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Developing reliable pseudopotentials for orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT), especially for transition metals, remains a significant challenge. In this study, we provide a theoretical framework for analyzing pseudization…

A new nine-dimensional potential energy surface (PES) for methane has been generated using state-of-the-art \textit{ab initio} theory. The PES is based on explicitly correlated coupled cluster calculations with extrapolation to the complete…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Alec Owens , Sergey N. Yurchenko , Andrey Yachmenev , Jonathan Tennyson , Walter Thiel

The focus of this article is the approximation of functions which are analytic on a compact interval except at the endpoints. Typical numerical methods for approximating such functions depend upon the use of particular conformal maps from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-05 Ben Adcock , Mark Richardson

Machine Learning (ML) approximations to Density Functional Theory (DFT) potential energy surfaces (PESs) are showing great promise for reducing the computational cost of accurate molecular simulations, but at present they are not applicable…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Xiaowei Xie , Kristin A. Persson , David W. Small

We introduce a practical and efficient approach for calculating the all-electron full potential bandstructure in real space, employing a finite element basis. As an alternative to the k-space method, the method involves the self-consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-25 Dongming Li , James Kestyn , Eric Polizzi

A new scheme for the numerical evaluation of the one-loop self-energy correction to all orders in Z \alpha is presented. The scheme proposed inherits the attractive features of the standard potential-expansion method but yields a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vladimir A. Yerokhin , Krzysztof Pachucki , Vladimir M. Shabaev

This paper presents a method for the approximation of harmonic potentials that combines downward continuation of globally available data on a sphere $\Omega_R$ of radius $R$ (e.g., a satellite's orbit) with locally available data on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Christian Gerhards

We present an optimized random phase approximation method (optRPA26) that significantly improves upon conventional RPA. The method employs an empirically constructed hybrid functional to generate DFT orbitals to evaluate the RPA correlation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Neung-Kyung Yu , Johannes Voss , Andrew J. Medford

In all applications of Density Functional Theory there is always a degree of one-electron self-interaction error (SIE). Here, we propose a simple self-interaction correction by applying an effective core potential (ECP) that replaces no…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Dale R. Lonsdale , Lars Goerigk

Reduced basis approximations of Optimal Control Problems (OCPs) governed by steady partial differential equations (PDEs) with random parametric inputs are analyzed and constructed. Such approximations are based on a Reduced Order Model,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Giuseppe Carere , Maria Strazzullo , Francesco Ballarin , Gianluigi Rozza , Rob Stevenson

This work provides a self-consistent extension of the recently proposed density-based basis-set correction method for wave-function electronic-structure calculations [J. Chem. Phys. 149, 194301 (2018)]. In contrast to the previously used…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Emmanuel Giner , Diata Traore , Barthélemy Pradines , Julien Toulouse

Using the finite simulation-cell homogeneous electron gas (HEG) as a model, we investigate the convergence of the correlation energy to the complete basis set (CBS) limit in methods utilising plane-wave wavefunction expansions. Simple…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 James J. Shepherd , Andreas Grüneis , George H. Booth , Georg Kresse , Ali Alavi

We study sparse principal component analysis in the high-dimensional, sample-limited regime, aiming to recover a leading component supported on a few coordinates. Despite extensive progress, most methods and analyses are tailored to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Mengchu Xu , Jian Wang , Yonina C. Eldar

The projector augmented wave (PAW) method of Bl\"ochl linearly maps smooth pseudo wavefunctions to the highly oscillatory all-electron DFT orbitals. Compared to norm-conserving pseudopotentials (NCPP), PAW has the advantage of lower kinetic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Minh Nguyen , Tim Duong , Daniel Neuhauser

Interatomic potentials provide a means to simulate extended length and time scales that are outside the reach of ab initio calculations. The development of an interatomic potential for a particular material requires the optimization of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-14 Aparna P. A. Subramanyam , Jan Jenke , Alvin Noe Ladines , Ralf Drautz , Thomas Hammerschmidt

State specific orbital optimized density functional theory (OO-DFT) methods like restricted open-shell Kohn-Sham (ROKS) can attain semiquantitative accuracy for predicting X-ray absorption spectra of closed-shell molecules. OO-DFT methods…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Diptarka Hait , Katherine J. Oosterbaan , Kevin Carter-Fenk , Martin Head-Gordon

The random phase approximation (RPA) for the electron correlation energy, combined with the exact-exchange energy, represents the state-of-the-art exchange-correlation functional within density-functional theory (DFT). However, the standard…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Xinguo Ren , Patrick Rinke , Alexandre Tkatchenko , Matthias Scheffler

Recently, we have demonstrated that the problems finding a suitable adiabatic approximation in time-dependent one-body reduced density matrix functional theory can be remedied by introducing an additional degree of freedom to describe the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-03-10 Klaas J. H. Giesbertz , Oleg V. Gritsenko , Evert Jan Baerends

The random phase approximation (RPA) and the $GW$ approximation share the same total energy functional but RPA is defined on a restricted domain of Green's functions determined by a local Kohn-Sham (KS) potential. In this work, we perform…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-26 Thomas Pitts , Damian Contant , Maria Hellgren

In this article we study adaptive finite element methods (AFEM) with inexact solvers for a class of semilinear elliptic interface problems. We are particularly interested in nonlinear problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficients, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Michael Holst , Ryan Szypowski , Yunrong Zhu