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Multi-center transition metal complexes (MCTMs) with magnetically interacting ions have been proposed as components for information processing devices and storage units. For any practical application of MCTMs as magnetic units, it is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Henry C. Fitzhugh , James W. Furness , Mark R. Pederson , Juan E. Peralta , Jianwei Sun

Density functional theory augmented with a Hubbard correction (DFT+U) is widely used to treat localized electronic states, but its predictions are often sensitive to the choice of the local projection space defining the correlated subspace.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-13 Manjula Raman , Kenneth Park

Members of the DFT+U family of functionals are increasingly prevalent methods of addressing errors intrinsic to (semi-) local exchange-correlation functionals at minimum computational cost, but require their parameters U and J to be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Lórien MacEnulty , Matteo Giantomassi , Bernard Amadon , Gian-Marco Rignanese , David D. O'Regan

First principles constrained density functional theory scheme in Wannier functions formalism has been used to calculate Coulomb repulsion U and Hund's exchange J parameters for iron 3d electrons in LaFeAsO. Results strongly depend on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-01-31 V. I. Anisimov , Dm. M. Korotin , S. V. Streltsov , A. V. Kozhevnikov , J. Kuneš , A. O. Shorikov , M. A. Korotin

A new DFT+U type corrective functional is derived from first principles to enforce the flat plane condition on localized subspaces, thus dispensing with the need for an ad hoc derivation from the Hubbard model. The newly derived functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-17 Andrew Burgess , Edward Linscott , David D. O'Regan

Using the LDA+$\textit{U}_\text{sc}$ method, we present calculations phase relations of iron monoxides involving five polytypes in multiple spin-state configurations. The Hubbard parameter $U$ is determined self-consistently simultaneously…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-11 Yang Sun , Matteo Cococcioni , Renata M. Wentzcovitch

The demand for pseudopotentials constructed for a given exchange-correlation (XC) functional far exceeds the supply, necessitating the use of those commonly available. The number of XC functionals currently available is in the hundreds, if…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-01 Marcin Maździarz

The training of foundational machine learning interatomic potentials (fMLIPs) relies on diverse databases with energies and forces calculated using ab initio methods. We show that fMLIPs trained on large datasets such as MPtrj, Alexandria,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Thomas Warford , Fabian L. Thiemann , Gábor Csányi

Rare-earth oxides (REOs) are an important class of materials owing to their unique properties, including high ionic conductivities, large dielectric constants, and elevated melting temperatures, making them relevant to several technological…

The self-consistent evaluation of Hubbard parameters using linear-response theory is crucial for quantitatively predictive calculations based on Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory. Here, we extend a recently-introduced approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-02 Iurii Timrov , Nicola Marzari , Matteo Cococcioni

We present a comprehensive investigation of the electrical and thermal conductivity of iron under high pressures at ambient temperature, employing the real-time formulation of time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT).…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-14 Kushal Ramakrishna , Mani Lokamani , Andrew Baczewski , Jan Vorberger , Attila Cangi

The accurate prediction of the electronic properties of materials at a low computational expense is a necessary conditions for the development of effective high-throughput quantum-mechanics (HTQM) frameworks for accelerated materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-22 Luis A. Agapito , Stefano Curtarolo , Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

We investigate the DFT+U approach as a viable solution to describe the low-lying states of ligated and unligated iron heme complexes. Besides their central role in organometallic chemistry, these compounds represent a paradigmatic case…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Damian A. Scherlis , Matteo Cococcioni , Patrick Sit , Nicola Marzari

Multipole moments are the first order responses of the energy to spatial derivatives of the electric field strength. The quality of density functional theory (DFT) prediction of molecular multipole moments thus characterizes errors in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Diptarka Hait , Yu Hsuan Liang , Martin Head-Gordon

The magnetic properties of CrI$_3$ monolayers, which were recently measured, have been investigated considering electronic repulsion and localization effects in Cr 3d orbitals. In this study, we propose a DFT approach using Hubbard U…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Diego Lauer , Jhon W. González , Eric Suárez Morell , Andrés Ayuela

The predictive accuracy of popular extensions to density-functional theory (DFT) such as DFT+U and DFT plus dynamical mean-field theory (DFT+DMFT) hinges on using realistic values for the screened Coulomb interaction U. Here, we present a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-24 Alberto Carta , Iurii Timrov , Sophie Beck , Claude Ederer

We present in full detail a newly developed formalism enabling density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) calculations from a DFT+$U$ ground state. The implementation includes ultrasoft pseudopotentials and is valid for both insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-21 Andrea Floris , Iurii Timrov , Burak Himmetoglu , Nicola Marzari , Stefano de Gironcoli , Matteo Cococcioni

We have performed a systematic first-principles investigation to calculate the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of PbCrO$_{3}$, CrPbO$_{3}$ as well as their equiproportional combination. The local density approximation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-25 Bao-Tian Wang , Wen Yin , Wei-Dong Li , Fangwei Wang

Despite its widespread use, the predictive accuracy of density functional theory (DFT) is hampered by delocalization errors, especially for correlated systems such as transition-metal complexes. Two complementary tuning strategies have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-11 Yael Cytter , Aditya Nandy , Akash Bajaj , Heather J. Kulik

Transition-metal compounds pose serious challenges to first-principles calculations based on density-functional theory (DFT), due to the inability of most approximate exchange-correlation functionals to capture the localization of valence…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-13 Matteo Cococcioni , Nicola Marzari