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Electron density is a fundamental quantity, which can in principle determine all ground state electronic properties of a given system. Although machine learning (ML) models for electron density based on either an atom-centered basis or a…

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This article is concerned with the numerical solution of subspace optimization problems, consisting of minimizing a smooth functional over the set of orthogonal projectors of fixed rank. Such problems are encountered in particular in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Eric Cancès , Gaspard Kemlin , Antoine Levitt

In this work, we propose a fully discrete energy stable scheme for the phase-field moving contact line model with variable densities and viscosities. The mathematical model consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation, a Navier-Stokes equation and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Guangpu Zhu , Huangxin Chen , Aifen Li , Shuyu Sun , Jun Yao

Deriving accurate energy density functional is one of the central problems in condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and quantum chemistry. We propose a novel method to deduce the energy density functional by combining the idea of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-01 Haozhao Liang , Yifei Niu , Tetsuo Hatsuda

The Kohn-Sham (KS) density matrix is one of the most essential properties in KS density functional theory (DFT), from which many other physical properties of interest can be derived. In this work, we present a parameterized representation…

Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) has been traditionally solved by the Self-Consistent Field (SCF) method. Behind the SCF loop is the physics intuition of solving a system of non-interactive single-electron wave functions under…

This article is concerned with the mathematical analysis of the Kohn-Sham and extended Kohn-Sham models, in the local density approximation (LDA) and generalized gradient approximation (GGA) frameworks. After recalling the mathematical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-01 Arnaud Anantharaman , Eric Cancès

Many structured data-fitting applications require the solution of an optimization problem involving a sum over a potentially large number of measurements. Incremental gradient algorithms offer inexpensive iterations by sampling a subset of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Michael P. Friedlander , Mark Schmidt

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

Modeling the time-dependent evolution of electron density is essential for understanding quantum mechanical behaviors of condensed matter and enabling predictive simulations in spectroscopy, photochemistry, and ultrafast science. Yet, while…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yuan Chiang , Youngsoo Choi , Daniel Osei-Kuffuor

GW approximation is one of the most popular parameter-free many-body methods that goes beyond the limitations of the standard density functional theory (DFT) to determine the excitation spectra for moderately correlated materials and in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Kristjan Haule , Subhasish Mandal

We introduce Density Functional Theory for inhomogeneous Bose-Fermi mixtures, derive the associated Kohn-Sham equations, and determine the exchange-correlation energy in local density approximation. We solve numerically the Kohn-Sham system…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander P. Albus , Fabrizio Illuminati , Martin Wilkens

We propose and analyze a structure-preserving parametric finite element method (SP-PFEM) to simulate the motion of closed curves governed by area-conserved generalized mean curvature flow in two dimensions (2D). We first present a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Lifang Pei , Yifei Li

We present a computationally efficient approach to solve the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations in real-time using higher-order finite-element spatial discretization, applicable to both pseudopotential and all-electron calculations. To this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Bikash Kanungo , Vikram Gavini

We develop several efficient numerical schemes which preserve exactly the global constraints for constrained gradient flows. Our schemes are based on the SAV approach combined with the Lagrangian multiplier approach. They are as efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Qing Cheng , Jie Shen

This study leverages the basic insight that the gradient-flow equation associated with the relative Boltzmann entropy, in relation to a Gaussian reference measure within the Hellinger-Kantorovich (HK) geometry, preserves the class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Matthias Liero , Alexander Mielke , Oliver Tse , Jia-Jie Zhu

This paper investigates the problem of data-driven modeling of port-Hamiltonian systems while preserving their intrinsic Hamiltonian structure and stability properties. We propose a novel neural-network-based port-Hamiltonian modeling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Binh Nguyen , Nam T. Nguyen , Truong X. Nghiem

An efficient mixed deterministic/sparse-stochastic plane-wave approach is developed for bandstructure calculations of large supercell periodic generalized-Kohn-Sham density functional theory, for any hybrid-exchange density functional. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-11 Tucker Allen , Barry Y. Li , Tim Duong , Kajsa Williams , Daniel Neuhauser

In transitions between different environmental settings, a molecular system inevitably undergoes a range of detectable changes, and the ability to accurately simulate such responses, e.g., in the form of shifts to molecular energies,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Kasper F. Schaltz , Jonas Greiner , Filippo Lipparini , Janus J. Eriksen

We present a computationally efficient approach to perform systematically convergent real-space all-electron Kohn-Sham DFT calculations for solids using an enriched finite element (FE) basis. The enriched FE basis is constructed by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Nelson D. Rufus , Bikash Kanungo , Vikram Gavini