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We investigate basic hydrogen quantities like the molecular bond length, the molecular dissociation energy and the van-der-Waals interaction in idealized situations in an effort to discern a suitable exchange-correlation functional for the…

A new implementation is proposed for including van der Waals interactions in Density Functional Theory using the Maximally-Localized Wannier functions. With respect to the previous DFT/vdW-WF method, the present DFT/vdW-WF2 approach, which…

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There is enormous recent interest in weak, van der Waals-type (vdW) interactions due to their fundamental relevance for two-dimensional materials and the so-called vdW heterostructures. Tackling this problem using computer simulation is…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-20 Fabian Schulz , Peter Liljeroth , Ari Paavo Seitsonen

We evaluate the accuracy of electron densities and quasiparticle energy gaps given by hybrid functionals by directly comparing these to the exact quantities obtained from solving the many-electron Schrodinger equation. We determine the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-15 A. R. Elmaslmane , Jack Wetherell , M. J. P. Hodgson , K. P. McKenna , R. W. Godby

Metal organic framework (MOF) materials have attracted a lot of attention due to their numerous applications in fields such as hydrogen storage, carbon capture, and gas sequestration. In all these applications, van der Waals forces dominate…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-13 Sebastian Zuluaga , Pieremanuele Canepa , Kui Tan , Yves J. Chabal , Timo Thonhauser

We devise a nonlocal correlation energy functional that describes the entire range of dispersion interactions in a seamless fashion using only the electron density as input. The new functional is considerably simpler than its predecessors…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-12-27 Oleg A. Vydrov , Troy Van Voorhis

We develop an efficient approach to evaluate range-separated exact exchange for grid or plane-wave based representations within the Generalized Kohn-Sham DFT (GKS-DFT) framework. The Coulomb kernel is fragmented in reciprocal space, and we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Nadine C. Bradbury , Tucker Allen , Minh Nguyen , Daniel Neuhauser

We demonstrate that the inclusion of van der Waals dispersive interaction sensibly improves the prediction of lattice constants by density functional theory in iron-chalcogenides (FeCh) superconductor compounds, namely FeSe and FeTe. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-15 Fabio Ricci , Gianni Profeta

Understanding molecular adsorption on surfaces underpins many problems in chemistry and materials science. Accurately and efficiently describing the adsorption has been a challenging task for first-principles methods as the process can…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-14 Manish Kothakonda , Ruiqi Zhang , Jinliang Ning , James Furness , Abhirup Patra , Qing Zhao , Jianwei Sun

Certain excitations, especially ones of long-range charge transfer character, are poorly described by time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) when typical (semi-)local functionals are used. A proper description of these excitations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 J. Garhammer , F. Hofmann , R. Armiento , S. Kümmel

We present a rigorous framework that combines single-particle Green's function theory with density functional theory based on a separation of electron-electron interactions into short-range and long-range components. Short-range…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Alexei A. Kananenka , Dominika Zgid

We assess the accuracy of common hybrid exchange-correlation (XC) functionals (PBE0, PBE0-1/3, HSE06, HSE03, and B3LYP) within Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) for the harmonically perturbed electron gas at parameters relevant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Zhandos A. Moldabekov , Mani Lokamani , Jan Vorberger , Attila Cangi , Tobias Dornheim

Density functional theory (DFT) underpins modern atomistic simulations of transition-metal surfaces. It can predict key properties linked to catalytic performance, such as adsorption energies and barrier heights, enabling new paradigms in…

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By breaking the restrictions on traditional alloying strategy, the high entropy concept has promoted the exploration of the central area of phase space, thus broadening the horizon of alloy exploitation. This review highlights the marriage…

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Real-time time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) is a powerful approach for investigating various ultrafast phenomena in materials. However, most existing RT-TDDFT studies rely on adiabatic local or semi-local approximations,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Yuyang Ji , Haotian Zhao , Peize Lin , Xinguo Ren , Lixin He

We present libvdwxc, a general library for evaluating the energy and potential for the family of vdW-DF exchange--correlation functionals. libvdwxc provides an efficient implementation of the vdW-DF method and can be interfaced with various…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-14 Ask Hjorth Larsen , Mikael Kuisma , Joakim Löfgren , Yann Pouillon , Paul Erhart , Per Hyldgaard

To enable non-line-of-sight (NLoS) sensing and communications, dual-function radar-communications (DFRC) systems have recently proposed employing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) as a reflector in wireless media. However, in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Tong Wei , Linlong Wu , Kumar Vijay Mishra , M. R. Bhavani Shankar

Neural radiance-density field methods have become increasingly popular for the task of novel-view rendering. Their recent extension to hash-based positional encoding ensures fast training and inference with visually pleasing results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Radu Alexandru Rosu , Sven Behnke

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures consisting of two dimensional materials offer a platform to obtain material by design and are very attractive owing to novel electronic states. Research on 2D van der Waals heterostructures (vdWH) has so…

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