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This paper outlines an energy-minimization finite-element approach to the modeling of equilibrium configurations for nematic liquid crystals in the presence of internal and external electric fields. The method targets minimization of system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 J. H. Adler , T. J. Atherton , T. R. Benson , D. B. Emerson , S. P. MacLachlan

Finite-element (FE) discretisations have emerged as a powerful real-space alternative to large-scale Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) calculations, offering systematic convergence, excellent parallel scalability, while…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Gourab Panigrahi , Phani Motamarri

We show an $\textit{ab initio}$ construction of the energy density functional (EDF) for electron systems using the functional renormalization group. The correlation energies of the homogeneous electron gas given in our framework reproduce…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-03 Takeru Yokota , Tomoya Naito

We propose two novel techniques for overcoming load-imbalance encountered when implementing so-called look-ahead mechanisms in relevant dense matrix factorizations for the solution of linear systems. Both techniques target the scenario…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Sandra Catalán , José R. Herrero , Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí , Rafael Rodríguez-Sánchez , Robert van de Geijn

Given a set of Kohn-Sham orbitals from an insulating system, we present a simple, robust, efficient and highly parallelizable method to construct a set of, optionally orthogonal, localized basis functions for the associated subspace. Our…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 Anil Damle , Lin Lin , Lexing Ying

This study presents novel strategies for improving the node-level performance of matrix-free evaluation of continuous and discontinuous Galerkin spatial discretizations on unstructured tetrahedral grids. In our approach the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Dominik Still , Niklas Fehn , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

In this paper convexity constraints are derived for a background model of electron energy loss spectra (EELS) that is linear in the fitting parameters. The model outperforms a power-law both on experimental and simulated backgrounds,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-08-31 Wouter Van den Broek , Daen Jannis , Jo Verbeeck

Hardware accelerations of deep learning systems have been extensively investigated in industry and academia. The aim of this paper is to achieve ultra-high energy efficiency and performance for hardware implementations of deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Yanzhi Wang , Caiwen Ding , Zhe Li , Geng Yuan , Siyu Liao , Xiaolong Ma , Bo Yuan , Xuehai Qian , Jian Tang , Qinru Qiu , Xue Lin

We refine the OrbNet model to accurately predict energy, forces, and other response properties for molecules using a graph neural-network architecture based on features from low-cost approximated quantum operators in the symmetry-adapted…

Energy minimization has been an intensely studied core problem in computer vision. With growing image sizes (2D and 3D), it is now highly desirable to run energy minimization algorithms in parallel. But many existing algorithms, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-06 K. S. Sesh Kumar , Alvaro Barbero , Stefanie Jegelka , Suvrit Sra , Francis Bach

The Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations are one of the most effective model for describing electrostatic interactions and diffusion processes in ion solution systems, and have been widely used in the numerical simulations of biological…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Yang Liu , Shi Shu , Ying Yang

The Kohn-Sham scheme of density functional theory is one of the most widely used methods to solve electronic structure problems for a vast variety of atomistic systems across different scientific fields. While the method is fast relative to…

We consider an energy functional that arises in micromagnetic and liquid crystal theory on thin films. In particular, our energy comprises a non-convex term that models anti-symmetric exchange as well as an anisotropy term. We devise an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Giovanni Di Fratta , Michael Innerberger , Dirk Praetorius , Valeriy Slastikov

In this work, we mainly present the optimal convergence rates of the temporally second-order finite element scheme for solving the electrohydrodynamic equation. Suffering from the highly coupled nonlinearity, the convergence analysis of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Shengfeng Wang , Zeyu Xia , Maojun Li

One important preprocessing step in the analysis of microarray data is background subtraction. In high-density oligonucleotide arrays this is recognized as a crucial step for the global performance of the data analysis from raw intensities…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-12-08 K. Myriam Kroll , Gerard T. Barkema , Enrico Carlon

The exchange-correlation energy in Kohn-Sham density functional theory is expressed as a functional of the electronic density and the Kohn-Sham orbitals. An alternative to Kohn-Sham theory is to express the energy as a functional of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Goedecker , C. Umrigar

The goal of these lecture notes is to review the problem of free energy minimization as a unified framework underlying the definition of maximum entropy modelling, generalized Bayesian inference, learning with latent variables, statistical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Sharu Theresa Jose , Osvaldo Simeone

When designing an algorithm, one cares about arithmetic/computational complexity, but data movement (I/O) complexity plays an increasingly important role that highly impacts performance and energy consumption. For a given algorithm and a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Lionel Eyraud-Dubois , Guillaume Iooss , Julien Langou , Fabrice Rastello

We introduce an efficient finite-element approach for large-scale real-space pseudopotential density functional theory (DFT) calculations incorporating noncollinear magnetism and spin-orbit coupling. The approach, implemented within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-11 Nikhil Kodali , Phani Motamarri

In this paper, we propose an orbital iteration based parallel approach for electronic structure calculations. This approach is based on our understanding of the single-particle equations of independent particles that move in an effective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-06 Xiaoying Dai , Xingao Gong , Aihui Zhou , Jinwei Zhu