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The extension of the density functional theory (DFT) to include pairing correlations without formal violation of the particle-number conservation condition is described. This version of the theory can be considered as a foundation of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Krewald , V. B. Soubbotin , V. I. Tselyaev , X. Vinas

Density functional theory (DFT) embedding provides a formally exact framework for interfacing correlated wave-function theory (WFT) methods with lower-level descriptions of electronic structure. Here, we report techniques to improve the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jason D. Goodpaster , Taylor A. Barnes , Frederick R. Manby , Thomas F. Miller

A versatile method for combining density functional theory (DFT) in the local density approximation (LDA) with dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is presented. Starting from a general basis-independent formulation, we use Wannier functions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Lechermann , A. Georges , A. Poteryaev , S. Biermann , M. Posternak , A. Yamasaki , O. K. Andersen

The density functional theory (DFT) is used in a study of point defects on both UN (001) surface and sub-surface layers. We compare results for slabs of different thicknesses (both perfect and containing nitrogen or uranium vacancies) with…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-27 Dmitry Bocharov , Denis Gryaznov , Yuri F. Zhukovskii , Eugene A. Kotomin

Density functional theory (DFT) provides a theoretical framework for efficient and fairly accurate calculations of the electronic structure of molecules and crystals. The main features of density functional theory are described and DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 Hauke Paulsen , Alfred Xaver Trautwein

Density functional theory (DFT) is routinely employed in material science and in quantum chemistry to simulate weakly correlated electronic systems. Recently, deep learning (DL) techniques have been adopted to develop promising functionals…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-02 Emanuele Costa , Rosario Fazio , Sebastiano Pilati

Classical density functional theory (DFT) is a statistical mechanical theory for calculating the density profiles of the molecules in a liquid. It is widely used, for example. to calculate the density distribution of the molecules in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-08 Adam P. Hughes , Uwe Thiele , Andrew J. Archer

Density-functional theory (DFT) has been widely used to study water and ice for at least 20 years. However, the reliability of different DFT exchange-correlation (xc) functionals for water remains a matter of considerable debate. This is…

It is believed that the density functional theory (DFT) describes most elements with s, p and d orbitals very well, except some materials that having strongly localized and correlated valence electrons. In this work, we find that the widely…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-17 Y. X. Wang , Hua Y. Geng , Q. Wu , Xiang R. Chen

The recent non-local correlation functional of Vydrov and van Voorhis[J. Chem. Phys. 133, 244103 (2010)] is investigated and two new versions of the functional are suggested as being appropriate for describing van der Waals interactions in…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-09 Torbjörn Björkman

Over many years, computational simulations based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) have been used extensively to study many different materials at the atomic scale. However, its application is restricted by system size, leaving a number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Carlos Romero-Muñiz , Ayako Nakata , Pablo Pou , David R. Bowler , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki , Rubén Pérez

A new implementation is proposed for including van der Waals interactions in Density Functional Theory using the Maximally-Localized Wannier functions. With respect to the previous DFT/vdW-WF method, the present DFT/vdW-WF2 approach, which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Ambrosetti , P. L. Silvestrelli

Large-scale density functional theory (DFT) calculations provide a powerful tool to investigate the atomic and electronic structure of materials with complex structures. This article reviews a large-scale DFT calculation method, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-31 Ayako Nakata , David R. Bowler , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki

Most realistic calculations of moderately correlated materials begin with a ground-state density functional theory (DFT) calculation. While Kohn-Sham DFT is used in about 40,000 scientific papers each year, the fundamental underpinnings are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-26 Kieron Burke , John Kozlowski

We calculate the properties of a graphene monolayer on the Ir(111) surface, using the model in which the periodicities of the two structures are assumed equal, instead of the observed slight mismatch which leads to a large superperiodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. Brako , D. Sokcevic , P. Lazic , N. Atodiresei

We develop a method in which the electronic densities of small fragments determined by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) are embedded using stochastic DFT to form the exact density of the full system. The new method preserves the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer , Eran Rabani

We present a systematic Density Functional Theory (DFT) study of geometries and energies of the nucleic acid DNA bases (guanine, adenine, cytosine and thymine) and 30 different DNA base-pairs. We use a recently developed linear-scaling DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maider Machado , Pablo Ordejon , Emilio Artacho , Daniel Sanchez-Portal , Jose M. Soler

The DFT/vdW-WF method, recently developed to include the Van der Waals interactions in Density Functional Theory (DFT) using the Maximally Localized Wannier functions, is applied to the study of the adsorption of rare-gas atoms (Ne, Ar, Kr,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Pier Luigi Silvestrelli , Alberto Ambrosetti , Sonja Grubisiĉ , Francesco Ancilotto

In a framework for long-range density-functional theory we present a unified full-field treatment of the asymptotic van der Waals interaction for atoms, molecules, surfaces, and other objects. The only input needed consists of the electron…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Erika Hult , Henrik Rydberg , Bengt I. Lundqvist , David C. Langreth

Density Functional Resonance Theory (DFRT) is a complex-scaled version of ground-state Density Functional Theory (DFT) that allows one to calculate the resonance energies and lifetimes of metastable anions. In this formalism, the exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Daniel L. Whitenack , Adam Wasserman