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In approximate density functional theory (DFT), the self-interaction error is an electron delocalization anomaly associated with underestimated insulating gaps. It exhibits a predominantly quadratic energy-density curve that is amenable to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Glenn Moynihan , Gilberto Teobaldi , David D. O'Regan

The magnetic, noncollinear parametrization of Dudarev's DFT+$U$ method is generalized to fully-relativistic ultrasoft pseudopotentials. We present the definition of the DFT+$U$ total energy functional, and the calculation of forces and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-13 Luca Binci , Nicola Marzari

A method for precise calculation of the energy corrections due to second order electric quadrupole interactions, as well as mixed electric quadrupole-vacuum polarization in the framework of the dynamic hyperfine structure in heavy muonic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Niklas Michel , Natalia S. Oreshkina

In this article we introduce a generalization of the popular DFT+U method based on the extended Hubbard model that includes on-site and inter-site electronic interactions. The novel corrective Hamiltonian is designed to study systems for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Vivaldo Leiria Campo , Matteo Cococcioni

In this article, we propose an energy functional at the level of DFT+U+V that allows us to compute self-consistently the values of the on-site interaction, Hubbard U and Hund J, as well as the intersite interaction V. This functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-21 Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Angel Rubio

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

One of the most promising techniques used for studying the electronic properties of materials is based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) approach and its extensions. DFT has been widely applied in traditional solid state physics problems…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-06-03 Nicola Varini , Davide Ceresoli , Layla Martin-Samos , Ivan Girotto , Carlo Cavazzoni

We implemented various DFT+U schemes, including the ACBN0 self-consistent density-functional version of the DFT+U method [Phys. Rev. X 5, 011006 (2015)] within the massively parallel real-space time-dependent density functional theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-27 Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Micael J. T. Oliveira , Angel Rubio

We study the electronic structure and dynamical correlations in antiferromagnetic BiFeO$_3$, a prototypical room-temperature multiferroic, using a variety of static and dynamical first-principles methods. Conventional static Hubbard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-01 Yihan Wu , Mario Caserta , Tommaso Chiarotti , Nicola Marzari

The formalism of electronic density-functional-theory, with Hubbard-U corrections (DFT+U), is employed in a computational study of the energetics of U_{1-x} Ce_x O_2 mixtures. The computational approach makes use of a procedure which…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-08 B. E. Hanken , C. R. Stanek , N. Grønbech-Jensen , M. Asta

We present an approach to parameterize DFT+$U$+$V$ from hybrid-functional calculations using Wannier-function projections. The method constructs a common localized Wannier basis for both semilocal DFT and hybrid-functional calculations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-25 Dmitry M. Korotin , Anna A. Anisimova , Vladimir I. Anisimov

The modeling of solid-state transformations, such as polymorphic transitions and chemical reactions in molecular crystals, is vital for many applications including drug design or the development of new synthesis methods. However, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Natalia Goncharova , Johannes Hoja

Density functional theory (DFT) has been widely applied to a variety of realistic materials but often struggles to explain the properties of correlated systems. The DFT + U method, which introduces a Hubbard U correction to the DFT, has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-20 Ju Hyeon Lee , Bongjae Kim

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

This study investigates the predictive capabilities of common DFT methods (GGA, GGA+$U$, and GGA+$U$+$V$) for determining the transition temperature of antiferromagnetic insulators. We utilize a dataset of 29 compounds and derive Heisenberg…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Zahra Mosleh , Mojtaba Alaei

Interactions between rhenium impurities in silicon are investigated by means of the density functional theory (DFT) and the DFT+U scheme. All couplings between impurities are ferromagnetic except the Re-Re dimers which in the DFT method are…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-07-13 Malgorzata Wierzbowska

First principles density functional theory (DFT) is used to investigate the electronic structure of \beta-MnO2. From collinear spin polarized calculations we find that DFT+U_Eff predicts a gapless ferromagnet in contrast with experiment…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-26 David A. Tompsett , Derek S. Middlemiss , M. Saiful Islam

HfO$_2$-based ferroelectrics have emerged as promising materials for advanced nanoelectronics, with their robust polarization and silicon compatibility making them ideal for high-density, non-volatile memory applications. Oxygen vacancies,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Yudi Yang , Wooil Yang , Young-Woo Son , Shi Liu

A systematic comparative study has been performed to better understand DFT$+U$ (density functional theory + $U$) method. We examine the effect of choosing different double counting and exchange-correlation functionals. The calculated energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-26 Siheon Ryee , Myung Joon Han