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The self-consistent charge density functional tight-binding (DFTB) theory is a useful tool for realizing the electronic structures of large molecular complex systems. In this study, we analyze the electronic structure of C61, formed by…

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Computing the grain boundary (GB) counterparts to bulk phase diagrams represents an emerging research direction. Using a classical embrittlement model system Ga-doped Al alloy, this study demonstrates the feasibility of computing…

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Non-adiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) has become an essential computational technique for studying the photophysical relaxation of molecular systems after light absorption. These phenomena require approximations that go beyond the…

We develop a computational approach that significantly improves the efficiency of Bayesian optimal experimental design (BOED) using local radial basis functions (RBFs). The presented RBF--BOED method uses the intrinsic ability of RBFs to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Tianyi Chu , Jonathan B. Estrada , Spencer H. Bryngelson

We develop an atomistic, nearest-neighbor sp3s* tight-binding Hamiltonian to investigate the electronic structure of dilute bismide alloys of GaP and GaAs. Using this model we calculate that the incorporation of dilute concentrations of Bi…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-12 Muhammad Usman , Christopher A. Broderick , Andrew Lindsay , Eoin P. O'Reilly

Moir\'e superlattices in two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit rich quantum phenomena, but ab initio modelling of these systems remains computationally prohibitive. Existing machine learning methods for accelerating density-functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-11 Zekun Lou , Alan M. Lewis , Mariana Rossi

We present a multi-scale density functional theory (DFT) informed molecular dynamics and tight-binding (TB) approach to capture the interdependent atomic and electronic structures of twisted bilayer graphene. We calibrate the flat band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Nicolas Leconte , Srivani Javvaji , Jiaqi An , Appalakondaiah Samudrala , Jeil Jung

A challenge in modeling time-dependent strong-field processes such as high-harmonic generation for many-body systems, is how to effectively represent the electronic continuum. We apply Rothe's method to the time-dependent Hartree-Fock…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Simon Elias Schrader , Håkon Emil Kristiansen , Thomas Bondo Pedersen , Simen Kvaal

We address a simple but fundamental issue arising in the study of graphene, as well as of other systems that have a crystalline structure with more than one atom per unit cell. For these systems, the choice of the tight-binding basis is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-15 Cristina Bena , Gilles Montambaux

We compare the classification of the electron bands in graphene, obtained by group theory algebra in the framework of tight-binding model (TBM), with that calculated in the density-functional theory (DFT) framework. Identification in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 E. Kogan , V. U. Nazarov , V. M. Silkin , M. Kaveh

We use maximally localized Wannier functions to construct tight-binding (TB) parameterizations for the e_g bands of LaMnO_3 based on first principles electronic structure calculations. We compare two different ways to represent the relevant…

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Machine learning techniques are utilized to estimate the electronic band gap energy and forecast the band gap category of materials based on experimentally quantifiable properties. The determination of band gap energy is critical for…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-11 Sagar Prakash Barad , Sajag Kumar , Subhankar Mishra

The formal link between the linear combination of atomic orbitals approach to density functional theory and two-center Slater-Koster tight-binding models is used to derive an orthogonal $d$-band tight-binding model for iron with only two…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-19 Georg K. H. Madsen , Eunan J. McEniry , Ralf Drautz

The calculations of electronic transport coefficients and optical properties require a very dense interpolation of the electronic band structure in reciprocal space that is computationally expensive and may have issues with band crossing…

We employ first principles density-functional theory (DFT) and the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) in the framework of tight-binding based maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWF-TB) model to investigate the electronic and optical…

Elemental rare-earth metals provide a playground for studying novel electron correlation effects and complex magnetism. However, ab initio simulations of these systems remain challenging. Here, we employ fully charge self-consistent density…

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Understanding how structural flexibility affects the properties of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is crucial for the design of better MOFs for targeted applications. Flexible MOFs can be studied with molecular dynamics simulations, whose…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-13 Abhishek Sharma , Stefano Sanvito

While the ground state of magnetic materials is in general well described on the basis of spin density functional theory (SDFT), the theoretical description of finite-temperature and non-equilibrium properties require an extension beyond…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-22 Sergiy Mankovsky , Hubert Ebert

The goal of this paper is to relate the capacitance matrix formalism to the tight-binding approximation. By doing so, we open the way to the use of mathematical techniques and tools from condensed matter theory in the mathematical and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-19 Habib Ammari , Francesco Fiorani , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen

In this paper, we propose an extended plane wave framework to make the electronic structure calculations of the twisted bilayer 2D material systems practically feasible. Based on the foundation in [Y. Zhou, H. Chen, A. Zhou, J. Comput.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Xiaoying Dai , Aihui Zhou , Yuzhi Zhou