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We present a novel algorithm for (i) detecting approximate symmetries inherently present among spatially localized molecular orbitals and (ii) enforcing these in numerically exact manners by means of unitary optimization techniques. The…
We present an embedding approach for semiconductors and insulators based on or- bital rotations in the space of occupied Kohn-Sham orbitals. We have implemented our approach in the popular VASP software package. We demonstrate its power for…
We present a new adaptive method for electronic structure calculations based on novel fast algorithms for reduction of multivariate mixtures. In our calculations, spatial orbitals are maintained as Gaussian mixtures whose terms are selected…
Localized orbital-based quantum embedding, as originally formulated in the context of density matrix embedding theory (DMET), is revisited from the perspective of lattice density functional theory (DFT). An in-principle exact (in the sense…
A widely used strategy to reduce the computational cost in quantum-chemical calculations is to partition the system into an active subsystem, which is the focus of the computational efforts and an environment that is treated at a lower…
We have developed and implemented a self-consistent density functional method using standard norm-conserving pseudopotentials and a flexible, numerical LCAO basis set, which includes multiple-zeta and polarization orbitals. Exchange and…
We present a tensor-structured algorithm for efficient large-scale DFT calculations by constructing a Tucker tensor basis that is adapted to the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian and localized in real-space. The proposed approach uses an additive…
A parallel implementation of an eigensolver designed for electronic structure calculations is presented. The method is applicable to computational tasks that solve a sequence of eigenvalue problems where the solution for a particular…
One of the goals in the development of large scale electronic structure methods is to perform calculations explicitly for a localised region of a system, while still taking into account the rest of the system outside of this region. An…
Locality of compact one-electron orbitals expanded strictly in terms of local subsets of basis functions can be exploited in density functional theory (DFT) to achieve linear growth of computation time with systems size, crucial in…
Recently, some of the authors introduced the use of the Householder transformation as a simple and intuitive method for the embedding of local molecular fragments (see Sekaran et. al., Phys. Rev. B 104, 035121 (2021), and Sekaran et. al.,…
Linear scaling methods for density-functional theory (DFT) simulations are formulated in terms of localised orbitals in real-space, rather than the delocalised eigenstates of conventional approaches. In local-orbital methods, relative to…
We present a computationally efficient approach to solve the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations in real-time using higher-order finite-element spatial discretization, applicable to both pseudopotential and all-electron calculations. To this…
We present an efficient implementation of ab initio many-body quantum embedding and local correlation methods for infinite periodic systems through translational symmetry adapted interpolative separable density fitting, an approach which…
We present a subspace projection technique to conduct large-scale Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations using spectral finite-element discretization. The proposed method treats both metallic and insulating materials in a single…
An algorithm for first-principles electronic structure calculations having a computational cost which scales linearly with the system size is presented. Our method exploits the real-space localization of the density matrix, and in this…
In the present work, we investigate the computational efficiency afforded by higher-order finite-element discretization of the saddle-point formulation of orbital-free density functional theory. We first investigate the robustness of viable…
Construction of hybrid atomic orbitals is proposed as the approximate common eigen states of finite first moment matrices. Their hybridization and orientation can be a-priori tunned as per their anticipated neighbourhood. Their Wannier…
This paper introduces and analyses the new grid-based tensor approach for approximate solution of the eigenvalue problem for linearized Hartree-Fock equation applied to the 3D lattice-structured and periodic systems. The set of localized…
We develop a local correlation variant of auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) that is based on local natural orbitals (LNO-AFQMC). In LNO-AFQMC, independent AFQMC calculations are performed for each localized occupied orbital using…