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One of us (MEC) developed a hands-on workbook for density-functional theory (DFT) during the summer of 2020. The idea was to have something that could be used to provide practical teaching for students at the Masters or advanced…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-02-28 Nabila B. Oozeer , Abraham Ponra , Anne Justine Etindele , Mark E. Casida

Chemically accurate and comprehensive studies of the virtual space of all possible molecules are severely limited by the computational cost of quantum chemistry. We introduce a composite strategy that adds machine learning corrections to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Raghunathan Ramakrishnan , Pavlo O. Dral , Matthias Rupp , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Materials design based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations is an emergent field of great potential to accelerate the development and employment of novel materials. Magnetic materials play an essential role in green energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-01 Hongbin Zhang

The journey of theoretical study on semiconductors is reviewed in a non-conventional way. We have started with the basic introduction of Hartree-Fock method and introduce the fundamentals of Density Functional Theory (DFT). From the oldest…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-04 Sujoy Datta , Debnarayan Jana

Numerous reports claim that quantum advantage, which should emerge as a direct consequence of the advent of quantum computers, will herald a new era of chemical research because it will enable scientists to perform the kinds of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 V. E. Elfving , B. W. Broer , M. Webber , J. Gavartin , M. D. Halls , K. P. Lorton , A. Bochevarov

Heterogeneous interfaces are central to many energy-related applications in the nanoscale. From the first-principles electronic structure perspective, one of the outstanding problems is accurately and efficiently calculating how the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-29 Zhen-Fei Liu

Due to efficient scaling with electron number N, density functional theory (DFT) is widely used for studies of large molecules and solids. Restriction of an exact mean-field theory to local potential functions has recently been questioned.…

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Computational quantum chemistry plays a critical role in drug discovery, chemical synthesis, and materials science. While first-principles methods, such as density functional theory (DFT), provide high accuracy in modeling electronic…

Calculating perturbation response properties of materials from first principles provides a vital link between theory and experiment, but is bottlenecked by the high computational cost. Here a general framework is proposed to perform density…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 He Li , Zechen Tang , Jingheng Fu , Wen-Han Dong , Nianlong Zou , Xiaoxun Gong , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) holds the promise to compute ground state molecular properties at minimal cost. However, it has been held back by our inability to compute the kinetic energy as a functional of the electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Roman Remme , Tobias Kaczun , Maximilian Scheurer , Andreas Dreuw , Fred A. Hamprecht

First-principles density functional theory (DFT) with plane wave (PW) basis set is the most widely used method in quantum mechanical material simulations due to its advantages in accuracy and universality. However, a perceived drawback of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Qingcai Jiang , Zhenwei Cao , Junshi Chen , Xinming Qin , Wei Hu , Hong An , Jinlong Yang

Density functional calculations can fail for want of an accurate exchange-correlation approximation. The energy can instead be extracted from a sequence of density functional calculations of conditional probabilities (CP-DFT). Simple CP…

Density functional theory is a successful branch of numerical simulations of quantum systems. While the foundations are rigorously defined, the universal functional must be approximated resulting in a `semi'-ab initio approach. The search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 James Daniel Whitfield , Norbert Schuch , Frank Verstraete

Significant progress in the development of efficient and fast algorithms for quantum chemical calculations has been made in the past two decades. The main focus has always been the desire to be able to treat ever larger molecules or…

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Reliable predictions of nuclear properties are needed as much to answer fundamental science questions as in applications such as reactor physics or data evaluation. Nuclear density functional theory is currently the only microscopic, global…

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A formulation of the density functional theory is constructed on the foundations of entropic inference. The theory is introduced as an application of maximum entropy for inhomogeneous fluids in thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-29 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha

Using GPU-accelerated state-vector emulation, we propose to embed a quantum computing ansatz into density-functional theory via density-based basis-set corrections (DBBSC) to obtain quantitative quantum-chemistry results on molecules that…

Quantum computers (QC) could harbor the potential to significantly advance materials simulations, particularly at the atomistic scale involving strongly correlated fermionic systems where an accurate description of quantum many-body effects…

Photocatalytic water splitting has emerged as a sustainable pathway for hydrogen production, leveraging sunlight to drive chemical reactions. This review explores the integration of density functional theory (DFT) with machine learning (ML)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Dennis Delali Kwesi Wayo , Leonardo Goliatt , Darvish Ganji