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Kohn-Sham density functional theory is one of the most widely used electronic structure theories. In the pseudopotential framework, uniform discretization of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian generally results in a large number of basis functions…
Given a set of Kohn-Sham orbitals from an insulating system, we present a simple, robust, efficient and highly parallelizable method to construct a set of, optionally orthogonal, localized basis functions for the associated subspace. Our…
We present a computationally efficient approach to solve the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations in real-time using higher-order finite-element spatial discretization, applicable to both pseudopotential and all-electron calculations. To this…
We derive the expressions for configurational forces in Kohn-Sham density functional theory, which correspond to the generalized variational force computed as the derivative of the Kohn-Sham energy functional with respect to the position of…
We present a subspace projection technique to conduct large-scale Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations using spectral finite-element discretization. The proposed method treats both metallic and insulating materials in a single…
We develop a technique for generating a set of optimized local basis functions to solve models in the Kohn-Sham density functional theory for both insulating and metallic systems. The optimized local basis functions are obtained by solving…
We present a computationally efficient approach to perform large-scale all-electron density functional theory calculations by enriching the classical finite element basis with compactly supported atom-centered numerical basis functions that…
Density functional theory is currently the most widely applied method in electronic structure theory. The Kohn-Sham method, based on a fictitious system of non-interacting particles, is the work horse of the theory. The particular form of…
Starting from the observation that one of the most successful methods for solving the Kohn-Sham equations for periodic systems -- the plane-wave method -- is a spectral method based on eigenfunction expansion, we formulate a spectral method…
We present an embedding approach for semiconductors and insulators based on or- bital rotations in the space of occupied Kohn-Sham orbitals. We have implemented our approach in the popular VASP software package. We demonstrate its power for…
In this paper, we investigate the energy minimization model of the ensemble Kohn-Sham density functional theory for metallic systems, in which a pseudo-eigenvalue matrix and a general smearing approach are involved. We study the invariance…
We present an efficient computational approach to perform real-space electronic structure calculations using an adaptive higher-order finite-element discretization of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT). To this end, we develop an…
We present a new theory for partitioning simulations of periodic and solid-state systems into physically sound atomic contributions at the level of Kohn-Sham density functional theory. Our theory is based on spatially localized linear…
We present a rigorous formulation of generalized Kohn-Sham density-functional theory. This provides a straightforward Kohn-Sham description of many-body systems based not only on particle-density but also on any other observable. We…
The constrained electron density method of embedding a Kohn-Sham system in a substrate system (first described by P. Cortona, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 44}, 8454 (1991) and T.A. Wesolowski and A. Warshel, J. Phys. Chem {\bf 97}, 8050 (1993)) is…
We propose a framework to construct the ground-state energy and density matrix of an N-electron system by solving selfconsistently a set of single-particle equations. The method can be viewed as a non-trivial extension of the Kohn-Sham…
Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations using conventional diagonalization based methods become increasingly expensive as temperature increases due to the need to compute increasing numbers of partially occupied states. We present…
We introduce an efficient finite-element approach for large-scale real-space pseudopotential density functional theory (DFT) calculations incorporating noncollinear magnetism and spin-orbit coupling. The approach, implemented within the…
We present an accurate and efficient formulation for the calculation of phonons in real-space Kohn-Sham density functional theory. Specifically, employing a local exchange-correlation functional, norm-conserving pseudopotential in the…
We present an accurate and efficient framework for real-space Hubbard-corrected density functional theory. In particular, we obtain expressions for the energy, atomic forces, and stress tensor suitable for real-space finite-difference…