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This article is part-I of a review of density-functional theory (DFT) that is the most widely used method for calculating electronic structure of materials. The accuracy and ease of numerical implementation of DFT methods has resulted in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-25 Prashant Singh , Manoj K Harbola

This review presents a concise, yet comprehensive discussion on the evolution of theoretical methods employed to determine the ground and excited states of molecules in weak and strong magnetic fields. The weak-field cases have been studied…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2021-05-31 Mihir Date , R. W. A Havenith

We present a versatile density functional approach (DFT) for calculating the depletion potential in general fluid mixtures. In contrast to brute force DFT, our approach requires only the equilibrium density profile of the small particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Roth , R. Evans , S. Dietrich

The fundamental problem faced in quantum chemistry is the calculation of molecular properties, which are of practical importance in fields ranging from materials science to biochemistry. Within chemical precision, the total energy of a…

In recent years, interest in quantum computing has increased due to technological advances in quantum hardware and algorithms. Despite the promises of quantum advantage, the applicability of quantum devices has been limited to few qubits on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Grier M. Jones , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

We show how machine learning techniques based on Bayesian inference can be used to reach new levels of realism in the computer simulation of molecular materials, focusing here on water. We train our machine-learning algorithm using…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-02-25 Albert P. Bartok , Michael J. Gillan , Frederick R. Manby , Gabor Csanyi

Clay minerals are ubiquitous in nature, and the manner in which they interact with their surroundings has important industrial and environmental implications. Consequently, a molecular-level understanding of the adsorption of molecules on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Andrea Zen , Loïc M Roch , Stephen J Cox , Xiao L Hu , Sandro Sorella , Dario Alfè , Angelos Michaelides

First principles methods can provide insight into materials that is otherwise impossible to acquire. Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been the first principles method of choice for numerous applications, but it falls short of predicting…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-24 Arpita Paul , Turan Birol

The marriage of density functional theory (DFT) and deep learning methods has the potential to revolutionize modern computational materials science. Here we develop a deep neural network approach to represent DFT Hamiltonian (DeepH) of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-02 He Li , Zun Wang , Nianlong Zou , Meng Ye , Runzhang Xu , Xiaoxun Gong , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

The density functional theory (DFT) is based on the existence and uniqueness of a universal functional $E[\rho]$, which determines the dependence of the total energy on single-particle density distributions. However, DFT says nothing about…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Hana Gil , Panagiota Papakonstantinou , Chang Ho Hyun , Tae-Sun Park , Yongseok Oh

We present conditional probability (CP) density functional theory (DFT) as a formally exact theory. In essence, CP-DFT determines the ground-state energy of a system by finding the CP density from a series of independent Kohn-Sham (KS) DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Ryan Pederson , Jielun Chen , Steven R. White , Kieron Burke

While in principle exact, Kohn-Sham density functional theory -- the workhorse of computational chemistry -- must rely on approximations for the exchange-correlation functional. Despite staggering successes, present-day approximations still…

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is widely used for first-principles simulations in chemistry and materials science, but its computational cost remains a key limitation for large systems. Motivated by recent advances in ML-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-19 Rakshit Kumar Singh , Aryan Amit Barsainyan , Bharath Ramsundar

Large-scale simulations of plastic deformation and phase transformations in alloys require reliable classical interatomic potentials. We construct an embedded-atom method potential for niobium as the first step in alloy potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-27 Michael R. Fellinger , Hyoungki Park , John W. Wilkins

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is a widely-used electronic structure theory for materials as well as molecules. DFT is needed especially for large systems, ab initio molecular dynamics, and high-throughput searches for functional…

Conical intersections are central to the description of photophysics and photochemistry. Nevertheless, in non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations, they are fundamentally challenging for single-reference electronic structure methods.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Federico Rossi , Tommaso Giovannini , Henrik Koch

Density-potential functional theory (DPFT) is an alternative formulation of orbital-free density functional theory that may be suitable for modeling the electronic structure of large systems. To date, DPFT has been applied mainly to quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-21 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , William C. Witt , Sergei Manzhos

The theorems of density functional theory (DFT) and reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT) establish a bijective map between the external potential of a many-body system and its electron density or one-particle reduced density…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Xuecheng Shao , Lukas Paetow , Mark E. Tuckerman , Michele Pavanello

Computational studies of electrochemical interfaces based on density-functional theory (DFT) play an increasingly important role in present research on electrochemical processes for energy conversion and storage. The homogeneous background…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-26 Arthur Hagopian , Marie-Liesse Doublet , Jean-Sébastien Filhol , Tobias Binninger

A top-level designed forecasting system for predicting computational times of density-functional theory (DFT)/time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) calculations is presented. The computational time is assumed as the intrinsic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Shuo Ma , Yingjin Ma , Baohua Zhang , Yingqi Tian , Zhong Jin