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The recently proposed machine learning-based physically-constrained nonlocal (MPN) kinetic energy density functional (KEDF) can be used for simple metals and their alloys [Phys. Rev. B 109, 115135 (2024)]. However, the MPN KEDF does not…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-15 Liang Sun , Mohan Chen

Nonlocal kinetic energy density functionals (KEDFs) with density-dependent kernels are currently the most accurate functionals available for orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) calculations. However, despite advances in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-05 Yongshuo Chen , Cheng Ma , Boning Cui , Tian Cui , Wenhui Mi , Qiang Xu , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

Adopting an accurate kinetic energy density functional (KEDF) to characterize the noninteracting kinetic energy within the framework of orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) is challenging. We propose a new form of the non-local…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Liang Sun , Yuanbo Li , Mohan Chen

Despite a large number of nonlocal kinetic energy density functionals (KEDFs) available for large-scale calculations, most of those nonlocal KEDFs designed for the extended systems cannot be directly applied to isolated systems. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-29 Qiang Xu , Jian Lv , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

Machine learning (ML) of kinetic energy functionals (KEF) for orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) holds the promise of addressing an important bottleneck in large-scale ab initio materials modeling where sufficiently accurate…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-10 Sergei Manzhos , Johann Luder , Pavlo Golub , Manabu Ihara

The Wang-Teter-like nonlocal kinetic energy density functional (KEDF) in the framework of orbital-free density functional theory, while successful in some bulk systems, exhibits a critical Blanc-Cances instability [J. Chem. Phys. 122,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 Liang Sun , Mohan Chen

Machine learning of kinetic energy functionals (KEF), in particular kinetic energy density (KED) functionals, has recently attracted attention as a promising way to construct KEFs for orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT). Neural…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-11 Sergei Manzhos , Johann Lüder , Manabu Ihara

Orbital-free density functional theory promises to deliver linear-scaling electronic structure calculations. This requires the knowledge of the non-interacting kinetic-energy density functional (KEDF), which should be accurate and must…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-12 Michael A. J. Mitchell , Teresa Del Aguila Ferrandis , Stefano Sanvito

Orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) offers a challenging way of electronic-structure calculations scaled as $\mathcal{O}(N)$ computation for system size $N$. We here develop a scheme of the OFDFT calculations based on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Fumihiro Imoto , Masatoshi Imada , Atsushi Oshiyama

The kinetic energy (KE) kernel, which is defined as the second order functional derivative of the KE functional with respect to density, is the key ingredient to the construction of KE models for orbital free density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-15 Zhandos A. Moldabekov , Xuecheng Shao , Michele Pavanello , Jan Vorberger , Tobias Dornheim

We present a machine-learned (ML) model of kinetic energy for orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) suitable for bulk light weight metals and compounds made of group III-V elements. The functional is machine-learned with Gaussian…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-11 Johann Lüder , Manabu Ihara , Sergei Manzhos

The feature vector mapping used to represent chemical systems is a key factor governing the superior data-efficiency of kernel based quantum machine learning (QML) models applicable throughout chemical compound space. Unfortunately, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Danish Khan , Stefan Heinen , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory (OFDFT) has re-emerged as a viable alternative to Kohn-Sham DFT, driven by recent advances in kinetic energy density functionals (KEDFs). Nonlocal (NL) KEDFs have significantly extended OFDFT's…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-24 Abhishek Bhattacharjee , Hemanadhan Myneni , Manoj K. Harbola , Prasanjit Samal

Development of the electronic kinetic-energy density functional is a subject of major interest in theoretical physics and chemistry. In this work, the nonlocal kinetic-energy functional is developed in terms of the response function for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Hideaki Takahashi

In the density functional (DF) theory of Kohn and Sham, the kinetic energy of the ground state of a system of noninteracting electrons in a general external field is calculated using a set of orbitals. Orbital free methods attempt to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeng-Da Chai , John D Weeks

The formally exact framework of equilibrium Density Functional Theory (DFT) is capable of simultaneously and consistently describing thermodynamic and structural properties of interacting many-body systems in arbitrary external potentials.…

Density functional theory is the standard theory for computing the electronic structure of materials, which is based on a functional that maps the electron density to the energy. However, a rigorous form of the functional is not known and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-02 Ryo Nagai , Ryosuke Akashi , Osamu Sugino

An axiomatic approach is herein used to determine the physically acceptable forms for general $D$-dimensional kinetic energy density functionals (KEDF). The resulted expansion captures most of the known forms of one-point KEDFs. By…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-06-08 Sabre Kais , Fahhad H Alharbi

Machine Learning (ML) approximations to Density Functional Theory (DFT) potential energy surfaces (PESs) are showing great promise for reducing the computational cost of accurate molecular simulations, but at present they are not applicable…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Xiaowei Xie , Kristin A. Persson , David W. Small

We present a numerical modeling workflow based on machine learning (ML) which reproduces the the total energies produced by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) at finite electronic temperature to within chemical accuracy at negligible…

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