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Atomic basis sets are widely employed within quantum mechanics based simulations of matter. We introduce a machine learning model that adapts the basis set to the local chemical environment of each atom, prior to the start of self…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Danish Khan , Maximilian L. Ach , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Basis sets of atomic orbitals are very efficient for density functional calculations but lack a systematic variational convergence. We present a variational method to optimize numerical atomic orbitals using a single parameter to control…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Anglada , J. Soler , J. Junquera , E. Artacho

Although many programs have been published for fully numerical Hartree--Fock (HF) or density functional (DF) calculations on atoms, we are not aware of any that support hybrid DFs, which are popular within the quantum chemistry community…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Susi Lehtola

The finite basis set errors for all-electron random-phase approximation (RPA) correlation energy calculations are analyzed for isolated atomic systems. We show that, within the resolution-of-identity (RI) RPA framework, the major source of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Hao Peng , Sixian Yang , Hong Jiang , Hongming Weng , Xinguo Ren

The general procedure underlying Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations consists in optimizing orbitals for a self-consistent solution of the Roothaan-Hall equations in an iterative process. It is often ignored…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Alain C. Vaucher , Markus Reiher

A recently developed finite element approach for fully numerical atomic structure calculations [S. Lehtola, Int. J. Quantum Chem. 119, e25945 (2019)] is extended to the description of atoms with spherically symmetric densities via…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 Susi Lehtola

We have developed a reduced-cost non-Dyson third-order algebraic diagrammatic construction theory for the electron-attachment problem based on state-specific frozen natural orbitals. Density fitting and truncated natural auxiliary functions…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Tamoghna Mukhopadhyay , Kamal Majee , Achintya Kumar Dutta

We present a fully numerical framework for the optimization of molecule-specific quantum chemical basis functions within the quantics tensor train format using a finite-difference scheme. The optimization is driven by solving the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Paul Haubenwallner , Matthias Heller

We propose to relax geometries throughout chemical compound space (CCS) using alchemical perturbation density functional theory (APDFT). APDFT refers to perturbation theory involving changes in nuclear charges within approximate solutions…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Giorgio Domenichini , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Basis Function (BF) expansions are a cornerstone of any engineer's toolbox for computational function approximation which shares connections with both neural networks and Gaussian processes. Even though BF expansions are an intuitive and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Anton Kullberg , Frida Viset , Isaac Skog , Gustaf Hendeby

The current investigation focuses on detailed analysis of the anchor based optimization approach (ABOA), its comparison with alternative global fitting protocols and on the global analysis of the truncation of basis effects in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-05 A. Taninah , B. Osei , A. V. Afanasjev , U. Perera , S. Teeti

We present a computationally efficient approach to perform large-scale all-electron density functional theory calculations by enriching the classical finite element basis with compactly supported atom-centered numerical basis functions that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Bikash Kanungo , Vikram Gavini

This work presents new Gaussian single- and double-zeta basis sets optimized for stochastic density functional theory (sDFT) using real-space auxiliary grids. Previous studies showed standard basis sets like STO-3G and 6-31G are sub-optimal…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Marcel David Fabian , Eran Rabani , Roi Baer

We present a real-space formulation and higher-order finite-difference implementation of periodic Orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT). Specifically, utilizing a local reformulation of the electrostatic and kernel terms, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Swarnava Ghosh , Phanish Suryanarayana

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

Doping compounds can be considered a perturbation to the nuclear charges in a molecular Hamiltonian. Expansions of this perturbation in a Taylor series, i.e. quantum alchemy, has been used in literature to assess millions of derivative…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Guido Falk von Rudorff

A simple yet general method for constructing basis sets for molecular electronic structure calculations is presented. These basis sets consist of atomic natural orbitals from a multi-configurational self-consistent field calculation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 F. R. Petruzielo , Julien Toulouse , C. J. Umrigar

Recent quantum algorithms pertaining to electronic structure theory primarily focus on threshold-based dynamic construction of ansatz by selectively including important many-body operators. These methods can be made systematically more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Chayan Patra , Debaarjun Mukherjee , Sonaldeep Halder , Dibyendu Mondal , Rahul Maitra

A uniform derivation is presented of the self-consistent field equations in a finite basis set. Both restricted and unrestricted Hartree-Fock (HF) theory as well as various density functional (DF) approximations are considered. The unitary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Susi Lehtola , Frank Blockhuys , Christian Van Alsenoy

An algorithm is proposed for solving optimization problems arising in neural network training for supervised learning. The unique feature of the algorithm is the use of an auxiliary loss, in addition to the original loss employed for model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Yunlang Zhu , Lingjun Guo , Zahra Khatti , Xiaoyi Qu , Chia-Yuan Wu , Lara Zebiane , Frank E. Curtis