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We study the electronic structure of a spherical jellium in the presence of a central Gaussian impurity. We test how well the resulting inhomogeneity effects beyond spherical jellium are reproduced by several approximations of density…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Michal Bajdich , Paul R. C. Kent , Jeongnim Kim , Fernando A. Reboredo

The study of magnetism in transition metals is a cornerstone in understanding complex electronic and magnetic interactions in condensed matter systems. Among transition metal elements, body-centered cubic (bcc) chromium stands out because…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-15 Alma Partos , Igor Di Marco , Shivalika Sharma

Providing highly simplified models of strongly correlated electronic systems that challenge {\it ab initio} calculations can serve as a valuable testing ground to improve these methods. In this study, we present a comprehensive study of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-25 Jila Amini , Mojtaba Alaei , Stefano de Gironcoli

Originating from a broken spatial inversion symmetry, ferroelectricity is a functionality of materials with an electric dipole that can be switched by external electric fields. Spontaneous polarization is a crucial ferroelectric property,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-03 Yubo Zhang , Jianwei Sun , John P. Perdew , Xifan Wu

We propose a new method for accurately calculating electrical transport properties of a lightly-doped thermoelectric material from density functional theory (DFT) calculations, based on experimental data and density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-14 Alireza Faghaninia , Cynthia S. Lo

The recent development of the accurate and efficient semilocal density functionals on the third rung of Jacob's ladder of density functional theory such as the revised regularized strongly constrained and appropriately normed (r2SCAN)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Haoliang Liu , Xue Bai , Jingliang Ning , Yuxuan Hou , Zifeng Song , Akilan Ramasamy , Ruiqi Zhang , Yefei Li , Jianwei Sun , Bing Xiao

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

In the density-functional studies of materials with localized electronic states, the local/semilocal exchange-correlation functionals are often either combined with a Hubbard parameter $U$ as in the LDA+$U$ method or mixed with a fraction…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-24 Mehmet Aras , Çetin Kılıç

We present a first--principles density functional theory (DFT) study of transition metal (TM = Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) functionalized two--dimensional polyaramid (2DPA) to explore their structural, electronic, and magnetic properties.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-03 Ravi Trivedi , Chaithanya Purushottam Bhat , Shakti S. Ray , Debashis Bandyopadhyay

Benchmarks that span a broad swath of chemical space, such as GMTKN55, are very useful for assessing progress in the quest for more universal DFT functionals. We find that the WTMAD2 metrics for a great number of functionals show a clear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-12 Golokesh Santra , Jan M. L. Martin

This study investigates the predictive capabilities of common DFT methods (GGA, GGA+$U$, and GGA+$U$+$V$) for determining the transition temperature of antiferromagnetic insulators. We utilize a dataset of 29 compounds and derive Heisenberg…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Zahra Mosleh , Mojtaba Alaei

The performance of two modern density-functionals, HSE06 and TB-mBJ, on predicting electronic structures of metal oxides, chalcogenides and nitrides, is studied in terms of band gaps, band structure and projected density-of-states. Contrary…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-22 Wenqing Li , Christian F. J. Walther , Agnieszka Kuc , Thomas Heine

In contrast to the original Kohn-Sham (KS) formalism, we propose a density functional theory (DFT) with fractional orbital occupations for the study of ground states of many-electron systems, wherein strong static correlation is shown to be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jeng-Da Chai

Half-metallicity, low magnetic damping and high curie temperature (TC) are crucial for application in spintronics and full Heusler alloys in this regard exhibit remarkable properties. Herein, we have considered Co2FeAl (CFA) and Fe2CoAl…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-08 Lalrinkima , Gennady M. Mikhailov , D. P. Rai

Predicting the compositional phase stability of strongly correlated electron materials is an outstanding challenge in condensed matter physics, requiring precise computations of total energies. In this work, we employ the density functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-28 Eric B. Isaacs , Chris A. Marianetti

We present a comparative electronic structure study using DFT and various beyond-DFT (DFT+$U$, $G_0W_0$, DFT+DMFT) methods for ferromagnetic Iron (Fe) to find better approach for describing the spectral properties of correlated magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 Antik Sihi , Sudhir K. Pandey

Density functional theory (DFT) is used in thousands of papers each year, yet lack of universality reduces DFT's predictive capacity, and functionals may produce energy-density imbalances. The absolute electronegativity (\chi) and hardness…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Klaus A. Moltved , Kasper P. Kepp

It is believed that the density functional theory (DFT) describes most elements with s, p and d orbitals very well, except some materials that having strongly localized and correlated valence electrons. In this work, we find that the widely…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-17 Y. X. Wang , Hua Y. Geng , Q. Wu , Xiang R. Chen

Accurate computational predictions of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their properties is crucial for discovering optimal compositions and applying them in relevant technological areas. This work benchmarks density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-11 Joshua Edzards , Julia Santana Andreo , Holger-Dietrich Saßnick , Caterina Cocchi

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