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Density functional theory (DFT) embedding provides a formally exact framework for interfacing correlated wave-function theory (WFT) methods with lower-level descriptions of electronic structure. Here, we report techniques to improve the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jason D. Goodpaster , Taylor A. Barnes , Frederick R. Manby , Thomas F. Miller

The Kohn-Sham gaps of density functional theory (DFT) obtained in terms of local density approximation (LDA) or generalized gradient approximation (GGA) cannot be directly linked to the fundamental gaps of semiconductors, but in engineering…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-17 Hanli Cui , Shengxin Yang , Jun-Hui Yuan , Li-Heng Li , Fan Ye , Jinhai Huang , Kan-Hao Xue , Xiangshui Miao

By partitioning the electron density into subsystem contributions, the Frozen Density Embedding (FDE) formulation of subsystem DFT has recently emerged as a powerful tool for reducing the computational scaling of Kohn--Sham DFT. To date,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Genova , Davide Ceresoli , Michele Pavanello

Semilocal exchange-correlation functionals are the most accurate, realistic and widely used ones to describe the complex many-electron effects of two-dimensional quantum systems. Beyond local density approximation, the generalized gradient…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-12 Subrata Jana , Prasanjit samal

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

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…

Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT) is a very efficient method for calculating various properties of solids as, for instance, the total energy, the electron density, or the electronic band structure. The KS-DFT method leads to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-20 Fabien Tran , Jan Doumont , Leila Kalantari , Ahmad W. Huran , Miguel A. L. Marques , Peter Blaha

The journey of theoretical study on semiconductors is reviewed in a non-conventional way. We have started with the basic introduction of Hartree-Fock method and introduce the fundamentals of Density Functional Theory (DFT). From the oldest…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-04 Sujoy Datta , Debnarayan Jana

First-principles simulations of electronic properties of hybrid inorganic/organic interfaces are challenging, as common density-functional theory (DFT) approximations target specific material classes like bulk semiconductors or gas-phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-13 Jannis Krumland , Caterina Cocchi

The construction of meta generalized gradient approximations based on the density matrix expansion (DME) is considered as one of the most accurate technique to design semilocal exchange energy functionals in two-dimensional density…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-09 Abhilash Patra , Subrata Jana , Prasanjit Samal

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) runs at low computational cost that scales linearly with the number of simulated atoms, making it suitable for large-scale material simulations. It is generally considered that OF-DFT strictly…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-05 Qiang Xu , Cheng Ma , Wenhui Mi , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

By including a fraction of exact exchange (EXX), hybrid functionals reduce the self-interaction error in semi-local density functional theory (DFT), and thereby furnish a more accurate and reliable description of the electronic structure in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Hsin-Yu Ko , Junteng Jia , Biswajit Santra , Xifan Wu , Roberto Car , Robert A. DiStasio

Subsystem Density-Functional Theory (DFT) is an emerging technique for calculating the electronic structure of complex molecular and condensed phase systems. In this topical review, we focus on some recent advances in this field related to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Alisa Krishtal , Debalina Sinha , Alessandro Genova , Michele Pavanello

Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) provides the exact ground state energy and electron density of a molecule, contingent on the as-yet-unknown universal exchange-correlation (XC) functional. Recent research has demonstrated that…

The projection-based wave function (WF)-in-DFT embedding enables an efficient description of both the energetics and properties of large and complex chemical systems, with accuracy exceeding that of pure DFT. Recently, we have proposed…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Enzo Monino , Daria Drwal , Pavel Beran , Michał Hapka , Libor Veis , Katarzyna Pernal

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is a widely-used electronic structure theory for materials as well as molecules. DFT is needed especially for large systems, ab initio molecular dynamics, and high-throughput searches for functional…

Accurate band gap prediction in semiconductors is crucial for materials science and semiconductor technology advancements. This paper extends the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) functional for a wide range of semiconductors, tackling the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-01 Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Namitha Anna Koshi , Seung-Cheol Lee

We present DFT-FE 1.0, building on DFT-FE 0.6 [Comput. Phys. Commun. 246, 106853 (2020)], to conduct fast and accurate large-scale density functional theory (DFT) calculations (reaching ~ $100,000$ electrons) on both many-core CPU and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Sambit Das , Phani Motamarri , Vishal Subramanian , David M. Rogers , Vikram Gavini

Stochastic density functional theory (sDFT) is becoming a valuable tool for studying ground state properties of extended materials. The computational complexity of describing the Kohn-Sham orbitals is replaced by introducing a set of random…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Ming Chen , Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser , Eran Rabani

A hybrid Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) and 1-electron Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory (1-RDMFT) has recently been developed to describe strongly correlated systems at mean-field computational cost. This approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn