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The Kohn-Sham scheme of density functional theory is one of the most widely used methods to solve electronic structure problems for a vast variety of atomistic systems across different scientific fields. While the method is fast relative to…

A current challenge in atomistic machine learning is that of efficiently predicting the response of the electron density under electric fields. We address this challenge with symmetry-adapted kernel functions that are specifically derived…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-26 Mariana Rossi , Kevin Rossi , Alan M. Lewis , Mathieu Salanne , Andrea Grisafi

Hohenberg and Kohn have proven that the electronic energy and the one-particle electron density can, in principle, be obtained by minimizing an energy functional with respect to the density. While decades of theoretical work have produced…

Electron charge density distribution of materials is one of the key quantities in computational materials science as theoretically it determines the ground state energy and practically it is used in many materials analyses. However, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Sheng Gong , Tian Xie , Taishan Zhu , Shuo Wang , Eric R. Fadel , Yawei Li , Jeffrey C. Grossman

Electron charge density is a fundamental physical quantity, determining various properties of matter. In this study, we have proposed a deep-learning model for accurate charge density prediction. Our model naturally preserves physical…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-27 Taoyuze Lv , Zhicheng Zhong , Yuhang Liang , Feng Li , Jun Huang , Rongkun Zheng

Machine learning (ML) methods are becoming integral to scientific inquiry in numerous disciplines, such as material sciences. In this manuscript, we demonstrate how ML can be used to predict several properties in solid-state chemistry, in…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-24 Jean-Claude Crivello , Nataliya Sokolovska , Jean-Marc Joubert

Electronic density of states (DOS) plays a crucial role in determining and understanding materials properties. We investigate the machine learnability of additive atomic contributions to electronic DOS, focusing on atom-projected DOS rather…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-26 A. Aryanpour , Ali Sadeghi

A long-standing goal of science is to accurately solve the Schr\"odinger equation for large molecular systems. The poor scaling of current quantum chemistry algorithms on classical computers imposes an effective limit of about a few dozen…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Joshua A. Rackers , Lucas Tecot , Mario Geiger , Tess E. Smidt

Faithful representations of atomic environments and general models for regression can be harnessed to learn electron densities that are close to the ground state. One of the applications of data-derived electron densities is to orbital-free…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-01 Andrew T. Fowler , Chris J. Pickard , James A. Elliott

The electronic density of states (DOS) provides information regarding the distribution of electronic energy levels in a material, and can be used to approximate its optical and electronic properties and therefore guide computational…

In molecular simulations, machine-learning force fields can achieve ab initio accuracy at a lower cost but remain limited in the explicit modeling of electrons. In this work, we develop an electron-aware machine-learning force field, in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Ruiqi Gao , Pinchen Xie , Roberto Car

Machine learning is used to approximate density functionals. For the model problem of the kinetic energy of non-interacting fermions in 1d, mean absolute errors below 1 kcal/mol on test densities similar to the training set are reached with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 John C. Snyder , Matthias Rupp , Katja Hansen , Klaus-Robert Müller , Kieron Burke

We extend density matrix embedding theory to periodic systems, resulting in an electronic band structure method for solid-state materials. The electron correlation can be captured by means of a local impurity model using various choices of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-27 Hung Q. Pham , Matthew R. Hermes , Laura Gagliardi

We present data-driven simulations for gold nanostructures, and develop a model that links total energy to geometrical features of the particle, with the ultimate goal of deriving reliable edge energies of gold. Assuming that the total…

Gaussian process regression machine learning with a physically-informed kernel is used to model the phase compositions of nickel-base superalloys. The model delivers good predictions for laboratory and commercial superalloys, with $R^2>0.8$…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-29 Patrick L. Taylor , Gareth Conduit

We propose an approach for exploiting machine learning to approximate electronic fields in crystalline solids subjected to deformation. Strain engineering is emerging as a widely used method for tuning the properties of materials, and this…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-28 Ying Shi Teh , Swarnava Ghosh , Kaushik Bhattacharya

Energy decomposition analysis (EDA) based on absolutely localized molecular orbitals provides detailed insights into intermolecular bonding by decomposing the total molecular binding energy into physically meaningful components. Here, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Hossein Tahmasbi , Michael Beerbaum , Bartosz Brzoza , Attila Cangi , Thomas D. Kühne

We present a quantitatively accurate machine-learning (ML) model for the computational prediction of core-electron binding energies, from which x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) spectra can be readily obtained. Our model combines…

The large-scale search for high-performing candidate 2D materials is limited to calculating a few simple descriptors, usually with first-principles density functional theory calculations. In this work, we alleviate this issue by extending…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-07 Victor Venturi , Holden Parks , Zeeshan Ahmad , Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan

We develop a machine-learning framework to predict the electron localization function (ELF) of pure, dense hydrogen directly from atomic geometry, bypassing explicit electronic-structure calculations. Trained on first-principles data…