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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

DFT calculations have become widespread in both chemistry and materials, because they usually provide useful accuracy at much lower computational cost than wavefunction-based methods. All practical DFT calculations require an approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Eunji Sim , Suhwan Song , Stefan Vuckovic , Kieron Burke

Large scale Density Functional Theory (DFT) based electronic structure calculations are highly time consuming and scale poorly with system size. While semi-empirical approximations to DFT result in a reduction in computational time versus…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-21 Ganesh Hegde , R. Chris Bowen

Density functional theory (DFT) provides convenient electronic structure methods for the study of molecular systems and materials. Regular Kohn-Sham DFT calculations rely on unitary transformations to determine the ground-state electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 Greta Jacobson , Juan M. Marmolejo-Tejada , Martín A. Mosquera

Extending density functional theory (DFT) to an {\it ab initio} orbital functional theory (OFT) requires new methodology for nonlocal exchange and correlation potentials. This paper describes such modifications to a standard Dirac-Slater…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. K. Nesbet

Computational chemistry has become an indispensable tool for generating data and insights, pervading all branches of experimental chemistry. Its most central concept is the potential energy hypersurface, key to all chemistry and materials…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Raphael T. Husistein , Markus Reiher

HF-DFT, the practice of evaluating approximate density functionals on Hartree-Fock densities, has long been used in testing density functional approximations. Density-corrected DFT (DC-DFT) is a general theoretical framework for identifying…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 Suhwan Song , Stefan Vuckovic , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

We resume the recent successes of the grid-based tensor numerical methods and discuss their prospects in real-space electronic structure calculations. These methods, based on the low-rank representation of the multidimensional functions and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Venera Khoromskaia , Boris N. Khoromskij

Using a hydrogen molecule as a test system we demonstrate how to compute the effective potential according to the formalism of the new density functional theory (DFT), in which the basic variable is the set of spherically averaged densities…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 K. Kokko , Á. Nagy , J. Huhtala , T. Björkman , L. Vitos

Nuclear quantum effects are essential for correctly describing hydrogen-rich materials at high pressures. Superconducting hydrides and ice are prime examples of such systems, requiring the inclusion of lattice anharmonicity and nuclear…

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

Simulations in the warm dense matter regime using finite temperature Kohn-Sham density functional theory (FT-KS-DFT), while frequently used, are computationally expensive due to the partial occupation of a very large number of high-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-04 Yael Cytter , Eran Rabani , Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer

A system of electrons in a local or nonlocal external potential can be studied with 1-matrix functional theory (1MFT), which is similar to density functional theory (DFT) but takes the one-particle reduced density matrix (1-matrix) instead…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-07-23 Ryan Requist , Oleg Pankratov

Stochastic and mixed stochastic-deterministic density functional theory (DFT) are promising new approaches for the calculation of the equation-of-state and transport properties in materials under extreme conditions. In the intermediate warm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Vidushi Sharma , Lee A. Collins , Alexander J. White

The recently developed Deep Potential [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 143001, 2018] is a powerful method to represent general inter-atomic potentials using deep neural networks. The success of Deep Potential rests on the proper treatment of locality…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez , Yixiao Chen , Jiefu Zhang , Weile Jia , Linfeng Zhang , Lin Lin

Deep learning electronic structures from ab initio calculations holds great potential to revolutionize computational materials studies. While existing methods proved success in deep-learning density functional theory (DFT) Hamiltonian…

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

Understanding strongly correlated systems is essential for advancing quantum chemistry and materials science, yet conventional methods like Density Functional Theory (DFT) often fail to capture their complex electronic behavior. To address…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Archith Rayabharam , N. R. Aluru

We develop a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) framework for automatically constructing adaptive basis sets for electronic structure calculations. By allowing basis functions to be discontinuous across element interfaces, our approach supports…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Yulong Pan , Michael Lindsey

The calculation of electron density distribution using density functional theory (DFT) in materials and molecules is central to the study of their quantum and macro-scale properties, yet accurate and efficient calculation remains a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Teddy Koker , Keegan Quigley , Eric Taw , Kevin Tibbetts , Lin Li