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Accurately modeling compounds with partially filled $d$ and $f$ shells remains a hard challenge for density-functional theory, due to large self-interaction errors stemming from local or semi-local exchange-correlation functionals. Hubbard…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-19 Kinga Warda , Eric Macke , Iurii Timrov , Lucio Colombi Ciacchi , Piotr M. Kowalski

Hubbard-corrected density functional theory, denoted by DFT+U method, was developed to enable correct prediction of insulating properties for strongly-correlated electron systems. UO$_2$ is an example having O-$2p$, U-$6d$, and U-$5f$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-28 Mahmoud Payami

Accurate computational predictions of band gaps are of practical importance to the modeling and development of semiconductor technologies, such as (opto)electronic devices and photoelectrochemical cells. Among available electronic-structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-16 Nicole E. Kirchner-Hall , Wayne Zhao , Yihuang Xiong , Iurii Timrov , Ismaila Dabo

We develop a generalization of the Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) + Hubbard $U$ (DFT+$U$) method to the excited-state regime. This has the form of Hubbard $U$ corrected linear-response time-dependent DFT, or `TDDFT+$U$'.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-24 Okan K. Orhan , David D. O'Regan

The magnetic, noncollinear parametrization of Dudarev's DFT+$U$ method is generalized to fully-relativistic ultrasoft pseudopotentials. We present the definition of the DFT+$U$ total energy functional, and the calculation of forces and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-13 Luca Binci , Nicola Marzari

We present an approach to the DFT+U method (Density Functional Theory + Hubbard model) within which the computational effort for calculation of ground state energies and forces scales linearly with system size. We employ a formulation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-14 David D. O'Regan , Nicholas D. M. Hine , Mike C. Payne , Arash A. Mostofi

While density functional theory (DFT) is widely applied for its combination of cost and accuracy, corrections (e.g., DFT+U) that improve it are often needed to tackle correlated transition-metal chemistry. In principle, the functional form…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-12 Akash Bajaj , Heather J. Kulik

We recently showed that the DFT+U approach with a linear-response U yields adiabatic energy differences biased towards high spin [Mariano et al. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2020, 16, 6755-6762]. Such bias is removed here by employing a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-19 Lorenzo A. Mariano , Bess Vlaisavljevich , Roberta Poloni

The density functional theory (DFT)+$U$ method is a pragmatic and effective approach for calculating the ground-state properties of strongly-correlated systems, and linear response calculations are widely used to determine the requisite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-31 Edward B. Linscott , Daniel J. Cole , Michael C. Payne , David D. O'Regan

The aim of this review article is to assess the descriptive capabilities of the Hubbard-rooted LDA+U method and to clarify the conditions under which it can be expected to be most predictive. The paper illustrates the theoretical foundation…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-17 Burak Himmetoglu , Andrea Floris , Stefano de Gironcoli , Matteo Cococcioni

A density functional theory (DFT) approach to computing transition metal oxide heat of formation without adjustable parameters is presented. Different degrees of $d$-electron localization in oxides are treated within the DFT+$U$ approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-01 Johannes Voss

We present in full detail a newly developed formalism enabling density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) calculations from a DFT+$U$ ground state. The implementation includes ultrasoft pseudopotentials and is valid for both insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-21 Andrea Floris , Iurii Timrov , Burak Himmetoglu , Nicola Marzari , Stefano de Gironcoli , Matteo Cococcioni

Streamlined prediction of the electronic properties of photoactive materials warrants a Density Functional Theory (DFT) based approach that (i) yields reliable bandgaps, (ii) is free of empirically tuned parameters, and (iii) exhibits low…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-17 Andrew C. Burgess , Lórien MacEnulty , Ethan D'Arcy , David Gavin , David D. O'Regan

Density functional theory (DFT) embedding provides a formally exact framework for interfacing correlated wave-function theory (WFT) methods with lower-level descriptions of electronic structure. Here, we report techniques to improve the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jason D. Goodpaster , Taylor A. Barnes , Frederick R. Manby , Thomas F. Miller

The ab initio computational method known as Hubbard-corrected density functional theory (DFT+$U$) captures well ground electronic structures of a set of solids that are poorly described by standard DFT alone. Since lattice dynamical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-17 Wooil Yang , Sabyasachi Tiwari , Feliciano Giustino , Young-Woo Son

Density-functional theory with extended Hubbard functionals (DFT+$U$+$V$) provides a robust framework to accurately describe complex materials containing transition-metal or rare-earth elements. It does so by mitigating self-interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-30 Martin Uhrin , Austin Zadoks , Luca Binci , Nicola Marzari , Iurii Timrov

We present a first-principles investigation of the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of pyrolusite ($\beta$-MnO$_2$) using conventional and extended Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory (DFT+$U$ and DFT+$U$+$V$). The…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-06 Ruchika Mahajan , Iurii Timrov , Nicola Marzari , Arti Kashyap

Approximate semi-local density functional theory (DFT) is known to underestimate surface formation energies yet paradoxically overbind adsorbates on catalytic transition-metal oxide surfaces due to delocalization error. The low-cost DFT+U…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-24 Akash Bajaj , Heather J. Kulik

Several methods have been developed to improve the predictions of density functional theory (DFT) in the case of strongly correlated electron systems. Out of these approaches, DFT+$U$, which corresponds to a static treatment of the local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-01 Alberto Carta , Iurii Timrov , Peter Mlkvik , Alexander Hampel , Claude Ederer

The formalism of electronic density-functional-theory, with Hubbard-U corrections (DFT+U), is employed in a computational study of the energetics of U_{1-x} Ce_x O_2 mixtures. The computational approach makes use of a procedure which…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-08 B. E. Hanken , C. R. Stanek , N. Grønbech-Jensen , M. Asta
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