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The design of better exchange-correlation functionals for Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a central challenge of modern electronic structure theory. However, current developments are limited by the mathematical form of the functional,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Kyle Bystrom , Boris Kozinsky

Last year, at least 30,000 scientific papers used the Kohn-Sham scheme of density functional theory to solve electronic structure problems in a wide variety of scientific fields, ranging from materials science to biochemistry to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Felix Brockherde , Leslie Vogt , Li Li , Mark E. Tuckerman , Kieron Burke , Klaus-Robert Müller

We present an investigation into diffusion models for molecular generation, with the aim of better understanding how their predictions compare to the results of physics-based calculations. The investigation into these models is driven by…

Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been…

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

Density Functional Theory (DFT) allows for predicting all the chemical and physical properties of molecular systems from first principles by finding an approximate solution to the many-body Schr\"odinger equation. However, the cost of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Majdi Hassan , Cristian Gabellini , Hatem Helal , Dominique Beaini , Kirill Neklyudov

Predicting interfacial thermodynamics across molecular and continuum scales remains a central challenge in computational science. Classical density functional theory (cDFT) provides a first-principles route to connect microscopic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Edoardo Monti , Peter Yatsyshin , Konstantinos Gkagkas , Andrew B. Duncan

Hohenberg and Kohn have proven that the electronic energy and the one-particle electron density can, in principle, be obtained by minimizing an energy functional with respect to the density. While decades of theoretical work have produced…

Density functional theory (DFT) is the de facto approach for predicting self-consistent-field electronic structures of ground-state configurations of complex atoms, molecules, and solids and providing their property data for materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-30 Zi-Kui Liu

We extend density matrix embedding theory to periodic systems, resulting in an electronic band structure method for solid-state materials. The electron correlation can be captured by means of a local impurity model using various choices of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-27 Hung Q. Pham , Matthew R. Hermes , Laura Gagliardi

We present a machine learning algorithm for the prediction of molecule properties inspired by ideas from density functional theory. Using Gaussian-type orbital functions, we create surrogate electronic densities of the molecule from which…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Michael Eickenberg , Georgios Exarchakis , Matthew Hirn , Stéphane Mallat , Louis Thiry

We develop a method combining machine learning (ML) and density functional theory (DFT) to predict low-energy polymorphs by introducing physics-guided descriptors based on structural distortion modes. We systematically generate crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-07 Bastien F. Grosso , Nicola A. Spaldin , Aria Mansouri Tehrani

Subsystem Density-Functional Theory (DFT) is an emerging technique for calculating the electronic structure of complex molecular and condensed phase systems. In this topical review, we focus on some recent advances in this field related to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Alisa Krishtal , Debalina Sinha , Alessandro Genova , Michele Pavanello

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a pivotal method within quantum chemistry and materials science, with its core involving the construction and solution of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian. Despite its importance, the application of DFT is…

We propose a machine learning based approach to develop the exchange-correlation potential of time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). The neural network projection from the time-varying electron densities to the corresponding…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Yasumitsu Suzuki , Ryo Nagai , Jun Haruyama

Disordered elemental semiconductors, most notably a-C and a-Si, are ubiquitous in a myriad of different applications. These exploit their unique mechanical and electronic properties. In the past couple of decades, density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-14 Miguel A. Caro

Recently, we introduced (e-print arXiv:1407.7128) {\em local reduced density matrix functional theory} (local RDMFT), a theoretical scheme capable of incorporating static correlation effects in Kohn-Sham equations. Here, we apply local…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 Nektarios N. Lathiotakis , Nicole Helbig , Angel Rubio , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos

Spherical density functional theory (DFT) is a reformulation of the classic theorems of DFT, in which the role of the total density of a many-electron system is replaced by a set of sphericalized densities, constructed by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Sol Samuels , Chance M. Baxter , Susan R. Atlas

Improving the predictive capability of molecular properties in ab initio simulations is essential for advanced material discovery. Despite recent progress making use of machine learning, utilizing deep neural networks to improve quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Muhammad F. Kasim , Sam M. Vinko

Machine Learning (ML) approximations to Density Functional Theory (DFT) potential energy surfaces (PESs) are showing great promise for reducing the computational cost of accurate molecular simulations, but at present they are not applicable…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Xiaowei Xie , Kristin A. Persson , David W. Small