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Recently, we have proposed the adaptive local basis set for electronic structure calculations based on Kohn-Sham density functional theory in a pseudopotential framework. The adaptive local basis set is efficient and systematically…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 Gaigong Zhang , Lin Lin , Wei Hu , Chao Yang , John E. Pask

A detailed account of the implementation of equations of the Relativistic Density Functional Theory (RDFT) using basis sets of APW/LAPW type with flexible extensions provided by local orbitals is given. Earlier discoveries of the importance…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-07 Andrey L. Kutepov

We analyze in detail the error that arises from the linearization in linearized augmented-plane-wave (LAPW) basis functions around predetermined energies $E_l$ and show that it can lead to undesirable dependences of the calculated results…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-19 Gregor Michalicek , Markus Betzinger , Christoph Friedrich , Stefan Blügel

We extend the capabilities of correlation energy functionals based on the adiabatic-connection fluctuation-dissipation theorem by implementing the analytical atomic forces within the random phase approximation (RPA), in the context of plane…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-19 Damian Contant , Maria Hellgren

The full-potential linearized augmented-plane wave (FP-LAPW) method is well known to enable most accurate calculations of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of crystals and surfaces. The implementation of atomic forces has…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Max Petersen , Frank Wagner , Lars Hufnagel , Matthias Scheffler , Peter Blaha , Karlheinz Schwarz

We report APW+${lo}$ (augmented plane wave plus local orbital) density functional theory (DFT) calculations of molecule systems using the domain specific SIRIUS multi-functional DFT package. Compared to other packages the additional APW and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-16 Long Zhang , Anton Kozhevnikov , Thomas Schulthess , S. B. Trickey , Hai-Ping Cheng

We present a general numerical approach to construct local Kohn-Sham potentials from orbital-dependent functionals within the all-electron full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (FLAPW) method, in which core and valence electrons…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-06 Markus Betzinger , Christoph Friedrich , Stefan Blügel , Andreas Görling

To address ultimate precision in density-functional-theory calculations we employ the full-potential linearized augmented planewave + local-orbital (LAPW+lo) method and justify its usage as a benchmark method. LAPW+lo and two completely…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Andris Gulans , Anton Kozhevnikov , Claudia Draxl

In this work we present a new basis set for electronic structures (Density Functional Theory (DFT)) calculations. This basis set extends Soler Williams Linearized Augmented Plane Wave (SLAPW) basis sets by allowing variable Muffin Tin (MT)…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-15 Garry Goldstein

In this paper, we show how to calculate analytical atomic forces within self-consistent density functional theory + dynamical mean-field theory (DFT+DMFT) approach in the case when ultra-soft or norm-conserving pseudopotentials are used. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-20 Evgeny Plekhanov , Nicola Bonini , Cedric Weber

We explore dynamic structural superlubricity for the case of a relatively large contact area, where the friction force is proportional to the area (exceeding $\sim 100\,nm^2$) experimentally, numerically, and theoretically. We use a setup…

In order to increase the accuracy of the linearized augmented plane wave method (LAPW) we present a new approach where the plane wave basis function is augmented by two different atomic radial components constructed at two different…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-10 A. V. Nikolaev , D. Lamoen , B. Partoens

We examine the influence of the relativistic effects within the linear augmented plane wave method (LAPW) for solids and propose a few alternative ways to accurately take them into account: (1) we introduce new radial dependencies for LAPW…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-14 A. V. Nikolaev , U. N. Kurelchuk , E. V. Tkalya

We present the scheme that allows for efficient calculations of forces in the framework of pseudopotential self-interaction corrected (pSIC) formulation of the density functional theory. The scheme works with norm conserving and also with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Malgorzata Wierzbowska , Jacek A. Majewski

The aim of this paper is to revisit the calculation of atom-surface quantum friction in the quantum field theory formulation put forward by Barton [New J. Phys. 12 (2010) 113045]. We show that the power dissipated into field excitations and…

We present a new full-potential method to solve the one-body problem, for example, in the local density approximation. The method uses the augmented plane waves (APWs) and the generalized muffin-tin orbitals (MTOs) together as basis sets to…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-13 Takao Kotani , Mark van Schilfgaarde

We derive the expressions for configurational forces in Kohn-Sham density functional theory, which correspond to the generalized variational force computed as the derivative of the Kohn-Sham energy functional with respect to the position of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Phani Motamarri , Vikram Gavini

The behavior of an atom in a molecule, liquid or solid is governed by the force it experiences. If the dependence of this vectorial force on the atomic chemical environment can be $learned$ efficiently with high-fidelity from benchmark…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 Venkatesh Botu , Rampi Ramprasad

In this work, we study the Aharonov-Bohm-Coulomb (ABC) system for a relativistic Dirac particle with position-dependent mass (PDM). To solve our system, we use the left-handed and right-handed projection operators. Next, we explicitly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 R. R. S. Oliveira , A. A. Araujo Filho , R. V. maluf , C. A. S. Almeida

The interaction between electrons and lattice vibrations determines key physical properties of materials, including their electrical and heat transport, excited electron dynamics, phase transitions, and superconductivity. We present a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-04 Luis A. Agapito , Marco Bernardi
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