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We present ab initio results for the electron-phonon interaction of the \Gamma-point phonons in the tetragonal high-temperature phase of La2CuO4. Eigenfrequencies and eigenvectors for the symmetry-allowed phonon modes are calculated with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-28 J. Spitaler , E. I. Shneyder , E. E. Kokorina , I. A. Nekrasov , V. A. Gavrichkov , C. Ambrosch-Draxl , S. G. Ovchinnikov

We present an orbital-resolved extension of the Hubbard $U$ correction to density-functional theory (DFT). Compared to the conventional shell-averaged approach, the prediction of energetic, electronic and structural properties is strongly…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-18 Eric Macke , Iurii Timrov , Nicola Marzari , Lucio Colombi Ciacchi

The discovery of two-dimensional (2D) materials possessing switchable spontaneous polarization with atomic thickness opens up exciting opportunities to realize ultrathin, high-density electronic devices with potential applications ranging…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-04 Jiawei Huang , Sang-Hoon Lee , Andrew Supka , Young-Woo Son , Shi Liu

We present a formulation and implementation of the DFT+\textit{U} method within the framework of linear combination of numerical atomic orbitals (NAO). Our implementation not only enables single-point total energy and electronic-structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-29 Xin Qu , Peng Xu , Hong Jiang , Lixin He , Xinguo Ren

The ground-state 4f fine-structure levels in the intrinsic optical transition gaps between the 2p and 5d orbitals of lanthanide sesquioxides (Ln2O3, Ln=La...Lu) were calculated by a two-way crossover search for the U parameters for DFT+U…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-17 Bolong Huang

In this work using the density functional theory (DFT), we have studied the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of uranium dioxide with antiferromagnetic 1k-, 2k-, and 3k-order structures. Ordinary approximations in DFT, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-25 Samira Sheykhi , Mahmoud Payami

In this article, we propose an energy functional at the level of DFT+U+V that allows us to compute self-consistently the values of the on-site interaction, Hubbard U and Hund J, as well as the intersite interaction V. This functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-21 Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Angel Rubio

The self-consistent charge density functional tight-binding (DFTB) theory is a useful tool for realizing the electronic structures of large molecular complex systems. In this study, we analyze the electronic structure of C61, formed by…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-14 Jia Wang , Xing Dai , Wanrun Jiang , Tianrong Yu , Zhigang Wang

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

Exchange interactions are a manifestation of the quantum mechanical nature of the electrons and play a key role in predicting the properties of materials from first principles. In density functional theory (DFT), a widely used approximation…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-27 Marco Bernardi

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

The formalism of electronic density-functional-theory, with Hubbard-U corrections (DFT+U), is employed in a computational study of the energetics of U_{1-x} Ce_x O_2 mixtures. The computational approach makes use of a procedure which…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-08 B. E. Hanken , C. R. Stanek , N. Grønbech-Jensen , M. Asta

We implemented various DFT+U schemes, including the ACBN0 self-consistent density-functional version of the DFT+U method [Phys. Rev. X 5, 011006 (2015)] within the massively parallel real-space time-dependent density functional theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-27 Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Micael J. T. Oliveira , Angel Rubio

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

The spin-density functional theory (DFT) and DFT+$U$ with Hubbard $U$ term accounting for on-site Coulomb interactions were applied to investigate structure, stability, and electronic properties of different terminations of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Adam Kiejna , Tomasz Ossowski , Tomasz Pabisiak

We study the electronic structure and dynamical correlations in antiferromagnetic BiFeO$_3$, a prototypical room-temperature multiferroic, using a variety of static and dynamical first-principles methods. Conventional static Hubbard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-01 Yihan Wu , Mario Caserta , Tommaso Chiarotti , Nicola Marzari

Electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions are responsible for the formation of spin, charge, and superconducting correlations in layered quantum materials. A paradigmatic model for such materials that captures both kinds of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Aiman Al-Eryani , Sabine Andergassen , Michael M. Scherer

Electron-electron ($e$-$e$) and electron-phonon ($e$-ph) interactions are challenging to describe in correlated materials, where their joint effects govern unconventional transport, phase transitions, and superconductivity. Here we combine…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-05 David J. Abramovitch , Jin-Jian Zhou , Jernej Mravlje , Antoine Georges , Marco Bernardi

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 interaction between electrons and lattice vibrations determines key physical properties of materials, including their electrical and heat transport, excited electron dynamics, phase transitions, and superconductivity. We present a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-04 Luis A. Agapito , Marco Bernardi