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Most torsional barriers are predicted to high accuracy (about 1kJ/mol) by standard semilocal functionals, but a small subset has been found to have much larger errors. We create a database of almost 300 carbon-carbon torsional barriers,…
Density Functional Theory (DFT) is widely used for first-principles simulations in chemistry and materials science, but its computational cost remains a key limitation for large systems. Motivated by recent advances in ML-based…
The study of isolated defects in solids is a natural target for classical or quantum embedding methods that treat the defect at a high level of theory and the rest of the solid at a lower level of theory. Here, in the context of…
Machine-learning models can be trained to predict the converged electron charge density of a density functional theory (DFT) calculation. In general, the value of the density at a given point in space is invariant under global translations…
The validity of the DFT models implemented by FIREBALL for CNT electronic device modeling is assessed. The effective masses, band gaps, and transmission coefficients of semi-conducting, zigzag, (n,0) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) resulting from…
The energy density functional (EDF) method is currently the only microscopic theoretical approach able to tackle the entire nuclear chart. Nevertheless, it suffers from limitations resulting from its empirical character and deteriorating…
In order to obtain a reasonably accurate and easily implemented approach to many-electron calculations, we will develop a new Density Functional Theory (DFT). Specifically, we derive an approximation to electron density, the first term of…
Simulating electrochemical interfaces using density functional theory (DFT) requires incorporating the effects of electrochemical potential. The electrochemical potential acts as a new degree of freedom that can effectively tune DFT results…
Nuclear density functional theory is the prevalent theoretical framework for accurately describing nuclear properties at the scale of the entire chart of nuclides. Given an energy functional and a many-body scheme (e.g., single- or…
We present an efficient computational approach to perform real-space electronic structure calculations using an adaptive higher-order finite-element discretization of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT). To this end, we develop an…
Medium-entropy alloys (MEAs) such as CoCrFeNi and CoCrNi are promising structural materials owing to their outstanding mechanical and thermal properties, which arise from complex chemical disorder and atomic-scale interactions. Although…
The analysis of defects and defect dynamics in crystalline materials is important for fundamental science and for a wide range of applied engineering. With increasing system size the analysis of molecular-dynamics simulation data becomes…
In this paper a novel method to solve the constant coefficient wave equation, subject to interface jump conditions, is presented. In general, such problems pose issues for standard finite difference solvers, as the inherent discontinuity in…
Density matrix perturbation theory [Niklasson and Challacombe, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 193001 (2004)] is generalized to canonical (NVT) free energy ensembles in tight-binding, Hartree-Fock or Kohn-Sham density functional theory. The canonical…
Delocalization errors, such as charge-transfer and some self-interaction errors, plague computationally-efficient and otherwise-accurate density functional approximations (DFAs). Evaluating a semi-local DFA non-self-consistently on the…
Understanding the electrical and thermal transport properties of materials is critical to the design of electronics, sensors and energy conversion devices. Computational modeling can accurately predict materials properties but, in order to…
Density functional approximations (DFAs) suffer from delocalization error, which limits their accuracy in predicting electron affinities (EAs), ionization potentials (IPs), and quasiparticle energies. In this work, we present a theoretical…
We recently introduced an efficient methodology to perform density-corrected Hartree-Fock density functional theory (DC(HF)-DFT) calculations and an extension to it we called "corrected" HF DFT (C(HF)-DFT). In this work, we take a further…
Covariant density functional theory (CDFT) is a modern theoretical tool for the description of nuclear structure phenomena. The current investigation aims at the global assessment of the accuracy of the description of the ground state…
A system of soft ellipsoid molecules confined between two planar walls is studied using classical Density Functional Theory (DFT). Both the isotropic and nematic phases are considered. The excess free energy is evaluated using two different…