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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

The derivative discontinuity in the exact exchange-correlation potential of ensemble Density Functional Theory (DFT) is investigated at the specific integer number that corresponds to the maximum number of bound electrons, $J_{max}$. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Daniel L. Whitenack , Yu Zhang , Adam Wasserman

Unlike covalent two-dimensional (2D) materials like graphene, 2D metals have non-layered structures due to their non-directional, metallic bonding. While experiments on 2D metals are still scarce and challenging, density-functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-06 Kameyab Raza Abidi , Pekka Koskinen

We present parton distribution functions which include a quantitative estimate of its uncertainties. The parton distribution functions are optimized with respect to deep inelastic proton data, expressing the uncertainties as a density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Walter T. Giele , Stephane A. Keller , David A. Kosower

Starting from Newton's equations of motion, we derive a dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) applicable to atomic liquids. The theory has the feature that it requires as input the Helmholtz free energy functional from equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Archer

We develop a method combining machine learning (ML) and density functional theory (DFT) to predict low-energy polymorphs by introducing physics-guided descriptors based on structural distortion modes. We systematically generate crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-07 Bastien F. Grosso , Nicola A. Spaldin , Aria Mansouri Tehrani

Reliable calculations of the structure of heavy elements are crucial to address fundamental science questions such as the origin of the elements in the universe. Applications relevant for energy production, medicine, or national security…

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is a widely used method to investigate electron dynamics under external time-dependent perturbations such as laser fields. In this work, we present a machine learning approach to accelerate…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-02 Karan Shah , Attila Cangi

Understanding how structural flexibility affects the properties of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is crucial for the design of better MOFs for targeted applications. Flexible MOFs can be studied with molecular dynamics simulations, whose…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-13 Abhishek Sharma , Stefano Sanvito

The accuracy of density-functional theory (DFT) is determined by the quality of the approximate functionals, such as exchange-correlation in electronic DFT and the excess functional in the classical DFT formalism of fluids. The exact…

Generative models hold great promise for accelerating materials discovery, but their evaluation often overlooks the chemical validity and stability requirements crucial to real-world applications. Density Functional Theory (DFT) simulations…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Elohan Veillon , Astrid Klipfel , Adlane Sayede , Zied Bouraoui

The marriage of density functional theory (DFT) and deep learning methods has the potential to revolutionize modern computational materials science. Here we develop a deep neural network approach to represent DFT Hamiltonian (DeepH) of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-02 He Li , Zun Wang , Nianlong Zou , Meng Ye , Runzhang Xu , Xiaoxun Gong , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

We have developed a method that can analyze large random grain boundary (GB) models with the accuracy of density functional theory (DFT) calculations using active learning. It is assumed that the atomic energy is represented by the linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-11 Tomoyuki Tamura , Masayuki Karasuyama

Density functional theory (DFT) plays a pivotal role for the chemical and materials science due to its relatively high predictive power, applicability, versatility and computational efficiency. We review recent progress in machine learning…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Bing Huang , Guido Falk von Rudorff , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

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

New energy-density functionals (EDFs) inspired by effective-field theories (EFTs) have been recently proposed. The present work focuses on three of such functionals which were developed to produce satisfactory equations of state for nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Jérémy Bonnard , Marcella Grasso , Denis Lacroix

We show that the scattering rate for any dark matter (DM) interaction with electrons in any target is proportional to several measurable material properties, encapsulated by a single master formula. This generalizes the dielectric function…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Yonit Hochberg , Majed Khalaf , Alessandro Lenoci , Rotem Ovadia

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

Large-scale simulations of plastic deformation and phase transformations in alloys require reliable classical interatomic potentials. We construct an embedded-atom method potential for niobium as the first step in alloy potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-27 Michael R. Fellinger , Hyoungki Park , John W. Wilkins

The density functional theory (DFT) is the most versatile electronic structure method used in quantum chemical calculations, and is increasingly applied in astrochemical research. This mini-review provides an overview of the applications of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-24 Qingli Liao , Junzhi Wang , Peng Xie , Enwei Liang , Zhao Wang