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An efficient algorithm for time propagation of the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations is presented. The algorithm is based on dividing the Hamiltonian into small time steps and assuming that it is constant over these steps. This allows for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-12-03 J. K. Dewhurst , K. Krieger , S. Sharma , E. K. U. Gross

The practical success of density functional theory (DFT) is largely credited to the Kohn-Sham approach, which enables the exact calculation of the non-interacting electron kinetic energy via an auxiliary noninteracting system. Yet, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sangita Majumdar , Zekun Shi , Giovanni Vignale

The Kohn-Sham equation is a powerful, widely used approach for computation of ground state electronic energies and densities in chemistry, materials science, biology, and nanosciences. In this paper, we study the adaptive finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-22 Huajie Chen , Xiaoying Dai , Xingao Gong , Lianhua He , Aihui Zhou

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

This paper presents a novel Riemannian conjugate gradient method for the Kohn-Sham energy minimization problem in density functional theory (DFT), with a focus on non-metallic crystal systems. We introduce an energy-adaptive metric that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Daniel Peterseim , Jonas Püschel , Tatjana Stykel

We develop a technique for generating a set of optimized local basis functions to solve models in the Kohn-Sham density functional theory for both insulating and metallic systems. The optimized local basis functions are obtained by solving…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Lin Lin , Jianfeng Lu , Lexing Ying , E. Weinan

Stochastic density functional theory (sDFT) is becoming a valuable tool for studying ground state properties of extended materials. The computational complexity of describing the Kohn-Sham orbitals is replaced by introducing a set of random…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Ming Chen , Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser , Eran Rabani

We propose a data-driven approach using a Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) to solve the Schr\"odinger equation in configuration space. Traditional Configuration Interaction (CI) methods construct the wavefunction as a linear combination…

A Kohn-Sham (KS) inversion determines a KS potential and orbitals corresponding to a given electron density, a procedure that has applications in developing and evaluating functionals used in density functional theory. Despite the utility…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Seungsoo Nam , Ryan J. McCarty , Hansol Park , Eunji Sim

We introduce a new iterative method to recover a real compact supported potential of the Schr\"odinger operator from their fixed angle scattering data. The method combines a fixed point argument with a suitable approximation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Juan A. Barceló , Carlos Castro , Teresa Luque , Mari Cruz Vilela

We show that deep neural networks can be integrated into, or fully replace, the Kohn-Sham density functional theory scheme for multi-electron systems in simple harmonic oscillator and random external potentials with no feature engineering.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-25 Kevin Ryczko , David Strubbe , Isaac Tamblyn

We study the long-time behavior of the (critical) Kohn--Sham equation in two and three dimensions, i.e.,\[ \mathrm{i} \partial_t {\gamma} = \Big[-\frac{1}{2}\Delta + \lambda \, |\cdot|^{-1} \ast \rho_{{\gamma}} + \mu \,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Masaki Kawamoto , Jinyeop Lee , Changhun Yang , Chanjin You

B-spline collocation techniques have been applied to Schr\"odinger's equation since the early 1970s, but one aspect that is noticeably missing from this literature is the use of Gaussian points (i.e., the zeros of Legendre polynomials) as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Christian P. H. Salas

Building upon the efficient implementation of hybrid density functionals (HDFs) for large-scale periodic systems within the framework of numerical atomic orbital bases using the localized resolution of identity (RI) technique, we have…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Yu Cao , Min-Ye Zhang , Peize Lin , Mohan Chen , Xinguo Ren

This article is concerned with the numerical solution of subspace optimization problems, consisting of minimizing a smooth functional over the set of orthogonal projectors of fixed rank. Such problems are encountered in particular in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Eric Cancès , Gaspard Kemlin , Antoine Levitt

The Helmholtz equation is a prototypical model for time-harmonic wave propagation. Numerical solutions become increasingly challenging as the wave number $k$ grows, due to the equation's elliptic yet noncoercive character and the highly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Anjiao Gu , Shi Jin , Chuwen Ma

While quantum computers have shown significant promise for electronic structure calculations, their potential to accelerate density functional theory (DFT) calculations remains unclear. In this work, we present a qubit-efficient encoding…

We present a numerical modeling workflow based on machine learning (ML) which reproduces the the total energies produced by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) at finite electronic temperature to within chemical accuracy at negligible…

The Schrodinger equation is a mathematical equation describing the wave function's behavior in a quantum-mechanical system. It is a partial differential equation that provides valuable insights into the fundamental principles of quantum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Kourosh Parand , Aida Pakniyat

Kohn-Sham (KS) formalism of Density Functional Theory is modified to include the systems with strong non-dynamic electron correlation. Unlike in extended KS and broken symmetry unrestricted KS formalisms, cases of both singlet-triplet and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Artem Masunov