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The random phase approximation (RPA) has emerged as a prominent first-principles method in material science, particularly to study the adsorption and chemisorption of small molecules on surfaces. However, its widespread application is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-01 Edoardo Spadetto , Pier Herman Theodoor Philipsen , Arno Förster , Lucas Visscher

The random-phase approximation (RPA) as an approach for computing the electronic correlation energy is reviewed. After a brief account of its basic concept and historical development, the paper is devoted to the theoretical formulations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-26 Xinguo Ren , Patrick Rinke , Christian Joas , Matthias Scheffler

We present an optimized random phase approximation method (optRPA26) that significantly improves upon conventional RPA. The method employs an empirically constructed hybrid functional to generate DFT orbitals to evaluate the RPA correlation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Neung-Kyung Yu , Johannes Voss , Andrew J. Medford

The random phase approximation (RPA) as formulated as an orbital-dependent, fifth-rung functional within the density functional theory (DFT) framework offers a promising approach for calculating the ground-state energies and the derived…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Rong Shi , Peize Lin , Min-Ye Zhang , Lixin He , Xinguo Ren

LibRPA is a software package designed for efficient calculations of random phase approximation (RPA) electron correlation energies from first principles using numerical atomic orbital (NAOs). Leveraging a localized resolution of identity…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-30 Rong Shi , Min-Ye Zhang , Peize Lin , Lixin He , Xinguo Ren

The random phase approximation (RPA) has received a considerable interest in the field of modeling systems where noncovalent interactions are important. Its advantages over widely used density functional theory (DFT) approximations are the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Marcin Modrzejewski , Sirous Yourdkhani , Jiri Klimes

The random phase approximation (RPA) for the correlation energy functional of density functional theory has recently attracted renewed interest. Formulated in terms of the Kohn-Sham (KS) orbitals and eigenvalues, it promises to resolve some…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Hong Jiang , Eberhard Engel

The accurate computation of non-linear optical properties (NLOPs) in large polymers requires accounting for electronic correlation effects with a reasonable computational cost. The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) used in the adiabatic…

Developing theoretical understanding of complex reactions and processes at interfaces requires using methods that go beyond semilocal density functional theory to accurately describe the interactions between solvent, reactants and…

The direct random-phase approximation (dRPA) is used to calculate and compare atomization energies for the HEAT set and 10 selected molecules of the G2-1 set using both plane waves and Gaussian-type orbitals. We describe detailed procedures…

Practical applications of fragment embedding and closely related local correlation methods critically depend on a judicious choice of a low-level theory to define the local embedding subspace and to capture long-range electrostatic and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Ruiheng Song , Xiliang Gong , Aamy Bakry , Hong-Zhou Ye

The random phase approximation (RPA) to the correlation energy is extended to fractional occupations and its performance examined for exact conditions on fractional charges and fractional spins. RPA satisfies the constancy condition for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-26 Paula Mori-Sánchez , Aron J. Cohen , Weitao Yang

The self-consistent random phase approximation (RPA) based on a correlated realistic nucleon-nucleon interaction is used to evaluate correlation energies in closed-shell nuclei beyond the Hartree-Fock level. The relevance of contributions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Barbieri , N. Paar , R. Roth , P. Papakonstantinou

We present a real-space method for computing the random phase approximation (RPA) correlation energy within Kohn-Sham density functional theory, leveraging the low-rank nature of the frequency-dependent density response operator. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Boqin Zhang , Shikhar Shah , John E. Pask , Edmond Chow , Phanish Suryanarayana

The matrix equations of the random-phase approximation (RPA) are derived for the point-coupling Lagrangian of the relativistic mean-field (RMF) model. Fully consistent RMF plus (quasiparticle) RPA illustrative calculations of the isoscalar…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Niksic , D. Vretenar , P. Ring

In this thesis are shown developments in the random phase approximation (RPA) in the context of range-separated theories. We present advances in the formalism of the RPA in general, and particularly in the "dielectric matrix" formulation of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-11-24 B. Mussard

We apply the analytically solvable model of two electrons in two orbitals to diradical molecules, characterized by two unpaired electrons. The effect of the doubly occupied and empty orbitals is taken into account by means of random phase…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Reza G. Shirazi , Vladimir V. Rybkin , Michael Marthaler , Dmitry S. Golubev

In wavefunction-based $\textit{ab-initio}$ quantum mechanical calculations, achieving absolute convergence with respect to the one-electron basis set is a long-standing challenge. In this work, using the random phase approximation (RPA)…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-17 Hao Peng , Xinguo Ren

Double excitations are crucial to understanding numerous chemical, physical, and biological processes, but accurately predicting them remains a challenge. In this work, we explore the particle-particle random phase approximation (ppRPA) as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Jincheng Yu , Jiachen Li , Tianyu Zhu , Weitao Yang

The random phase approximation (RPA) for the electron correlation energy, combined with the exact-exchange energy, represents the state-of-the-art exchange-correlation functional within density-functional theory (DFT). However, the standard…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Xinguo Ren , Patrick Rinke , Alexandre Tkatchenko , Matthias Scheffler
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