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Density functional theory (DFT) has emerged as one of the most versatile and lucrative approaches in electronic structure calculations of many-electron systems in past four decades. Here we give an account of the development of a…
Classical Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a statistical-mechanical framework to analyze fluids, which accounts for nanoscale fluid inhomogeneities and non-local intermolecular interactions. DFT can be applied to a wide range of…
We develop a spectrally accurate numerical method to compute solutions of a model partial differential equation used in plasma physics to describe diffusion in velocity space due to Fokker-Planck collisions. The solution is represented as a…
We present a numerical modeling workflow based on machine learning (ML) which reproduces the the total energies produced by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) at finite electronic temperature to within chemical accuracy at negligible…
Eigenvalue problems and linear systems of equations involving large symmetric matrices are commonly solved in quantum chemistry using Krylov space methods, such as the Davidson algorithm. The preconditioner is a key component of Krylov…
We report on the GPU port of the Abinit high-performance simulation code for plane-wave DFT calculations. Large-scale electronic structure calculations require computing the electronic wave function by solving the Kohn-Sham equations…
High frequency integral equation methodologies display the capability of reproducing single-scattering returns in frequency-independent computational times and employ a Neumann series formulation to handle multiple-scattering effects. This…
Recently, sophisticated deep learning-based approaches have been developed for generating efficient initial guesses to accelerate the convergence of density functional theory (DFT) calculations. While the actual initial guesses are often…
We present an implementation of time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) in the linear response formalism enabling the calculation of low energy optical absorption spectra for large molecules and nanostructures. The method avoids…
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…
Kohn-Sham density functional theory is the base of modern computational approaches to electronic structures. Their accuracy vitally relies on the exchange-correlation energy functional, which encapsulates electron-electron interaction…
We discuss techniques for accelerating the self consistent field (SCF) iteration for solving the Kohn-Sham equations. These techniques are all based on constructing approximations to the inverse of the Jacobian associated with a fixed point…
We present a parallel version of the well-known Split-Step Fourier method (SSF) for solving the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, a mathematical model describing wave packet propagation in fiber optic lines. The algorithm is implemented…
Convergence failure and slow convergence rate are among the biggest challenges with solving the system of non-linear equations numerically. While using strictly small time steps sizes and unconditionally stable fully implicit scheme…
We propose a flexible machine-learning framework for solving eigenvalue problems of diffusion operators in moderately large dimension. We improve on existing Neural Networks (NNs) eigensolvers by demonstrating our approach ability to…
Quantum subspace diagonalization (QSD) algorithms have emerged as a competitive family of algorithms that avoid many of the optimization pitfalls associated with parameterized quantum circuit algorithms. While the vast majority of the QSD…
In this short paper, the authors report a new computational approach in the context of Density Functional Theory (DFT). It is shown how it is possible to speed up the self-consistent cycle (iteration) characterizing one of the most…
Large-scale applications of energy density functional (EDF) methods depend on fast and reliable algorithms to solve the associated non-linear self-consistency problem. When dealing with large single-particle variational spaces, existing…
We discuss two approaches to solving the parametric (or stochastic) eigenvalue problem. One of them uses a Taylor expansion and the other a Chebyshev expansion. The parametric eigenvalue problem assumes that the matrix $A$ depends on a…
We present a solution of the full TDDFT eigenvalue equation in the linear response formalism exhibiting a linear-scaling computational complexity with system size, without relying on the simplifying Tamm-Dancoff approximation (TDA). The…