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The random phase approximation (RPA) for the correlation energy functional of density functional theory has recently attracted renewed interest. Formulated in terms of the Kohn-Sham (KS) orbitals and eigenvalues, it promises to resolve some…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Hong Jiang , Eberhard Engel

The random phase approximation (RPA) as formulated as an orbital-dependent, fifth-rung functional within the density functional theory (DFT) framework offers a promising approach for calculating the ground-state energies and the derived…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Rong Shi , Peize Lin , Min-Ye Zhang , Lixin He , Xinguo Ren

We present an implementation of the optimised effective potential (OEP) scheme for the exact-exchange (EXX) and random phase approximation (RPA) energy functionals and apply these methods to a range of bulk materials. We calculate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-16 Jiří Klimeš , Georg Kresse

We present an optimized random phase approximation method (optRPA26) that significantly improves upon conventional RPA. The method employs an empirically constructed hybrid functional to generate DFT orbitals to evaluate the RPA correlation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Neung-Kyung Yu , Johannes Voss , Andrew J. Medford

In a previous work it was shown that the inclusion of exact exchange is essential for a first principles description of both the electronic- and the vibrational properties of TiSe$_2$, M. Hellgren et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176401…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-03 Maria Hellgren , Lucas Baguet , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri , Ludger Wirtz

We investigate static correlation and delocalization errors in the self-consistent GW and random-phase approximation (RPA) by studying molecular dissociation of the H_2 and LiH molecules. Although both approximations contain topologically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-10 Maria Hellgren , Fabio Caruso , Daniel R. Rohr , Xinguo Ren , Angel Rubio , Matthias Scheffler , Patrick Rinke

The random phase approximation (RPA) for the electron correlation energy, combined with the exact-exchange energy, represents the state-of-the-art exchange-correlation functional within density-functional theory (DFT). However, the standard…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Xinguo Ren , Patrick Rinke , Alexandre Tkatchenko , Matthias Scheffler

The optimized effective potential (OEP) method presents an unambiguous way to construct the Kohn-Sham potential corresponding to a given diagrammatic approximation for the exchange-correlation functional. The OEP from the random-phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-18 Stefan Riemelmoser , Merzuk Kaltak , Georg Kresse

Self-consistent correlation potentials for H$_2$ and LiH for various inter-atomic separations are obtained within the random phase approximation (RPA) of density functional theory. The RPA correlation potential shows a peak at the bond…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Hellgren , D. R. Rohr , E. K. U. Gross

The random phase approximation (RPA) has emerged as a prominent first-principles method in material science, particularly to study the adsorption and chemisorption of small molecules on surfaces. However, its widespread application is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-01 Edoardo Spadetto , Pier Herman Theodoor Philipsen , Arno Förster , Lucas Visscher

We present a real-space method for computing the random phase approximation (RPA) correlation energy within Kohn-Sham density functional theory, leveraging the low-rank nature of the frequency-dependent density response operator. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Boqin Zhang , Shikhar Shah , John E. Pask , Edmond Chow , Phanish Suryanarayana

We present an efficient implementation of the random phase approximation (RPA) for molecular systems within the domain-based local pair natural orbital (DLPNO) framework. With optimized parameters, DLPNO-RPA achieves approximately 99.9%…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Yu Hsuan Liang , Xing Zhang , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan , Timothy C. Berkelbach , Hong-Zhou Ye

Developing theoretical understanding of complex reactions and processes at interfaces requires using methods that go beyond semilocal density functional theory to accurately describe the interactions between solvent, reactants and…

We develop and implement a formalism which enables calculating the analytical gradients of particle-hole random-phase approximation (RPA) ground-state energy with respect to the atomic positions within the atomic orbital basis set…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-03 Muhammad N. Tahir , Tong Zhu , Honghui Shang , Jia Li , Volker Blum , Xinguo Ren

We discuss that in the random phase approximation (RPA) the first derivative of the energy with respect to the Green's function is the self-energy in the GW approximation. This relationship allows us to derive compact equations for the RPA…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Benjamin Ramberger , Tobias Schäfer , Georg Kresse

The random phase approximation (RPA) to the correlation energy is extended to fractional occupations and its performance examined for exact conditions on fractional charges and fractional spins. RPA satisfies the constancy condition for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-26 Paula Mori-Sánchez , Aron J. Cohen , Weitao Yang

The ground state equilibrium properties of copper-gold alloys have been explored with the state of art random phase approximation (RPA). Our estimated lattice constants agree with the experiment within a mean absolute percentage error…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-31 Niraj K. Nepal , Santosh Adhikari , Jefferson E. Bates , Adrienn Ruzsinszky

The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) for total energies has previously been shown to provide a qualitatively correct description of static correlation in molecular systems, where density functional theory (DFT) with local functionals are…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-27 Thomas Olsen

During the last few years, it has become more and more clear that functionals of the meta generalized gradient approximation (MGGA) are more accurate than GGA functionals for the geometry and energetics of electronic systems. However, MGGA…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-04 Fabien Tran , Jan Doumont , Peter Blaha , Miguel A. L. Marques , Silvana Botti , Albert P. Bartók

We derive the self-consistent random phase approximations (sc-RPA) from the projective truncation approximation (PTA) for the equation of motion of two-time Green's function. The obtained sc-RPA applies to arbitrary temperature and recovers…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-21 Yue-Hong Wu , Xinguo Ren , Ning-Hua Tong
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