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The construction of the potential energy surface (PES) of even a medium-sized molecule employing correlated theory, such as CCSD(T), is an arduous task due to the high computational cost. In this Letter, we report the possibility of…

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Broadly speaking, the calculation of core spectra such as electron energy loss spectra (EELS) at the level of density functional theory (DFT) usually relies one of two approaches: conceptually more complex but computationally efficient…

Generative models hold great promise for accelerating materials discovery, but their evaluation often overlooks the chemical validity and stability requirements crucial to real-world applications. Density Functional Theory (DFT) simulations…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Elohan Veillon , Astrid Klipfel , Adlane Sayede , Zied Bouraoui

We present a new framework for solving general topology optimization (TO) problems that find an optimal material distribution within a design space to maximize the performance of a structure while satisfying design constraints. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Zisheng Ye , Wenxiao Pan

Predicting the stability of crystals is one of the central problems in materials science. Today, density functional theory (DFT) calculations are the computational tool of choice to obtain energies of crystals with quantitative accuracy.…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Weike Ye , Chi Chen , Zhenbin Wang , Iek-Heng Chu , Shyue Ping Ong

Stochastic density functional theory (sDFT) is becoming a valuable tool for studying ground state properties of extended materials. The computational complexity of describing the Kohn-Sham orbitals is replaced by introducing a set of random…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Ming Chen , Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser , Eran Rabani

Stochastic electronic structure theories, e.g., Quantum Monte Carlo methods, enable highly accurate total energy calculations which in principle can be used to construct highly accurate potential energy surfaces. However, their stochastic…

In this work, we present a computationally efficient methodology that utilizes a local real-space formulation of the projector augmented wave (PAW) method discretized with a finite-element (FE) basis to enable accurate and large-scale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Kartick Ramakrishnan , Sambit Das , Phani Motamarri

Efficient molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is vital for understanding atomic-scale processes in materials science and biophysics. Traditional density functional theory (DFT) methods are computationally expensive, which limits the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Hung Le , Sherif Abbas , Minh Hoang Nguyen , Van Dai Do , Huu Hiep Nguyen , Dung Nguyen

Periodic material or crystal property prediction using machine learning has grown popular in recent years as it provides a computationally efficient replacement for classical simulation methods. A crucial first step for any of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Jonathan Balasingham , Viktor Zamaraev , Vitaliy Kurlin

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) is a technique that allows us to adapt powerful Foundation Models (FMs) to diverse downstream tasks while preserving and unleashing their inherent capabilities. However, we have observed that existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xiaoxing Hu , Ziyang Gong , Yupei Wang , Yuru Jia , Fei Lin , Dexiang Gao , Ke An , Jianhong Han , Zhuoran Sun , Gen Luo , Gen Luo , Xue Yang

In this work, we consider a method of searching of the direction of a wireless network development (the places of new access points or base stations etc.) optimized with criteria of coverage of important territories and minimum cost of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Lev Kazakovtsev

Finite element model updating of a structure made of linear elastic materials is based on the solution of a minimization problem. The goal is to find some unknown parameters of the finite element model (elastic moduli, mass densities,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Maria Girardi , Cristina Padovani , Daniele Pellegrini , Leonardo Robol

The energy density functional (EDF) method is currently the only microscopic theoretical approach able to tackle the entire nuclear chart. Nevertheless, it suffers from limitations resulting from its empirical character and deteriorating…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-04 Kilian Fraboulet , Jean-Paul Ebran

Electronic susceptibilities are a very popular tool to study electronic and magnetic properties of materials, both in experiment and theory. Unfortunately, the numerical evaluation of even the bare susceptibility, which depends on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-29 Christoph Heil , Heinrich Sormann , Lilia Boeri , Markus Aichhorn , Wolfgang von der Linden

Linear scaling density functional theory approaches to electronic structure are often based on the tendency of electrons to localize even in large atomic and molecular systems. However, in many cases of actual interest, for example in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Marcel David Fabian , Ben Shpiro , Roi Baer

Ab initio structure prediction methods have been nowadays widely used as powerful tools for structure searches and material discovery. However, they are generally restricted to small systems owing to the heavy computational cost of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-21 Qunchao Tong , Lantian Xue , Jian Lv , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

The growth of evolutionary computing (EC) methods in the exploration of complex potential energy landscapes of atomic and molecular clusters, as well as crystals over the last decade or so is reviewed. The trend of growth indicates that…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-02 Kanchan Sarkar , S. P. Bhattacharyya

Two types of approaches to modeling molecular systems have demonstrated high practical efficiency. Density functional theory (DFT), the most widely used quantum chemical method, is a physical approach predicting energies and electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Anton V. Sinitskiy , Vijay S. Pande

We describe a method, that we call data projection onto parameter space (DPPS), to optimize an energy functional of the electron density, so that it reproduces a dataset of experimental magnitudes. Our scheme, based on Bayes theorem,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Michelle Fritz , Marivi Fernandez-Serra , Jose M. Soler