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We present a framework for obtaining reliable solid-state charge and optical excitations and spectra from optimally-tuned range-separated hybrid density functional theory. The approach, which is fully couched within the formal framework of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-30 Sivan Refaely-Abramson , Manish Jain , Sahar Sharifzadeh , Jeffrey B. Neaton , Leeor Kronik

A self-consistent scheme for determining the optimal fraction of exact exchange for full-range hybrid functionals is presented and applied to the calculation of band gaps and dielectric constants of solids. The exchange-correlation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-15 Jonathan H Skone , Marco Govoni , Giulia Galli

We investigate the performance of the range-separated hybrid (RSH) scheme, which combines long-range Hartree-Fock (HF) and a short-range density-functional approximation (DFA), for calculating photoexcitation/photoionization spectra of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Felipe Zapata , Eleonora Luppi , Julien Toulouse

Fundamental Measure Theory (FMT) is a successful and versatile approach for describing the properties of the hard-sphere fluid and hard-sphere mixtures within the framework of classical density functional theory (DFT). Lutsko [Phys. Rev. E…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-04 Melih Gül , Roland Roth , Robert Evans

In a recent paper [M. G\"ul et al., Phys. Rev. E, 110 (6), 064115] we showed that test particle sum rules, which address the excess chemical potential and isothermal compressibility, could be used to develop new and accurate classical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-09 Melih Gül , Roland Roth , Robert Evans

Hybrid density functional calculation is indispensable to accurate description of electronic structure, whereas the formidable computational cost restricts its broad application. Here we develop a deep equivariant neural network method…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-17 Zechen Tang , He Li , Peize Lin , Xiaoxun Gong , Gan Jin , Lixin He , Hong Jiang , Xinguo Ren , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

The Hubbard model, which augments independent-electron band theory with a single parameter to describe electron-electron correlations, is widely regarded to be the `standard model' of condensed matter physics. The model has been remarkably…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-17 S. M. Griffin , P. Staar , T. C. Schulthess , M. Troyer , N. A. Spaldin

An expression is derived within the framework of the Debye-H\"uckel approximation for the screening length of a field in a p-type semiconductor taking into account the energy spread of immobile acceptor levels and the density of states tail…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-21 N. A. Poklonski

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

Density Functional Tight-Binding (DFTB), an approximative approach derived from Density Functional Theory (DFT), has the potential to pave the way for simulations of large periodic or non-periodic systems. We have specifically tailored DFTB…

The engineering of the optical response of materials is a paradigm that demands microscopic-level accuracy and reliable predictive theoretical tools. Here we compare and contrast the dispersive permittivity tensor, using both a low-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-29 Mohammad Alidoust , Erlend E. Isachsen , Klaus Halterman , Jaakko Akola

We develop a formalism for the calculation of the macroscopic dielectric response of composite systems made of particles of one material embedded periodically within a matrix of another material, each of which is characterized by a well…

One of the major shortcomings of discrete element modelling (DEM) is the computational cost required when the number of particles is huge, especially for fine powders and/or industry scale simulations. This study investigates the scaling of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Subhash C. Thakur , Jin Y. Ooi , Hossein Ahmadian

Theoretical approach is proposed to description of dielectric properties of matrix disperse systems which consists of dielectric matrix with embedded in metallic inclusions. On the basis of effective differential medium approximation the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-24 Vitaliy N. Pustovit

A range-separated double-hybrid (RSDH) scheme which generalizes the usual range-separated hybrids and double hybrids is developed. This scheme consistently uses a two-parameter Coulomb-attenuating-method (CAM)-like decomposition of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Cairedine Kalai , Julien Toulouse

The Ziegler-Rauk-Baerends multiplet sum method (MSM) assumes that density-functional theory (DFT) provides a good description of states dominated by a single determinant. It then uses symmetry to add static correlation to DFT. In our…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Mark E. Casida , Abraham Ponra , Carolyne Bakasa , Anne Justine Etindele

We present a screened exact-exchange (SXX) method for the efficient and accurate calculation of the optical properties of solids, where the screening is achieved through the zero-wavevector limit of the inverse dielectric function. The SXX…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-23 Zeng-hui Yang , Francesco Sottile , Carsten A. Ullrich

Calculations of L-shell x-ray absorption in transition metals are shown to be sensitive to screening, both of the x-ray field and the photoelectron-core hole interaction. This screening is calculated using a generalization of the time…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. L. Ankudinov , A. I. Nesvizhskii , J. J. Rehr

A finite electronic band gap is a standard filter in high-throughput screening of materials using density functional theory (DFT). However, because of the systematic underestimation of band gaps in standard DFT approximations, a number of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-15 Kristian Berland , Ole Martin Løvvik , Rasmus Tranås

Fundamental properties of warm dense matter are described by the dielectric function, which gives access to the frequency-dependent electrical conductivity, absorption, emission and scattering of radiation, charged particles stopping and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 M. Veysman , G. Röpke , M. Winkel , H. Reinholz