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We present a self-interaction-corrected (SIC) density-functional-theory (DFT) approach for the description of systems with an unpaired electron or hole such as spin 1/2 defect-centers in solids or radicals. Our functional is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Mayeul d'Avezac , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

We present an embedding scheme for periodic systems that facilitates the treatment of the physically important part (here the unit cell) with advanced electronic-structure methods, that are computationally too expensive for periodic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-08 Wael Chibani , Xinguo Ren , Matthias Scheffler , Patrick Rinke

Quantum embedding methods enable the study of large, strongly correlated quantum systems by (usually self-consistent) decomposition into computationally manageable subproblems, in the spirit of divide-and-conquer methods. Among these,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-14 Alicia Negre , Fabian Faulstich , Raehyun Kim , Thomas Ayral , Lin Lin , Eric Cancès

We present a unified perspective on Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT), Density-Matrix Embedding Theory (DMET) and Rotationally Invariant Slave Bosons (RISB). We show that DMET can be regarded as a simplification of the RISB method where…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-03 Thomas Ayral , Tsung-Han Lee , Gabriel Kotliar

We present the theory and implementation of a fully variational wave function -- density functional theory (DFT) hybrid model, which is applicable to many cases of strong correlation. We denote this model the multiconfigurational…

Density functional theory (DFT) is the de facto approach for predicting self-consistent-field electronic structures of ground-state configurations of complex atoms, molecules, and solids and providing their property data for materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-30 Zi-Kui Liu

We investigate configuration-interaction (CI) calculations on a basis of molecular orbitals generated by preliminary density-functional theory (DFT) calculations. We use this CI/DFT framework to improve the modeling of core-excited states…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Giorgio Visentin , Francois Mauger

In [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013001 (2022)] a novel ground state method was proposed. It has been suggested that this $i$-DMFT would be a method within one-particle reduced density matrix functional theory (DMFT), capable of describing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Lexin Ding , Julia Liebert , Christian Schilling

Quantum mechanical calculations of core electron binding energies (CEBEs) leading to 2p hole states are relevant to interpreting L-edge x-ray photo-electron spectroscopy (XPS), as well as higher edges. Orbital-optimized density functional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Richard Kang , Leonardo A. Cunha , Diptarka Hait , Martin Head-Gordon

Late transition-metal oxides with small charge-transfer energy $\Delta$ raise issues for state-of-the-art correlated electronic structure schemes such as the combination of density functional theory (DFT) with dynamical mean-field theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-17 Frank Lechermann , Wolfgang Körner , Daniel F. Urban , Christian Elsässer

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…

Density functional theory (DFT), including its extensions designed to treat strongly correlated localized electron systems such as DFT+$U$ and DFT+dynamical mean field theory, has proven exceedingly useful in studying the magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-09 Y. Lee , Z. Ning , R. Flint , R. J. McQueeney , I. I. Mazin , Liqin Ke

We present a stochastic approach to perform strongly contracted n-electron valence state perturbation theory (SC-NEVPT), which only requires one- and two-body reduced density matrices, without introducing approximations. We use this method…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Nick S. Blunt , Ankit Mahajan , Sandeep Sharma

Multireference density functional theory (MR-DFT) has been a pivotal method for studying nuclear low-lying states and neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay. However, quantifying their theoretical uncertainties has been a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 X. Zhang , C. C. Wang , C. R. Ding , J. M. Yao

A novel approach to electronic correlations and magnetism of crystals based on realistic electronic structure calculations is reviewed. In its simplest form it is a combination of the ``local density approximation'' (LDA) and the dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Lichtenstein , M. I. Katsnelson , G. Kotliar

Aspects of Density Functional Resonance Theory (DFRT) [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{107}, 163002 (2011)], a recently developed complex-scaled version of ground-state Density Functional Theory (DFT), are studied in detail. The asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniel L. Whitenack , Adam Wasserman

In this thesis we study the strongly-correlated-electron physics of the longstanding H-Tc-superconductivity problem using a non-perturbative method, the Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT), capable to go beyond standard perturbation-theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-16 Marcello Civelli

Many chemical systems cannot be described by quantum chemistry methods based on a singlereference wave function. Accurate predictions of energetic and spectroscopic properties require a delicate balance between describing the most important…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Erik Donovan Hedegård , Julien Toulouse , Hans Jørgen Aagaard Jensen

We introduce DMET, a new quantum embedding theory for predicting ground-state properties of infinite systems. Like dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT), DMET maps the the bulk interacting system to a simpler impurity model and is exact in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 Gerald Knizia , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Standard density functional approximations often give questionable results for odd-electron radical complexes, with the error typically attributed to self-interaction. In density corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT), certain classes…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Min-Cheol Kim , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke