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Accurate computational predictions of band gaps are of practical importance to the modeling and development of semiconductor technologies, such as (opto)electronic devices and photoelectrochemical cells. Among available electronic-structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-16 Nicole E. Kirchner-Hall , Wayne Zhao , Yihuang Xiong , Iurii Timrov , Ismaila Dabo

The ab initio computational method known as Hubbard-corrected density functional theory (DFT+$U$) captures well ground electronic structures of a set of solids that are poorly described by standard DFT alone. Since lattice dynamical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-17 Wooil Yang , Sabyasachi Tiwari , Feliciano Giustino , Young-Woo Son

To apply the Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory for predicting some known materials' properties, the Hubbard parameters are usually so tuned that the calculations give results in agreement with some experimental data and then one…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-13 Mahmoud Payami , Samira Sheykhi , Mohammad-Reza Basaadat

Streamlined prediction of the electronic properties of photoactive materials warrants a Density Functional Theory (DFT) based approach that (i) yields reliable bandgaps, (ii) is free of empirically tuned parameters, and (iii) exhibits low…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-17 Andrew C. Burgess , Lórien MacEnulty , Ethan D'Arcy , David Gavin , David D. O'Regan

Although the density functional theory plus Hubbard $U$ correction method (DFT+U) is broadly used to study electronic structure of strongly correlated materials, the extension of this method to electron-phonon $g$ matrices has received…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-21 Jiale Chen , Youyou Tu , Chengliang Xia , Jin Zhao , Hanghui Chen

We present an orbital-resolved extension of the Hubbard $U$ correction to density-functional theory (DFT). Compared to the conventional shell-averaged approach, the prediction of energetic, electronic and structural properties is strongly…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-18 Eric Macke , Iurii Timrov , Nicola Marzari , Lucio Colombi Ciacchi

In approximate density functional theory (DFT), the self-interaction error is an electron delocalization anomaly associated with underestimated insulating gaps. It exhibits a predominantly quadratic energy-density curve that is amenable to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Glenn Moynihan , Gilberto Teobaldi , David D. O'Regan

First-principles Hubbard-corrected approximate density-functional theory (DFT+U) is a low-cost, potentially high throughput method of simulating materials, but it has been hampered by empiricism and inconsistent band-gap correction in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-16 Daniel S. Lambert , David D. O'Regan

In this work using the density functional theory (DFT), we have studied the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of uranium dioxide with antiferromagnetic 1k-, 2k-, and 3k-order structures. Ordinary approximations in DFT, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-25 Samira Sheykhi , Mahmoud Payami

In electronic structure methods based on the correction of approximate density-functional theory (DFT) for systematic inaccuracies, Hubbard $U$ parameters may be used to quantify and amend the self-interaction errors ascribed to selected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-27 Glenn Moynihan , Gilberto Teobaldi , David D. O'Regan

Titanium dioxide (TiO$_2$) presents a long-standing challenge for approximate Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (KS-DFT), as well as to its Hubbard-corrected extension, DFT+$U$. We find that a previously proposed extension of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-23 Okan K. Orhan , David D. O'Regan

The aim of this review article is to assess the descriptive capabilities of the Hubbard-rooted LDA+U method and to clarify the conditions under which it can be expected to be most predictive. The paper illustrates the theoretical foundation…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-17 Burak Himmetoglu , Andrea Floris , Stefano de Gironcoli , Matteo Cococcioni

We present and discuss results of a density functional theory (DFT) study of a perfect UO2 crystals and He atoms in octahedral interstitial positions. We have calculated basic bulk crystal properties and He incorporation energies into the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-27 Denis Gryaznov , Eugene Heifets , Eugene Kotomin

We conduct a systematic investigation of the role of Hubbard U corrections in electronic structure calculations of two-dimensional (2D) materials containing 3d transition metals. Specifically, we use density functional theory (DFT) with the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Sahar Pakdel , Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

The magnetic state of UO$_2$ was determined experimentally to be anti-ferromagnetic. Starting from this experimental fact, researchers have calculated other properties within the Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory, DFT+U. Up to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-03 Mahmoud Payami

Accurately modeling compounds with partially filled $d$ and $f$ shells remains a hard challenge for density-functional theory, due to large self-interaction errors stemming from local or semi-local exchange-correlation functionals. Hubbard…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-19 Kinga Warda , Eric Macke , Iurii Timrov , Lucio Colombi Ciacchi , Piotr M. Kowalski

The Density Functional Theory plus Hubbard $U$ (DFT+$U$) technique is one of the most widely used tools by condensed matter physicists and solid state chemists for the simulation of transition-metal and lanthanide bearing crystals, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 Andrew C. Burgess , David D. O'Regan

The accurate prediction of the electronic properties of materials at a low computational expense is a necessary conditions for the development of effective high-throughput quantum-mechanics (HTQM) frameworks for accelerated materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-22 Luis A. Agapito , Stefano Curtarolo , Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

Contradictory theoretical results for oxygen vacancies in SrTiO$_3$ (STO) were often related to the peculiar properties of STO, which is a $d^0$ transition metal oxide with mixed ionic-covalent bonding. Here, we apply, for the first time,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Chiara Ricca , Iurii Timrov , Matteo Cococcioni , Nicola Marzari , Ulrich Aschauer

We present in full detail a newly developed formalism enabling density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) calculations from a DFT+$U$ ground state. The implementation includes ultrasoft pseudopotentials and is valid for both insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-21 Andrea Floris , Iurii Timrov , Burak Himmetoglu , Nicola Marzari , Stefano de Gironcoli , Matteo Cococcioni
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