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We propose a new method of calculating electronically excited states that combines a density functional theory (DFT) based ground state calculation with a linear response treatment that employs approximations used in the time-dependent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Robert Rüger , Erik van Lenthe , Thomas Heine , Lucas Visscher

We implemented various DFT+U schemes, including the ACBN0 self-consistent density-functional version of the DFT+U method [Phys. Rev. X 5, 011006 (2015)] within the massively parallel real-space time-dependent density functional theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-27 Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Micael J. T. Oliveira , Angel Rubio

The crucial step in density-corrected Hartree-Fock density functional theory (DC(HF)-DFT) is to decide whether the density produced by the density functional for a specific calculation is erroneous and hence should be replaced by, in this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Daniel Graf , Alex J. W. Thom

Electrons in zero external magnetic field can be studied with density functional theory (DFT) or with spin-DFT (SDFT). The latter is normally used for open shell systems because its approximations appear to model better the exchange and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Timothy Callow , Benjamin Pearce , Nikitas Gidopoulos

A generating coordinate is introduced into the exchange-correlation functional of density-functional theory (DFT). The many-body wave function is represented as a superposition of Kohn-Sham (KS) Slater determinants arising from different…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Capelle

Multipolar magnetic phases in correlated insulators represent a great challenge for Density Functional Theory (DFT) due to the coexistence of intermingled interactions, typically spin-orbit coupling, crystal field and complex non-collinear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-27 Dario Fiore Mosca , Leonid V. Pourovskii , Cesare Franchini

The most general way to describe localized atomic-like electronic states in strongly correlated compounds is to utilize Wannier functions. In the present paper we continue the development of widely-spread DFT+U method onto Wannier function…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-02 D. Novoselov , Dm. M. Korotin , V. I. Anisimov

In this work, we present a computationally efficient methodology that utilizes a local real-space formulation of the projector augmented wave (PAW) method discretized with a finite-element (FE) basis to enable accurate and large-scale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Kartick Ramakrishnan , Sambit Das , Phani Motamarri

Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been…

We show that the energetics and lifetimes of resonances of finite systems under an external electric field can be captured by Kohn--Sham density functional theory (DFT) within the formalism of uniform complex scaling. Properties of…

A very popular ab-initio scheme to calculate electronic properties in solids is the use of hybrid functionals in density functional theory (DFT) that mixes a portion of Fock exchange with DFT functionals. In spite of their success, a major…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Miguel A. L. Marques , Julien Vidal , Micael J. T. Oliveira , Lucia Reining , Silvana Botti

The exact form of the kinetic energy functional has remained elusive in orbital-free models of density functional theory (DFT). This has been the main stumbling block for the development of a general-purpose framework on this basis. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-06 Thomas Pope , Werner Hofer

The magnetic, noncollinear parametrization of Dudarev's DFT+$U$ method is generalized to fully-relativistic ultrasoft pseudopotentials. We present the definition of the DFT+$U$ total energy functional, and the calculation of forces and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-13 Luca Binci , Nicola Marzari

Density functional theory (DFT), the most widely adopted method in modern computational chemistry, fails to describe accurately the electronic structure of strongly correlated systems. Here we show that DFT can be formally and practically…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn , David A. Mazziotti

Density functional theory (DFT) has long struggled to treat light rare-earth magnetism. We show that this difficulty arises from an overestimate of the $4f$ charge asphericity, and thus the magnetic anisotropy energy, due to the inadequacy…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-28 Liqin Ke , R. Flint , Y. Lee

While density functional theory (DFT) serves as a prevalent computational approach in electronic structure calculations, its computational demands and scalability limitations persist. Recently, leveraging neural networks to parameterize the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Yang Zhong , Hongyu Yu , Jihui Yang , Xingyu Guo , Hongjun Xiang , Xingao Gong

We present an efficient computational approach to perform real-space electronic structure calculations using an adaptive higher-order finite-element discretization of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT). To this end, we develop an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Phani Motamarri , Michael R Nowak , Kenneth Leiter , Jaroslaw Knap , Vikram Gavini

In order to describe the nonisothermal dynamics of two-phase flows or binary mixtures such as colloidal suspensions consisting of colloidal particles and solvent on a microscopic level, we derive a new extended dynamical density functional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-06 Michael te Vrugt , Hartmut Löwen , Helmut R. Brand , Raphael Wittkowski

A detailed exploration of the $f$-atomic orbital occupancy space for UO$_2$ is performed using a first principles approach based on density functional theory (DFT), employing a full hybrid functional within a systematic basis set.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-05 Laura E. Ratcliff , Luigi Genovese , Hyowon Park , Peter B. Littlewood , Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla

We present an approach to the DFT+U method (Density Functional Theory + Hubbard model) within which the computational effort for calculation of ground state energies and forces scales linearly with system size. We employ a formulation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-14 David D. O'Regan , Nicholas D. M. Hine , Mike C. Payne , Arash A. Mostofi