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Multipole moments are the first order responses of the energy to spatial derivatives of the electric field strength. The quality of density functional theory (DFT) prediction of molecular multipole moments thus characterizes errors in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Diptarka Hait , Yu Hsuan Liang , Martin Head-Gordon

Nuclear Density Functional Theory (DFT) plays a prominent role in the understanding of nuclear structure, being the approach with the widest range of applications. Hohenberg and Kohn theorems warrant the existence of a nuclear Energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-03 G. Accorto , P. Brandolini , F. Marino , A. Porro , A. Scalesi , G. Colò , X. Roca-Maza , E. Vigezzi

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a formally exact approach to the time-dependent electronic many-body problem which is widely used for calculating excitation energies. We present a survey of the fundamental framework,…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-29 Carsten A. Ullrich , Zeng-hui Yang

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is deemed to be a formally rigorous way of dealing with the time-evolution of a many-electron system at the level of electron densities rather than the underlying wavefunctions, which in turn…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Jochen Schirmer

Many chemical systems cannot be described by quantum chemistry methods based on a singlereference wave function. Accurate predictions of energetic and spectroscopic properties require a delicate balance between describing the most important…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Erik Donovan Hedegård , Julien Toulouse , Hans Jørgen Aagaard Jensen

Quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory (QEDFT) provides a first-principles framework for describing materials coupled to quantized electromagnetic fields. While QEDFT has successfully captured cavity-induced modifications of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-26 Benshu Fan , I-Te Lu , Michael Ruggenthaler , Angel Rubio

Large scale Density Functional Theory (DFT) based electronic structure calculations are highly time consuming and scale poorly with system size. While semi-empirical approximations to DFT result in a reduction in computational time versus…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-21 Ganesh Hegde , R. Chris Bowen

The density functional theory (DFT) is based on the existence and uniqueness of a universal functional $E[\rho]$, which determines the dependence of the total energy on single-particle density distributions. However, DFT says nothing about…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Hana Gil , Panagiota Papakonstantinou , Chang Ho Hyun , Tae-Sun Park , Yongseok Oh

The formalism of density functional theory (DFT) can be easily extended to the time dependent case (TDDFT). However, while in the static case the theory is well established and is expected to be, at least in principle, an exact approach for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandro Stringari

Differentiable programming has facilitated numerous methodological advances in scientific computing. Physics engines supporting automatic differentiation have simpler code, accelerating the development process and reducing the maintenance…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Chuin Wei Tan , Chris J. Pickard , William C. Witt

We present an accurate, efficient and massively parallel finite-element code, DFT-FE, for large-scale ab-initio calculations (reaching $\sim 100,000$ electrons) using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). DFT-FE is based on a local…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Phani Motamarri , Sambit Das , Shiva Rudraraju , Krishnendu Ghosh , Denis Davydov , Vikram Gavini

Constrained density functional theory (cDFT) is a versatile electronic structure method that enables ground-state calculations to be performed subject to physical constraints. It thereby broadens their applicability and utility. Automated…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-03 David D. O'Regan , Gilberto Teobaldi

We present the TRIQS/DFTTools package, an application based on the TRIQS library that connects this toolbox to realistic materials calculations based on density functional theory (DFT). In particular, TRIQS/DFTTools together with TRIQS…

Density-corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT) is enjoying substantial success in improving semilocal DFT calculations in a wide variety of chemical problems. This paper provides the formal theoretical framework and assumptions for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Stefan Vuckovic , Suhwan Song , John Kozlowski , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

Density functional theory (DFT) has been actively used and developed recently. DFT is an efficient instrument for describing a wide range of nanoscale phenomena: wetting transition, capillary condensation, adsorption, and others. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Yuriy Kanygin

Time-dependent current-density-functional theory (TDCDFT) provides an in principle exact scheme to calculate efficiently response functions for a very broad range of applications. However, the lack of approximations valid for a range of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Matteo Gatti

Density functional theory (DFT) is widely used to predict chemical properties, but its accuracy is limited by functional approximations and their approximate self-consistent densities. Density-corrected DFT (DC-DFT) is the study of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 Hayoung Yu , Suhwan Song , Seungsoo Nam , Kieron Burke , Eunji Sim

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

During the last decade, density function theory (DFT) in its static and dynamic time dependent forms, has emerged as a powerful tool to describe the structure and dynamics of doped liquid helium and droplets. In this review, we summarize…

The accurate description of open-shell molecules, in particular of transition metal complexes and clusters, is still an important challenge for quantum chemistry. While density-functional theory (DFT) is widely applied in this area, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-10-26 Christoph R. Jacob , Markus Reiher