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We calculate the potential energy surfaces for graphene adsorbed on Cu(111), Ni(111), and Co(0001) using density functional theory and the Random Phase Approximation (RPA). For these adsorption systems covalent and dispersive interactions…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-24 T. Olsen , J. Yan , J. J. Mortensen , K. S. Thygesen

The ground state equilibrium properties of copper-gold alloys have been explored with the state of art random phase approximation (RPA). Our estimated lattice constants agree with the experiment within a mean absolute percentage error…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-31 Niraj K. Nepal , Santosh Adhikari , Jefferson E. Bates , Adrienn Ruzsinszky

Developing theoretical understanding of complex reactions and processes at interfaces requires using methods that go beyond semilocal density functional theory to accurately describe the interactions between solvent, reactants and…

The random phase approximation (RPA) for the correlation energy functional of density functional theory has recently attracted renewed interest. Formulated in terms of the Kohn-Sham (KS) orbitals and eigenvalues, it promises to resolve some…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Hong Jiang , Eberhard Engel

The random-phase approximation (RPA) as an approach for computing the electronic correlation energy is reviewed. After a brief account of its basic concept and historical development, the paper is devoted to the theoretical formulations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-26 Xinguo Ren , Patrick Rinke , Christian Joas , Matthias Scheffler

The random phase approximation (RPA) has emerged as a prominent first-principles method in material science, particularly to study the adsorption and chemisorption of small molecules on surfaces. However, its widespread application is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-01 Edoardo Spadetto , Pier Herman Theodoor Philipsen , Arno Förster , Lucas Visscher

We assess the performance of a recently proposed renormalized adiabatic local density approximation (rALDA) for \textit{ab initio} calculations of electronic correlation energies in solids and molecules. The method is an extension of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-30 Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

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

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

The random phase approximation (RPA) as formulated as an orbital-dependent, fifth-rung functional within the density functional theory (DFT) framework offers a promising approach for calculating the ground-state energies and the derived…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Rong Shi , Peize Lin , Min-Ye Zhang , Lixin He , Xinguo Ren

We present an efficient implementation of the random phase approximation (RPA) for molecular systems within the domain-based local pair natural orbital (DLPNO) framework. With optimized parameters, DLPNO-RPA achieves approximately 99.9%…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Yu Hsuan Liang , Xing Zhang , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan , Timothy C. Berkelbach , Hong-Zhou Ye

We discuss that in the random phase approximation (RPA) the first derivative of the energy with respect to the Green's function is the self-energy in the GW approximation. This relationship allows us to derive compact equations for the RPA…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Benjamin Ramberger , Tobias Schäfer , Georg Kresse

We present a readily computable semi-analytic Layer Response Theory (LRT) for analysis of cohesive energetics involving two-dimensional layers such as BN or graphene. The theory approximates the Random Phase Approximation (RPA) correlation…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-04 John F. Dobson , Tim Gould , Sebastien Lebegue

The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) for correlation energy in the grid-based projector augmented wave (gpaw) code is accelerated by porting to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) architecture. The acceleration is achieved by grouping…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Jun Yan , Lin Li , Christopher O'Grady

We present a real-space method for computing the random phase approximation (RPA) correlation energy within Kohn-Sham density functional theory, leveraging the low-rank nature of the frequency-dependent density response operator. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Boqin Zhang , Shikhar Shah , John E. Pask , Edmond Chow , Phanish Suryanarayana

We have computed the surface energies, work functions, and interlayer surface relaxations of clean (111), (110), and (100) surfaces of Al, Cu, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Pt, and Au. Many of these metallic surfaces have technological or catalytic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-01 Abhirup Patra , Jefferson E. Bates , Jianwei Sun , John P. Perdew

Stacking-dependent interlayer interactions are important for understanding the structural and electronic properties in incommensurable two dimensional material assemblies where long-range moir\'e patterns arise due to small lattice constant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Nicolas Leconte , Jeil Jung , Sébastien Lebègue , Tim Gould

We performed density functional calculations to estimate the formation energies of intermetallic alloys. We used two semilocal approximations, the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) by Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) and the strongly…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-25 Niraj K. Nepal , Santosh Adhikari , Bimal Neupane , Adrienn Ruzsinszky

In a recent article [Phys. Rev. B 90, 125102 (2014)] we showed that the random phase approximation with exchange (RPAx) gives accurate total energies for a diverse set of systems including the high and low density regime of the homogeneous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-11 Nicola Colonna , Maria Hellgren , Stefano de Gironcoli

The adsorption energy of benzene on various metal substrates is predicted using the random phase approximation (RPA) for the correlation energy. Agreement with available experimental data is systematically better than 10% for both coinage…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 J. A. Garrido Torres , B. Ramberger , H. Früchtl , R. Schaub , G. Kresse
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