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We present an implementation of localized atomic orbital basis sets in the projector augmented wave (PAW) formalism within the density functional theory (DFT). The implementation in the real-space GPAW code provides a complementary basis…

We propose a unique scheme to construct fully optimized atomic basis sets for density-functional calculations. The shapes of the radial functions are optimized by minimizing the {\it spillage} of the wave functions between the atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Mohan Chen , G-C Guo , Lixin He

We show that a lattice formulation of density-functional theory (DFT), guided by renormalization-group concepts, can be used to obtain numerical predictions of energy gaps, spin-density profiles, critical exponents, sound velocities,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Francisco C. Alcaraz , Klaus Capelle

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a pivotal method within quantum chemistry and materials science, with its core involving the construction and solution of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian. Despite its importance, the application of DFT is…

We develop a technique for generating a set of optimized local basis functions to solve models in the Kohn-Sham density functional theory for both insulating and metallic systems. The optimized local basis functions are obtained by solving…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Lin Lin , Jianfeng Lu , Lexing Ying , E. Weinan

We showcase the advantages of orbital-free density-potential functional theory (DPFT), a more flexible variant of Hohenberg-Kohn density functional theory. DPFT resolves the usual trouble with the gradient-expanded kinetic energy functional…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-16 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , Jun Hao Hue , Berthold-Georg Englert

Deep learning electronic structures from ab initio calculations holds great potential to revolutionize computational materials studies. While existing methods proved success in deep-learning density functional theory (DFT) Hamiltonian…

Linear scaling methods for density-functional theory (DFT) simulations are formulated in terms of localised orbitals in real-space, rather than the delocalised eigenstates of conventional approaches. In local-orbital methods, relative to…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-30 N. D. M. Hine , M. Robinson , P. D. Haynes , C. -K. Skylaris , M. C. Payne , A. A. Mostofi

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…

Density functional theory with plane-wave basis sets is widely employed in computational materials science, including applications to isolated molecular systems. However, the inadequate description of electron correlation remains a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Qian Wang , Calvin Ku , Jyh-Pin Chou , Peng-Jen Chen , Alice Hu , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

The marriage of density functional theory (DFT) and deep learning methods has the potential to revolutionize modern computational materials science. Here we develop a deep neural network approach to represent DFT Hamiltonian (DeepH) of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-02 He Li , Zun Wang , Nianlong Zou , Meng Ye , Runzhang Xu , Xiaoxun Gong , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

We decompose the energy error of any variational DFT calculation into a contribution due to the approximate functional and that due to the approximate density. Typically, the functional error dominates, but in many interesting situations,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Min-Cheol Kim , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

Recently, we introduced (e-print arXiv:1407.7128) {\em local reduced density matrix functional theory} (local RDMFT), a theoretical scheme capable of incorporating static correlation effects in Kohn-Sham equations. Here, we apply local…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 Nektarios N. Lathiotakis , Nicole Helbig , Angel Rubio , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos

Density functional theory (DFT) is the most promising method for calculating quantum properties of molecules and materials at moderate and large scales. However, commonly used density functional approximations (DFAs) have systematic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Yichen Fan , Jacob Z. Williams , Weitao Yang

We introduce numerical optimization of multi-site support functions in the linear-scaling DFT code CONQUEST. Multi-site support functions, which are linear combinations of pseudo-atomic orbitals on a target atom and those neighbours within…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 Ayako Nakata , David R. Bowler , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki

Basis sets of atomic orbitals are very efficient for density functional calculations but lack a systematic variational convergence. We present a variational method to optimize numerical atomic orbitals using a single parameter to control…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Anglada , J. Soler , J. Junquera , E. Artacho

Density functional theory (DFT) has emerged as one of the most versatile and lucrative approaches in electronic structure calculations of many-electron systems in past four decades. Here we give an account of the development of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Abhisek Ghosal , Amlan K. Roy

The development of machine learning sheds new light on the problem of statistical thermodynamics in multicomponent alloys. However, a data-driven approach to construct the effective Hamiltonian requires sufficiently large data sets, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-01 Xianglin Liu , Jiaxin Zhang , Markus Eisenbach , Yang Wang

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

Million-atom quantum simulations are in principle feasible with Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) because the algorithms only require simple functional minimizations with respect to the electron density function. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-17 Wenhui Mi , Michele Pavanello