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Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) based on a large dataset obtained by density functional theory (DFT) calculation have been developed recently. This study gives both conceptual and practical bases for the high accuracy of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-08 Akira Takahashi , Atsuto Seko , Isao Tanaka

The stochastic density functional theory (sDFT) has exhibited advantages over the standard Kohn-Sham DFT method and has become an attractive approach for large-scale electronic structure calculations. The sDFT method avoids the expensive…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Xue Quan , Huajie Chen

One of the central problems in quantum mechanics is to determine the ground state properties of a system of electrons interacting via the Coulomb potential. Since its introduction by Hohenberg, Kohn, and Sham, Density Functional Theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Norbert Schuch , Frank Verstraete

Million-atom quantum simulations are in principle feasible with Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) because the algorithms only require simple functional minimizations with respect to the electron density function. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-17 Wenhui Mi , Michele Pavanello

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) developed from extensive datasets constructed from density functional theory (DFT) calculations have become increasingly appealing for many researchers. This paper presents a framework of polynomial-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-29 Atsuto Seko

Density functional calculations on atoms are often used for determining accurate initial guesses as well as generating various types of pseudopotential approximations and efficient atomic-orbital basis sets for polyatomic calculations. To…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Susi Lehtola

A system of electrons in a local or nonlocal external potential can be studied with 1-matrix functional theory (1MFT), which is similar to density functional theory (DFT) but takes the one-particle reduced density matrix (1-matrix) instead…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-07-23 Ryan Requist , Oleg Pankratov

We present an efficient implementation of the random phase approximation (RPA) for molecular systems within the domain-based local pair natural orbital (DLPNO) framework. With optimized parameters, DLPNO-RPA achieves approximately 99.9%…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Yu Hsuan Liang , Xing Zhang , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan , Timothy C. Berkelbach , Hong-Zhou Ye

Here we present a density matrix based KS inversion method formulated entirely within a Gaussian basis representation to optimize a KS potential matrix that reproduces a target electron density. Inverse Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Ziwei Chai , Sandra Luber

We benchmark the ground state energies and the density profiles of atomic repulsive Fermi gases in optical lattices computed via Density Functional Theory (DFT) against the results of diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) simulations. The main focus…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-06-12 S. Pilati , I. Zintchenko , M. Troyer , F. Ancilotto

Recently, sophisticated deep learning-based approaches have been developed for generating efficient initial guesses to accelerate the convergence of density functional theory (DFT) calculations. While the actual initial guesses are often…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Zhe Liu , Yuyan Ni , Zhichen Pu , Qiming Sun , Siyuan Liu , Wen Yan

Density functional theory (DFT) has been a cornerstone in computational chemistry, physics, and materials science for decades, benefiting from advancements in computational power and theoretical methods. This paper introduces a novel,…

We present an accurate and efficient finite-difference formulation and parallel implementation of Kohn-Sham Density (Operator) Functional Theory (DFT) for non periodic systems embedded in a bulk environment. Specifically, employing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Swarnava Ghosh , Kaushik Bhattacharya

This letter presents a novel approach for identifying uncorrelated atomic configurations from extensive data sets with a non-standard neural network workflow known as random network distillation (RND) for training machine-learned…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Jan Finkbeiner , Samuel Tovey , Christian Holm

We present an accurate, efficient and massively parallel finite-element code, DFT-FE, for large-scale ab-initio calculations (reaching $\sim 100,000$ electrons) using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). DFT-FE is based on a local…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Phani Motamarri , Sambit Das , Shiva Rudraraju , Krishnendu Ghosh , Denis Davydov , Vikram Gavini

Linear-response time-dependent Density Functional Theory (LR-TDDFT) is a widely used method for accurately predicting the excited-state properties of physical systems. Previous works have attempted to accelerate LR-TDDFT using heterogeneous…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Qingcai Jiang , Buxin Tu , Xiaoyu Hao , Junshi Chen , Hong An

Linear response theory for the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG-LRT) was first presented in terms of the DMRG renormalization projectors [Dorando et al., J. Chem. Phys. 130, 184111 (2009)]. Later, with an understanding of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-25 Naoki Nakatani , Sebastian Wouters , Dimitri Van Neck , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

We demonstrate the opportunities of first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations for the development of new metallurgical refining processes. As such, a methodology based on DFT calculations is developed to discover new…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-05 Michiel J. Van Setten , Annelies Malfliet , Geoffroy Hautier , Bart Blanpain

The density functional theory (DFT) is the most versatile electronic structure method used in quantum chemical calculations, and is increasingly applied in astrochemical research. This mini-review provides an overview of the applications of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-24 Qingli Liao , Junzhi Wang , Peng Xie , Enwei Liang , Zhao Wang

Reduced density-matrix functional theory (RDMFT) provides a variational route to electronic correlations beyond conventional density-functional approximations, but explicit evaluations of density-matrix functionals still scale exponentially…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Konstantin Tamoev , Robert Schade , Thomas D. Kühne
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