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Density functional theory within the local or semilocal density approximations (DFT-LDA/GGA) has become a workhorse in electronic structure theory of solids, being extremely fast and reliable for energetics and structural properties, yet…
We present the results of calculations on bulk transition metals Rh, Pd, and Pt using the screened hybrid functional YS-PBE0 [F. Tran and P. Blaha, Phys. Rev. B \textbf{83}, 235118 (2011)]. The results for the equilibrium geometry are…
The consistency between the exchange-correlation functional used in pseudopotential construction and in the actual density functional theory calculation is essential for the accurate prediction of fundamental properties of materials.…
In this work, we developed and showcased the occ-RI-K algorithm to compute the exact exchange contribution in density functional calculations of solids near the basis set limit. Within the gaussian planewave (GPW) density fitting, our…
Organic-inorganic metal halide perovskites (HaPs) are intensively studied for their light-harvesting properties. Owing to the interplay between strong electron-electron interaction and spin-orbit coupling (SOC), their quantitative…
Band offsets at semiconductor-oxide interfaces are determined through a scheme based on hybrid density functionals, which incorporate a fraction $\alpha$ of Hartree-Fock exchange. For each bulk component, the fraction $\alpha$ is tuned to…
The development of novel materials for vacuum electron sources in particle accelerators is an active field of research that can greatly benefit from the results of \textit{ab initio} calculations for the characterization of the electronic…
We have performed density functional calculations using a range of local and semi-local as well as hybrid density functional approximations of the structure and elastic constants of 18 semiconductors and insulators. We find that most of the…
(Screened) hybrid functionals are being used more and more for solid-state calculations. Usually the fraction alpha of Hartree-Fock exchange is kept fixed during the calculation, however there is no single (universal) value for alpha which…
We present a systematic assessment of the structural properties, the electronic density of states, the charge densities, and the phase stabilities of AgInSe$_2$ and AuInSe$_2$ using screened exchange hybrid density functional theory, and…
We present example applications of an approach to high-throughput first-principles calculations of the electronic properties of materials implemented within the Exabyte.io platform. We deploy computational techniques based on the Density…
For the large and chemically diverse GMTKN55 benchmark suite, we have studied the performance of density-corrected density functional theory (HF-DFT), compared to self-consistent DFT, for several pure and hybrid GGA and meta-GGA…
The sum-over-states (SOS) polarizabilities are calculated within the approximate independent electron theories such as the Hartree-Fock approximation and density functional models using the eigenvalues and orbitals obtained from the…
We consider methods for optimizing the bandgap calculation of 3D materials, considering 340 sample materials. Examined are the effects of the choice of the pseudopotential to describe core electrons, the plane-wave basis set cutoff energy,…
We present a detailed study of the structural, electronic, magnetic and ferroelectric properties of prototypical \textit{proper} and \textit{improper} multiferroic (MF) systems such as BiFeO$_{3}$ and orthorhombic HoMnO$_{3}$, respectively,…
The accuracy of effective masses predicted by density functional theory depends on the exchange-correlation functional employed, with nonlocal hybrid functionals giving more accurate results than semilocal functionals. In this article, we…
Using a linear combination of atomic orbitals approach, we report a systematic comparison of various Density Functional Theory (DFT) and hybrid exchange-correlation functionals for the prediction of the electronic and structural properties…
We present an implementation of the Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof (HSE) hybrid functional within the full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (FLAPW) method. Pivotal to the HSE functional is the screened electron-electron interaction, which…
In the present work we investigate the adequacy of broken-symmetry unrestricted density functional theory (DFT) for constructing the potential energy curve of nickel dimer and nickel hydride, as a model for larger bare and hydrogenated…
We propose global hybrid approximations of the exchange-correlation (XC) energy functional which reproduce well the modified fourth-order gradient expansion of the exchange energy in the semiclassical limit of many-electron neutral atoms…