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Double excitations are crucial to understanding numerous chemical, physical, and biological processes, but accurately predicting them remains a challenge. In this work, we explore the particle-particle random phase approximation (ppRPA) as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Jincheng Yu , Jiachen Li , Tianyu Zhu , Weitao Yang

LibRPA is a software package designed for efficient calculations of random phase approximation (RPA) electron correlation energies from first principles using numerical atomic orbital (NAOs). Leveraging a localized resolution of identity…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-30 Rong Shi , Min-Ye Zhang , Peize Lin , Lixin He , Xinguo Ren

We present an efficient particle-particle random phase approximation (ppRPA) approach that predicts accurate excitation energies of point defects, including the nitrogen-vacancy (NV$^-$) and the silicon-vacancy (SiV$^0$) centers in diamond…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Jiachen Li , Yu Jin , Jincheng Yu , Weitao Yang , Tianyu Zhu

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

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 particle-particle random phase approximation (ppRPA) within the hole-hole channel was recently proposed as an efficient tool for computing excitation energies of point defects in solids [J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2024, 15, 2757-2764]. In…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Jiachen Li , Yu Jin , Jincheng Yu , Weitao Yang , Tianyu Zhu

The accuracy of calculations of atomic Rydberg excitations cannot be judged by the usual measures, such as mean unsigned errors of many transitions. We show how to use quantum defect theory to (a) separate errors due to approximate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Yang Yang , Kieron Burke , Weitao Yang

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 particle-particle random phase approximation (pp-RPA) has been shown to be capable of describing double, Rydberg, and charge transfer excitations, for which the conventional time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) might not be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Jianfeng Lu , Haizhao Yang

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

In this work, we consider the particle-hole random phase approximation (phRPA), an approximation to the correlation energy in electronic structure, and show that the phRPA energy of the H2 molecule correctly dissociates. That is, as the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Mi-Song Dupuy , Kyle Thicke

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 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…

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

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

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

A fast method is developed for calculating the Random-Phase-Approximation (RPA) correlation energy for density functional theory. The correlation energy is given by a trace over a projected RPA response matrix and the trace is taken by a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 Daniel Neuhauser , Eran Rabani , Roi Baer

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 formulate an adiabatic connection for the exchange-correlation energy in terms of pairing matrix fluctuation. This connection opens new channels for density functional approximations based on pairing interactions. Even the simplest…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Helen van Aggelen , Yang Yang , Weitao Yang

We present an analytical proof and numerical demonstrations of the equivalence of the correlation energy from particle-particle random phase approximation (pp-RPA) and ladder-couple-cluster-doubles (ladder-CCD). These two theories reduce to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-11-01 Degao Peng , Stephan N. Steinmann , Helen van Aggelen , Weitao Yang
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