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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

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

Efficiently solving the Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) is crucial for understanding the probabilistic evolution of stochastic particles in dynamical systems, however, analytical solutions or density functions are only attainable in specific…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Xiaolong Wang , Jing Feng , Gege Wang , Tong Li , Yong Xu

Recent hardware-aware matrix-free algorithms for higher-order finite-element (FE) discretized matrix-vector multiplications reduce floating point operations and data access costs compared to traditional sparse matrix approaches. This work…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Gourab Panigrahi , Nikhil Kodali , Debashis Panda , Phani Motamarri

An important step in shape optimization with partial differential equation constraints is to adapt the geometry during each optimization iteration. Common strategies are to employ mesh-deformation or re-meshing, where one or the other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Jorgen S. Dokken , Simon W. Funke , August Johansson , Stephan Schmidt

We present an approach based on density-functional theory for the calculation of fundamental gaps of both finite and periodic two-dimensional (2D) electronic systems. The computational cost of our approach is comparable to that of total…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-11 Alberto Guandalini , Alice Ruini , Esa Räsänen , Carlo Andrea Rozzi , Stefano Pittalis

We propose a local real-space formulation for orbital-free DFT with density dependent kinetic energy functionals and a unified variational framework for computing the configurational forces associated with geometry optimization of both…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 Sambit Das , Mrinal Iyer , Vikram Gavini

Over the last two decades, several fast, robust, and high-order accurate methods have been developed for solving the Poisson equation in complicated geometry using potential theory. In this approach, rather than discretizing the partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Fredrik Fryklund , Leslie Greengard , Shidong Jiang , Samuel Potter

In this paper, we introduce the Phantom Domain Finite Element Method (PDFEM), a novel computational approach tailored for the efficient analysis of heterogeneous and composite materials. Inspired by fictitious domain methods, this method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Tianlong He , Philippe Karamian-Surville , Daniel Choï

Digital fringe projection (DFP) enables micrometer-level 3D reconstruction, yet extending it to large-scale mapping remains challenging because six-degree-of-freedom pose estimation often cannot match the reconstruction's precision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sehoon Tak , Keunhee Cho , Sangpil Kim , Jae-Sang Hyun

We present a new efficient way to perform hybrid density functional theory (DFT) based electronic structure calculation. The new method uses an interpolative separable density fitting (ISDF) procedure to construct a set of numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-07-31 Wei Hu , Lin Lin , Chao Yang

The analysis of fields in periodic dielectric structures arise in numerous applications of recent interest, ranging from photonic bandgap (PBG) structures and plasmonically active nanostructures to metamaterials. To achieve an accurate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-11-22 Andrew D. Baczewski , Nicholas C. Miller , Balasubramaniam Shanker

Plane-wave electronic-structure predictions based upon orbital-dependent density-functional theory (OD-DFT) approximations, such as hybrid density-functional methods and self-interaction density-functional corrections, are severely affected…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-19 Yanli Li , Ismaila Dabo

Discrete flow mapping was recently introduced as an efficient ray based method determining wave energy distributions in complex built up structures. Wave energy densities are transported along ray trajectories through polygonal mesh…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Janis Bajars , David Chappell , Niels Sondergaard , Gregor Tanner

In this paper, a generalized finite element method (GFEM) with optimal local approximation spaces for solving high-frequency heterogeneous Helmholtz problems is systematically studied. The local spaces are built from selected eigenvectors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Chupeng Ma , Christian Alber , Robert Scheichl

The finite element method (FEM) is a cornerstone numerical technique for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Here, we present $\textbf{Qu-FEM}$, a fault-tolerant era quantum algorithm for the finite element method. In contrast to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Ahmad M. Alkadri , Tyler D. Kharazi , K. Birgitta Whaley , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

Solving the Kohn-Sham eigenvalue problem constitutes the most computationally expensive part in self-consistent density functional theory (DFT) calculations. In a previous paper, we have proposed a nonlinear Chebyshev-filtered subspace…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Yunkai Zhou , Yousef Saad , Murilo L. Tiago , James R. Chelikowsky

We propose a kernel compression method for solving Distributed-Order (DO) Fractional Partial Differential Equations (DOFPDEs) at the cost of solving corresponding local-in-time PDEs. The key concepts are (1) discretization of the integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Jonas Beddrich , Barbara Wohlmuth

We recently introduced an efficient methodology to perform density-corrected Hartree-Fock density functional theory (DC(HF)-DFT) calculations and an extension to it we called "corrected" HF DFT (C(HF)-DFT). In this work, we take a further…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Daniel Graf , Alex J. W. Thom

Predictive and real-time inference capability for the upstream separatrix electron density, $n_\text{e, sep}$, is essential for design and control of core-edge integrated plasma scenarios. In this study, both supervised and semi-supervised…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 A. Kit , A. Jaervinen , S. Wiesen , Y. Poels , L. Frassinetti