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The Hubbard \emph{U} of the \emph{3d} transition metal series as well as SrVO$_{3}$, YTiO$_{3}$, Ce and Gd has been estimated using a recently proposed scheme based on the random-phase approximation. The values obtained are generally in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Aryasetiawan , K. Karlsson , O. Jepsen , U. Schonberger

The density functional theory (DFT)+$U$ method is a pragmatic and effective approach for calculating the ground-state properties of strongly-correlated systems, and linear response calculations are widely used to determine the requisite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-31 Edward B. Linscott , Daniel J. Cole , Michael C. Payne , David D. O'Regan

We present a first-principles investigation of the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of pyrolusite ($\beta$-MnO$_2$) using conventional and extended Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory (DFT+$U$ and DFT+$U$+$V$). The…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-06 Ruchika Mahajan , Iurii Timrov , Nicola Marzari , Arti Kashyap

Since the preliminary work of Anisimov and co-workers, the Hubbard corrected DFT+$U$ functional has been used for predicting properties of correlated materials by applying on-site effective Coulomb interactions to specific orbitals.…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-20 Stefano Falletta , Alfredo Pasquarello

Semi-local DFT methods exhibit significant errors for the phase diagrams of transition-metal oxides that are caused by an incorrect description of molecular oxygen and the large self-interaction error in materials with strongly localized…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-29 Nongnuch Artrith , José Antonio Garrido Torres , Alexander Urban , Mark S. Hybertsen

Motivated by the puzzling report of the observation of a ferromagnetic insulating state in LaMnO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ heterostructures, we calculate the electronic and magnetic state of LaMnO$_3$, coherently matched to a SrTiO$_3$ square substrate…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-25 Hrishit Banerjee , Oleg Janson , Karsten Held , Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta

We use maximally localized Wannier functions to construct tight-binding (TB) parameterizations for the e_g bands of LaMnO_3 based on first principles electronic structure calculations. We compare two different ways to represent the relevant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Roman Kovacik , Claude Ederer

We use the constrained random phase approximation (cRPA) method to calculate the Hubbard $U$ parameter in four one-dimensional magnetic transition metal atom oxides of composition XO$_2$ (X = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) on Ir(100). In addition to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-31 J. Goikoetxea , C. Friedrich , G. Bihlmayer , S. Blügel , A. Arnau , M. Blanco-Rey

Uranium dioxide which is used as a fuel in light water nuclear reactors, is continually exposed to radiation damage originated from the collision of high-energy particles. Accumulation of the resulting defects gives rise to the evolution in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-14 Mahmoud Payami , Samira Sheykhi , Mohammad-Reza Basaadat

We present a formulation and implementation of the DFT+\textit{U} method within the framework of linear combination of numerical atomic orbitals (NAO). Our implementation not only enables single-point total energy and electronic-structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-29 Xin Qu , Peng Xu , Hong Jiang , Lixin He , Xinguo Ren

We conduct a systematic investigation of the role of Hubbard U corrections in electronic structure calculations of two-dimensional (2D) materials containing 3d transition metals. Specifically, we use density functional theory (DFT) with the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Sahar Pakdel , Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

The ab initio computational method known as Hubbard-corrected density functional theory (DFT+$U$) captures well ground electronic structures of a set of solids that are poorly described by standard DFT alone. Since lattice dynamical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-17 Wooil Yang , Sabyasachi Tiwari , Feliciano Giustino , Young-Woo Son

We present a systematic density functional theory (DFT) plus Hubbard $U$ study of structural trends and the stability of different magnetically ordered states across the rare-earth nickelate series, $R$NiO$_3$, with $R$ from Lu to La. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-17 Alexander Hampel , Claude Ederer

Predicting the compositional phase stability of strongly correlated electron materials is an outstanding challenge in condensed matter physics, requiring precise computations of total energies. In this work, we employ the density functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-28 Eric B. Isaacs , Chris A. Marianetti

Predicting the compositional phase stability of strongly correlated electron materials is an outstanding challenge in condensed matter physics. In this work, we employ the DFT+U formalism to address the effects of local correlations due to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-01 Eric B. Isaacs , Chris A. Marianetti

We present an approach to the DFT+U method (Density Functional Theory + Hubbard model) within which the computational effort for calculation of ground state energies and forces scales linearly with system size. We employ a formulation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-14 David D. O'Regan , Nicholas D. M. Hine , Mike C. Payne , Arash A. Mostofi

We present a first-principles investigation of structural and elastic properties of experimentally observed phases of bulk SrRuO$_3$ - namely orthorhombic, tetragonal, and cubic - by applying density functional theory (DFT) approximations.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-11 Š. Masys , V. Jonauskas

To realize the significant potential of optical materials such as strongly electron-correlated open-shell rare-earth monoxides, understanding the electron-localization Hubbard parameters ($U$) is of central importance. The Hubbard energy is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-19 Mizuki Tago , Tsukasa Kurachi , Takayuki Makino

In electronic structure methods based on the correction of approximate density-functional theory (DFT) for systematic inaccuracies, Hubbard $U$ parameters may be used to quantify and amend the self-interaction errors ascribed to selected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-27 Glenn Moynihan , Gilberto Teobaldi , David D. O'Regan

Density functional theory augmented with a Hubbard correction (DFT+U) is widely used to treat localized electronic states, but its predictions are often sensitive to the choice of the local projection space defining the correlated subspace.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-13 Manjula Raman , Kenneth Park