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HfO$_2$-based ferroelectrics have emerged as promising materials for advanced nanoelectronics, with their robust polarization and silicon compatibility making them ideal for high-density, non-volatile memory applications. Oxygen vacancies,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Yudi Yang , Wooil Yang , Young-Woo Son , Shi Liu

The effective on-site Coulomb interaction (Hubbard $U$) between 5$f$ electrons in actinide metals (Th-Cf) is calculated with the framework of density-functional theory (DFT) using linear response approach. The $U$ values seldom rely on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-14 Ruizhi Qiu , Bingyun Ao , Li Huang

We propose a self-consistent site-dependent Hubbard $U$ approach for DFT+$U$ calculations of defects in complex transition-metal oxides, using Hubbard parameters computed via linear-response theory. The formation of a defect locally…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-04 Chiara Ricca , Iurii Timrov , Matteo Cococcioni , Nicola Marzari , Ulrich Aschauer

Density-functional theory with on-site $U$ and inter-site $V$ Hubbard corrections (DFT+$U$+$V$) is a powerful and accurate method for predicting various properties of transition-metal compounds. However, its accuracy depends critically on…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Wooil Yang , Iurii Timrov , Francesco Aquilante , Young-Woo Son

Using density functional theory (DFT) and linear response approaches, we compute the on-site Hubbard interaction $U$ of elemental Terbium (Tb) metal in the pressure range $\sim 0-65$ GPa. The resulting first-principles $U$ values with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-25 Logan A. Burnett , Matthew P. Clay , Yogesh K. Vohra , Cheng-Chien Chen

Streamlined prediction of the electronic properties of photoactive materials warrants a Density Functional Theory (DFT) based approach that (i) yields reliable bandgaps, (ii) is free of empirically tuned parameters, and (iii) exhibits low…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-17 Andrew C. Burgess , Lórien MacEnulty , Ethan D'Arcy , David Gavin , David D. O'Regan

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

A density functional theory (DFT) approach to computing transition metal oxide heat of formation without adjustable parameters is presented. Different degrees of $d$-electron localization in oxides are treated within the DFT+$U$ approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-01 Johannes Voss

The effective on-site Coulomb interaction (Hubbard $U$) between localized \textit{d} electrons in 3\textit{d}, 4\textit{d}, and 5\textit{d} transition metals is calculated employing a new parameter-free realization of the constrained…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Ersoy Sasioglu , Christoph Friedrich , Stefan Blügel

We present an orbital-resolved extension of the Hubbard $U$ correction to density-functional theory (DFT). Compared to the conventional shell-averaged approach, the prediction of energetic, electronic and structural properties is strongly…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-18 Eric Macke , Iurii Timrov , Nicola Marzari , Lucio Colombi Ciacchi

We conduct a systematic investigation of the role of Hubbard U corrections in electronic structure calculations of two-dimensional (2D) materials containing 3d transition metals. Specifically, we use density functional theory (DFT) with the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Sahar Pakdel , Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

DFT+U provides a convenient, cost-effective correction for the self-interaction error (SIE) that arises when describing correlated electronic states using conventional approximate density functional theory (DFT). The success of a DFT+U(+J)…

In the density-functional studies of materials with localized electronic states, the local/semilocal exchange-correlation functionals are often either combined with a Hubbard parameter $U$ as in the LDA+$U$ method or mixed with a fraction…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-24 Mehmet Aras , Çetin Kılıç

Although the density functional theory plus Hubbard $U$ correction method (DFT+U) is broadly used to study electronic structure of strongly correlated materials, the extension of this method to electron-phonon $g$ matrices has received…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-21 Jiale Chen , Youyou Tu , Chengliang Xia , Jin Zhao , Hanghui Chen

A systematic first-principle study is performed to calculate the lattice parameters, electronic structure, and thermodynamic properties of UN using the local-density approximation (LDA)+\emph{U} and the generalized gradient approximation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Yong Lu , Bao-Tian Wang , Rong-Wu Li , Hongliang Shi , Ping Zhang

We have performed a detailed analysis of the magnetic (collinear and noncollinear) order and atomic and the electron structures of UO2, PuO2 and UN on the basis of density functional theory with the Hubbard electron correlation correction…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-23 Denis Gryaznov , Eugene Heifets , David Sedmidubsky

We investigate the electronic and structural properties of CuO, which shows significant deviations from the trends obeyed by other transition-metal monoxides. Using an extended Hubbard corrective functional, we uncover an orbitally ordered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-12-14 Burak Himmetoglu , Renata M. Wentzcovitch , Matteo Cococcioni

Uranium dioxide which is used as a fuel in light water nuclear reactors, is continually exposed to radiation damage originated from the collision of high-energy particles. Accumulation of the resulting defects gives rise to the evolution in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-14 Mahmoud Payami , Samira Sheykhi , Mohammad-Reza Basaadat

The discovery of two-dimensional (2D) materials possessing switchable spontaneous polarization with atomic thickness opens up exciting opportunities to realize ultrathin, high-density electronic devices with potential applications ranging…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-04 Jiawei Huang , Sang-Hoon Lee , Andrew Supka , Young-Woo Son , Shi Liu

Density functional theory (DFT) has been widely applied to a variety of realistic materials but often struggles to explain the properties of correlated systems. The DFT + U method, which introduces a Hubbard U correction to the DFT, has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-20 Ju Hyeon Lee , Bongjae Kim