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Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) is a powerful method to obtain key materials' properties, but the iterative solution of the KS equations is a numerically intensive task, which limits its application to complex systems. To…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-29 Bruno Focassio , Michelangelo Domina , Urvesh Patil , Adalberto Fazzio , Stefano Sanvito

While in principle exact, Kohn-Sham density functional theory -- the workhorse of computational chemistry -- must rely on approximations for the exchange-correlation functional. Despite staggering successes, present-day approximations still…

We present an extension of reverse engineered Kohn-Sham potentials from a density matrix renormalization group calculation towards the construction of a density functional theory functional via deep learning. Instead of applying machine…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-05 Peter Schmitteckert

The commutator direct inversion of the iterative subspace (commutator DIIS or C-DIIS) method developed by Pulay is an efficient and the most widely used scheme in quantum chemistry to accelerate the convergence of self consistent field…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Wei Hu , Lin Lin , Chao Yang

A detailed account of the implementation of equations of the Relativistic Density Functional Theory (RDFT) using basis sets of APW/LAPW type with flexible extensions provided by local orbitals is given. Earlier discoveries of the importance…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-07 Andrey L. Kutepov

We present a numerical modeling workflow based on machine learning (ML) which reproduces the the total energies produced by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) at finite electronic temperature to within chemical accuracy at negligible…

We use voxel deep neural networks to predict energy densities and functional derivatives of electron kinetic energies for the Thomas-Fermi model and Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations. We show that the ground-state electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-24 Kevin Ryczko , Sebastian J. Wetzel , Roger G. Melko , Isaac Tamblyn

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) provides an alternative approach for calculating the molecular electronic energy, relying solely on the electron density. In OF-DFT, both the ground-state density is optimized variationally to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Alexandre de Camargo , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Rodrigo A. Vargas-Hernández

Self-consistency based Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) electronic structure calculations with Gaussian basis sets are reported for a set of 17 protein-like molecules with geometries obtained from the protein data bank. It is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-01-10 Elias Rudberg

We survey approaches to nonrelativistic density functional theory (DFT) for nuclei using progress toward ab initio DFT for Coulomb systems as a guide. Ab initio DFT starts with a microscopic Hamiltonian and is naturally formulated using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 J. E. Drut , R. J. Furnstahl , L. Platter

In the previous paper of this series [JCTC 2020, 16, 3757], we presented a theoretical and algorithmic framework based on a localized representation of the occupied space that exploits the inherent sparsity in the real-space evaluation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-16 Hsin-Yu Ko , Biswajit Santra , Robert A. DiStasio

Finite-element (FE) discretisations have emerged as a powerful real-space alternative to large-scale Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) calculations, offering systematic convergence, excellent parallel scalability, while…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Gourab Panigrahi , Phani Motamarri

Chemical accuracy serves as an important metric for assessing the effectiveness of the numerical method in Kohn--Sham density functional theory. It is found that to achieve chemical accuracy, not only the Kohn--Sham wavefunctions but also…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Yang Kuang , Yedan Shen , Guanghui Hu

Traditional finite-temperature Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KSDFT) has an unfavorable scaling with respect to the electron number or at high temperatures. The evaluation of the ground-state density in KSDFT can be replaced by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Qianrui Liu , Mohan Chen

Orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) is a quantum chemistry formulation that has a lower cost scaling than the prevailing Kohn-Sham DFT, which is increasingly desired for contemporary molecular research. However, its accuracy is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 He Zhang , Siyuan Liu , Jiacheng You , Chang Liu , Shuxin Zheng , Ziheng Lu , Tong Wang , Nanning Zheng , Bin Shao

We formulate and implement Cyclic Density Functional Theory (Cyclic DFT) -- a self-consistent first principles simulation method for nanostructures with cyclic symmetries. Using arguments based on Group Representation Theory, we rigorously…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-16 Amartya S. Banerjee , Phanish Suryanarayana

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is rapidly emerging as a premier method for solving dynamical many-body problems in physics and chemistry. The mathematical foundations of TDDFT are established through the formal existence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-22 J. D. Whitfield , M. -H. Yung , D. G. Tempel , S. Boixo , A. Aspuru-Guzik

In the past decade, photoemission orbital tomography (POT) has evolved into a powerful tool to investigate the electronic structure of organic molecules adsorbed on surfaces. Here we show that POT allows for the comprehensive experimental…

Plane-wave electronic-structure predictions based upon orbital-dependent density-functional theory (OD-DFT) approximations, such as hybrid density-functional methods and self-interaction density-functional corrections, are severely affected…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-19 Yanli Li , Ismaila Dabo

We present, within Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory calculations, a quantitative method to identify and assess the partitioning of a large quantum mechanical system into fragments. We then show how within this framework simple…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-28 Stephan Mohr , Michel Masella , Laura E. Ratcliff , Luigi Genovese