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Ubiquitous van der Waals (vdW) interactions play a subtle yet crucial role in determining the precise atomic arrangements in solids, particularly in molecular crystals where these weak forces are the primary link between constituent…

The DFT/vdW-WF2s1 method based on the generation of localized Wannier functions, recently developed to include the van der Waals interactions in the Density Functional Theory and describe adsorption processes on metal surfaces by taking…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Pier Luigi Silvestrelli , Alberto Ambrosetti

Density Functional Theory (DFT) stands as a widely used and efficient approach for addressing the many-electron Schr\"odinger equation across various domains such as physics, chemistry, and biology. However, a core challenge that persists…

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Extensive set of tests on different platforms indicated that there is a performance drop of current standard de facto software library for the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) in case of large 2D array sizes (larger than 16384x16384).…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-18 Alexander O. Korotkevich

Various methods going beyond density-functional theory (DFT), such as DFT+U, hybrid functionals, meta-GGAs, GW, and DFT-embedded dynamical mean field theory (eDMFT), have been developed to describe the electronic structure of correlated…

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Accurate prediction of shallow-donor electron binding energies is critical for device modeling, dopant activation, and donor-based quantum technologies. Traditional beyond-DFT approaches (e.g., hybrid functionals, GW) are prohibitively…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-30 Joshua Claes , Bart Partoens , Dirk Lamoen , Marcelo Marques , Lara K. Teles

Finite-temperature orbital-free density functional theory (FT-OFDFT) holds significant promise for simulating warm dense matter due to its favorable scaling with both system size and temperature. However, the lack of the numerically…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Cheng Ma , Min Chen , Yu Xie , Qiang Xu , Wenhui Mi , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

Density-potential functional theory (DPFT) is an alternative formulation of orbital-free density functional theory that may be suitable for modeling the electronic structure of large systems. To date, DPFT has been applied mainly to quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-21 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , William C. Witt , Sergei Manzhos

Density functional theory (DFT) underpins modern atomistic simulations of transition-metal surfaces. It can predict key properties linked to catalytic performance, such as adsorption energies and barrier heights, enabling new paradigms in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-23 Benjamin X. Shi , Timothy C. Berkelbach

We present a new scheme to include the van der Waals (vdW) interactions in approximated Density Functional Theory (DFT) by combining the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator model with the Maximally Localized Wannier Function technique. With respect…

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The electronic structure calculations remain a major bottleneck in ab initio nonadiabatic molecular dynamics. We develop an efficient TDDFT-based FSSH implementation in the GPU4PySCF package for medium-sized molecular systems. Our approach…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Cheng Fan , Zhichen Pu , Zehao Zhou , Yuanheng Wang , Yi Qin Gao , Qiming Sun

Time-dependent (TD) density functional theory (TDDFT) promises a numerically tractable account of many-body electron dynamics provided good simple approximations are developed for the exchange-correlation (XC) potential functional (XCPF).…

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Quantum--Mechanical methods that are both computationally fast and accurate are not yet available for electronic excitations having charge transfer character. In this work, we present a significant step forward towards this goal for those…

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Recently, Tao and Mo proposed an accurate meta-generalized gradient approximation for the exchange-correlation energy. The exchange part is derived from the density matrix expansion, while the correlation part is obtained by improving the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Yuxiang Mo , Guocai Tian , Jianmin Tao

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is the workhorse of quantum chemistry, offering an attractive balance between accuracy and computational cost. Although exact in principle, DFT in practice relies on an approximation to the unknown…

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It is known that ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations of liquid water, based on the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) to density functional theory (DFT), yield structural and diffusive properties in reasonable agreement…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Jue Wang , G. Roman-Perez , Jose M. Soler , Emilio Artacho , M. -V. Fernandez-Serra

Density functional theory (DFT), one of the most widely utilized methods available to computational chemistry, fails to describe systems with statically correlated electrons. To address this shortcoming, in previous work we transformed DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn , David A. Mazziotti

Electronic structure calculations based on density-functional theory (DFT) represent a significant part of today's HPC workloads and pose high demands on high-performance computing resources. To perform these quantum-mechanical DFT…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Michael Lass , Robert Schade , Thomas D. Kühne , Christian Plessl

We analyze the methodology and the performance of subsystem density functional theory (DFT) with meta-generalized gradient approximation (meta-GGA) exchange-correlation functionals for non-bonded systems. Meta-GGA functionals depend on the…

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