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The Hartree-Fock exchange potential is fundamental for capturing quantum mechanical exchange effects but faces critical challenges in large-scale applications due to its nonlocal and computationally intensive nature. This study introduces a…
Theoretical simulation to phase change materials such as Ge-Sb-Te has suffered from two methodology issues. On the one hand, there is a lack of efficient band gap correction method for density functional theory, which is suitable for these…
The design of better exchange-correlation functionals for Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a central challenge of modern electronic structure theory. However, current developments are limited by the mathematical form of the functional,…
The strongly constrained and appropriately normed (SCAN) semilocal density functional [J. Sun, A. Ruzsinszky, J. P. Perdew \textit{Phys. Rev. Lett.} {\bf 115}, 036402 (2015)] obeys all 17 known exact constraints for…
We investigate the ${\rm H_3S}$ phase of sulphur hydride under high pressure $\simeq$ 200 GPa by means of {\it ab-initio} calculations within the framework of the density-functional theory (DFT) with the PBE0 hybrid exchange-correlation…
Exact exchange contributions are known to crucially affect electronic states, which in turn govern covalent bond formation and breaking in chemical species. Empirically averaging the exact exchange admixture over compositional degrees of…
We compare the behavior of the finite-temperature Hartree-Fock model with that of thermal density functional theory using both ground-state and temperature-dependent approximate exchange functionals. The test system is bcc Li in the…
Motivated by the puzzling report of the observation of a ferromagnetic insulating state in LaMnO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ heterostructures, we calculate the electronic and magnetic state of LaMnO$_3$, coherently matched to a SrTiO$_3$ square substrate…
(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…
Density-functional tight binding (DFTB) has become a popular form of approximate density-functional theory (DFT) based upon a minimal valence basis set and neglect of all but two center integrals. We report the results of our tests of a…
In time-dependent density-functional theory, a family of exchange-correlation kernels, known as long-range-corrected (LRC) kernels, have shown promise in the calculation of excitonic effects in solids. We perform a systematic assessment of…
We discuss the applicability of the pseudopotential-like self-interaction correction (pSIC) to the study of defect energetics and electronic structure of In2O3. Our results predict that substitutional (at oxygen sites) and interstitial (at…
We present a self-consistent analytic theory of the intra-layer and inter-layer pair correlation functions in electron-electron and electron-hole fluid bilayer systems. Our approach involves the solution of a zero-energy scattering…
Without the use of any empirical fitting to experimental or high-level ab initio data, we present a double-hybrid density functional approximation for the exchange-correlation energy, combining the exact Hartree-Fock exchange and…
Ice is one of the most important and interesting molecular crystals exhibiting a rich and evolving phase diagram. Recent discoveries mean that there are now twenty distinct polymorphs; a structural diversity that arises from a delicate…
Hydrogen bonding is an important non-covalent interaction that plays a major role in molecular self-organization and supramolecular structures. It can be described accurately with ab initio quantum chemical wave function methods, which…
State-of-the-art simulation tools for non-equilibrium quantum transport systems typically take the current-carrier occupations to be described in terms of equilibrium distribution functions characterised by two different electro-chemical…
Substitution of La by Sr in the 25% Ni doped charge transfer insulator LaFeO3 creates structural changes that inflect the electrical conductivity caused by small polaron hopping via exchange interactions and charge transfer. The…
Density functional theory (DFT) and beyond-DFT methods are often used in combination with photoelectron spectroscopy to obtain physical insights into the electronic structure of molecules and solids. The Kohn-Sham eigenvalues are not…
Self-interactions (SIs) are a major problem in density functional approximations and the source of serious divergence from experimental results. Here, we propose to optimize density functional total energies in terms of the effective local…