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A combination of systematic density functional theory (DFT) calculations and machine learning techniques has a wide range of potential applications. This study presents an application of the combination of systematic DFT calculations and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 Atsuto Seko , Tomoya Maekawa , Koji Tsuda , Isao Tanaka

Reliable predictions of nuclear properties are needed as much to answer fundamental science questions as in applications such as reactor physics or data evaluation. Nuclear density functional theory is currently the only microscopic, global…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-23 N. Schunck , J. D. McDonnell , D. Higdon , J. Sarich , S. Wild

A density functional theory (DFT) framework is presented that links functional derivatives of free-energy functionals to non-linear static density response functions in quantum many-body systems. Within this framework, explicit expressions…

Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT) is a very efficient method for calculating various properties of solids as, for instance, the total energy, the electron density, or the electronic band structure. The KS-DFT method leads to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-20 Fabien Tran , Jan Doumont , Leila Kalantari , Ahmad W. Huran , Miguel A. L. Marques , Peter Blaha

Calculations combining density functional theory (DFT) and dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) for transition metal (TM) oxides and similar compounds usually focus on improving the description of the TM $d$ states. Here, we emphasize the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-26 Alberto Carta , Anwesha Panda , Claude Ederer

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is used extensively in the computation of electronic properties of matter, with various applications. Approximating the exchange-correlation (XC) functional is the key to the Kohn-Sham DFT approach, the basis…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-17 Sameerah Helal , Zhe Tao , Cindy Rubio-González , Francois Gygi , Aditya V. Thakur

We use density functional theory (DFT) with non-empirically tuned screened range-separated hybrid (SRSH) functionals to calculate the electronic properties of native zinc and oxygen vacancy point defects in ZnO, and we predict their defect…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-21 Sijia Ke , Stephen E. Gant , Leeor Kronik , Jeffrey B. Neaton

In three out of five cases considered in our work, DFT calculations presented by Xu and Hou in their Comment give the same ground state confirmations. On the other hand, depending on the choice of the exchange-correlation functional, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-14 A. V. Bibikov , A. V. Nikolaev , I. V. Bodrenko , P. V. Borisyuk , E. V. Tkalya

We introduce the Deep Post-Hartree-Fock (DeePHF) method, a machine learning based scheme for constructing accurate and transferable models for the ground-state energy of electronic structure problems. DeePHF predicts the energy difference…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Yixiao Chen , Linfeng Zhang , Han Wang , Weinan E

Recent developments in materials informatics and artificial intelligence has led to the emergence of foundational energy models for material chemistry, as represented by the suite of MACE-based foundation models, bringing a significant…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-22 Jack Yang , Ziqi Yin , Lei Ao , Sean Li

The dielectric function is one of the most important quantities that describes the electrical and optical properties of solids. Accurate modeling of the frequency-dependent dielectric function has great significance in the study of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-18 Fan Zheng , Jianmin Tao , Andrew M. Rappe

Prediction of the stable crystal structure for multinary (ternary or higher) compounds with unexplored compositions demands fast and accurate evaluation of free energies in exploring the vast configurational space. The machine-learning…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Changho Hong , Jeong Min Choi , Wonseok Jeong , Sungwoo Kang , Suyeon Ju , Kyeongpung Lee , Jisu Jung , Yong Youn , Seungwu Han

The present work proposes to use density-functional theory (DFT) to correct for the basis-set error of wave-function theory (WFT). One of the key ideas developed here is to define a range-separation parameter which automatically adapts to a…

The stochastic density functional theory (DFT) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 106402 (2013)] is a valuable linear scaling approach to Kohn-Sham DFT that does not rely on the sparsity of the density matrix. Linear (and often sub-linear) scaling is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Ming Chen , Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser , Eran Rabani

We use functional, Fr\'echet, derivatives to quantify how thermodynamic outputs of a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation depend on the potential used to compute atomic interactions. Our approach quantifies the sensitivity of the quantities…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Samuel Temple Reeve , Alejandro Strachan

In density functional theory (DFT), exact constraints, fundamental mathematical properties of the exchange-correlation (XC) energy and its underlying XC hole, along with paradigm systems such as the uniform electron gas and the hydrogen…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-13 Yan Oueis , Akilan Ramasamy , James W. Furness , Jamin Kidd , Timo Lebeda , Jianwei Sun

The accurate theoretical description of materials with strongly correlated electrons is a formidable challenge in condensed matter physics and computational chemistry. Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) is a successful approach that…

The fundamental gap is a central quantity in the electronic structure of matter. Unfortunately, the fundamental gap is not generally equal to the Kohn-Sham gap of density functional theory (DFT), even in principle. The two gaps differ…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-01 Eli Kraisler , Leeor Kronik

We report the development of a combined machine-learning and high-throughput density functional theory (DFT) framework to accelerate the search for new ferroelectric materials. The framework can predict potential ferroelectric compounds…

The phase behavior and kinetic pathways of Li1+xV3O8 are investigated by means of density functional theory (DFT) and a cluster expansion (CE) methodology that approximates the system Hamiltonian in order to identify the lowest energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-30 Tonghu Jiang , Michael L. Falk
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