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Machine learning is a powerful tool to design accurate, highly non-local, exchange-correlation functionals for density functional theory. So far, most of those machine learned functionals are trained for systems with an integer number of…

Density functional theory (DFT) and linear-response time-dependent density functional theory (LR-TDDFT) rely on an exchange-correlation (xc) approximation that provides not only energy but also its functional derivatives that enter the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Xiaoyu Zhang

We present a numerical modeling workflow based on machine learning (ML) which reproduces the the total energies produced by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) at finite electronic temperature to within chemical accuracy at negligible…

Density functional theory (DFT) is one of the primary approaches to get a solution to the many-body Schrodinger equation. The essential part of the DFT theory is the exchange-correlation (XC) functional, which can not be obtained in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Alexander Ryabov , Petr Zhilyaev

Density functional theory (DFT) is routinely employed in material science and in quantum chemistry to simulate weakly correlated electronic systems. Recently, deep learning (DL) techniques have been adopted to develop promising functionals…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-02 Emanuele Costa , Rosario Fazio , Sebastiano Pilati

Density functional theory (DFT) is probably the most promising approach for quantum chemistry calculations considering its good balance between calculations precision and speed. In recent years, several neural network-based functionals have…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Kirill Kulaev , Alexander Ryabov , Michael Medvedev , Evgeny Burnaev , Vladimir Vanovskiy

Two types of approaches to modeling molecular systems have demonstrated high practical efficiency. Density functional theory (DFT), the most widely used quantum chemical method, is a physical approach predicting energies and electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Anton V. Sinitskiy , Vijay S. Pande

We develop new transfer learning algorithms to accelerate prediction of material properties from ab initio simulations based on density functional theory (DFT). Transfer learning has been successfully utilized for data-efficient modeling in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Schuyler Krawczuk , Daniele Venturi

Calculating perturbation response properties of materials from first principles provides a vital link between theory and experiment, but is bottlenecked by the high computational cost. Here a general framework is proposed to perform density…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 He Li , Zechen Tang , Jingheng Fu , Wen-Han Dong , Nianlong Zou , Xiaoxun Gong , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

The accurate description of open-shell molecules, in particular of transition metal complexes and clusters, is still an important challenge for quantum chemistry. While density-functional theory (DFT) is widely applied in this area, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-10-26 Christoph R. Jacob , Markus Reiher

With rapid progress in deep learning, neural networks have been widely used in scientific research and engineering applications as surrogate models. Despite the great success of neural networks in fitting complex systems, two major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yuwen Deng , Wang Kang , Wei W. Xing

DFT calculations have become widespread in both chemistry and materials, because they usually provide useful accuracy at much lower computational cost than wavefunction-based methods. All practical DFT calculations require an approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Eunji Sim , Suhwan Song , Stefan Vuckovic , Kieron Burke

Density Functional Theory (DFT) stands as a widely used and efficient approach for addressing the many-electron Schr\"odinger equation across various domains such as physics, chemistry, and biology. However, a core challenge that persists…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Sizhuo Jin , Shuo Chen , Jianjun Qian , Ying Tai , Jun Li

The ground state electron density -- obtainable using Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) simulations -- contains a wealth of material information, making its prediction via machine learning (ML) models attractive. However, the…

Molecular-level understanding of the interactions between the constituents of an atomic structure is essential for designing novel materials in various applications. This need goes beyond the basic knowledge of the number and types of…

We present an extension of reverse engineered Kohn-Sham potentials from a density matrix renormalization group calculation towards the construction of a density functional theory functional via deep learning. Instead of applying machine…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-05 Peter Schmitteckert

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is nowadays widely used for electronic structure theory simulations, and the accuracy and efficiency of DFT rely on approximations of the exchange-correlation functional. By inclusion of the kinetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-01 Renxi Liu , Daye Zheng , Xinyuan Liang , Xinguo Ren , Mohan Chen , Wenfei Li

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) holds the promise to compute ground state molecular properties at minimal cost. However, it has been held back by our inability to compute the kinetic energy as a functional of the electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Roman Remme , Tobias Kaczun , Maximilian Scheurer , Andreas Dreuw , Fred A. Hamprecht

This chapter presents the development of a density functional theory (DFT)-based method for accurate, reliable treatment of various resonances in atoms. Many of these are known to be notorious for their strong correlation, proximity to more…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Amlan K. Roy

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