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Electronic density of states (DOS) is a key factor in condensed matter physics and material science that determines the properties of metals. First-principles density-functional theory (DFT) calculations have typically been used to obtain…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-12 Byung Chul Yeo , Donghun Kim , Chansoo Kim , Sang Soo Han

The design of better exchange-correlation functionals for Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a central challenge of modern electronic structure theory. However, current developments are limited by the mathematical form of the functional,…

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Nuclear density functional theory (DFT) is the only microscopic, global approach to the structure of atomic nuclei. It is used in numerous applications, from determining the limits of stability to gaining a deep understanding of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-06 Nicolas Schunck , Jordan D. McDonnell , Jason Sarich , Stefan M. Wild , Dave Higdon

Electron charge density distribution of materials is one of the key quantities in computational materials science as theoretically it determines the ground state energy and practically it is used in many materials analyses. However, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Sheng Gong , Tian Xie , Taishan Zhu , Shuo Wang , Eric R. Fadel , Yawei Li , Jeffrey C. Grossman

A deep neural network (DNN) has been developed to generate the distributions of nuclear charge density, utilizing the training data from the relativistic density functional theory and incorporating available experimental charge radii of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-09 Tian Shuai Shang , Hui Hui Xie , Jian Li , Haozhao Liang

Predicting interfacial thermodynamics across molecular and continuum scales remains a central challenge in computational science. Classical density functional theory (cDFT) provides a first-principles route to connect microscopic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Edoardo Monti , Peter Yatsyshin , Konstantinos Gkagkas , Andrew B. Duncan

The accuracy of density-functional theory (DFT) is determined by the quality of the approximate functionals, such as exchange-correlation in electronic DFT and the excess functional in the classical DFT formalism of fluids. The exact…

Deep-learning density functional theory (DFT) shows great promise to significantly accelerate material discovery and potentially revolutionize materials research. However, current research in this field primarily relies on data-driven…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Yang Li , Zechen Tang , Zezhou Chen , Minghui Sun , Boheng Zhao , He Li , Honggeng Tao , Zilong Yuan , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is widely used for atomistic simulations. However, its reach stays limited due to several limitations such as lack of accurate exchange-correlation functional, requirement of costly O(N 3) diagonalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Namrata Manglani , Samrit Kumar Maity , Shashank Sharma , Soham Phulare , Sanjay Wandhekar

We introduce machine learning (ML) models that predict the electronic structure of materials across a wide temperature range. Our models employ neural networks and are trained on density functional theory (DFT) data. Unlike most other ML…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-02 Lenz Fiedler , Normand A. Modine , Kyle D. Miller , Attila Cangi

Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been…

Modern laboratory techniques like ultrafast laser excitation and shock compression can bring matter into highly nonequilibrium states with complex structural transformation, metallization and dissociation dynamics. To understand and model…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Qiyu Zeng , Bo Chen , Xiaoxiang Yu , Shen Zhang , Dongdong Kang , Han Wang , Jiayu Dai

According to density functional theory, any chemical property can be inferred from the electron density, making it the most informative attribute of an atomic structure. In this work, we demonstrate the use of established physical methods…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-12 Ethan M. Sunshine , Muhammed Shuaibi , Zachary W. Ulissi , John R. Kitchin

In density functional theory, charge density is the core attribute of atomic systems from which all chemical properties can be derived. Machine learning methods are promising in significantly accelerating charge density prediction, yet…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Xiang Fu , Andrew Rosen , Kyle Bystrom , Rui Wang , Albert Musaelian , Boris Kozinsky , Tess Smidt , Tommi Jaakkola

The integration of density functional theory (DFT) with machine learning enables efficient \textit{ab initio} electronic structure calculations for ultra-large systems. In this work, we develop a transfer learning framework tailored for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-23 Ting Bao , Ning Mao , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu , Adrian Del Maestro , Yang Zhang

Density functional theory (DFT) became a universal approach to compute ground-state and excited configurations of many-electron systems held together by an external one-body potential in condensed-matter, atomic, and molecular physics. At…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-30 J. Dobaczewski

Density functional theory (DFT) remains the most widely used electronic structure method. Although exact in principle, in practice, it relies on approximations to the exchange-correlation (XC) functional, which is known to be a unique…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Vishal Subramanian , Bikash Kanungo , Vikram Gavini

The systematic underestimation of band gaps is one of the most fundamental challenges in semilocal density functional theory (DFT). In addition to hindering the application of DFT to predicting electronic properties, the band gap problem is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Kyle Bystrom , Stefano Falletta , Boris Kozinsky

We develop a method in which the electronic densities of small fragments determined by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) are embedded using stochastic DFT to form the exact density of the full system. The new method preserves the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer , Eran Rabani

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