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The Hartree-Fock-Rothaan equations are solved for He-like ions using the iterative self-consistent method. New complete and orthonormal sets of exponential-type orbitals are employed as the basis. These orbitals satisfy the orthonormality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 A. Bagci , P. E. Hoggan

We use an effective field theory (EFT) approach to calculate the next to leading order (NLO) gravitational spin-orbit interaction between two spinning compact objects. The NLO spin-orbit interaction provides the most computationally complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-03 Michele Levi

We report the development of the theory and computer program for analytical nuclear energy gradients for (extended) multi-state complete active space perturbation theory (CASPT2) with full internal contraction. The vertical shifts are also…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Bess Vlaisavljevich , Toru Shiozaki

Despite recent advances, systematic quantitative treatment of the electron correlation problem in extended systems remains a formidable task. Systematically improvable Green's function methods capable of quantitatively describing weak and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Alexander A. Rusakov , Dominika Zgid

This study presents an evaluation of derivative-free optimization algorithms for the direct minimization of Hartree-Fock-Roothaan energy functionals involving nonlinear orbital parameters and quantum numbers with noninteger order. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 A. Bagci

A recently developed finite element approach for fully numerical atomic structure calculations [S. Lehtola, Int. J. Quantum Chem. 119, e25945 (2019)] is extended to the description of atoms with spherically symmetric densities via…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 Susi Lehtola

The possibility to use functionals of occupation numbers and natural orbitals for interacting fermions is discussed as an alternative to multi-reference energy density functional method. An illustration based on the two-level Lipkin model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Denis Lacroix

Ab initio no-core configuration interaction (NCCI) calculations for the nuclear many-body problem have traditionally relied upon an antisymmetrized product (Slater determinant) basis built from harmonic oscillator orbitals. The accuracy of…

This work presents the formalism and implementation of excited state nuclear forces within density functional linear response theory (TDDFT) using a plane wave basis set. An implicit differentiation technique is developed for computing…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Nikos L. Doltsinis , D. S. Kosov

Fractional gradient descent has been studied extensively, with a focus on its ability to extend traditional gradient descent methods by incorporating fractional-order derivatives. This approach allows for more flexibility in navigating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Teodor Alexandru Szente , James Harrison , Mihai Zanfir , Cristian Sminchisescu

Existing algorithms to solve alternating-current optimal power flow (AC-OPF) often exploit linear approximations to simplify system models and accelerate computations. In this paper, we improve a recent hierarchical OPF algorithm, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Heng Liang , Xinyang Zhou , Changhong Zhao

We demonstrate in the present study that self-consistent calculations based on the self-energy functional theory (SFT) are possible for the electronic structure of realistic systems in the context of quantum chemistry. We describe the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-14 Taichi Kosugi , Hirofumi Nishi , Yoritaka Furukawa , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

We introduce a unified framework -- Quantum Neural Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (QNODEs and QNPDEs) -- which extends the continuous-time formalism of classical neural ordinary and partial differential equations into quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Yu Cao , Shi Jin , Nana Liu

Machine learning is employed to build an energy density functional for self-bound nuclear systems for the first time. By learning the kinetic energy as a functional of the nucleon density alone, a robust and accurate orbital-free density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-21 X. H. Wu , Z. X. Ren , P. W. Zhao

We develop a unified framework for nonparametric functional estimation based on kernel transport along orbits of discrete group actions, which we term \emph{Twin Spaces}. Given a base kernel $K$ and a group $G = \langle\varphi\rangle$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Jocelyn Nembe

The general procedure underlying Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations consists in optimizing orbitals for a self-consistent solution of the Roothaan-Hall equations in an iterative process. It is often ignored…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Alain C. Vaucher , Markus Reiher

We use differential equations based approaches to provide some {\it \textbf{physics}} insights into analyzing the dynamics of popular optimization algorithms in machine learning. In particular, we study gradient descent, proximal gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Lin F. Yang , R. Arora , V. Braverman , Tuo Zhao

We introduce Effective Atom Theory (EAT), a framework that transforms combinatorial materials design into a smooth, gradient-driven optimization within density functional theory (DFT). Atoms are represented as probabilistic mixtures of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-10 Justin Tahmassebpur , Brandon Li , Boris Barron , Héctor Abruña , Peter Frazier , Tomás Arias

In the present article, we show how to formulate the partially contracted n-electron valence second order perturbation theory (NEVPT2) energies in the atomic and active molecular orbital basis by employing the Laplace transformation of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Benjamin Helmich-Paris , Stefan Knecht

A new method for implementing the kinetic energy operator for real-space, grid-based electronic structure codes is developed. It is based on multi-order Adaptive Finite Differencing (AFD) and uses atomic pseudo orbitals produced by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 E. L. Briggs , Wenchang Lu , J. Bernholc