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We describe a rapidly converging algorithm for solving the Kohn--Sham equations and equations of similar structure that appear frequently in calculations of the structure of inhomogeneous electronic many--body systems. The algorithm has its…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Auer , E. Krotscheck

The Kohn-Sham equation is a powerful, widely used approach for computation of ground state electronic energies and densities in chemistry, materials science, biology, and nanosciences. In this paper, we study the adaptive finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-22 Huajie Chen , Xiaoying Dai , Xingao Gong , Lianhua He , Aihui Zhou

We present a computationally efficient approach to solve the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations in real-time using higher-order finite-element spatial discretization, applicable to both pseudopotential and all-electron calculations. To this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Bikash Kanungo , Vikram Gavini

We present a method to discretize the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian matrix in the pseudopotential framework by a small set of basis functions automatically contracted from a uniform basis set such as planewaves. Each basis function is localized…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lin Lin , Lexing Ying

Starting from the observation that one of the most successful methods for solving the Kohn-Sham equations for periodic systems -- the plane-wave method -- is a spectral method based on eigenfunction expansion, we formulate a spectral method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Amartya S. Banerjee , Ryan S. Elliott , Richard D. James

Within the framework of linear-scaling Kohn-Sham density functional theory, a robust method for maintaining compact localized orbitals close to the ground state is coupled with nuclear dynamics. This allows to obviate the commonly employed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Hayden Scheiber , Yifei Shi , Rustam Z. Khaliullin

We propose to expand the territory of density functional theory to strongly correlated electrons by reformulating the Kohn-Sham scheme in the representation of fractionalized particles. We call it the ``KS* scheme.'' Using inhomogeneous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Bo Zhao , Jingyu Zhao , Zheng Zhu , Jian Wu , Zheng Liu

The rectangular collocation approach makes it possible to solve the Schr\"odinger equation with basis functions that do not have amplitude in all regions in which wavefunctions have significant amplitude. Collocation points can be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Jonas Ku , Aditya Kamath , Tucker Carrington , Sergei Manzhos

This chapter presents controlled approximations of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) that enable very large scale simulations. The work is motivated by the study of defects in crystalline solids, though the ideas can be used in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-14 Kaushik Bhattacharya , Vikram Gavini , Michael Ortiz , Mauricio Ponga , Phanish Suryanarayana

Within exact electron density-functional theory, we investigate Kohn-Sham (KS) potentials, orbital energies, and non-interacting kinetic energies of the fractional ions of Li, C and F. We use quantum Monte Carlo densities as input, which…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Tim Gould , Julien Toulouse

In the present work, we introduce a Self-Consistent Density-Functional Embedding technique, which leaves the realm of standard energy-functional approaches in Density Functional Theory and targets directly the density-to-potential mapping…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Uliana Mordovina , Teresa E. Reinhard , Iris Theophilou , Heiko Appel , Angel Rubio

A conceptual difficulty in formulating the density functional theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect is that while in the standard approach the Kohn-Sham orbitals are either fully occupied or unoccupied, the physics of the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-12 Jianyun Zhao , Manisha Thakurathi , Manish Jain , Diptiman Sen , J. K. Jain

Last year, at least 30,000 scientific papers used the Kohn-Sham scheme of density functional theory to solve electronic structure problems in a wide variety of scientific fields, ranging from materials science to biochemistry to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Felix Brockherde , Leslie Vogt , Li Li , Mark E. Tuckerman , Kieron Burke , Klaus-Robert Müller

We show that using complex, spin-restricted orbitals (cR) in Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) allows one to access a new class of densities that is not accessible by either spin-restricted (RKS) or spin-unrestricted (UKS)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Joonho Lee , Luke W. Bertels , Martin Head-Gordon

Functionals that explicitly depend on occupied, unoccupied, or fractionally-occupied orbitals are rigorously formalized using Clifford algebras, and a variational principle is established that facilitates orbital (and occupation)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Neil Qiang Su

We use projector operators to correct the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian of density functional theory (KS-DFT) so that the resulting mean-field scheme yields, in finite systems, virtual orbitals and energy gaps in better agreement with those…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-06-26 Hector Mera

In [Dai et al, Multi. Model. Simul., 2020], a structure-preserving gradient flow method was proposed for the ground state calculation in Kohn-Sham density functional theory, based on which a linearized method was developed in [Hu, et al,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Yedan Shen , Ting Wang , Jie Zhou , Guanghui Hu

The grand canonical density functional theory for inhomogeneous systems of interacting bosons is developed in the effective action approach. The Legendre transform of the generating functional for Green's functions is used to define the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-03 Anna Okopińska

Computing many eigenpairs of the Schr{\"o}dinger operator presents a computational bottleneck in large-scale quantum simulations due to the global communication overhead of explicit orthogonalization. To address this issue, we propose a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Shengyue Wang , Aihui Zhou

It is shown here that Kohn-Sham equations cannot be derived from Hohenberg-Kohn theory without an additional postulate. Assuming that a functional derivative with respect to total electron density exists leads in general to a theory…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. K. Nesbet