data that hinders its application in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Gengyuan Hu , Gengchen Wei , Zekun Lou , Philip H. S. Torr , Wanli Ouyang , Han-sen Zhong , Chen Lin

Calculating perturbation response properties of materials from first principles provides a vital link between theory and experiment, but is bottlenecked by the high computational cost. Here a general framework is proposed to perform density…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 He Li , Zechen Tang , Jingheng Fu , Wen-Han Dong , Nianlong Zou , Xiaoxun Gong , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

We train a neural network as the universal exchange-correlation functional of density-functional theory that simultaneously reproduces both the exact exchange-correlation energy and potential. This functional is extremely non-local, but…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Jonathan Schmidt , Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Miguel A. L. Marques

We derive an estimator of the spectral density of a functional time series that is the output of a multilayer perceptron neural network. The estimator is motivated by difficulties with the computation of existing spectral density estimators…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-05 Neda Mohammadi , Soham Sarkar , Piotr Kokoszka

In principle, machine learning (ML) can be used to obtain any electronic property of a many-body system from its electron density within density functional theory. However, some physical quantities are highly sensitive to small variations…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-19 L. Arnstein , J. Wetherell , R. Lawrence , P. J. Hasnip , M. J. P. Hodgson

Encoding the electronic structure of molecules using 2-electron reduced density matrices (2RDMs) as opposed to many-body wave functions has been a decades-long quest as the 2RDM contains sufficient information to compute the exact molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 David Pekker , Chungwen Liang , Sankha Pattanayak , Swagatam Mukhopadhyay

A classical density functional theory is applied to study solvation of solutes in water. An approx- imate form of the excess functional is proposed for water. This functional requires the knowledge of pure solvent direct correlation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-09-01 Guillaume Jeanmairet

We revisit the machine-learning (ML) approach to the universal density functional $F[\mathbf{n}]$ of the one-dimensional Hubbard model with a site-dependent random potential $\mathbf{v}=\{v_{i}\}$. We generate exact ground-state data via…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-03 Octavio D. R. Salmon , Minos A. Neto , J. Roberto Viana , Griffith Mendonça

We introduce machine learning (ML) models that predict the electronic structure of materials across a wide temperature range. Our models employ neural networks and are trained on density functional theory (DFT) data. Unlike most other ML…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-02 Lenz Fiedler , Normand A. Modine , Kyle D. Miller , Attila Cangi

Electron charge density is a fundamental physical quantity, determining various properties of matter. In this study, we have proposed a deep-learning model for accurate charge density prediction. Our model naturally preserves physical…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-27 Taoyuze Lv , Zhicheng Zhong , Yuhang Liang , Feng Li , Jun Huang , Rongkun Zheng

Hohenberg and Kohn have proven that the electronic energy and the one-particle electron density can, in principle, be obtained by minimizing an energy functional with respect to the density. While decades of theoretical work have produced…

Large scale Density Functional Theory (DFT) based electronic structure calculations are highly time consuming and scale poorly with system size. While semi-empirical approximations to DFT result in a reduction in computational time versus…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-21 Ganesh Hegde , R. Chris Bowen

This study investigates the use of machine learning (ML) to correct the enthalpy of formation (Hf) from two separate DFT functionals, PBE and SCAN, to the experimental Hf across 1011 solid-state compounds. The ML model uses a set of 25…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-18 Santosh Adhikari , Christopher J. Bartel , Christopher Sutton