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State-specific orbital optimized approaches are more accurate at predicting core-level spectra than traditional linear-response protocols, but their utility had been restricted on account of the risk of `variational collapse' down to the…

Density-functional theory (DFT) has revolutionized computer simulations in chemistry and material science. A faithful implementation of the theory requires self-consistent calculations. However, this effort involves repeatedly diagonalizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Taehee Ko , Xiantao Li , Chunhao Wang

In traditional finite-temperature Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KSDFT), the well-known orbitals wall restricts the use of first-principles molecular dynamics methods at extremely high temperatures. However, stochastic density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Tao Chen , Qianrui Liu , Yu Liu , Liang Sun , Mohan Chen

Stochastic and mixed stochastic-deterministic density functional theory (DFT) are promising new approaches for the calculation of the equation-of-state and transport properties in materials under extreme conditions. In the intermediate warm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Vidushi Sharma , Lee A. Collins , Alexander J. White

Density functional theory (DFT) underpins modern atomistic simulations of transition-metal surfaces. It can predict key properties linked to catalytic performance, such as adsorption energies and barrier heights, enabling new paradigms in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-23 Benjamin X. Shi , Timothy C. Berkelbach

Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT) is a very efficient method for calculating various properties of solids as, for instance, the total energy, the electron density, or the electronic band structure. The KS-DFT method leads to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-20 Fabien Tran , Jan Doumont , Leila Kalantari , Ahmad W. Huran , Miguel A. L. Marques , Peter Blaha

Density functional theory (DFT) calculation has had huge success as a tool capable of predicting important physical and chemical properties of condensed matter systems. We calculate the electric dipole moment of a molecule by using the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Byeong June Min

As a first step to meet the challenge to calculate the electronic structure and total energy of charged states of atoms and molecules adsorbed on ultrathin-insulating films supported by a metallic substrate using density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-01 Iván Scivetti , Mats Persson

Static electric response properties of atoms and molecules are reported within the real-space Cartesian grid implementation of pseudopotential Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT). A detailed systematic investigation is made for a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Tanmay Mandal , Abhisek Ghosal , Amlan K. Roy

Density functional theory (DFT) provides a theoretical framework for efficient and fairly accurate calculations of the electronic structure of molecules and crystals. The main features of density functional theory are described and DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 Hauke Paulsen , Alfred Xaver Trautwein

We have formulated and implemented a fully charge-self-consistent density functional theory plus dynamical mean field theory methodology which enables an efficient calculation of the total energy of realistic correlated electron systems.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Hyowon Park , Andrew J. Millis , Chris A. Marianetti

The formally exact framework of equilibrium Density Functional Theory (DFT) is capable of simultaneously and consistently describing thermodynamic and structural properties of interacting many-body systems in arbitrary external potentials.…

We show that classical molecular density functional theory (MDFT), here in the homogeneous reference fluid approximation in which the functional is inferred from the properties of the bulk solvent, is a powerful new tool to study, at a…

We present an efficient method for propagating the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations in free space, based on the recently introduced Fourier contour deformation (FCD) approach. For potentials which are constant outside a bounded domain,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-10 Jason Kaye , Alex Barnett , Leslie Greengard , Umberto De Giovannini , Angel Rubio

In this work we give a comprehensive derivation of an exact and numerically feasible method to perform ab-initio calculations of quantum particles interacting with a quantized electromagnetic field. We present a hierachy of…

Density Functional Theory (DFT) has become a cornerstone in the modeling of metals. However, accurately simulating metals, particularly under extreme conditions, presents two significant challenges. First, simulating complex metallic…

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The electronic and vibrational properties and electron-phonon couplings of one-dimensional materials will be key to many prospective applications in nanotechnology. Dimensionality strongly affects these properties and has to be correctly…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-09 Norma Rivano , Nicola Marzari , Thibault Sohier

We present a numerical modeling workflow based on machine learning (ML) which reproduces the the total energies produced by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) at finite electronic temperature to within chemical accuracy at negligible…

We present a numerical method for grand canonical density functional theory (DFT) tailored to solid-state systems, employing Gaussian-type orbitals as the primary basis. Our approach directly minimizes the grand canonical free energy using…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Anton Z. Ni , Adam Rettig , Joonho Lee

Strongly correlated systems containing d/f-electrons present a challenge to conventional density functional theory (DFT), such as the widely used local density approximation (LDA) or generalized gradient approximation (GGA). In this work,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-19 Bei-Lei Liu , Yue-Chao Wang , Yu Liu , Hai-Feng Liu , Hai-Feng Song