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We present an embedding scheme for periodic systems that facilitates the treatment of the physically important part (here the unit cell) with advanced electronic-structure methods, that are computationally too expensive for periodic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-08 Wael Chibani , Xinguo Ren , Matthias Scheffler , Patrick Rinke

We present a finite-temperature extension of density matrix embedding theory (FT-DMET) for realistic crystalline systems. We describe a practical framework for constructing extended bath orbitals, solving the embedding problem, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Laurence Giordano , Y. Stanley Tan , Zhi-Hao Cui , Chong Sun

We develop a method in which the electronic densities of small fragments determined by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) are embedded using stochastic DFT to form the exact density of the full system. The new method preserves the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer , Eran Rabani

Localized orbital-based quantum embedding, as originally formulated in the context of density matrix embedding theory (DMET), is revisited from the perspective of lattice density functional theory (DFT). An in-principle exact (in the sense…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-21 W. Makhlouf , B. Senjean , E. Fromager

Quantum embedding based on the (one-electron reduced) density matrix is revisited by means of the unitary Householder transformation. While being exact and equivalent to (but formally simpler than) density matrix embedding theory (DMET) in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-12 Sajanthan Sekaran , Masahisa Tsuchiizu , Matthieu Saubanère , Emmanuel Fromager

This article provides the first mathematical analysis of the Density Matrix Embedding Theory (DMET) method. We prove that, under certain assumptions, (i) the exact ground-state density matrix is a fixed-point of the DMET map for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Eric Cancès , Fabian M. Faulstich , Alfred Kirsch , Eloïse Letournel , Antoine Levitt

In this work, we derive a multi-fragment real-time extension of projected density matrix embedding theory (pDMET) designed to treat non-equilibrium electron dynamics in strongly correlated systems. As in the previously developed static…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-19 Dariia Yehorova , Joshua S. Kretchmer

In recent works by Yalouz et al. (J. Chem. Phys. 157, 214112, 2022) and Sekaran et al. (Phys. Rev. B 104, 035121, 2021; Computation 10, 45, 2022), Density Matrix Embedding Theory (DMET) has been reformulated through the use of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Filip Cernatic , Emmanuel Fromager , Saad Yalouz

The localized active space self consistent field (LASSCF) method factorizes a complete active space (CAS) wave function into an antisymmetrized product of localized active space wave function fragments. Correlation between fragments is then…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Valay Agarawal , Daniel King , Matthew R. Hermes , Laura Gagliardi

Density matrix embedding theory (DMET) is a quantum embedding theory for strongly correlated systems. From a computational perspective, one bottleneck in DMET is the optimization of the correlation potential to achieve self-consistency,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Xiaojie Wu , Zhi-Hao Cui , Yu Tong , Michael Lindsey , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan , Lin Lin

Fragmentation methods applied to multireference wave functions constitute a road towards the application of highly accurate ab initio wave function calculations to large molecules and solids. However, it is important for reproducibility and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-07-23 Matthew R. Hermes , Laura Gagliardi

Computing ground-state properties of molecules is a promising application for quantum computers operating in concert with classical high-performance computing resources. Quantum embedding methods are a family of algorithms particularly…

In this paper, we construct a combined multiscale finite element method (MsFEM) using the Local Orthogonal Decomposition (LOD) technique to solve the multiscale problems which may have singularities in some special portions of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Kuokuo Zhang , Weibing Deng , Haijun Wu

This thesis describes the development of the density matrix embedding theory (DMET) and its applications to lattice strongly correlated electron problems, including a review of DMET theory and algorithms (Ch 2), investigation of finite size…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-29 Bo-Xiao Zheng

Density matrix embedding theory (DMET) provides a framework to describe ground-state expectation values in strongly correlated systems, but its extension to dynamical quantities is still an open problem. We show one route to obtaining…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-13 Shuoxue Li , Chenghan Li , Huanchen Zhai , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

The recently developed localized orbital scaling correction (LOSC) method shows the ability to systematically and size-consistently reduce the delocalization error existing in conventional density functional approximations (DFAs). Applying…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-19 Yuncai Mei , Zehua Chen , Weitao Yang

Density functional theory (DFT) has become a standard tool for the study of point defects in materials. However, finding the most stable defective structures remains a very challenging task as it involves the solution of a multimodal…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-16 Marco Arrigoni , Georg K. H. Madsen

We introduce Extended Density Matrix Embedding Theory (EDMET), a static quantum embedding theory explicitly self-consistent with respect to local two-body physics. This overcomes the biggest practical and conceptual limitation of more…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-22 Charles J. C. Scott , George H. Booth

A combined density and first-order reduced-density-matrix (1RDM) functional method is proposed for the calculation of potential energy curves (PECs) of molecular multibond dissociation. Its 1RDM functional part, a pair density functional,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Robert van Meer , Oleg Gritsenko , Jeng-Da Chai

Density functional theory (DFT) embedding provides a formally exact framework for interfacing correlated wave-function theory (WFT) methods with lower-level descriptions of electronic structure. Here, we report techniques to improve the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jason D. Goodpaster , Taylor A. Barnes , Frederick R. Manby , Thomas F. Miller