English
Related papers

Related papers: DFT-FE -- A massively parallel adaptive finite-ele…

200 papers

Deep-learning density functional theory (DFT) shows great promise to significantly accelerate material discovery and potentially revolutionize materials research. However, current research in this field primarily relies on data-driven…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Yang Li , Zechen Tang , Zezhou Chen , Minghui Sun , Boheng Zhao , He Li , Honggeng Tao , Zilong Yuan , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

The reconstruction of the exchange-correlation potential from accurate ab initio electron densities can provide insights into the limitations of the currently available approximate functionals and provide guidance for devising improved…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-05 Katharina Boguslawski , Christoph R. Jacob , Markus Reiher

While the success of density functional theory (DFT) has led to its use in a wide variety of fields such as physics, chemistry, materials science and biochemistry, it has long been recognised that conventional methods are very inefficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 D. R. Bowler , R. Choudhury , M. J. Gillan , T. Miyazaki

We consider adaptive finite element methods for solving a multiscale system consisting of a macroscale model comprising a system of reaction-diffusion partial differential equations coupled to a microscale model comprising a system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 A. Johansson , J. H. Chaudry , V. Carey , D. Estep , V. Ginting , M. Larson , S. Tavener

Fromager and Lasorne [Electron. Struct. 6 025002 (2024)] have recently derived an in-principle exact Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) of electrons and nuclei, where the nuclear density and the (so-called conditional) electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Lucien Dupuy , Benjamin Lasorne , Emmanuel Fromager

Density Functional Theory (DFT) allows for predicting all the chemical and physical properties of molecular systems from first principles by finding an approximate solution to the many-body Schr\"odinger equation. However, the cost of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Majdi Hassan , Cristian Gabellini , Hatem Helal , Dominique Beaini , Kirill Neklyudov

It has long been postulated that within density-functional theory (DFT) the total energy of a finite electronic system is convex with respect to electron count, so that 2 E_v[N_0] <= E_v[N_0 - 1] + E_v[N_0 + 1]. Using the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Andrew C. Burgess , Edward Linscott , David D. O'Regan

We present the implementation of a variational finite element solver in the HelFEM program for benchmark calculations on diatomic systems. A basis set of the form $\chi_{nlm}(\mu,\nu,\phi)=B_{n}(\mu)Y_{l}^{m}(\nu,\phi)$ is used, where…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Susi Lehtola

State-specific orbital optimized approaches are more accurate at predicting core-level spectra than traditional linear-response protocols, but their utility had been restricted on account of the risk of `variational collapse' down to the…

For the theoretical understanding of the reactivity of complex chemical systems accurate relative energies between intermediates and transition states are required. Despite its popularity, density functional theory (DFT) often fails to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-23 Gregor N. Simm , Markus Reiher

Ground-state electronic structure calculations using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) offer an unprecedented balance between efficiency and accuracy, now paradigmatic to the fields of quantum chemistry and condensed matter…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Lucien Dupuy , Toni Chiti , Jérémy Morere , Emmanuel Fromager

We present a systematic Density Functional Theory (DFT) study of geometries and energies of the nucleic acid DNA bases (guanine, adenine, cytosine and thymine) and 30 different DNA base-pairs. We use a recently developed linear-scaling DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maider Machado , Pablo Ordejon , Emilio Artacho , Daniel Sanchez-Portal , Jose M. Soler

We showcase the advantages of orbital-free density-potential functional theory (DPFT), a more flexible variant of Hohenberg-Kohn density functional theory. DPFT resolves the usual trouble with the gradient-expanded kinetic energy functional…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-16 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , Jun Hao Hue , Berthold-Georg Englert

We present a spectrum-splitting approach to conduct all-electron Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) calculations by employing Fermi-operator expansion of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian. The proposed approach splits the subspace containing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Phani Motamarri , Vikram Gavini , Kaushik Bhattacharya , Michael Ortiz

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

Density functional theory (DFT) stands as a cornerstone method in computational quantum chemistry and materials science due to its remarkable versatility and scalability. Yet, it suffers from limitations in accuracy, particularly when…

The treatment of atomic anions with Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) has long been controversial since the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy, $E_{HOMO}$, is often calculated to be positive with most approximate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-03-20 Lindsey N. Anderson , M. Belén Oviedo , Bryan M. Wong

While density functional theory (DFT) serves as a prevalent computational approach in electronic structure calculations, its computational demands and scalability limitations persist. Recently, leveraging neural networks to parameterize the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Yang Zhong , Hongyu Yu , Jihui Yang , Xingyu Guo , Hongjun Xiang , Xingao Gong

The density-functional based symmetry-adapted perturbation theory [SAPT(DFT)] has been applied to the argon, krypton, and benzene dimers. It is shown that--at a small fraction of computational costs--SAPT(DFT) can provide similar accuracies…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rafał Podeszwa , Krzysztof Szalewicz

The fundamental gap is a central quantity in the electronic structure of matter. Unfortunately, the fundamental gap is not generally equal to the Kohn-Sham gap of density functional theory (DFT), even in principle. The two gaps differ…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-01 Eli Kraisler , Leeor Kronik