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Several methods have been developed to improve the predictions of density functional theory (DFT) in the case of strongly correlated electron systems. Out of these approaches, DFT+$U$, which corresponds to a static treatment of the local…

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In this study, we evaluate the predictive power of density functional theory (DFT) for the magnetic properties of MnBi\(_2\)Te\(_4\) (MBT), an intrinsically magnetic topological insulator with potential applications in spintronics and…

Predicting the compositional phase stability of strongly correlated electron materials is an outstanding challenge in condensed matter physics. In this work, we employ the DFT+U formalism to address the effects of local correlations due to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-01 Eric B. Isaacs , Chris A. Marianetti

The aim of this review article is to assess the descriptive capabilities of the Hubbard-rooted LDA+U method and to clarify the conditions under which it can be expected to be most predictive. The paper illustrates the theoretical foundation…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-17 Burak Himmetoglu , Andrea Floris , Stefano de Gironcoli , Matteo Cococcioni

We discuss the recently proposed LDA'+DMFT approach providing consistent parameter free treatment of the so called double counting problem arising within the LDA+DMFT hybrid computational method for realistic strongly correlated materials.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 I. A. Nekrasov , N. S. Pavlov , M. V. Sadovskii

We have evaluated the successes and failures of the Hubbard-corrected density functional theory (DFT+U) approach to study Mg doping of LiCoO$_2$. We computed the effect of the U parameter on the energetic, geometric and electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-07 Juan A. Santana , Jeongnim Kim , P. R. C. Kent , Fernando A. Reboredo

In low-temperature anti-ferromagnetic LaMnO$_{3}$, strong and localized electronic interactions among Mn 3d electrons prevent a satisfactory description from standard local density and generalized gradient approximations in density…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-02 Thomas A. Mellan , Furio Cora , Ricardo Grau-Crespo , Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

Transition-metal centers are the active sites for many biological and inorganic chemical reactions. Notwithstanding this central importance, density-functional theory calculations based on generalized-gradient approximations often fail to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Heather J. Kulik , Matteo Cococcioni , Damian A. Scherlis , Nicola Marzari

We develop a procedure to determine the portion of exact Hartree-Fock exchange interaction contained in a hybrid density functional to treat the range of electronic correlation governing the physics of a system as a function of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-26 Pablo Rivero , Vincent Meunier , William Shelton

We present a systematic density functional theory (DFT) plus Hubbard $U$ study of structural trends and the stability of different magnetically ordered states across the rare-earth nickelate series, $R$NiO$_3$, with $R$ from Lu to La. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-17 Alexander Hampel , Claude Ederer

In this study, we use Hubbard-Corrected density functional theory (DFT+$U$) to derive spin model Hamiltonians consisting of Heisenberg exchange interactions up to the fourth nearest neighbors and bi-quadratic interactions. We map the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-03 Mojtaba Alaei , Homa Karimi

Ab initio calculation of the electronic properties of materials is a major challenge for solid state theory. Whereas the experience of forty years has proven density functional theory (DFT) in a suitable, e.g. local approximation (LDA) to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Held , O. K. Andersen , M. Feldbacher , A. Yamasaki , Y. -F. Yang

The combination of density functional theory and single-site dynamical mean-field theory, using both Hartree and full continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo impurity solvers, is used to study the metal-insulator phase diagram of perovskite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-25 Hung T. Dang , Xinyuan Ai , Andrew J. Millis , Chris A. Marianetti

Correlated materials with open-shell d- and f-ions having degenerate band edge states show a rich variety of interesting properties ranging from metal-insulator transition to unconventional superconductivity. The textbook view for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-15 Yubo Zhang , James Furnes , Ruiqi Zhang , Zhi Wang , Alex Zunger , Jianwei Sun

LDA+DMFT is a novel computational technique for ab initio investigations of real materials with strongly correlated electrons, such as transition metals and their oxides. It combines the strength of conventional band structure theory in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Held , I. A. Nekrasov , G. Keller , V. Eyert , N. Blümer , A. K. McMahan , R. T. Scalettar , T. Pruschke , V. I. Anisimov , D. Vollhardt

We have performed a systematic study of the emergence of meta-stable states in density functional theory plus Hubbard U (DFT+U ) simulations of NiO, CoO, FeO. Particular attention is given to the spin-polarization of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-25 Samara Keshavarz , Patrik Thunström

The density functional theory (DFT)+U method based on the linear response (LR) theory was applied to investigate the electronic structures of Co-based ternary full Heusler alloy Co$_2Y$Si for exploring half-metallic (HM) ferromagnets with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-11 Kenji Nawa , Yoshio Miura

The electronic properties of paramagnetic V_2O_3 are investigated by the ab-initio computational scheme LDA+DMFT(QMC). This approach merges the local density approximation (LDA) with dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) and uses numerically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Held , G. Keller , V. Eyert , D. Vollhardt , V. I. Anisimov

In this article we introduce a generalization of the popular DFT+U method based on the extended Hubbard model that includes on-site and inter-site electronic interactions. The novel corrective Hamiltonian is designed to study systems for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Vivaldo Leiria Campo , Matteo Cococcioni

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