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We study Chebyshev filter diagonalization as a tool for the computation of many interior eigenvalues of very large sparse symmetric matrices. In this technique the subspace projection onto the target space of wanted eigenvectors is…

Advanced algorithms for large-scale electronic structure calculations are mostly based on processing multi-dimensional sparse data. Examples are sparse matrix-matrix multiplications in linear-scaling Kohn-Sham calculations or the efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Ilia Sivkov , Patrick Seewald , Alfio Lazzaro , Juerg Hutter

Matrix diagonalization is almost always involved in computing the density matrix needed in quantum chemistry calculations. In the case of modest matrix sizes ($\lesssim$ 5000), performance of traditional dense diagonalization algorithms on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 Joshua Finkelstein , Christian F. A. Negre , Jean-Luc Fattebert

We present an efficient algorithm for calculating spectral properties of large sparse Hamiltonian matrices such as densities of states and spectral functions. The combination of Chebyshev recursion and maximum entropy achieves high energy…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 R. N. Silver , H. Roder

Solving dense Hermitian eigenproblems arranged in a sequence with direct solvers fails to take advantage of those spectral properties which are pertinent to the entire sequence, and not just to the single problem. When such features take…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Jan Winkelmann , Paul Springer , Edoardo Di Napoli

We present the Fast Chebyshev Transform (FCT), a fast, randomized algorithm to compute a Chebyshev approximation of functions in high-dimensions from the knowledge of the location of its nonzero Chebyshev coefficients. Rather than sampling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Dalton Jones , Pierre-David Letourneau , Matthew J. Morse , M. Harper Langston

Studying the optoelectronic structure of materials can require the computation of several thousands of the smallest positive eigenpairs of a pseudo-hermitian Hamiltonian. Iterative eigensolvers may be preferred over direct methods for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Edoardo Di Napoli , Clément Richefort , Xinzhe Wu

We present a fast sparse matrix permutation algorithm tailored to linear systems arising from triangle meshes. Our approach produces nested-dissection-style permutations while significantly reducing permutation runtime overhead. Rather than…

This paper describes a software package called EVSL (for EigenValues Slicing Library) for solving large sparse real symmetric standard and generalized eigenvalue problems. As its name indicates, the package exploits spectrum slicing, a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Ruipeng Li , Yuanzhe Xi , Lucas Erlandson , Yousef Saad

Chebyshev filter diagonalization is well established in quantum chemistry and quantum physics to compute bulks of eigenvalues of large sparse matrices. Choosing a block vector implementation, we investigate optimization opportunities on the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Moritz Kreutzer , Georg Hager , Dominik Ernst , Holger Fehske , Alan R. Bishop , Gerhard Wellein

Direct factorization methods for the solution of large, sparse linear systems that arise from PDE discretizations are robust, but typically show poor time and memory scalability for large systems. In this paper, we describe an efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Jeffrey N. Chadwick , David S. Bindel

As the second component of SPARC (Simulation Package for Ab-initio Real-space Calculations), we present an accurate and efficient finite-difference formulation and parallel implementation of Density Functional Theory (DFT) for extended…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Swarnava Ghosh , Phanish Suryanarayana

Interior eigenvalue problems for large-scale sparse Hermitian matrices are fundamental in computational science. We propose an adaptive polynomial filtering strategy based on Chebyshev expansion of a step function, integrated into a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Xiaofei Xu , Yuhui Ni , Shengguo Li , Juan Zhang

Chebyshev Filtered Subspace Iteration (ChFSI) is widely used for computing a small subset of extremal eigenpairs from large matrices, particularly when the eigenpairs must be computed repeatedly as the system matrix evolves within an outer…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Nikhil Kodali , Kartick Ramakrishnan , Phani Motamarri

As supercomputers become larger with powerful Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), traditional direct eigensolvers struggle to keep up with the hardware evolution and scale efficiently due to communication and synchronization demands.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Xinzhe Wu , Edoardo Di Napoli

We present a distributed-memory library for computations with dense structured matrices. A matrix is considered structured if its off-diagonal blocks can be approximated by a rank-deficient matrix with low numerical rank. Here, we use…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-06-29 François-Henry Rouet , Xiaoye S. Li , Pieter Ghysels , Artem Napov

We present an efficient method for computing dominant eigenvalues of large, nonsymmetric, diagonalizable matrices based on an adaptive block Lanczos algorithm combined with Chebyshev polynomial filtering. The proposed approach improves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-13 M. El Guide , K. Jbilou , K. Lachhab

We consider the problem of parallelizing electronic structure computations in plane-wave Density Functional Theory. Because of the limited scalability of Fourier transforms, parallelism has to be found at the eigensolver level. We show how…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Antoine Levitt , Marc Torrent

Chebyshev filtered subspace iteration is a well-known algorithm for the solution of (symmetric/Hermitian) algebraic eigenproblems which has been implemented in several application codes~\cite{Kronik:2006ff, abinit:2020} or in stand alone…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Edoardo Di Napoli , Xinzhe Wu

Pole Expansion and Selected Inversion (PEXSI) is an efficient scheme for evaluating selected entries of functions of large sparse matrices as required e.g. in electronic structure algorithms. We show that the triangular factorizations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Simon Etter
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