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The marriage of density functional theory (DFT) and deep learning methods has the potential to revolutionize modern computational materials science. Here we develop a deep neural network approach to represent DFT Hamiltonian (DeepH) of…

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Deep learning electronic structures from ab initio calculations holds great potential to revolutionize computational materials studies. While existing methods proved success in deep-learning density functional theory (DFT) Hamiltonian…

The properties of electrons in matter are of fundamental importance. They give rise to virtually all molecular and material properties and determine the physics at play in objects ranging from semiconductor devices to the interior of giant…

The construction of the Hamiltonian matrix \textbf{H} is an essential, yet computationally expensive step in \textit{ab-initio} device simulations based on density-functional theory (DFT). In homogeneous structures, the fact that a unit…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-03 Chen Hao Xia , Manasa Kaniselvan , Marko Mladenoivić , Mathieu Luisier

Recently, sophisticated deep learning-based approaches have been developed for generating efficient initial guesses to accelerate the convergence of density functional theory (DFT) calculations. While the actual initial guesses are often…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Zhe Liu , Yuyan Ni , Zhichen Pu , Qiming Sun , Siyuan Liu , Wen Yan

The integration of density functional theory (DFT) with machine learning enables efficient \textit{ab initio} electronic structure calculations for ultra-large systems. In this work, we develop a transfer learning framework tailored for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-23 Ting Bao , Ning Mao , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu , Adrian Del Maestro , Yang Zhang

Density functional theory is a successful branch of numerical simulations of quantum systems. While the foundations are rigorously defined, the universal functional must be approximated resulting in a `semi'-ab initio approach. The search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 James Daniel Whitfield , Norbert Schuch , Frank Verstraete

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a pivotal method within quantum chemistry and materials science, with its core involving the construction and solution of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian. Despite its importance, the application of DFT is…

Combination of deep learning and ab initio calculation has shown great promise in revolutionizing future scientific research, but how to design neural network models incorporating a priori knowledge and symmetry requirements is a key…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-12 Xiaoxun Gong , He Li , Nianlong Zou , Runzhang Xu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promise in learning the ground-state electronic properties of materials, subverting ab initio density functional theory (DFT) calculations when the underlying lattices can be represented as small…

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

The development of machine learning sheds new light on the problem of statistical thermodynamics in multicomponent alloys. However, a data-driven approach to construct the effective Hamiltonian requires sufficiently large data sets, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-01 Xianglin Liu , Jiaxin Zhang , Markus Eisenbach , Yang Wang

Predicting the mean-field Hamiltonian matrix in density functional theory is a fundamental formulation to leverage machine learning for solving molecular science problems. Yet, its applicability is limited by insufficient labeled data for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 He Zhang , Chang Liu , Zun Wang , Xinran Wei , Siyuan Liu , Nanning Zheng , Bin Shao , Tie-Yan Liu

Over many years, computational simulations based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) have been used extensively to study many different materials at the atomic scale. However, its application is restricted by system size, leaving a number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Carlos Romero-Muñiz , Ayako Nakata , Pablo Pou , David R. Bowler , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki , Rubén Pérez

The accuracy of density-functional theory (DFT) is determined by the quality of the approximate functionals, such as exchange-correlation in electronic DFT and the excess functional in the classical DFT formalism of fluids. The exact…

This chapter presents controlled approximations of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) that enable very large scale simulations. The work is motivated by the study of defects in crystalline solids, though the ideas can be used in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-14 Kaushik Bhattacharya , Vikram Gavini , Michael Ortiz , Mauricio Ponga , Phanish Suryanarayana

Computational virtual high-throughput screening (VHTS) with density functional theory (DFT) and machine-learning (ML)-acceleration is essential in rapid materials discovery. By necessity, efficient DFT-based workflows are carried out with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-25 Chenru Duan , Shuxin Chen , Michael G. Taylor , Fang Liu , Heather J. Kulik

Using the message-passing mechanism in machine learning (ML) instead of self-consistent iterations to directly build the mapping from structures to electronic Hamiltonian matrices will greatly improve the efficiency of density functional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 Yang Zhong , Hongyu Yu , Mao Su , Xingao Gong , Hongjun Xiang

Deep learning methods for electronic-structure Hamiltonian prediction has offered significant computational efficiency advantages over traditional DFT methods, yet the diversity of atomic types, structural patterns, and the high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shi Yin , Zujian Dai , Xinyang Pan , Lixin He

With the growth of computational resources, the scope of electronic structure simulations has increased greatly. Artificial intelligence and robust data analysis hold the promise to accelerate large-scale simulations and their analysis to…

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