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We investigate the electronic structure of SrMnO$_3$ with Density Functional Theory (DFT) plus Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT). Within this scheme the selection of the correlated subspace and the construction of the corresponding Wannier…
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The existence of band gaps in Mott insulators such as perovskite oxides with partially filled 3d shells has been traditionally explained in terms of strong, dynamic inter-electronic repulsion codified by the on-site repulsion energy U in…
Strongly correlated transition-metal perovskite oxides pose a fundamental challenge for electronic-structure theory and for large-scale, data-driven materials discovery. While DFT+DMFT provides a quantitatively accurate description of such…
The effect of epitaxial strain on the structural and electronic properties of LaVO_3 is investigated through density functional theory (DFT) and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). Two different growth orientations of the crystal are…
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The practical utility of M{\o}ller-Plesset (MP) perturbation theory is severely constrained by the use of Hartree-Fock (HF) orbitals. It has recently been shown that use of regularized orbital-optimized MP2 orbitals and scaling of MP3…
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Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) has opened new perspectives for the investigation of strongly correlated electron systems and greatly improved our understanding of correlation effects in models and materials. In contrast to…
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Compounds having an odd number of electrons with the same orbital character in occupied and unoccupied band edge states would be expected to have band degeneracy at the Fermi energy, making such reference system metals. Yet, many ABO3 oxide…
Correlated materials with open-shell d- and f-ions having degenerate band edge states show a rich variety of interesting properties ranging from metal-insulator transition to unconventional superconductivity. The textbook view for the…
Traditional band theory of perfect crystalline solids often uses as input the structure deduced from diffraction experiments; when modeled by the minimal unit cell this often produces a spatially averaged model. The present study…
A previously proposed non-canonical coupled-perturbed Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT)/Hartree-Fock (HF) treatment for spin-orbit coupling is here generalized to infinite periodic systems. The scalar-relativistic periodic…
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The perovskite oxides are known to be susceptible to structural distortions over a long wavelength when compared to their parent cubic structures. From an ab initio simulation perspective, this requires accurate calculations including many…
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We introduce new and robust decompositions of mean-field Hartree-Fock (HF) and Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) relying on the use of localized molecular orbitals and physically sound charge population protocols. The new…