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We present an implementation of the linear density response function within the projector-augmented wave (PAW) method with applications to the linear optical and dielectric properties of both solids, surfaces, and interfaces. The response…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-28 Jun Yan , Jens. J. Mortensen , Karsten W. Jacobsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

A new implementation of the GW approximation (GWA) based on the all-electron Projector-Augmented-Wave method (PAW) is presented, where the screened Coulomb interaction is computed within the Random Phase Approximation (RPA) instead of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Lebègue , B. Arnaud , M. Alouani , P. E. Bloechl

We report a theoretical scheme that enables the calculation of maximally localized Wannier functions in the formalism of projector-augmented-waves (PAW) which also includes the ultrasoft-pseudopotential (USPP) approach. We give a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Ferretti , Arrigo Calzolari , Benedetta Bonferroni , Rosa Di Felice

Large scale electronic structure calculations require modern high performance computing (HPC) resources and, as important, mature HPC applications that can make efficient use of those. Real-space grid-based applications of Density…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-03 Paul F. Baumeister , Shigeru Tsukamoto

We propose an adaptive planewave method for eigenvalue problems in electronic structure calculations. The method combines a priori convergence rates and accurate a posteriori error estimates into an effective way of updating the energy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Beilei Liu , Huajie Chen , Geneviève Dusson , Jun Fang , Xingyu Gao

We examine the challenge of performing accurate electronic structure calculations at high pressures by comparing the results of all-electron full potential linearized augmented-plane-wave calculations with those of the projector augmented…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 Kanchan Sarkar , Mehmet Topsakal , N. A. W. Holzwarth , Renata M. Wentzcovitch

The so-called local density approximation plus the multi-orbital mean-field Hubbard model (LDA+U) has been implemented within the all-electron projector augmented-wave method (PAW), and then used to compute the insulating antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Bengone , M. Alouani , P. Bloechl , J. Hugel

We present valence electron Compton profiles calculated within the density-functional theory using the all-electron full-potential projector augmented-wave method (PAW). Our results for covalent (Si), metallic (Li, Al) and hydrogen-bonded…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Makkonen , M. Hakala , M. J. Puska

We used our previously implemented GW approximation (GWA) based on the all-electron full-potential projector augmented wave (PAW) method to study the optical properties of small, medium and large-band-gap semiconductors: Si, GaAs, AlAs,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 B. Arnaud , M. Alouani

We evaluate the zero-point renormalization (ZPR) due to electron-phonon interactions of 28 solids using the projector-augmented-wave (PAW) method. The calculations cover diamond, many zincblende semiconductors, rock-salt and wurtzite…

The projection of the eigenfunctions obtained in standard plane-wave first-principle electronic-structure calculations into atomic-orbital basis sets is proposed as a formal and practical link between the methods based on plane waves and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Daniel Sanchez-Portal , Emilio Artacho , Jose M. Soler

This paper addresses the problem of computing the eigenvalues lying in the gaps of the essential spectrum of a periodic Schrodinger operator perturbed by a fast decreasing potential. We use a recently developed technique, the so called…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Lyonell Boulton , Michael Levitin

The full-potential linearized augmented-plane wave (FP-LAPW) method is well known to enable most accurate calculations of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of crystals and surfaces. The implementation of atomic forces has…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Max Petersen , Frank Wagner , Lars Hufnagel , Matthias Scheffler , Peter Blaha , Karlheinz Schwarz

Accurate large-scale Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) calculations are essential for modeling complex material systems, including interfaces, defects, nanoclusters, and twisted two-dimensional heterostructures. Achieving chemical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Kartick Ramakrishnan , Phani Motamarri

We consider a generalization of the projecting operators method for the case of Cauchy problem for systems of 1D evolution differential equations of first order with variable coefficients. It is supposed that the coefficients dependence on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-01 Sergey Leble , Irina Vereshchagina

We have derived equations for nonadiabatic Ehrenfest molecular dynamics which conserve the total energy in the case of time-dependent discretization for electrons. A discretization is time-dependent in all cases where it or part of it…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Ari Ojanperä , Ville Havu , Lauri Lehtovaara , Martti Puska

Two exponential wave integrator Fourier pseudospectral (EWI-FP) methods are presented and analyzed for the long-time dynamics of the Dirac equation with small potentials characterized by $\varepsilon \in (0, 1]$ a dimensionless parameter.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Yue Feng , Jia Yin

The adiabatic distorted wave approximation (ADWA) is widely used by the nuclear community to analyse deuteron stripping ($d$,$p$) experiments. It provides a quick way to take into account an important property of the reaction mechanism:…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-08 Laura Moschini , Natalia K. Timofeyuk , Ronald C. Johnson

The direct random-phase approximation (dRPA) is used to calculate and compare atomization energies for the HEAT set and 10 selected molecules of the G2-1 set using both plane waves and Gaussian-type orbitals. We describe detailed procedures…

CP-PAW is a combined electronic structure and ab-initio molecular dynamics code to perform mixed quantum and classical simulations of atomistic condensed phase systems, such as solids, liquids, and molecular systems. As the name suggests,…