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In this paper we present a new H(div)-conforming unfitted finite element method for the mixed Poisson problem which is robust in the cut configuration and preserves conservation properties of body-fitted finite element methods. The key is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Tim van Beeck , Igor Voulis

We discuss our new implementation of the Real-space Electronic Structure method for studying the atomic and electronic structure of infinite periodic as well as finite systems, based on density functional theory. This improved version which…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 U. V. Waghmare , Hanchul Kim , I. J. Park , Normand Modine , P. Maragakis , Efthimios Kaxiras

We propose and analyze an adaptive finite element method for a phase-field model of dynamic brittle fracture. The model couples a second-order hyperbolic equation for elastodynamics with the Ambrosio-Tortorelli regularization of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Ram Manohar , S. M. Mallikarjuaniah

In this paper, we present a unified analysis of both convergence and optimality of adaptive mixed finite element methods for a class of problems when the finite element spaces and corresponding a posteriori error estimates under…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Jun Hu , Guozhu Yu

The grand canonical density functional theory for inhomogeneous systems of interacting bosons is developed in the effective action approach. The Legendre transform of the generating functional for Green's functions is used to define the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-03 Anna Okopińska

The cost- and memory-efficient numerical simulation of coupled volume-based multi-physics problems like flow, transport, wave propagation and others remains a challenging task with finite element method (FEM) approaches. Goal-oriented space…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Uwe Köcher , Marius Paul Bruchhäuser , Markus Bause

We introduce a new numerical method for solving time-harmonic acoustic scattering problems. The main focus is on plane waves scattered by smoothly varying material inhomogeneities. The proposed method works for any frequency $\omega$, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Anton Arnold , Sjoerd Geevers , Ilaria Perugia , Dmitry Ponomarev

One of the major issues in the computational mechanics is to take into account the geometrical complexity. To overcome this difficulty and to avoid the expensive mesh generation, geometrically unfitted methods, i.e. the numerical methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Stephane Cotin , Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski , Killian Vuillemot

Accurate first-principles calculations for the energies, charge distributions, and spin symmetries of many-electron systems are essential to understand and predict the electronic and structural properties of molecules and materials.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Yuming Shi , Yi Shi , Adam Wasserman

Time-dependent (current) density functional theory for many-electron systems strongly coupled to quantized electromagnetic modes of a microcavity is proposed. It is shown that the electron-photon wave function is a unique functional of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 I. V. Tokatly

As a proof of principle, self-consistent Kohn--Sham calculations are performed with the exact exchange-correlation functional. Finding the exact functional for even one trial density requires solving the interacting Schr\"odinger equation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Lucas O. Wagner , Thomas E. Baker , E. M. Stoudenmire , Kieron Burke , Steven R. White

We construct the Kohn--Sham density response function $\chi_{0}$ in a previously described basis of the space of orbital products. The calculational complexity of our construction is $O(N^{2}N_{\omega})$ for a molecule of $N$ atoms and in a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-07-23 Dietrich Foerster , Peter Koval

The inverse Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (inv-KS) for the electron density of the Hartree-Fock (HF) wave function was revisited within the context of the optimized effective potential (HF- OEP). First, it is proved that the exchange…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Hideaki Takahashi

Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT) is a very efficient method for calculating various properties of solids as, for instance, the total energy, the electron density, or the electronic band structure. The KS-DFT method leads to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-20 Fabien Tran , Jan Doumont , Leila Kalantari , Ahmad W. Huran , Miguel A. L. Marques , Peter Blaha

We introduce a general, variational scheme applied to Kohn-Sham density functional theory that allows for partitioning of the ground-state density matrix into distinct spectral domains, each of which spanned by an independent diagonal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Babak Sadigh , Daniel Aberg , John Pask

Recently, a new connection between density functional theory and kinetic theory has been proposed. In particular, it was shown that the Kohn-Sham (KS) equations can be reformulated as a macroscopic limit of the steady-state solution of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 M. Mendoza , H. J. Herrmann , S. Succi

This paper details the development and application of an $h$-adaptive finite element method for the numerical solution of the \textit{Falkner-Skan equation}. A posteriori error estimation governs the adaptivity of the mesh, specifically the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-06 B. Veena S. N. Rao

Multiresolution analysis of electronic structure affords the opportunity to capture the full physics of atomic cores in a systematically improvable manner. Applying new techniques, we demonstrate for the first time that multiresolution…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Torkel D. Engeness , T. A. Arias

We present an efficient and scalable computational approach for conducting projected population analysis from real-space finite-element (FE) based Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations (DFT-FE). This work provides an important…

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is rapidly emerging as a premier method for solving dynamical many-body problems in physics and chemistry. The mathematical foundations of TDDFT are established through the formal existence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-22 J. D. Whitfield , M. -H. Yung , D. G. Tempel , S. Boixo , A. Aspuru-Guzik