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Basis sets of atomic orbitals are very efficient for density functional calculations but lack a systematic variational convergence. We present a variational method to optimize numerical atomic orbitals using a single parameter to control…

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Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a pivotal method within quantum chemistry and materials science, with its core involving the construction and solution of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian. Despite its importance, the application of DFT is…

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Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Steven R. White , E. Miles Stoudenmire

In the present letter, it is demonstrated how full configuration interaction (FCI) results in extended basis sets may be obtained to within sub-kJ/mol accuracy by decomposing the energy in terms of many-body expansions in the virtual…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Janus J. Eriksen , Filippo Lipparini , Jürgen Gauss

Density Functional Theory (DFT) allows for predicting all the chemical and physical properties of molecular systems from first principles by finding an approximate solution to the many-body Schr\"odinger equation. However, the cost of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Majdi Hassan , Cristian Gabellini , Hatem Helal , Dominique Beaini , Kirill Neklyudov

We introduce an efficient finite-element approach for large-scale real-space pseudopotential density functional theory (DFT) calculations incorporating noncollinear magnetism and spin-orbit coupling. The approach, implemented within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-11 Nikhil Kodali , Phani Motamarri

The high cost associated with the evaluation of Hartree-Fock exchange (HFX) makes hybrid functionals computationally challenging for large systems. In this work, we present an efficient way to accelerate HFX calculations with numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Xinming Qin , Jie Liu , Wei Hu , Jinlong Yang

We introduce a practical hybrid approach that combines orbital-free density functional theory (DFT) with Kohn-Sham DFT for speeding up first-principles molecular dynamics simulations. Equilibrated ionic configurations are generated using…

Our recent formulation of the analytic and variational Slater-Roothaan (SR) method, which uses Gaussian basis sets to variationally express the molecular orbitals, electron density and the one body effective potential of density functional…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Rajendra R. Zope , Brett I. Dunlap

Delocalization errors, such as charge-transfer and some self-interaction errors, plague computationally-efficient and otherwise-accurate density functional approximations (DFAs). Evaluating a semi-local DFA non-self-consistently on the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Aaron D. Kaplan , Chandra Shahi , Pradeep Bhetwal , Raj K. Sah , John P. Perdew

We propose a new molecular simulation framework that combines the transferability, robustness and chemical flexibility of an ab initio method with the accuracy and efficiency of a machine learned force field. The key to achieve this mix is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Sebastian Dick , Marivi Fernandez-Serra

The natural orbital functional theory (NOFT) has emerged as an alternative formalism to both density functional (DF) and wavefunction methods. In NOFT, the electronic structure is described in terms of the natural orbitals (NOs) and their…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Mario Piris , Ion Mitxelena

In the present work, we investigate the computational efficiency afforded by higher-order finite-element discretization of the saddle-point formulation of orbital-free density functional theory. We first investigate the robustness of viable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Phani Motamarri , Mrinal Iyer , Jaroslaw Knap , Vikram Gavini

The $GW$ method for calculating quasi-particle energies of solids commonly begin from a DFT Hamiltonian and Kohn-Sham orbitals in a plane wave basis. Screening of the coulomb interaction is implemented using the inverse dielectric function…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-20 Charles H. Patterson

Hybrid density functional theory (DFT) remains intractable for large periodic systems due to the demanding computational cost of exact exchange. We apply the tensor hypercontraction (THC) (or interpolative separable density fitting)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Adam Rettig , Joonho Lee , Martin Head-Gordon

The present work proposes an approach to obtain a basis-set correction based on density-functional theory (DFT) for the computation of molecular properties in wave-function theory (WFT). This approach allows one to accelerate the basis-set…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Diata Traore , Julien Toulouse , Emmanuel Giner

In the near future, material and drug design may be aided by quantum computer assisted simulations. These have the potential to target chemical systems intractable by the most powerful classical computers. However, the resources offered by…

Over many years, computational simulations based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) have been used extensively to study many different materials at the atomic scale. However, its application is restricted by system size, leaving a number of…

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We investigate configuration-interaction (CI) calculations on a basis of molecular orbitals generated by preliminary density-functional theory (DFT) calculations. We use this CI/DFT framework to improve the modeling of core-excited states…

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