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In this paper, we study the adaptive planewave discretization for a cluster of eigenvalues of second-order elliptic partial differential equations. We first design an a posteriori error estimator and prove both the upper and lower bounds.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Xiaoying Dai , Yan Pan , Bin Yang , Aihui Zhou

We propose a novel numerical algorithm for computing the electronic structure related eigenvalue problem of incommensurate systems. Unlike the conventional practice that approximates the system by a large commensurate supercell, our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Yuzhi Zhou , Huajie Chen , Aihui Zhou

In Kohn-Sham electronic structure computations, wave functions have singularities at nuclear positions. Because of these singularities, plane-wave expansions give a poor approximation of the eigenfunctions. In conjunction with the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Xavier Blanc , Eric Cancès , Mi-Song Dupuy

Motivated by the recently proposed parallel orbital-updating approach in real space method, we propose a parallel orbital-updating based plane-wave basis method for electronic structure calculations, for solving the corresponding eigenvalue…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Yan Pan , Xiaoying Dai , Stefano de Gironcoli , Xin-Gao Gong , Gian-Marco Rignanese , Aihui Zhou

In solid-state physics, energies of crystals are usually computed with a plane-wave discretization of Kohn-Sham equations. However the presence of Coulomb singularities requires the use of large plane-wave cut-offs to produce accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Mi-Song Dupuy

In this work, we present a computationally efficient methodology that utilizes a local real-space formulation of the projector augmented wave (PAW) method discretized with a finite-element (FE) basis to enable accurate and large-scale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Kartick Ramakrishnan , Sambit Das , Phani Motamarri

It is significant and challenging to solve eigenvalue problems of partial differential operators when many highly accurate eigenpair approximations are required. The adaptive finite element discretization based parallel orbital-updating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Xiaoying Dai , Yan Li , Bin Yang , Aihui Zhou

We present an efficient computational approach to perform real-space electronic structure calculations using an adaptive higher-order finite-element discretization of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT). To this end, we develop an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Phani Motamarri , Michael R Nowak , Kenneth Leiter , Jaroslaw Knap , Vikram Gavini

We propose accurate computable error bounds for quantities of interest in plane-wave electronic structure calculations, in particular ground-state density matrices and energies, and interatomic forces. These bounds are based on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Eric Cancès , Geneviève Dusson , Gaspard Kemlin , Antoine Levitt

The aim of this paper is to propose an efficient adaptive finite element method for eigenvalue problems based on the multilevel correction scheme and inverse power method. This method involves solving associated boundary value problems on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Qichen Hong , Hehu Xie , Fei Xu

Quantum simulation of materials is a promising application area of quantum computers. To practically realize this promise, we must reduce quantum resources while maintaining accuracy. In electronic structure calculations on classical…

We present an implementation of the GW approximation for the electronic self-energy within the full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (FLAPW) method. The algorithm uses an all-electron mixed product basis for the representation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-15 Christoph Friedrich , Stefan Blügel , Arno Schindlmayr

The $GW$ approach of many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) has become a common tool for calculating the electronic structure of materials. However, with increasing number of published results, discrepancies between the values obtained by…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-03 Dmitrii Nabok , Andris Gulans , Claudia Draxl

The Projected Augmented Waves (PAW) method is based on a linear transformation between the pseudo wavefunctions and the all electron wavefunctions. To obtain high accuracy with this method, it is important that the local part of the linear…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-15 Garry Goldstein

The projection of the eigenfunctions obtained in standard plane-wave first-principle electronic-structure calculations into atomic-orbital basis sets is proposed as a formal and practical link between the methods based on plane waves and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Daniel Sanchez-Portal , Emilio Artacho , Jose M. Soler

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 have developed an efficient computational scheme utilizing the real-space finite-difference formalism and the projector augmented-wave (PAW) method to perform precise first-principles electronic-structure simulations based on the density…

In this work we present a new method for basis set generation for electronic structure calculations of crystalline solids. This procedure is aimed at applications to Density Functional Theory (DFT). In this construction, Energy Window…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-16 Garry Goldstein

We propose a novel algorithm based on inexact GMRES methods for linear response calculations in density functional theory. Such calculations require iteratively solving a nested linear problem $\mathcal{E} \delta\rho = b$ to obtain the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Michael F. Herbst , Bonan Sun

Plane-wave electronic-structure predictions based upon orbital-dependent density-functional theory (OD-DFT) approximations, such as hybrid density-functional methods and self-interaction density-functional corrections, are severely affected…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-19 Yanli Li , Ismaila Dabo
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