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From the perspective of perturbation theory, we propose a systematic procedure for the evaluation of the derivative discontinuity (DD) of the exchange-correlation energy functional in Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT), wherein…

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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…

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Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) is a powerful method to obtain key materials' properties, but the iterative solution of the KS equations is a numerically intensive task, which limits its application to complex systems. To…

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The increasing complexity and scale of photonic and electromagnetic devices demand efficient and accurate numerical solvers. In this work, we develop a parallel overlapping domain decomposition method (DDM) based on the finite-difference…

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Density functional theory (DFT) serves as the basis for computational discovery in materials science and chemistry, yet each calculation demands extensive human effort: adjusting algorithms when convergence stalls, revising plans when…

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Traditional finite-temperature Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KSDFT) has an unfavorable scaling with respect to the electron number or at high temperatures. The evaluation of the ground-state density in KSDFT can be replaced by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Qianrui Liu , Mohan Chen

Kohn-Sham density functional theory is one of the most widely used electronic structure theories. In the pseudopotential framework, uniform discretization of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian generally results in a large number of basis functions…

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Recently a novel approach to find approximate exchange-correlation functionals in density-functional theory (DFT) was presented (U. Mordovina et. al., JCTC 15, 5209 (2019)), which relies on approximations to the interacting wave function…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Iris Theophilou , Teresa E. Reinhard , Angel Rubio , Michael Ruggenthaler

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…

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We present an implementation of time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) in the linear response formalism enabling the calculation of low energy optical absorption spectra for large molecules and nanostructures. The method avoids…

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Given a set of Kohn-Sham orbitals from an insulating system, we present a simple, robust, efficient and highly parallelizable method to construct a set of, optionally orthogonal, localized basis functions for the associated subspace. Our…

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The practical success of density functional theory (DFT) is largely credited to the Kohn-Sham approach, which enables the exact calculation of the non-interacting electron kinetic energy via an auxiliary noninteracting system. Yet, the…

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Density functional theory (DFT) and beyond-DFT methods are often used in combination with photoelectron spectroscopy to obtain physical insights into the electronic structure of molecules and solids. The Kohn-Sham eigenvalues are not…

Density functional theory (DFT) is a fundamental method for simulating quantum chemical properties, but it remains expensive due to the iterative self-consistent field (SCF) process required to solve the Kohn-Sham equations. Recently, deep…

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Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have transformed materials discovery by leveraging graph neural networks (GNNs) to predict material properties with near density functional theory (DFT) accuracy. While large-scale pretrained…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-29 Rushikesh Pawar , Harshit Rawat , Ayush Kumar , Phani Motamarri

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is the standard method for first-principles calculations in computational chemistry and materials science. More accurate theories such as the random-phase approximation (RPA) are limited in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-25 Stefan Riemelmoser , Carla Verdi , Merzuk Kaltak , Georg Kresse

We present the first calculations of the inelastic part of the dynamical structure factor (DSF) for warm dense matter (WDM) using Time-Dependent Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory (TD-OF-DFT) and Mixed-Stochastic-Deterministic (mixed)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Alexander J. White

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…

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