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Two-dimensional mixtures of dipolar colloidal particles with different dipole moments exhibit extremely rich self-assembly behaviour and are relevant to a wide range of experimental systems, including charged and super-paramagnetic colloids…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-16 W. R. C. Somerville , J. L. Stokes , A. M. Adawi , T. S. Horozov , A. J. Archer , D. M. A. Buzza

The dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is a widely applicable approximation scheme for the investigation of correlated quantum many-particle systems on a lattice, e.g., electrons in solids and cold atoms in optical lattices. In particular,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-30 D. Vollhardt , K. Byczuk , M. Kollar

We introduce the unification of dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) and linear-scaling density functional theory (DFT), as recently implemented in ONETEP, a linear-scaling DFT package, and TOSCAM, a DMFT toolbox. This code can account for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-04 Edward B. Linscott , Daniel J. Cole , Nicholas D. M. Hine , Michael C. Payne , Cédric Weber

In order to obtain a reasonably accurate and easily implemented approach to many-electron calculations, we will develop a new Density Functional Theory (DFT). Specifically, we derive an approximation to electron density, the first term of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-23 Gregory C. Dente

Standard density functional approximations often give questionable results for odd-electron radical complexes, with the error typically attributed to self-interaction. In density corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT), certain classes…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Min-Cheol Kim , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

Accurate calculations of electrostatic potentials and treatment of substrate polarizability are critical for predicting the permeation of ions inside water-filled nanopores. The {\it ab initio} molecular dynamics method (AIMD), based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-11-05 Kevin Leung , Martijn Marsman

Improving the accuracy and thus broadening the applicability of electronic density functional theory (DFT) is crucial to many research areas, from material science, to theoretical chemistry, biophysics and biochemistry. In the last three…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Michael Seidl

We develop a method in which the electronic densities of small fragments determined by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) are embedded using stochastic DFT to form the exact density of the full system. The new method preserves the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer , Eran Rabani

Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) is a successful method to compute the electronic structure of strongly correlated materials, especially when it is combined with density functional theory (DFT). Here, we present an open-source…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-03 Vijay Singh , Uthpala Herath , Benny Wah , Xingyu Liao , Aldo H. Romero , Hyowon Park

For the computational prediction of core electron binding energies in solids, two distinct kinds of modelling strategies have been pursued: the $\Delta$-Self-Consistent-Field method based on density functional theory (DFT), and the GW…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-12 Juhan Matthias Kahk , Johannes Lischner

Using an accurate semi-analytic wavefunction for two electron atoms, we construct the external potential for varying strength of electron-electron (e-e) interaction. Using this potential we explicitly calculate the energy of their positive…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2016-02-18 Rabeet Singh Chauhan , Manoj K. Harbola

A quantitative description of the excited electronic states of point defects and impurities is crucial for understanding materials properties, and possible applications of defects in quantum technologies. This is a considerable challenge…

Photoionization dynamics of the RNA base Uracil is studied in the framework of Density Functional Theory (DFT). The photoionization calculations take advantage of a newly developed parallel version of a multicentric approach to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Toffoli , P. Decleva , F. A. Gianturco , R. R. Lucchese

Effective field theory (EFT) methods are applied to density functional theory (DFT) as part of a program to systematically go beyond mean-field approaches to medium and heavy nuclei. A system of fermions with short-range, natural…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. J. Puglia , A. Bhattacharyya , R. J. Furnstahl

We derive an exact representation of the exchange-correlation energy within density functional theory (DFT) which spawns a class of approximations leading to correct long-range asymptotic behavior. In what amounts to be the simplest…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser

We extend to strongly correlated molecular systems the recently introduced basis-set incompleteness correction based on density-functional theory (DFT) [E. Giner et al., J. Chem. Phys. 149, 194301 (2018)]. This basis-set correction relies…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Emmanuel Giner , Anthony Scemama , Pierre-François Loos , Julien Toulouse

Embedded density functional theory (e-DFT) is used to describe the electronic structure of strongly interacting molecular subsystems. We present a general implementation of the Exact Embedding (EE) method [J. Chem. Phys. 133, 084103 (2010)]…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-27 Jason D. Goodpaster , Taylor A. Barnes , Thomas F. Miller

We present a self-interaction-corrected (SIC) density-functional-theory (DFT) approach for the description of systems with an unpaired electron or hole such as spin 1/2 defect-centers in solids or radicals. Our functional is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Mayeul d'Avezac , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

Time-dependent (TD) density functional theory (TDDFT) promises a numerically tractable account of many-body electron dynamics provided good simple approximations are developed for the exchange-correlation (XC) potential functional (XCPF).…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-08-29 Roi Baer

We develop a new density functional theory (DFT) and formalism for correlated electron systems by taking as reference an interacting electron system that has a ground state wavefunction which obeys exactly the Gutzwiller approximation for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 K. M. Ho , J. Schmalian , C. Z. Wang