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Within density-functional theory, Moreau-Yosida regularization enables both a reformulation of the theory and a mathematically well-defined definition of the Kohn-Sham approach. It is further employed in density-potential inversion schemes…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-20 Markus Penz , Michael F. Herbst , Trygve Helgaker , Andre Laestadius

Recent work has established Moreau-Yosida regularization as a mathematical tool to achieve rigorous functional differentiability in density-functional theory. In this article, we extend this tool to paramagnetic current-density-functional…

In many applications, one deals with nonsmooth functions, e.g., in nonsmooth dynamical systems, nonsmooth mechanics, or nonsmooth optimization. In order to establish theoretical results, it is often beneficial to regularize the nonsmooth…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Aras Bacho

The exact Kohn-Sham iteration of generalized density-functional theory in finite dimensions witha Moreau-Yosida regularized universal Lieb functional and an adaptive damping step is shown toconverge to the correct ground-state density.

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-01 Markus Penz , Andre Laestadius , Erik I. Tellgren , Michael Ruggenthaler

The Kohn-Sham iteration of generalized density-functional theory on Banach spaces with Moreau-Yosida regularized universal Lieb functional and an adaptive damping step is shown to converge to the correct ground-state density. This result…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Markus Penz , Andre Laestadius

We consider a general optimization problem of minimizing a composite objective functional defined over a class of probability distributions. The objective is composed of two functionals: one is assumed to possess the variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Dai Hai Nguyen , Tetsuya Sakurai

Recently the authors have studied a state and control constrained optimal control problem with fractional elliptic PDE as constraints. The goal of this paper is to continue that program forward and introduce an algorithm to solve such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Harbir Antil , Thomas S. Brown , Deepanshu Verma

The universal density functional $F$ of density-functional theory is a complicated and ill-behaved function of the density-in particular, $F$ is not differentiable, making many formal manipulations more complicated. Whilst $F$ has been well…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Simen Kvaal , Ulf Ekström , Andrew M. Teale , Trygve Helgaker

A detailed convex analysis-based formulation of density-functional theory for periodic systems in arbitrary dimensions is presented. The electron-electron interaction is taken to be of Yukawa type, harmonising with underlying function…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Oliver M. Bohle , Maryam Lotfigolian , Andre Laestadius , Erik I. Tellgren

We tackle highly nonconvex, nonsmooth composite optimization problems whose objectives comprise a Moreau-Yosida regularized term. Classical nonconvex proximal splitting algorithms, such as nonconvex ADMM, suffer from lack of convergence for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Emanuel Laude , Tao Wu , Daniel Cremers

For a quantum-mechanical many-electron system, given a density, the Zhao-Morrison-Parr method allows to compute the effective potential that yields precisely that density. In this work, we demonstrate how this and similar inversion…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Markus Penz , Mihály A. Csirik , Andre Laestadius

This paper considers optimal control of fractional parabolic PDEs with both state and control constraints. The key challenge is how to handle the state constraints. Similarly, to the elliptic case, in this paper, we establish several new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Harbir Antil , Thomas S. Brown , Deepanshu Verma , Mahamadi Warma

The present work aims at the application of finite element discretizations to a class of equilibrium problems involving moving constraints. Therefore, a Moreau--Yosida based regularization technique, controlled by a parameter, is discussed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Steven-Marian Stengl

This paper focuses on the regularization of backward time-fractional diffusion problem on unbounded domain. This problem is well-known to be ill-posed, whence the need of a regularization method in order to recover stable approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Walter Simo Tao Lee

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

In this work, standard methods of the mixed thin-shell foramlism are refined using the framework of Colombeau's theory of generalized functions. To this end, systematic use is made of smooth generalized functions, in particular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-07 Albert Huber

This research proposes to use the Moreau-Yosida envelope to stabilize the convergence behavior of bi-level Hyperparameter optimization solvers, and introduces the new algorithm called Moreau-Yosida regularized Hyperparameter Optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Sauptik Dhar , Unmesh Kurup , Mohak Shah

In this work, we introduce the notion of warped Yosida regularization and study the asymptotic behavior of the orbit of dynamical systems generated by warped Yosida regularization, which includes Douglas-Rachford dynamical system. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Pankaj Gautam , Vellaichamy Vetrivel

We generalize the recently developped "internal" Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Kohn-Sham scheme to multicomponent systems. We obtain a general formalism, applicable for the description of multicomponent self-bound systems (as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jeremie Messud

In this manuscript we would like to address the classical optimization problem of minimizing a proper, convex and lower semicontinuous function via the second order in time dynamics, combining viscous and Hessian-driven damping with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Mikhail Karapetyants
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