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Molecular-level understanding of the interactions between the constituents of an atomic structure is essential for designing novel materials in various applications. This need goes beyond the basic knowledge of the number and types of…

Electronic density of states (DOS) is a key factor in condensed matter physics and material science that determines the properties of metals. First-principles density-functional theory (DFT) calculations have typically been used to obtain…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-12 Byung Chul Yeo , Donghun Kim , Chansoo Kim , Sang Soo Han

Exchange interactions are a manifestation of the quantum mechanical nature of the electrons and play a key role in predicting the properties of materials from first principles. In density functional theory (DFT), a widely used approximation…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-27 Marco Bernardi

Quantum-chemical processes in liquid environments impact broad areas of science, from molecular biology to geology to electrochemistry. While density-functional theory (DFT) has enabled efficient quantum-mechanical calculations which…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-16 Kendra Letchworth-Weaver , Ravishankar Sundararaman , T. A. Arias

The extension of the density functional theory (DFT) to include pairing correlations without formal violation of the particle-number conservation condition is described. This version of the theory can be considered as a foundation of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Krewald , V. B. Soubbotin , V. I. Tselyaev , X. Vinas

The calculation of electronic properties of materials is an important task of solid state theory, albeit particularly difficult if electronic correlations are strong, for example in transition metals, their oxides and in f-electron systems.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-29 K. Held

Density functional theory (DFT) primarily provides a good description of the electronic structure. Thus, DFT primarily deals with length scales as those of a chemical bond, i.e. 10^-10 meter, and with time scales of the order of atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Ruggerone , Alex Kley , Matthias Scheffler

A very popular ab-initio scheme to calculate electronic properties in solids is the use of hybrid functionals in density functional theory (DFT) that mixes a portion of Fock exchange with DFT functionals. In spite of their success, a major…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Miguel A. L. Marques , Julien Vidal , Micael J. T. Oliveira , Lucia Reining , Silvana Botti

Nuclear density functional theory (DFT) is the tool of choice in describing properties of complex nuclei and intricate phases of bulk nucleonic matter. It is a microscopic approach based on an energy density functional representing the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-30 Bastian Schuetrumpf , Chunli Zhang , Witold Nazarewicz

Density functional theory (DFT) has greatly expanded our ability to affordably compute and understand electronic ground states, by replacing intractable {\em ab initio} calculations by models based on paradigmatic physics from high- and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Tim Gould , Derk P. Kooi , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Stefano Pittalis

Unlike covalent two-dimensional (2D) materials like graphene, 2D metals have non-layered structures due to their non-directional, metallic bonding. While experiments on 2D metals are still scarce and challenging, density-functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-06 Kameyab Raza Abidi , Pekka Koskinen

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

We decompose the energy error of any variational DFT calculation into a contribution due to the approximate functional and that due to the approximate density. Typically, the functional error dominates, but in many interesting situations,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Min-Cheol Kim , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

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 introduce 'single-particle-exact density functional theory' (1pEx-DFT), a novel density functional approach that represents all single-particle contributions to the energy with exact functionals. Here, we parameterize interaction energy…

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

It has long been postulated that within density-functional theory (DFT) the total energy of a finite electronic system is convex with respect to electron count, so that 2 E_v[N_0] <= E_v[N_0 - 1] + E_v[N_0 + 1]. Using the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Andrew C. Burgess , Edward Linscott , David D. O'Regan

Density Functional Theory (DFT) has become the quasi-standard for ab-initio simulations for a wide range of applications. While the intrinsic cubic scaling of DFT was for a long time limiting the accessible system size to some hundred…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-23 Stephan Mohr , Marc Eixarch , Maximilian Amsler , Mervi J. Mantsinen , Luigi Genovese

The accuracy of density-functional theory (DFT) is determined by the quality of the approximate functionals, such as exchange-correlation in electronic DFT and the excess functional in the classical DFT formalism of fluids. The exact…

We introduce DeepDFT, a deep learning model for predicting the electronic charge density around atoms, the fundamental variable in electronic structure simulations from which all ground state properties can be calculated. The model is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-09 Peter Bjørn Jørgensen , Arghya Bhowmik