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We present a new density-functional method of the self-consistent electronic-structure calculation which does not exploit any local density approximations (LDA). We use the exchange-correlation energy which consists of the exact exchange…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Takao Kotani

We present a numerical tool for solving the non-relativistic Kohn-Sham problem for spherically-symmetric atoms. It treats the Schr\"{o}dinger equation as an integral equation relying heavily on convolutions. The solver supports different…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2022-07-13 Jānis Užulis , Andris Gulans

Modeling many-body quantum systems with strong interactions is one of the core challenges of modern physics. A range of methods has been developed to approach this task, each with its own idiosyncrasies, approximations, and realm of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-21 Brett Larder , Dirk Gericke , Scott Richardson , Paul Mabey , Thomas White , Gianluca Gregori

Understanding the relationship between microscopic structure and macroscopic thermodynamic properties is a central challenge in the study of complex fluids. The Kirkwood-Buff (KB) theory offers an elegant and powerful framework for bridging…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-07 Rémi Busselez

The Kohn-Sham orbital kinetic energy density $\tau_\sigma(\vec{r}) = \sum_{i} w_{i\sigma} \big|\nabla \psi_{i\sigma}(\vec{r}) \big|^2$ is one fundamental quantity for constructing meta-generalized gradient approximations (meta-GGA) for use…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Lin-Hui Ye

A recently developed density functional method, within Hohenberg-Kohn-Sham framework, is used for faithful description of atoms, molecules in Cartesian coordinate grid, by using an LCAO-MO ansatz. Classical Coulomb potential is obtained by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 Amlan K. Roy

We present and test a new approximation for the exchange-correlation (xc) energy of Kohn-Sham density functional theory. It combines exact exchange with a compatible non-local correlation functional. The functional is by construction free…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Tobias Schmidt , Eli Kraisler , Adi Makmal , Leeor Kronik , Stephan Kümmel

The frequency-dependent exchange-correlation potential, which appears in the usual Kohn-Sham formulation of a time-dependent linear response problem, is a strongly nonlocal functional of the density, so that a consistent local density…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Vignale , Walter Kohn

Using the optimized effective potential method in conjunction with the semi-analytical approximation due to Krieger, Li and Iafrate, we have performed fully self-consistent exact exchange-only density-functional calculations for diatomic…

chem-ph · Physics 2008-02-03 T. Grabo , E. K. U. Gross

We present a novel approach to calculate the effective exchange interaction parameters based on the realistic electronic structure of correlated magnetic crystals in local approach with the frequency dependent self energy. The analog of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 M. I. Katsnelson , A. I. Lichtenstein

A physics-constrained Gaussian Process regression framework is developed for predicting shocked material states along the Hugoniot curve using data from a small number of shockwave simulations. The proposed Gaussian process employs a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-13 George D. Pasparakis , Himanshu Sharma , Rushik Desai , Chunyu Li , Alejandro Strachan , Lori Graham-Brady , Michael D. Shields

The exact static and time-dependent Kohn-Sham (KS) exchange-correlation (xc) potential is extremely challenging to approximate as it is a local multiplicative potential that depends on the electron density everywhere in the system. The KS…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-15 M. J. P. Hodgson , J. Wetherell

Transition metal oxides belong to a genre of quantum materials essential for the exploration of theoretical methods for quantifying electronic correlation. Finding an efficient and accurate first principles method for the assertion of such…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-13 Suvadip Das

The quantum electrodynamics (QED) corrections are directly incorporated into the most accurate treatment of the correlation corrections for ions with complex electronic structure of interest to metrology and tests of fundamental physics. We…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 I. I. Tupitsyn , M. G. Kozlov , M. S. Safronova , V. M. Shabaev , V. A. Dzuba

We describe a set of techniques for performing large scale ab initio calculations using multigrid accelerations and a real-space grid as a basis. The multigrid methods provide effective convergence acceleration and preconditioning on all…

mtrl-th · Physics 2008-02-03 E. L. Briggs , D. J. Sullivan , J. Bernholc

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is a widely-used electronic structure theory for materials as well as molecules. DFT is needed especially for large systems, ab initio molecular dynamics, and high-throughput searches for functional…

We re-adapt a spectral renormalization method, introduced in nonlinear optics, to solve the Kohn-Sham (KS) equations of density functional theory (DFT), with a focus on functionals based on the strictly-correlated electrons (SCE) regime,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-23 Juri Grossi , Ziad H. Musslimani , Michael Seidl , Paola Gori-Giorgi

The simulation of borosilicate glasses is challenging due to the composition and temperature dependent coordination state of boron atoms. Here, we present a newly developed machine learning optimized classical potential for molecular…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-20 Kai Yang , Ruoxia Chen , Anders K. R. Christensen , Mathieu Bauchy , N. M. Anoop Krishnan , Morten M. Smedskjaer , Fabian Rosner

Density functional approximations to the exchange-correlation energy of Kohn-Sham theory, such as the local density approximation and generalized gradient approximations, lack the well-known integer discontinuity, a feature that is critical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Martin A. Mosquera , Adam Wasserman

Spin-current density functional theory (SCDFT) is a formally exact framework designed to handle the treatment of interacting many-electron systems including spin-orbit coupling at the level of the Pauli equation. In practice, robust and…