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Wide bandgap semiconductors (WBGs) are predicted to be the potential materials for energy generation and storing. In this work, we used density functional theory (DFT) that incorporates generalized gradient approximation (GGA) and…

A principled framework to generalize variational perturbation approximations (VPA's) formulated within the ambit of the nonadditive statistics of Tsallis statistics, is introduced. This is accomplished by operating on the terms constituting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 R. C. Venkatesan , A. Plastino

A simple and completely general representation of the exact exchange-correlation functional of density-functional theory is derived from the universal Lieb-Oxford bound, which holds for any Coulomb-interacting system. This representation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Mariana M. Odashima , K. Capelle

We report an efficient technique to treat density functionals of the meta-generalized gradient approximation (mGGA) class in conjunction with density fitting of Coulomb terms (DF-J) and exchange-correlation terms (DF-X). While the kinetic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Alyssa V. Bienvenu , Gerald Knizia

A widely used approximation to the exchange-correlation functional in density functional theory is the local density approximation (LDA), typically derived from the properties of the homogeneous electron gas (HEG). We previously introduced…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-27 Mike Entwistle , Michele Casula , Rex Godby

A large panel of old and recently proposed exchange-correlation functionals belonging to rungs 1 to 4 of Jacob's ladder of density functional theory are tested (with and without a dispersion correction term) for the calculation of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-30 Fabien Tran , Julia Stelzl , Peter Blaha

Deorbitalization of a conventional meta-generalized-gradient exchange-correlation approximation replaces its dependence upon the Kohn-Sham kinetic energy density with a dependence on the density gradient and Laplacian. In principle, that…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-13 H. Francisco , B. Thapa , S. B. Trickey , A. C. Cancio

The strong-interaction functionals $W_\infty[n]$ and ${W'}_\infty[n]$ play an important role in the adiabatic-connection method of Density Functional Theory. The strictly-correlated electron approach can be used to exactly compute these…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-09 L. A. Constantin , F. Naeem , 3 E. Fabiano , F. Sarcinella , F. Della Sala

The $GW$ approximation is a well-established method for calculating ionization potentials and electron affinities in solids and molecules. For numerous years, obtaining self-consistent $GW$ total energies in solids has been a challenging…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Adam Hassan Denawi , Fabien Bruneval , Marc Torrent , Mauricio Rodríguez-Mayorga

The class of $N$-body complex systems with total number of microscopic states given by $W(N) \sim \nu^{N^\gamma}\;(\nu >1, \,\gamma > 0)$ can be thermostatistically handled with the nonadditive entropic functional $S_\delta(\{p_{i}\}) =…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Leandro Lyra Braga Dognini , Constantino Tsallis

Kernel smoothing is a widely used nonparametric method in modern statistical analysis. The problem of efficiently conducting kernel smoothing for a massive dataset on a distributed system is a problem of great importance. In this work, we…

Computation · Statistics 2024-10-08 Yuan Gao , Rui Pan , Feng Li , Riquan Zhang , Hansheng Wang

We prove generalized Gaffney inequalities and the discrete compactness for finite element differential forms on $s$-regular domains, including general Lipschitz domains. In computational electromagnetism, special cases of these results have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Juncai He , Kaibo Hu , Jinchao Xu

The search for new materials, based on computational screening, relies on methods that accurately predict, in an automatic manner, total energy, atomic-scale geometries, and other fundamental characteristics of materials. Many…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-25 M. J. van Setten , M. Giantomassi , X. Gonze , G. -M. Rignanese , G. Hautier

We propose a novel Skew Gradient Embedding (SGE) framework for systematically reformulating thermodynamically consistent partial differential equation (PDE) models-capturing both reversible and irreversible processes-as generalized gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Xuelong Gu , Qi Wang

This paper presents an Accelerated Preconditioned Proximal Gradient Algorithm (APPGA) for effectively solving a class of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image reconstruction models with differentiable regularizers. We establish the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Yizun Lin , Yongxin He , C. Ross Schmidtlein , Deren Han

In this paper, the generalized finite element method (GFEM) for solving second order elliptic equations with rough coefficients is studied. New optimal local approximation spaces for GFEMs based on local eigenvalue problems involving a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Chupeng Ma , Robert Scheichl , Tim Dodwell

The incremental aggregated gradient algorithm is popular in network optimization and machine learning research. However, the current convergence results require the objective function to be strongly convex. And the existing convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Tao Sun , Yuejiao Sun , Dongsheng Li , Qing Liao

In this paper we propose a generalization of a class of Gaussian Semiparametric Estimators (GSE) of the fractional differencing parameter for long-range dependent multivariate time series. We generalize a known GSE-type estimator by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-23 Guilherme Pumi , Sílvia R. C. Lopes

Reduced density matrix functional theory for the case of solids is presented and a new exchange correlation functional based on a fractional power of the density matrix is introduced. We show that compared to other functionals, this…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Sharma , J. K. Dewhurst , N. N. Lathiotakis , E. K. U. Gross

Which density functional is the "best" for structure simulations of a particular material? A concise, first principles, approach to answer this question is presented. The random phase approximation (RPA)--- an accurate many body theory---…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-16 Menno Bokdam , Jonathan Lahnsteiner , Benjamin Ramberger , Tobias Schaefer , Georg Kresse