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Understanding and predicting the behavior of liquid matter across length scales, using only the microscopic interactions encoded in the Schr\"odinger equation, remains a central challenge in the physical sciences. Achieving this goal…

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We present an efficient ab initio dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) implementation for quantitative simulations in solids. Our DMFT scheme employs ab initio Hamiltonians defined for impurities comprising the full unit cell or a supercell…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-05 Tianyu Zhu , Zhi-Hao Cui , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Understanding many processes, e.g. fusion experiments, planetary interiors and dwarf stars, depends strongly on microscopic physics modeling of warm dense matter (WDM) and hot dense plasma. This complex state of matter consists of a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Alexander J. White , Lee A. Collins

Density functional theory (DFT) serves as the basis for computational discovery in materials science and chemistry, yet each calculation demands extensive human effort: adjusting algorithms when convergence stalls, revising plans when…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-27 Penghui Yang , Zhonghan Zhang , Yue Li , Xinrun Wag , Yanchen Deng , Yuhao Lu , Bijun Tang , Zheng Liu , Bo An

Subsystem Density-Functional Theory (DFT) is an emerging technique for calculating the electronic structure of complex molecular and condensed phase systems. In this topical review, we focus on some recent advances in this field related to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Alisa Krishtal , Debalina Sinha , Alessandro Genova , Michele Pavanello

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is widely used for first-principles simulations in chemistry and materials science, but its computational cost remains a key limitation for large systems. Motivated by recent advances in ML-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-19 Rakshit Kumar Singh , Aryan Amit Barsainyan , Bharath Ramsundar

The combination of density functional theory with dynamical mean-field theory (DFT+DMFT) has become a powerful first-principles approach to tackle strongly correlated materials in condensed matter physics. The wide use of this approach…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-10 Xin Qu , Peng Xu , Rusong Li , Gang Li , Lixin He , Xinguo Ren

Direct air capture of Carbon Dioxide is a technical solution that does not rely on natural processes to capture CO2 from the atmosphere. In DAC, the filter material is designed to specifically bind CO2 molecules. Hence a high-capacity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Gopal Ramesh Dahale

In the framework of density functional theory (DFT) simulations of molecules and materials, anharmonic terms of the potential energy surface are commonly computed numerically, with an associated cost that rapidly increases with the size of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-17 Davide Mitoli , Jefferson Maul , Alessandro Erba

With the advent of new synthesis and large-scale production technologies, nanostructured gas-adsorbent materials (GAM) like carbon nanocomposites and metal-organic frameworks are becoming increasingly more influential in our everyday lives.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-01 Claudio Cazorla

QCDFT is a multiscale modeling approach that can simulate multi-million atoms effectively via density functional theory (DFT). The method is based on the framework of quasicontinuum (QC) approach with DFT as its sole energetics formulation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-20 Qing Peng , Xu Zhang , Gang Lu

Conventional generative models for materials discovery are predominantly trained and validated using data from Density Functional Theory (DFT) with approximate exchange-correlation functionals. This creates a fundamental bottleneck: these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Mahule Roy

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…

Large-scale density functional theory (DFT) calculations provide a powerful tool to investigate the atomic and electronic structure of materials with complex structures. This article reviews a large-scale DFT calculation method, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-31 Ayako Nakata , David R. Bowler , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki

Density functional theory (DFT) is an exact alternative formulation of quantum mechanics, in which it is possible to calculate the total energy, the spin and the charge density of many-electron systems in the ground state. In practice, it…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Uri Argaman , Guy Makov , Eli Kraisler

Combining classical density functional theory (cDFT) with quantum mechanics (QM) methods offers a computationally efficient alternative to traditional QM/molecular mechanics (MM) approaches for modeling mixed quantum-classical systems at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-17 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maxime Labat , Emmanuel Giner

The density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method has already proved itself as a very efficient and accurate computational method, which can treat large active spaces and capture the major part of strong correlation. Its application on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 Pavel Beran , Katarzyna Pernal , Fabijan Pavosevic , Libor Veis

The real-time electronic dynamics on material surfaces is critically important to a variety of applications. However, their simulations have remained challenging for conventional methods such as the time-dependent density-functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Rulin Wang , Dong Hou , Xiao Zheng

We introduce a practical hybrid approach that combines orbital-free density functional theory (DFT) with Kohn-Sham DFT for speeding up first-principles molecular dynamics simulations. Equilibrated ionic configurations are generated using…

Accelerated discovery with machine learning (ML) has begun to provide the advances in efficiency needed to overcome the combinatorial challenge of computational materials design. Nevertheless, ML-accelerated discovery both inherits the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-09 Chenru Duan , Fang Liu , Aditya Nandy , Heather J. Kulik