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Density-functional theory is a formally exact description of a many-body quantum system in terms of its density; in practice, however, approximations to the universal density functional are required. In this work, a model based on deep…

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Large scale Density Functional Theory (DFT) based electronic structure calculations are highly time consuming and scale poorly with system size. While semi-empirical approximations to DFT result in a reduction in computational time versus…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-21 Ganesh Hegde , R. Chris Bowen

This article is part-I of a review of density-functional theory (DFT) that is the most widely used method for calculating electronic structure of materials. The accuracy and ease of numerical implementation of DFT methods has resulted in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-25 Prashant Singh , Manoj K Harbola

Accurate prediction of the voltage of battery materials plays a pivotal role in the advancement of energy storage technologies and the rational design of high-performance cathode materials. In this work, we present a deep neural network…

Improving the predictive capability of molecular properties in ab initio simulations is essential for advanced material discovery. Despite recent progress making use of machine learning, utilizing deep neural networks to improve quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Muhammad F. Kasim , Sam M. Vinko

Linear scaling density functional theory approaches to electronic structure are often based on the tendency of electrons to localize even in large atomic and molecular systems. However, in many cases of actual interest, for example in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Marcel David Fabian , Ben Shpiro , Roi Baer

The integration of density functional theory (DFT) with machine learning enables efficient \textit{ab initio} electronic structure calculations for ultra-large systems. In this work, we develop a transfer learning framework tailored for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-23 Ting Bao , Ning Mao , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu , Adrian Del Maestro , Yang Zhang

Materials design based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations is an emergent field of great potential to accelerate the development and employment of novel materials. Magnetic materials play an essential role in green energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-01 Hongbin Zhang

Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) is a successful method to compute the electronic structure of strongly correlated materials, especially when it is combined with density functional theory (DFT). Here, we present an open-source…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-03 Vijay Singh , Uthpala Herath , Benny Wah , Xingyu Liao , Aldo H. Romero , Hyowon Park

Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been…

The systematic underestimation of band gaps is one of the most fundamental challenges in semilocal density functional theory (DFT). In addition to hindering the application of DFT to predicting electronic properties, the band gap problem is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Kyle Bystrom , Stefano Falletta , Boris Kozinsky

The ongoing scientific interest in the properties and structure of electric double layers (EDLs) stems from their pivotal role in (super)capacitive energy storage, energy harvesting, and water treatment technologies. Classical density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-28 Andreas Härtel , Sela Samin , Rene van Roij

Practical density functional theory (DFT) owes its success to the groundbreaking work of Kohn and Sham that introduced the exact calculation of the non-interacting kinetic energy of the electrons using an auxiliary mean-field system.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-17 P. del Mazo-Sevillano , J. Hermann

Deep-learning electronic structure calculations show great potential for revolutionizing the landscape of computational materials research. However, current neural-network architectures are not deemed suitable for widespread general-purpose…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-31 Yuxiang Wang , He Li , Zechen Tang , Honggeng Tao , Yanzhen Wang , Zilong Yuan , Zezhou Chen , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

Embedded density functional theory (e-DFT) is used to describe the electronic structure of strongly interacting molecular subsystems. We present a general implementation of the Exact Embedding (EE) method [J. Chem. Phys. 133, 084103 (2010)]…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-27 Jason D. Goodpaster , Taylor A. Barnes , Thomas F. Miller

Density functional theory (DFT) has transformed our ability to investigate and understand electronic ground states. In its original formulation, however, DFT is not suited to addressing (e.g.) degenerate ground states, mixed states with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Tim Gould , Leeor Kronik , Stefano Pittalis

Density Functional Theory (DFT) has become the quasi-standard for ab-initio simulations for a wide range of applications. While the intrinsic cubic scaling of DFT was for a long time limiting the accessible system size to some hundred…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-23 Stephan Mohr , Marc Eixarch , Maximilian Amsler , Mervi J. Mantsinen , Luigi Genovese

Two types of approaches to modeling molecular systems have demonstrated high practical efficiency. Density functional theory (DFT), the most widely used quantum chemical method, is a physical approach predicting energies and electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Anton V. Sinitskiy , Vijay S. Pande

Improving the accuracy and thus broadening the applicability of electronic density functional theory (DFT) is crucial to many research areas, from material science, to theoretical chemistry, biophysics and biochemistry. In the last three…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Michael Seidl

Density-functional theory (DFT) has revolutionized computational prediction of atomic-scale properties from first principles in physics, chemistry and materials science. Continuing development of new methods is necessary for accurate…