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We introduce the unification of dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) and linear-scaling density functional theory (DFT), as recently implemented in ONETEP, a linear-scaling DFT package, and TOSCAM, a DMFT toolbox. This code can account for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-04 Edward B. Linscott , Daniel J. Cole , Nicholas D. M. Hine , Michael C. Payne , Cédric Weber

Multicomponent density functional theory (DFT) enables the consistent quantum mechanical treatment of both electrons and protons. A major challenge has been the design of electron-proton correlation functionals that produce even…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Yang Yang , Kurt R. Brorsen , Tanner Culpitt , Michael V. Pak , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

The correlated electronic structure of iron, cobalt and nickel is investigated within the dynamical mean-field theory formalism, using the newly developed full-potential LMTO-based LDA+DMFT code. Detailed analysis of the calculated electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-03-16 Alexei Grechnev , Igor Di Marco , M. I. Katsnelson , A. I. Lichtenstein , John Wills , Olle Eriksson

A general formalism for the treatment of density fluctuations in Coulomb plasmas is presented and applied to the treatment of temperature relaxation in multi-component quantum plasmas when the separate components (electrons and ions) relax…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Basil Crowley

Reduced density-matrix functional theory (RDMFT) is a promising alternative approach to the problem of electron correlation. Like standard density functional theory, it contains an unknown exchange-correlation functional, for which several…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 N. N. Lathiotakis , Miguel A. L. Marques

The reliable {\it ab-initio} description of strongly correlated materials is a long-sought capability in condensed matter physics. The $GW$+EDMFT method is a promising scheme, which provides a self-consistent description of correlations and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-08 Francesco Petocchi , Viktor Christiansson , Philipp Werner

Phonons are fundamentally important for many materials properties, including thermal and electronic transport, superconductivity, and structural stability. Here, we describe a method to compute phonons in correlated materials using…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-03 Can P. Koçer , Kristjan Haule , G. Lucian Pascut , Bartomeu Monserrat

The widely-used Kohn-Sham implementation of density functional theory (DFT) maps a system of interacting electrons onto an auxiliary non-interacting one and is presumably inaccurate for strongly correlated materials. We present a concrete…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-31 Jamin Kidd , Ruiqi Zhang , Shao-Kai Jian , Jianwei Sun

We investigate the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) from a quantum chemical perspective. Dynamical mean-field theory offers a formalism to extend quantum chemical methods for finite systems to infinite periodic problems within a local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-15 Dominika Zgid , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

We introduce real-time density matrix embedding theory (DMET), a dynamical quantum embedding theory for computing non-equilibrium electron dynamics in strongly correlated systems. As in the previously developed static DMET, real-time DMET…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Joshua S. Kretchmer , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Spin-current density functional theory (SCDFT) is a formally exact framework designed to handle the treatment of interacting many-electron systems including spin-orbit coupling at the level of the Pauli equation. In practice, robust and…

It is well known that cellular dynamical mean-field theory (CDMFT) leads to the artificial breaking of translation invariance. In spite of this, it is one of the most successful methods to treat strongly correlated electrons systems. Here,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-01 S. Verret , J. Roy , A. Foley , M. Charlebois , D. Sénéchal , A. -M. S. Tremblay

Strongly correlated systems have long been a central and highly non-trivial topic in condensed matter physics. At the non-interacting level, strong correlation can be associated with powerful (near) degeneracies between occupied and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 Daniel D. Rivera , Gustavo M. Dalpian , John P. Perdew

The combination of density functional theory with dynamical mean-field theory (DFT+DMFT) has become a powerful first-principles approach to tackle strongly correlated materials in condensed matter physics. The wide use of this approach…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-10 Xin Qu , Peng Xu , Rusong Li , Gang Li , Lixin He , Xinguo Ren

The LDA+DMFT (local density approximation combined with dynamical mean-field theory) computation scheme has been used to study spectral and magnetic properties of FeSi and Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$Si. Having compared different models we conclude…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 V. V. Mazurenko , A. O. Shorikov , A. V. Lukoyanov , K. Kharlov , E. Gorelov , A. I. Lichtenstein , V. I. Anisimov

Systems of adatoms on semiconductor surfaces display competing ground states and exotic spectral properties typical of two-dimensional correlated electron materials which are dominated by a complex interplay of spin and charge degrees of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Philipp Hansmann , Thomas Ayral , Loig Vaugier , Philipp Werner , Silke Biermann

We have implemented the $GW$+dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) approach in the Vienna ab initio simulation package. Employing the interaction values obtained from the locally unscreened random phase approximation (RPA), we compare…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-15 Ciro Taranto , Merzuk Kaltak , Nicolaus Parragh , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Georg Kresse , Alessandro Toschi , Karsten Held

With tens of petaflops supercomputers already in operation and exaflops machines expected to appear within the next 10 years, efficient parallel computational methods are required to take advantage of such extreme-scale machines. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-13 Truong Vinh Truong Duy , Taisuke Ozaki

The electronic structure of Samarium (Sm) was calculated using the density functional theory combined with the single-site dynamical mean-field theory. In this work, we investigated the electronic properties of {\alpha}, \b{eta} and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-15 Shengsong Xu , Zhenfeng Ouyang , Li Huang , Zhong-Yi Lu

Heterogeneous interfaces are central to many energy-related applications in the nanoscale. From the first-principles electronic structure perspective, one of the outstanding problems is accurately and efficiently calculating how the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-29 Zhen-Fei Liu