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The cost of simulating quantum many-body systems - on classical or quantum hardware - scales with the number of variational parameters, so progress at fixed computational budget hinges on more parameter-efficient ans\"atze. Configuration…

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Understanding how structural flexibility affects the properties of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is crucial for the design of better MOFs for targeted applications. Flexible MOFs can be studied with molecular dynamics simulations, whose…

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We implement and benchmark the frozen core approximation, a technique commonly adopted in electronic structure theory to reduce the computational cost by means of mathematically fixing the chemically inactive core electron states. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-14 Victor Wen-zhe Yu , Jonathan Moussa , Volker Blum

We present a formulation and implementation of the DFT+\textit{U} method within the framework of linear combination of numerical atomic orbitals (NAO). Our implementation not only enables single-point total energy and electronic-structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-29 Xin Qu , Peng Xu , Hong Jiang , Lixin He , Xinguo Ren

The Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation is less accurate in the presence of a strong magnetic field than in the absence of a field. This is due to the complicated and unpredictable response of electronic structure to the field, especially…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Tanner Culpitt , Laurens D. M. Peters , Erik I. Tellgren , Trygve Helgaker

Unitary Coupled Cluster (UCC) theory is a promising variational method for electronic structure calculations, especially for strongly correlated systems and quantum computers. However, its practical application is limited by the steep…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Prateek Vaish , Brenda Rubenstein

We present a measurement-cost efficient implementation of Strongly-Contracted $N$-Electron Valence Perturbation Theory (SC-NEVPT2) for use on near-term quantum devices. At the heart of our algorithm we exploit the properties of adaptive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 Aaron Fitzpatrick , N. Walter Talarico , Roberto Di Remigio Eikås , Stefan Knecht

Hydrogen tunneling is an important process that impacts reaction rates and molecular spectra. Describing and understanding this process requires a quantum mechanical treatment of the transferring hydrogen. The nuclear-electronic orbital…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Rachel J. Stein , Christopher L. Malbon , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Orbital-free density functional theory as an extension of traditional Thomas-Fermi theory has attracted a lot of interest in the past decade because of developments in both more accurate kinetic energy functionals and highly efficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Hong Jiang , Weitao Yang

The route to reliable quantum nanoelectronic devices hinges on precise control of the electrostatic environment. For this reason, accurate methods for electrostatic simulations are essential in the design process. The most widespread…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Waldemar Svejstrup , Andrea Maiani , Kevin Van Hoogdalem , Karsten Flensberg

A proper theoretical description of electronic structure of the 3d orbitals in the metal centers of functional metalorganics is a challenging problem. In this letter, we apply density functional theory and an exact diagonalization method in…

We present a computational microscopy analysis (targeted molecular dynamics simulations) of the structure and performance of conductive metal organic framework (MOF) electrodes in supercapacitors with room temperature ionic liquids. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-24 Sheng Bi , Ming Chen , Runxi Wang , Jiamao Feng , Mircea Dinca , Alexei A. Kornyshev , Guang Feng

We derive an exact operatorial reformulation of the rotational invariant slave boson method and we apply it to describe the orbital differentiation in strongly correlated electron systems starting from first principles. The approach enables…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-29 Nicola Lanatà , Yongxin Yao , Xiaoyu Deng , Vladimir Dobrosavljević , Gabriel Kotliar

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

The nuclear many-body problem for medium-mass systems is commonly addressed using wave-function expansion methods that build upon a second-quantized representation of many-body operators with respect to a chosen computational basis. While…

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Coulomb interactions that occur in electronic structure calculations are correlated by allowing basis function components of the interacting densities to polarize, thereby reducing the magnitude of the interaction. Exchange integrals of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-16 Jerry L. Whitten

This paper focuses on the AC Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem for multi-phase systems. Particular emphasis is given to systems with high integration of renewables, where adjustments of the real and reactive output powers from renewable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-22 Ahmed S. Zamzam , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos , Emiliano Dall'Anese

Correlated systems represent a class of materials that are difficult to describe through traditional electronic structure methods. The computational demand to simulate the structural dynamics of such systems, with correlation effects…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-06 Rishi Rao , Li Zhu

Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) plays an important role in many fundamental physical phenomena, but the high computational cost of the EPC matrix hinders the theoretical research on them. In this paper, an analytical formula is derived to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Yang Zhong , Zhiguo Tao , Weibin Chu , Xingao Gong , Hongjun Xiang

We present a hybrid scheme based on classical density functional theory and machine learning for determining the equilibrium structure and thermodynamics of inhomogeneous fluids. The exact functional map from the density profile to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-12 Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Daniel de las Heras , Matthias Schmidt