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We report an improved implementation for evaluating the analytical gradients of the random phase approximation (RPA) electron-correlation energy based on atomic orbitals and the localized resolution of identity scheme. The more efficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-17 Muhammad N. Tahir , Honghui Shang , Jia Li , Xinguo Ren

We assess the performance of a recently proposed renormalized adiabatic local density approximation (rALDA) for \textit{ab initio} calculations of electronic correlation energies in solids and molecules. The method is an extension of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-30 Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

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

The adiabatic connection fluctuation-dissipation theorem with the random phase approximation (RPA) has recently been applied with success to obtain correlation energies of a variety of chemical and solid state systems. The main merit of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-20 Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

We use the random phase approximation (RPA) method with the singles correlation energy contributions to calculate lattice energies of ten molecular solids. While RPA gives too weak binding, underestimating the reference data by $13.7$\% on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Jiří Klimeš

Analytical forces have been derived in the Lagrangian framework for several random phase approximation (RPA) correlated total energy methods based on the range separated hybrid (RSH) approach, which combines a short-range density functional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-16 Bastien Mussard , Peter G. Szalay , János G. Ángyán

The random-phase approximation to the ground state correlation energy (RPA) in combination with exact exchange (EX) has brought Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory one step closer towards a universal, "general purpose first principles…

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

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 random-phase approximation (RPA) as an approach for computing the electronic correlation energy is reviewed. After a brief account of its basic concept and historical development, the paper is devoted to the theoretical formulations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-26 Xinguo Ren , Patrick Rinke , Christian Joas , Matthias Scheffler

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

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) is exact for the exchange energy of a many-electron ground state, but RPA makes the correlation energy too negative by about 0.5 eV/electron. That large short-range error, which tends to cancel out of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Tim Gould , Adrienn Ruzsinszky , John P. Perdew

In this thesis are shown developments in the random phase approximation (RPA) in the context of range-separated theories. We present advances in the formalism of the RPA in general, and particularly in the "dielectric matrix" formulation of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-11-24 B. Mussard

In wavefunction-based $\textit{ab-initio}$ quantum mechanical calculations, achieving absolute convergence with respect to the one-electron basis set is a long-standing challenge. In this work, using the random phase approximation (RPA)…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-17 Hao Peng , Xinguo Ren

We extend the capabilities of correlation energy functionals based on the adiabatic-connection fluctuation-dissipation theorem by implementing the analytical atomic forces within the random phase approximation (RPA), in the context of plane…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-19 Damian Contant , Maria Hellgren

The consistency condition is tested within the particle-particle random-phase approximation (RPA), renormalized RPA (RRPA) and the self-consistent RPA (SCRPA) making use of the Richardson model of pairing. The two-particle separation energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nguyen Dinh Dang

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…

The finite basis set errors for all-electron random-phase approximation (RPA) correlation energy calculations are analyzed for isolated atomic systems. We show that, within the resolution-of-identity (RI) RPA framework, the major source of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Hao Peng , Sixian Yang , Hong Jiang , Hongming Weng , Xinguo Ren

We developed an efficient active-space particle-particle random phase approximation (ppRPA) approach to calculate accurate charge-neutral excitation energies of molecular systems. The active-space ppRPA approach constrains both indexes in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Jiachen Li , Jincheng Yu , Zehua Chen , Weitao Yang
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