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A stochastic approach to time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is developed for computing the absorption cross section and the random phase approximation (RPA) correlation energy. The core idea of the approach involves…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 Yi Gao , Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer , Eran Rabani

Conventional methods for modeling thermocatalytic systems are typically based on the Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT), neglecting the inhomogeneous distributions of gas molecules in the reactive environment. However, industrial…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Jikai Sun , Jianzhong Wu

We propose a way to improve energy density functionals (EDFs) in the density functional theory based on the combination of the inverse Kohn--Sham method and the density functional perturbation theory. Difference between the known EDF and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Tomoya Naito , Daisuke Ohashi , Haozhao Liang

We present SQDFT: a large-scale parallel implementation of the Spectral Quadrature (SQ) method for $\mathcal{O}(N)$ Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations at high temperature. Specifically, we develop an efficient and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Phanish Suryanarayana , Phanisri P. Pratapa , Abhiraj Sharma , John E. Pask

Typical density functional theory (DFT) and approximations thereto solve the many-electron ground state problem by working from a numerically efficient non-interacting Kohn-Sham reference system; and benefit from useful minimization…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Tim Gould

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been used to successfully predict molecular properties calculated based on the Kohn--Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT). Although this prediction is fast and accurate, we believe that a DNN model for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 Masashi Tsubaki , Teruyasu Mizoguchi

This study benchmarks the GFN family of semiempirical methods (GFN1-xTB, GFN2-xTB, GFN0-xTB, and GFN-FF) against density functional theory (DFT) for the evaluation of optimized molecular geometries and electronic properties of small organic…

Electrons in zero external magnetic field can be studied with density functional theory (DFT) or with spin-DFT (SDFT). The latter is normally used for open shell systems because its approximations appear to model better the exchange and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Timothy Callow , Benjamin Pearce , Nikitas Gidopoulos

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a central tool for studying the dynamical electronic structure of molecules and solids, yet aspects of its mathematical foundations remain insufficiently understood. In this work, we…

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of the density functional theory is extended by modifying the Levy constrained-search formulation. The new theorem allows us to choose arbitrary physical quantities as the basic variables which determine the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Higuchi , K. Higuchi

Due to efficient scaling with electron number N, density functional theory (DFT) is widely used for studies of large molecules and solids. Restriction of an exact mean-field theory to local potential functions has recently been questioned.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Robert K. Nesbet

Electronic structure calculation of atoms and molecules, in the past few decades has largely been dominated by density functional methods. This is primarily due to the fact that this can account for electron correlation effects in a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 Amlan K. Roy

Deep-learning density functional theory (DFT) shows great promise to significantly accelerate material discovery and potentially revolutionize materials research. However, current research in this field primarily relies on data-driven…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Yang Li , Zechen Tang , Zezhou Chen , Minghui Sun , Boheng Zhao , He Li , Honggeng Tao , Zilong Yuan , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

DFT calculations have become widespread in both chemistry and materials, because they usually provide useful accuracy at much lower computational cost than wavefunction-based methods. All practical DFT calculations require an approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Eunji Sim , Suhwan Song , Stefan Vuckovic , Kieron Burke

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is one of the most widely used methods for "ab initio" calculations of the structure of atoms, molecules, crystals, surfaces, and their interactions. Unfortunately, the customary introduction to DFT is often…

Physics Education · Physics 2010-12-07 Nathan Argaman , Guy Makov

Linear scaling methods for density-functional theory (DFT) simulations are formulated in terms of localised orbitals in real-space, rather than the delocalised eigenstates of conventional approaches. In local-orbital methods, relative to…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-30 N. D. M. Hine , M. Robinson , P. D. Haynes , C. -K. Skylaris , M. C. Payne , A. A. Mostofi

High performance computing (HPC) is a powerful tool to accelerate the Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) calculations on modern heterogeneous supercomputers. Here, we describe a massively extreme-scale parallel and portable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Wei Hu , Xinming Qin , Caiqing Jiang , Junshi Chen , Hong An , Weile Jia , Fang Li , Xin Liu , Dexun Chen , Jinlong Yang

Density functional theory (DFT), one of the most widely utilized methods available to computational chemistry, fails to describe systems with statically correlated electrons. To address this shortcoming, in previous work we transformed DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn , David A. Mazziotti

The Kohn-Sham (KS) density matrix is one of the most essential properties in KS density functional theory (DFT), from which many other physical properties of interest can be derived. In this work, we present a parameterized representation…

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density-functional theory (DFT) is broadly considered the conceptual basis for a full characterization of an electronic system in its ground state by just the one-body particle density. Part I of this review…