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Electronic structure simulation is an anticipated application for quantum computers. Due to high-dimensional quantum entanglement in strongly correlated systems, the quantum resources required to perform such simulations are far beyond the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Jie Liu , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

\textit{Ab initio} pseudo-atomic orbital (PAO) Hamiltonians express the electronic structure of a solid in a compact, localized basis that spans the same Hilbert space as a conventional Slater--Koster tight-binding model, thereby providing…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

We present an efficient computational approach to perform real-space electronic structure calculations using an adaptive higher-order finite-element discretization of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT). To this end, we develop an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Phani Motamarri , Michael R Nowak , Kenneth Leiter , Jaroslaw Knap , Vikram Gavini

The discretization approximation method commonly used to simulate the dynamics of quantum system coupled to the environment in continuum often suffers from the periodically partial recovery of initial state because of the effect of finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 H. T. Cui , Y. A. Yan , M. Qin , X. X. Yi

Recently, we have proposed the adaptive local basis set for electronic structure calculations based on Kohn-Sham density functional theory in a pseudopotential framework. The adaptive local basis set is efficient and systematically…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 Gaigong Zhang , Lin Lin , Wei Hu , Chao Yang , John E. Pask

We review our recently developed electronic structure calculation methods used for the dynamics of large-scale solids or liquids with an efficient algorithm for large scale simultaneous linear equations. The electronic structure calculation…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-02 T. Fujiwara , S. Yamamoto , T. Hoshi , S. Nishino , H. Teng , T. Sogabe , S. -L. Zhang , M. Ikeda , M. Nakashima , N. Watanabe

Quantum chemistry provides a target for quantum simulation of considerable scientific interest and industrial importance. The majority of algorithms to date have been based on a second-quantized representation of the electronic structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Borzu Toloui , Peter J. Love

Chemical accuracy serves as an important metric for assessing the effectiveness of the numerical method in Kohn--Sham density functional theory. It is found that to achieve chemical accuracy, not only the Kohn--Sham wavefunctions but also…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Yang Kuang , Yedan Shen , Guanghui Hu

A new scheme of first-principles computation for strongly correlated electron systems is proposed. This scheme starts from the local-density approximation (LDA) at high-energy band structure, while the low-energy effective Hamiltonian is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshiki Imai , Igor V. Solovyev , Masatoshi Imada

The exchange-correlation energy in Kohn-Sham density functional theory is expressed as a functional of the electronic density and the Kohn-Sham orbitals. An alternative to Kohn-Sham theory is to express the energy as a functional of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Goedecker , C. Umrigar

Graph-based linear scaling electronic structure theory for quantum-mechanical molecular dynamics simulations is adapted to the most recent shadow potential formulations of extended Lagrangian Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics, including…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Christian F. A. Negre , Michael E. Wall , Anders M. N. Niklasson

Despite their rich information content, electronic structure data amassed at high volumes in $ab$ $initio$ molecular dynamics simulations are generally under-utilized. We introduce a transferable high-fidelity neural network representation…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-22 Qiangqiang Gu , Linfeng Zhang , Ji Feng

The electron density of a molecule or material has recently received major attention as a target quantity of machine-learning models. A natural choice to construct a model that yields transferable and linear-scaling predictions is to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Andrea Grisafi , Alan M. Lewis , Mariana Rossi , Michele Ceriotti

Considering recent advancements and successes in the development of efficient quantum algorithms for electronic structure calculations --- alongside impressive results using machine learning techniques for computation --- hybridizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Rongxin Xia , Sabre Kais

Quantum algorithms for electronic-structure simulations are actively being developed, yet many hybrid quantum-classical approaches are bottlenecked by the measurement overhead associated with large molecular Hamiltonians. Here we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Benjamin Mokhtar , Noboru Inoue , Takashi Tsuchimochi

Density functional theory is currently the most widely applied method in electronic structure theory. The Kohn-Sham method, based on a fictitious system of non-interacting particles, is the work horse of the theory. The particular form of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Hubertus J J van Dam

We present an implementation in a linear-scaling density-functional theory code of an electronic enthalpy method, which has been found to be natural and efficient for the ab initio calculation of finite systems under hydrostatic pressure.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Niccolò R. C. Corsini , Andrea Greco , Nicholas D. M. Hine , Carla Molteni , Peter D. Haynes

We introduce a practical and efficient approach for calculating the all-electron full potential bandstructure in real space, employing a finite element basis. As an alternative to the k-space method, the method involves the self-consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-25 Dongming Li , James Kestyn , Eric Polizzi

In this paper, we investigate the energy minimization model of the ensemble Kohn-Sham density functional theory for metallic systems, in which a pseudo-eigenvalue matrix and a general smearing approach are involved. We study the invariance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Xiaoying Dai , Stefano de Gironcoli , Bin Yang , Aihui Zhou

A new method for calculating the total energy of Si systems is presented. The method is based on the effective-medium theory concept of a reference system. Instead of calculating the energy of an atom in the system of interest a reference…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-14 K. Stokbro , N. Chetty , K. W. Jacobsen , J. K. Nørskov