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Hybrid density functional calculation is indispensable to accurate description of electronic structure, whereas the formidable computational cost restricts its broad application. Here we develop a deep equivariant neural network method…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-17 Zechen Tang , He Li , Peize Lin , Xiaoxun Gong , Gan Jin , Lixin He , Hong Jiang , Xinguo Ren , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

The notion of wavelets is defined. It is briefly described {\it what} are wavelets, {\it how} to use them, {\it when} we do need them, {\it why} they are preferred and {\it where} they have been applied. Then one proceeds to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 I. M. Dremin

This paper presents new methodology for computationally efficient kernel density estimation. It is shown that a large class of kernels allows for exact evaluation of the density estimates using simple recursions. The same methodology can be…

Computation · Statistics 2019-11-12 David P. Hofmeyr

Neural networks have been applied to tackle many-body electron correlations for small molecules and physical models in recent years. Here we propose a new architecture that extends molecular neural networks with the inclusion of periodic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Xiang Li , Zhe Li , Ji Chen

We introduce a local machine-learning method for predicting the electron densities of periodic systems. The framework is based on a numerical, atom-centred auxiliary basis, which enables an accurate expansion of the all-electron density in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Alan M. Lewis , Andrea Grisafi , Michele Ceriotti , Mariana Rossi

Ab initio electronic structure calculations of two-dimensional layered structures are typically performed using codes that were developed for three-dimensional structures, which are periodic in all three directions. The introduction of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-22 Paolo E. Trevisanutto , Giovanni Vignale

In this paper, we study the problem of adaptive estimation of the spectral density of a stationary Gaussian process. For this purpose, we consider a wavelet-based method which combines the ideas of wavelet approximation and estimation by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Jérémie Bigot , Rolando Biscay Lirio , Jean-Michel Loubes , Lilian Muniz Alvarez

Drawing inspiration from the domain of image super-resolution, we view the electron density as a 3D grayscale image and use a convolutional residual network to transform a crude and trivially generated guess of the molecular density into an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Chenghan Li , Or Sharir , Shunyue Yuan , Garnet K. Chan

A new iterative solver is proposed to efficiently calculate the ground state electronic structure in Density Functional Theory calculations. This algorithm is particularly useful for simulating physical systems considered difficult to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Jean-Luc Fattebert

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

Divergence estimators based on direct approximation of density-ratios without going through separate approximation of numerator and denominator densities have been successfully applied to machine learning tasks that involve distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-06-24 Makoto Yamada , Taiji Suzuki , Takafumi Kanamori , Hirotaka Hachiya , Masashi Sugiyama

We extend the calculation of dark matter direct detection rates via electronic transitions in general dielectric crystal targets, combining state-of-the-art density functional theory calculations of electronic band structures and wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 Sinéad M. Griffin , Katherine Inzani , Tanner Trickle , Zhengkang Zhang , Kathryn M. Zurek

We propose a second version of the van der Waals density functional (vdW-DF2) of Dion et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 246401 (2004)], employing a more accurate semilocal exchange functional and the use of a large-N asymptote gradient…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-08-17 Kyuho Lee , Éamonn D. Murray , Lingzhu Kong , Bengt I. Lundqvist , David C. Langreth

The traditional kernel density estimator of an unknown density is by construction completely nonparametric, in the sense that it has no preferences and will work reasonably well for all shapes. The present paper develops a class of…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-05 Nils Lid Hjort , Ingrid Kristine Glad

A computational method is developed whereby the reflectivity of low-energy electrons from a surface can be obtained from a first-principles solution of the electronic structure of the system. The method is applied to multilayer graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 R. M. Feenstra , M. Widom

We introduce a new form of density functional theory for the {\em ab initio} description of electronic systems in contact with a molecular liquid environment. This theory rigorously joins an electron density-functional for the electrons of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Sahak Petrosyan , Jean-Francois Briere , David Roundy , T. A. Arias

Highly accurate experimental structure factors of silicon are available in the literature, and these provide the ideal test for any \emph{ab initio} method for the construction of the all-electron charge density. In a recent paper [J. R.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 J. R. Trail , D. M. Bird

The use of energy functionals based on density as the basic variable is advocated for ab initio molecular dynamics. It is demonstrated that the constraint of positivity of density can be incorporated easily by using square root density for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Vaishali Shah , Dinesh Nehete , D. G. Kanhere

Recent work shows that density functional theory calculations accurately describe materials exhibiting turbostratic disorder between layers of incommensurate constituents. These calculations approximate one of the constituents as a finite…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-23 Sven P. Rudin

The complexity of condensed matter arises from emergent behaviors that cannot be understood by analyzing individual constituents in isolation. While traditional condensed-matter approaches-developed primarily for ideal crystalline…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-30 Elisabetta Nocerino