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State-specific orbital optimized approaches are more accurate at predicting core-level spectra than traditional linear-response protocols, but their utility had been restricted on account of the risk of `variational collapse' down to the…

We introduce HP, an implementation of density-functional perturbation theory, designed to compute Hubbard parameters (on-site $U$ and inter-site $V$) in the framework of DFT+$U$ and DFT+$U$+$V$. The code does not require the use of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-11 Iurii Timrov , Nicola Marzari , Matteo Cococcioni

Multi-configurational wave functions are known to describe electronic structure across a Born-Oppenheimer surface qualitatively correct. However, for quantitative reaction energies, dynamical correlation originating from the many…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Christopher J. Stein , Markus Reiher

Discretizing an analytic function on a uniform real-space grid is often done via a straightforward collocation method. This is ubiquitous in all areas of computational physics and quantum chemistry. An example in Density Functional Theory…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Luigi Genovese , Thierry Deutsch

In the density functional (DF) theory of Kohn and Sham, the kinetic energy of the ground state of a system of noninteracting electrons in a general external field is calculated using a set of orbitals. Orbital free methods attempt to…

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Density functional theory with plane-wave basis sets is widely employed in computational materials science, including applications to isolated molecular systems. However, the inadequate description of electron correlation remains a…

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We present an Augmented Lagrangian formulation and its real-space implementation for non-periodic orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) calculations. In particular, we rewrite the constrained minimization problem of OF-DFT as a…

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We present an accurate, efficient and massively parallel finite-element code, DFT-FE, for large-scale ab-initio calculations (reaching $\sim 100,000$ electrons) using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). DFT-FE is based on a local…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Phani Motamarri , Sambit Das , Shiva Rudraraju , Krishnendu Ghosh , Denis Davydov , Vikram Gavini

We propose a distributed Quantum State Tomography (QST) protocol, named Local Stochastic Factored Gradient Descent (Local SFGD), to learn the low-rank factor of a density matrix over a set of local machines. QST is the canonical procedure…

We present a novel randomized block coordinate descent method for the minimization of a convex composite objective function. The method uses (approximate) partial second-order (curvature) information, so that the algorithm performance is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Kimon Fountoulakis , Rachael Tappenden

The stochastic density functional theory (sDFT) has exhibited advantages over the standard Kohn-Sham DFT method and has become an attractive approach for large-scale electronic structure calculations. The sDFT method avoids the expensive…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Xue Quan , Huajie Chen

We present an accurate and efficient real-space Density Functional Theory (DFT) framework for the ab-initio study of non-orthogonal crystal systems. Specifically, employing a local reformulation of the electrostatics, we develop a novel…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Abhiraj Sharma , Phanish Suryanarayana

In this paper, we propose a model reduction method for solving multiscale elliptic PDEs with random coefficients in the multiquery setting using an optimization approach. The optimization approach enables us to construct a set of localized…

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Localized orbital coupled cluster theory has recently emerged as an nonempirical alternative to DFT for large systems. Intuitively, one might expect such methods to perform less well for highly delocalized systems. In the present work, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-16 Nitai Sylvetsky , Ambar Banerjee , Mercedes Alonso , Jan M. L. Martin

The $\Delta$NO two-electron density matrix (2-RDM) and energy expression are derived from a multideterminantal wave function. The approximate $\Delta$NO 2-RDM is combined with an on-top density functional and a double-counting correction to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Ismael A. Elayan , Rishabh Gupta , Joshua W. Hollett

In this work, we propose a high-order multiscale method for an elliptic model problem with rough and possibly highly oscillatory coefficients. Convergence rates of higher order are obtained using the regularity of the right-hand side only.…

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High-rate quantum LDPC (qLDPC) codes reduce memory overhead by densely packing many logical qubits into a single block of physical qubits. Here we extend this concept to high-rate computation by constructing \emph{batched} fault-tolerant…

The implementation of an efficient self-consistent field (SCF) method including both scalar relativistic effects and spin-orbit interaction in density functional theory (DFT) is presented. We make use of Gaussian-type orbitals (GTOs) and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Yannick J. Franzke , Werner M. Schosser , Fabian Pauly

We present a computationally efficient approach to perform systematically convergent real-space all-electron Kohn-Sham DFT calculations for solids using an enriched finite element (FE) basis. The enriched FE basis is constructed by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Nelson D. Rufus , Bikash Kanungo , Vikram Gavini