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We introduce a mixed density fitting scheme that uses both a Gaussian and a plane-wave fitting basis to accurately evaluate electron repulsion integrals in crystalline systems. We use this scheme to enable efficient all-electron Gaussian…

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We present model-assisted density fitting (MADF) basis set generator, an algorithm for generating primitive atomic Gaussian density fitting (DF) basis sets (DFBSs) from a contracted Gaussian orbital basis set (OBS). The MADF algorithm…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Kshitijkumar A. Surjuse , Edward F. Valeev

In this article, we combine the periodic sinc basis set with a curvilinear coordinate system for electronic structure calculations. This extension allows for variable resolution across the computational domain, with higher resolution close…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Michael Lindsey , Sandeep Sharma

A mixed basis approach based on density functional theory is employed for low dimensional systems. The basis functions are taken to be plane waves for the periodic direction multiplied by B-spline polynomials in the non-periodic direction.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chung-Yuan Ren , Chen-Shiung Hsue , Yia-Chung Chang

We introduce a new basis function (the spherical gaussian) for electronic structure calculations on spheres of any dimension $D$. We find \alert{general} expressions for the one- and two-electron integrals and propose an efficient…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Peter M. W. Gill , Pierre-François Loos , Davids Agboola

Most modern calculations of many-electron atoms use basis sets of atomic orbitals. An accurate account for the electronic correlations in heavy atoms is very difficult computational problem and optimization of the basis sets can reduce…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 M. G. Kozlov , Yu. A. Demidov , M. Y. Kaygorodov , E. V. Triapitsyna

We show how to adapt the quasi-Newton method to the electronic-structure calculations using systematic basis sets. Our implementation requires less iterations than the conjugate gradient method, while the computational cost per iteration is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Eiji Tsuchida

We present an approach to accelerate real-space electronic structure methods several fold, without loss of accuracy, by reducing the dimension of the discrete eigenproblem that must be solved. To accomplish this, we construct an efficient,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Qimen Xu , Phanish Suryanarayana , John E. Pask

Kohn-Sham density functional theory is one of the most widely used electronic structure theories. In the pseudopotential framework, uniform discretization of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian generally results in a large number of basis functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Lin Lin , Jianfeng Lu , Lexing Ying , E. Weinan

We propose a general method for constructing system-dependent basis functions for correlated quantum chemical calculations. Our construction combines features from several traditional approaches: plane waves, localized basis functions, and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Thomas E. Baker , Kieron Burke , Steven R. White

Strong magnetic fields such as those found on white dwarfs have significant effects on the electronic structure of atoms and molecules. However, the vast majority of molecular studies in the literature in such fields are carried out with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Hugo Åström , Susi Lehtola

A recent paper compares density functional theory results for atomization energies and dipole moments using a multi-wavelet based method with traditional Gaussian basis set results, and concludes that Gaussian basis sets are problematic for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Frank Jensen

Ab initio electronic structure calculations of two-dimensional layered structures are typically performed using codes that were developed for three-dimensional structures, which are periodic in all three directions. The introduction of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-22 Paolo E. Trevisanutto , Giovanni Vignale

This work is concerned with the rigorous analysis on the Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Methods (GMsFEMs) for elliptic problems with high-contrast heterogeneous coefficients. GMsFEMs are popular numerical methods for solving flow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Guanglian Li

The description of weakly bound electronic states is especially difficult with atomic orbital basis sets. The diffuse atomic basis functions that are necessary to describe the extended electronic state generate significant linear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Susi Lehtola

Molecule-optimized basis sets, based on approximate natural orbitals, are developed for accelerating the convergence of quantum calculations with strongly correlated (multi-referenced) electrons. We use a low-cost approximate solution of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Gergely Gidofalvi , David A. Mazziotti

We introduce a family of all-electron Gaussian basis sets, augmented MOLOPT, optimized for excited-state calculations on large molecules. We generate these basis sets by augmenting existing STO-3G, STO-6G, and MOLOPT basis sets optimized…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Rémi Pasquier , Maximilian Graml , Jan Wilhelm

A mixed basis approach based on density functional theory is extended to one-dimensional(1D) systems. The basis functions here are taken to be the localized B-splines for the two finite non-periodic dimensions and the plane waves for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-20 Chung-Yuan Ren , Yia-Chung Chang , Chen-Shiung Hsue

In high magnetic field calculations, anisotropic Gaussian type orbital (AGTO) basis functions are capable of reconciling the competing demands of the spherically symmetric Coulombic interaction and cylindrical magnetic ($B$ field)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Wuming Zhu , S. B. Trickey

We present an approach to solid-state electronic-structure calculations based on the finite-element method. In this method, the basis functions are strictly local, piecewise polynomials. Because the basis is composed of polynomials, the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. E. Pask , B. M. Klein , C. Y. Fong , P. A. Sterne