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In this work, we apply the DFT+U approach for a detailed ab initio study of the refined structure of the low-temperature phase of magnetite [M. S. Senn et al., Nature 481, 173 (2012)]. We compare the electronic properties of this structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-23 Nikita Fominykh , Vladimir Stegailov

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

Density functional theory augmented with Hubbard-$U$ corrections (DFT+$U$) is currently one of the widely used methods for first-principles electronic structure modeling of insulating transition metal oxides (TMOs). Since $U$ is relatively…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Samara Keshavarz , Johan Schött , Andrew J. Millis , Yaroslav O. Kvashnin

Accurately determining the coupling strength between polaron states is essential to describe charge-hopping transport in materials. In this work, we revisit methodologies to extract coupling strengths using ab initio approaches. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Hala Houmsi , Benoit Sklénard , Marc Guillaumont , François Triozon , Jing Li

The effects of including the Hubbard on-site Coulombic correction to the structural parameters and valence energy states of wurtzite ZnO was explored. Due to the changes in the structural parameters caused by correction of hybridization…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 E. S. Goh , J. W. Mah , T. L. Yoon

In approximate density functional theory (DFT), the self-interaction error is an electron delocalization anomaly associated with underestimated insulating gaps. It exhibits a predominantly quadratic energy-density curve that is amenable to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Glenn Moynihan , Gilberto Teobaldi , David D. O'Regan

We develop a generalization of the Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) + Hubbard $U$ (DFT+$U$) method to the excited-state regime. This has the form of Hubbard $U$ corrected linear-response time-dependent DFT, or `TDDFT+$U$'.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-24 Okan K. Orhan , David D. O'Regan

We present an approach to the DFT+U method (Density Functional Theory + Hubbard model) within which the computational effort for calculation of ground state energies and forces scales linearly with system size. We employ a formulation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-14 David D. O'Regan , Nicholas D. M. Hine , Mike C. Payne , Arash A. Mostofi

The Density Functional Theory plus Hubbard $U$ (DFT+$U$) technique is one of the most widely used tools by condensed matter physicists and solid state chemists for the simulation of transition-metal and lanthanide bearing crystals, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 Andrew C. Burgess , David D. O'Regan

We present the first principles results of point defect energetics in silicon calculated using the LDA+U method: a Hubbard type on-site interaction added to the local density approximation (LDA). The on-site Coulomb and exchange parameters…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Panchapakesan Ramanarayanan , Renat F. Sabirianov , Kyeongjae Cho

We present a first-principles investigation of the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of pyrolusite ($\beta$-MnO$_2$) using conventional and extended Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory (DFT+$U$ and DFT+$U$+$V$). The…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-06 Ruchika Mahajan , Iurii Timrov , Nicola Marzari , Arti Kashyap

The shift of atomic energy levels due to hadronic vacuum polarization is evaluated in a semiempirical way for hydrogenlike ions and for muonic hydrogen. A parametric hadronic polarization function obtained from experimental cross sections…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Sören Breidenbach , Eugen Dizer , Halil Cakir , Zoltán Harman

The strong boundary normalized condition of wavefunction for fully occupied semicore 3d orbitals leads the linear response DFT+U on such metal oxide to have an insurmountable obstacle in Hubbard U determination. We treated the orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-17 Bolong Huang

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

In this article we introduce a generalization of the popular DFT+U method based on the extended Hubbard model that includes on-site and inter-site electronic interactions. The novel corrective Hamiltonian is designed to study systems for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Vivaldo Leiria Campo , Matteo Cococcioni

Since in DFT+U there are multiple self-consistent electronic solutions, the so called metastable states, the elastic constants computed from stress-vs-strain will be incorrect if some of the strained configurations fall into a different…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 Mahmoud Payami , Samira Sheykhi

We present an approach to parameterize DFT+$U$+$V$ from hybrid-functional calculations using Wannier-function projections. The method constructs a common localized Wannier basis for both semilocal DFT and hybrid-functional calculations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-25 Dmitry M. Korotin , Anna A. Anisimova , Vladimir I. Anisimov

Transition-metal centers are the active sites for many biological and inorganic chemical reactions. Notwithstanding this central importance, density-functional theory calculations based on generalized-gradient approximations often fail to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Heather J. Kulik , Matteo Cococcioni , Damian A. Scherlis , Nicola Marzari

The ground-state properties of C$_{20}$ fullerene clusters are determined in the framework of the Hubbard model by using lattice density-functional theory (LDFT) and scaling approximations to the interaction-energy functional. Results are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Lopez-Sandoval , G. M. Pastor

The most general way to describe localized atomic-like electronic states in strongly correlated compounds is to utilize Wannier functions. In the present paper we continue the development of widely-spread DFT+U method onto Wannier function…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-02 D. Novoselov , Dm. M. Korotin , V. I. Anisimov