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A many-particle theory is presented for the effective quasistatic permittivity of macroscopically homogeneous and isotropic systems of inhomogeneous dielectric particles with different degrees of penetrability. The theory is based upon our…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-06 M. Ya. Sushko , A. V. Dorosh

Predictivity of the Kohn-Sham approach to dynamical problems, when regarded as an initial value problem in a time-dependent density functional framework, is analysed for a class of models for which the argument devised in the work of Maitra…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-16 Walter Tarantino

The iterative diagonalization of a sequence of large ill-conditioned generalized eigenvalue problems is a computational bottleneck in quantum mechanical methods employing a nonorthogonal basis for {\em ab initio} electronic structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-13 Yunfeng Cai , Zhaojun Bai , John E. Pask , N. Sukumar

A new method of self-consistent quantum calculation of the density of the space charge near the surface of a crystal is carried out for the semiconductor with nonparabolic (Kane) dispersion law of bands. The remarkable feature is the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. M. Yafyasov , I. M. Ivankiv , V. B. Bogevolnov

A mixed basis approach based on density functional theory is extended to one-dimensional(1D) systems. The basis functions here are taken to be the localized B-splines for the two finite non-periodic dimensions and the plane waves for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-20 Chung-Yuan Ren , Yia-Chung Chang , Chen-Shiung Hsue

In this paper we are concerned with restricted additive Schwarz with local impedance transformation conditions for a family of Helmholtz problems in two dimensions. These problems are discretized by the finite element method with conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Qiya Hu , Ziyi Li

This article is concerned with the question of constructing effcient multigrid preconditioners for the linear systems arising when applying semismooth Newton methods to large-scale linear-quadratic optimization problems constrained by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-08 Andrei Draganescu

This paper presents a homogenization framework for elastomeric metamaterials exhibiting long-range correlated fluctuation fields. Based on full-scale numerical simulations on a class of such materials, an ansatz is proposed that allows to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-29 O. Rokoš , M. M. Ameen , R. H. J. Peerlings , M. G. D. Geers

In this note, we consider preconditioned Krylov subspace methods for discrete fluid-structure interaction problems with a nonlinear hyperelastic material model and covering a large range of flows, e.g, water, blood, and air with highly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-15 U. Langer , H. Yang

This paper aims to address two issues of integral equations for the scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic waves by a perfect electric conductor with Lipschitz continuous boundary: ill-conditioned {boundary element Galerkin matrices}…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Van Chien Le , Kristof Cools

In this note we search for the ground state, in infinite volume, of the $D=3$ Wilson-Fisher conformal $O(4)$ model, at nonzero values of the two independent charge densities $\rho_{1,2}$. Using an effective theory valid on scales longer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-25 Simeon Hellerman , Nozomu Kobayashi , Shunsuke Maeda , Masataka Watanabe

We discuss a new algorithm to generate multi-scale initial conditions with multiple levels of refinements for cosmological "zoom-in" simulations. The method uses an adaptive convolution of Gaussian white noise with a real space transfer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Oliver Hahn , Tom Abel

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 consider the problem of homogenizing the Maxwell equations for periodic composites. The analysis is based on Bloch-Floquet theory. We calculate explicitly the reflection coefficient for a half-space, and derive and implement a…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-17 Vadim A. Markel , John C. Schotland

A new iterative solver is proposed to efficiently calculate the ground state electronic structure in Density Functional Theory calculations. This algorithm is particularly useful for simulating physical systems considered difficult to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Jean-Luc Fattebert

In this work we focus on the preconditioning of a Galerkin space-time isogeometric discretization of the heat equation. Exploiting the tensor product structure of the basis functions in the parametric domain, we propose a preconditioner…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Gabriele Loli , Monica Montardini , Giancarlo Sangalli , Mattia Tani

We present a method to discretize the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian matrix in the pseudopotential framework by a small set of basis functions automatically contracted from a uniform basis set such as planewaves. Each basis function is localized…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lin Lin , Lexing Ying

We generalize the recently developped "internal" Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Kohn-Sham scheme to multicomponent systems. We obtain a general formalism, applicable for the description of multicomponent self-bound systems (as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jeremie Messud

Density functional theory (DFT) has become a basic tool for the study of electronic structure of matter, in which the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem plays a fundamental role in the development of DFT. Unfortunately, the existing proofs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-24 Aihui Zhou

Starting from the observation that one of the most successful methods for solving the Kohn-Sham equations for periodic systems -- the plane-wave method -- is a spectral method based on eigenfunction expansion, we formulate a spectral method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Amartya S. Banerjee , Ryan S. Elliott , Richard D. James