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This article is part-I of a review of density-functional theory (DFT) that is the most widely used method for calculating electronic structure of materials. The accuracy and ease of numerical implementation of DFT methods has resulted in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-25 Prashant Singh , Manoj K Harbola

Efficient molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is vital for understanding atomic-scale processes in materials science and biophysics. Traditional density functional theory (DFT) methods are computationally expensive, which limits the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Hung Le , Sherif Abbas , Minh Hoang Nguyen , Van Dai Do , Huu Hiep Nguyen , Dung Nguyen

First-principles simulations of electronic properties of hybrid inorganic/organic interfaces are challenging, as common density-functional theory (DFT) approximations target specific material classes like bulk semiconductors or gas-phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-13 Jannis Krumland , Caterina Cocchi

One of the most promising techniques used for studying the electronic properties of materials is based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) approach and its extensions. DFT has been widely applied in traditional solid state physics problems…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-06-03 Nicola Varini , Davide Ceresoli , Layla Martin-Samos , Ivan Girotto , Carlo Cavazzoni

Recently, we introduced (e-print arXiv:1407.7128) {\em local reduced density matrix functional theory} (local RDMFT), a theoretical scheme capable of incorporating static correlation effects in Kohn-Sham equations. Here, we apply local…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 Nektarios N. Lathiotakis , Nicole Helbig , Angel Rubio , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos

Density-functional theory is a formally exact description of a many-body quantum system in terms of its density; in practice, however, approximations to the universal density functional are required. In this work, a model based on deep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Jeffrey M. McMahon

While standard computational protocols for density functional theory (DFT) have universal applicability, differences exist in code implementations. Specific applications require manual parameter optimization, whereas high-throughput…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-12 Chenxi Lu , Musen Li , Jeffrey R. Reimers

We propose a quantum machine learning task that is provably easy for quantum computers and arguably hard for classical ones. The task involves predicting quantities of the form $\mathrm{Tr}[f(H)\rho]$, where $f$ is an unknown function,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Yuto Morohoshi , Akimoto Nakayama , Hidetaka Manabe , Kosuke Mitarai

We develop a computational workflow for high-throughput Wannierization of density functional theory (DFT) based electronic band structure calculations. We apply this workflow to 1771 materials, and we create a database with the resulting…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-03 Kevin F. Garrity , Kamal Choudhary

Predicting optoelectronic properties of large-scale atomistic systems under realistic conditions is crucial for rational materials design, yet computationally prohibitive with first-principles simulations. Recent neural network models have…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-10 Martin Schwade , Shaoming Zhang , Frederik Vonhoff , Frederico P. Delgado , David A. Egger

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) is a powerful method to obtain key materials' properties, but the iterative solution of the KS equations is a numerically intensive task, which limits its application to complex systems. To…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-29 Bruno Focassio , Michelangelo Domina , Urvesh Patil , Adalberto Fazzio , Stefano Sanvito

Quantum mechanical methods based on the density functional theory (DFT) offer a realistic possibility of first-principles design of organic donor-acceptor systems and engineered band-gap materials. This promise is contingent upon the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Marcin Modrzejewski , Grzegorz Chałasiński , Małgorzata M. Szczęśniak

Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a wide range of electronic properties that make them promising candidates for next-generation nanoelectronic devices. Accurate prediction of their quantum transport behavior is therefore of both…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-22 Jijie Zou , Zhanghao Zhouyin , Qiangqiang Gu , Shishir Kumar Pandey

We study a generalization performance of the machine learning (ML) model to predict the atomic forces within the density functional theory (DFT). The targets are the Si and Ge single component systems in the liquid state. To train the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Ryo Tamura , Jianbo Lin , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki

Two of the most widely used electronic structure theory methods, namely Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham density functional theory, both requires the iterative solution of a set of Schr\"odinger-like equations. The speed of convergence of such…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 S. Hazra , U. Patil , S. Sanvito

Density functional theory (DFT) has become the most popular approach to electronic structure across disciplines, especially in material and chemical sciences. Last year, at least 30,000 papers used DFT to make useful predictions or give…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Justin C. Smith , Francisca Sagredo , Kieron Burke

Using the Runge-Gross theorem that establishes the foundation of Time-dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) we prove that for a given electronic Hamiltonian, choice of initial state, and choice of fragmentation, there is a unique…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin A. Mosquera , Daniel Jensen , Adam Wasserman

Density functional theory (DFT) stands as a cornerstone method in computational quantum chemistry and materials science due to its remarkable versatility and scalability. Yet, it suffers from limitations in accuracy, particularly when…

Strongly correlated materials exhibit complex electronic phenomena that are challenging to capture with traditional theoretical methods, yet understanding these systems is crucial for discovering new quantum materials. Addressing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-22 Egor Agapov , Oriol Bertomeu , Andrés Carballo , Christian B. Mendl , Aaron Sander

High-throughput computational screening has emerged as a critical component of materials discovery. Direct density functional theory (DFT) simulation of inorganic materials and molecular transition metal complexes is often used to describe…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-18 Jon Paul Janet , Heather J. Kulik