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Many chemical systems cannot be described by quantum chemistry methods based on a singlereference wave function. Accurate predictions of energetic and spectroscopic properties require a delicate balance between describing the most important…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Erik Donovan Hedegård , Julien Toulouse , Hans Jørgen Aagaard Jensen

Existing LLM-enabled multi-agent frameworks are predominantly limited to digital or simulated environments and confined to narrowly focused knowledge domain, constraining their applicability to complex engineering tasks that require the…

The swift progression of machine learning (ML) has not gone unnoticed in the realm of statistical mechanics. ML techniques have attracted attention by the classical density-functional theory (DFT) community, as they enable discovery of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-15 Antonio Malpica-Morales , Peter Yatsyshin , Miguel A. Duran-Olivencia , Serafim Kalliadasis

This paper gives a summary of basic concepts of density-functional theory (DFT) and its use in state-of-the-art computations of complex processes in condensed matter physics and materials science. In particular we discuss how microscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-03 C. Ratsch , P. Ruggerone , M. Scheffler

With the advent of new synthesis and large-scale production technologies, nanostructured gas-adsorbent materials (GAM) like carbon nanocomposites and metal-organic frameworks are becoming increasingly more influential in our everyday lives.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-01 Claudio Cazorla

We give a fairly comprehensive review of wavelets and of their application to density-functional theory (DFT) and to our recent application of a wavelet-based version of linear-response time-dependent DFT (LR-TD-DFT). Our intended audience…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-24 Bhaarathi Natarajan , Mark E. Casida , Luigi Genovese , Thierry Deutsch

A mathematical framework for reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT) is proposed. The work is inspired by and generalizes the work by E.H.~Lieb [E.H. Lieb, Int. J. Quant. Chem. 24(1983), pp.243--277] on density-functional theory…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Håkon R. Fredheim , Simen Kvaal

Transition-state searches are central to understanding reaction mechanisms, but the high computational cost of density-functional theory (DFT) limits their application in high-throughput catalyst and materials discovery. Machine-learned…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Jonah Marks , Jonathon Vandezande , Joseph Gomes

Teaching large language models (LLMs) to use tools for solving complex problems can grant them human-like reasoning abilities. ReAct and its variants are popular frameworks for tool use in both single-agent and multi-agent systems. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Junzhi Chen , Juhao Liang , Benyou Wang

Density-functional-theory (DFT) simulations with the Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP) are indispensable in computational materials science but often require extensive manual setup, monitoring, and postprocessing. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-12 Jiaxuan Liu , Tiannian Zhu , Caiyuan Ye , Zhong Fang , Hongming Weng , Quansheng Wu

The combination of density functional theory with dynamical mean-field theory (DFT+DMFT) has become a powerful first-principles approach to tackle strongly correlated materials in condensed matter physics. The wide use of this approach…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-10 Xin Qu , Peng Xu , Rusong Li , Gang Li , Lixin He , Xinguo Ren

To date, density functional theory (DFT) is one of the most accurate and yet practical theory to gain insight about materials properties. Although successful, the computational cost is the main hurdle even today. A way out is combining DFT…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-19 Shweta Mehta , Sheena Agarwal , Kavita Joshi

Recently a novel approach to find approximate exchange-correlation functionals in density-functional theory (DFT) was presented (U. Mordovina et. al., JCTC 15, 5209 (2019)), which relies on approximations to the interacting wave function…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Iris Theophilou , Teresa E. Reinhard , Angel Rubio , Michael Ruggenthaler

We introduce an efficient finite-element approach for large-scale real-space pseudopotential density functional theory (DFT) calculations incorporating noncollinear magnetism and spin-orbit coupling. The approach, implemented within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-11 Nikhil Kodali , Phani Motamarri

Multipole moments are the first order responses of the energy to spatial derivatives of the electric field strength. The quality of density functional theory (DFT) prediction of molecular multipole moments thus characterizes errors in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Diptarka Hait , Yu Hsuan Liang , Martin Head-Gordon

The design of better exchange-correlation functionals for Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a central challenge of modern electronic structure theory. However, current developments are limited by the mathematical form of the functional,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Kyle Bystrom , Boris Kozinsky

We present an automated procedure for computing stacking fault energies in random alloys from large-scale simulations using moment tensor potentials (MTPs) with the accuracy of density functional theory (DFT). To that end, we develop an…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-23 Max Hodapp , Alexander Shapeev

We use analytic (current) density-potential maps of time-dependent (current) density functional theory (TD(C)DFT) to inverse engineer analytically solvable time-dependent quantum problems. In this approach the driving potential (the control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Mehdi Farzanehpour , I. V. Tokatly

Ensemble Density Functional Theory (EDFT) is a generalization of ground-state Density Functional Theory (GS DFT), which is based on an exact formal theory of finite collections of a system's ground and excited states. EDFT in various forms…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-27 Remi J. Leano , Aurora Pribram-Jones , David A. Strubbe

We present dynamic density functional theory (DDFT) incorporating general inhomogeneous, incompressible, time dependent background flows and inertia, describing externally driven passive colloidal systems out of equilibrium. We start by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-11 Rory D. Mills-Williams , Benjamin D. Goddard , Andrew J. Archer