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The Kohn-Sham iteration of generalized density-functional theory on Banach spaces with Moreau-Yosida regularized universal Lieb functional and an adaptive damping step is shown to converge to the correct ground-state density. This result…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Markus Penz , Andre Laestadius

The exact Kohn-Sham iteration of generalized density-functional theory in finite dimensions witha Moreau-Yosida regularized universal Lieb functional and an adaptive damping step is shown toconverge to the correct ground-state density.

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-01 Markus Penz , Andre Laestadius , Erik I. Tellgren , Michael Ruggenthaler

A bivariate perspective on Kohn-Sham density functional theory is proposed, treating potential and density as simultaneous independent variables, and used to make fruitful connection between Lieb's rigorous foundational framework and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-07 Paul E. Lammert

In the well-known Kohn-Sham theory in Density Functional Theory, a fictitious non-interacting system is introduced that has the same particle density as a system of $N$ electrons subjected to mutual Coulomb repulsion and an external…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 Andre Laestadius

The Kohn-Sham equations underlie many important applications such as the discovery of new catalysts. Recent machine learning work on catalyst modeling has focused on prediction of the energy, but has so far not yet demonstrated significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Phillip Pope , David Jacobs

Exact density-functional theory is reconstructed here from its convex variational structure as two parallel exact ensemble hierarchies: an interacting hierarchy rooted in Lieb's ensemble formulation and a noninteracting hierarchy rooted in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Nan Sheng

The Kohn-Sham scheme of density functional theory is one of the most widely used methods to solve electronic structure problems for a vast variety of atomistic systems across different scientific fields. While the method is fast relative to…

We study the general problem of mixing for ab-initio quantum-mechanical problems. Guided by general mathematical principles and the underlying physics, we propose a multisecant form of Broydens second method for solving the self-consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-05 L. D. Marks , D. R. Luke

A recently developed formalism in which Kohn-Sham calculations are combined with an ``average pair density functional theory'' is reviewed, and some new properties of the effective electron-electron interaction entering in this formalism…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

We present a real-space formulation for coarse-graining Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory that significantly speeds up the analysis of material defects without appreciable loss of accuracy. The approximation scheme consists of two steps.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Phanish Suryanarayana , Kaushik Bhattacharya , Michael Ortiz

Last year, at least 30,000 scientific papers used the Kohn-Sham scheme of density functional theory to solve electronic structure problems in a wide variety of scientific fields, ranging from materials science to biochemistry to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Felix Brockherde , Leslie Vogt , Li Li , Mark E. Tuckerman , Kieron Burke , Klaus-Robert Müller

We characterize the solution of a broad class of convex optimization problems that address the reconstruction of a function from a finite number of linear measurements. The underlying hypothesis is that the solution is decomposable as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-26 Michael Unser , Shayan Aziznejad

One of the potential applications of a quantum computer is solving quantum chemical systems. It is known that one of the fastest ways to obtain somewhat accurate solutions classically is to use approximations of density functional theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Thomas E. Baker , David Poulin

Kohn-Sham spin-density functional theory provides an efficient and accurate model to study electron-electron interaction effects in quantum dots, but its application to large systems is a challenge. An efficient algorithm for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Jiang , Harold U. Baranger , Weitao Yang

We present a rigorous formulation of generalized Kohn-Sham density-functional theory. This provides a straightforward Kohn-Sham description of many-body systems based not only on particle-density but also on any other observable. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Valiev , G. W. Fernando

To obtain convergent numerical approximations without using any orthogonalization operations is of great importance in electronic structure calculations. In this paper, we propose and analyze a class of iteration schemes for the discretized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Xiaoying Dai , Liwei Zhang , Aihui Zhou

We describe a rapidly converging algorithm for solving the Kohn--Sham equations and equations of similar structure that appear frequently in calculations of the structure of inhomogeneous electronic many--body systems. The algorithm has its…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Auer , E. Krotscheck

Including prior knowledge is important for effective machine learning models in physics, and is usually achieved by explicitly adding loss terms or constraints on model architectures. Prior knowledge embedded in the physics computation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 Li Li , Stephan Hoyer , Ryan Pederson , Ruoxi Sun , Ekin D. Cubuk , Patrick Riley , Kieron Burke

Recent work has established Moreau-Yosida regularization as a mathematical tool to achieve rigorous functional differentiability in density-functional theory. In this article, we extend this tool to paramagnetic current-density-functional…

In this paper, we investigate the energy minimization model of the ensemble Kohn-Sham density functional theory for metallic systems, in which a pseudo-eigenvalue matrix and a general smearing approach are involved. We study the invariance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Xiaoying Dai , Stefano de Gironcoli , Bin Yang , Aihui Zhou
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