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We propose a new, alternative method for ab-initio calculations of the electronic structure of solids, which has been specifically adapted to treat many-body effects in a more rigorous way than many existing ab-initio methods. We start from…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Schnell , G. Czycholl , R. C. Albers

There are many ways to numerically represent of chemical systems in order to compute their electronic structure. Basis functions may be localized in real-space (atomic orbitals), in momentum-space (plane waves), or in both components of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 James Brown , James D. Whitfield

In this paper, we study a generalized finite element method for solving second-order elliptic partial differential equations with rough coefficients. The method uses local approximation spaces computed by solving eigenvalue problems on…

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We present a computationally efficient approach to perform systematically convergent real-space all-electron Kohn-Sham DFT calculations for solids using an enriched finite element (FE) basis. The enriched FE basis is constructed by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Nelson D. Rufus , Bikash Kanungo , Vikram Gavini

In this article, we combine the periodic sinc basis set with a curvilinear coordinate system for electronic structure calculations. This extension allows for variable resolution across the computational domain, with higher resolution close…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Michael Lindsey , Sandeep Sharma

This study proposes an approach toward the first principles electronic structure calculation with the aid of symbolic-numeric solving. The symbolic computation enables us to express the Hartree-Fock-Roothaan equation and the molecular…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Akihito Kikuchi

We present here a Finite Element Method devoted to the simulation of 3D periodic structures of arbitrary geometry. The numerical method based on ARPACK and PARDISO libraries, is discussed with the aim of extracting the eigenmodes of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-21 Romain Garnier , André Barka , Olivier Pascal

The dual continuum model serves as a powerful tool in the modeling of subsurface applications. It allows a systematic coupling of various components of the solutions. The system is of multiscale nature as it involves high heterogeneous and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Siu Wun Cheung , Eric T. Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung , Maria Vasilyeva

We discuss our new implementation of the Real-space Electronic Structure method for studying the atomic and electronic structure of infinite periodic as well as finite systems, based on density functional theory. This improved version which…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 U. V. Waghmare , Hanchul Kim , I. J. Park , Normand Modine , P. Maragakis , Efthimios Kaxiras

We present a computationally efficient approach to perform large-scale all-electron density functional theory calculations by enriching the classical finite element basis with compactly supported atom-centered numerical basis functions that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Bikash Kanungo , Vikram Gavini

We present an approach based on density-functional theory for the calculation of fundamental gaps of both finite and periodic two-dimensional (2D) electronic systems. The computational cost of our approach is comparable to that of total…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-11 Alberto Guandalini , Alice Ruini , Esa Räsänen , Carlo Andrea Rozzi , Stefano Pittalis

As a second part of a previous paper, here the calculated electronic band structure of ideal Pt(100) and Pt(110) surfaces, studied using density functional theory and the empirical tight-binding method, is presented. A detailed discussion…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-17 H. J. Herrera-Suarez , A. Rubio-Ponce , D. Olguin

This paper addresses a multi-scale finite element method for second order linear elliptic equations with arbitrarily rough coefficient. We propose a local oversampling method to construct basis functions that have optimal local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Thomas Y. Hou , Pengfei Liu

We present a method for electronic structure calculations that retains all of the advantages of real space and addresses the inherent inefficiency of a regular grid, which has equal precision everywhere. The computations are carried out on…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Gil Zumbach , N. A. Modine , Efthimios Kaxiras

In this paper, we propose an orbital iteration based parallel approach for electronic structure calculations. This approach is based on our understanding of the single-particle equations of independent particles that move in an effective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-06 Xiaoying Dai , Xingao Gong , Aihui Zhou , Jinwei Zhu

We introduce an efficient finite-element approach for large-scale real-space pseudopotential density functional theory (DFT) calculations incorporating noncollinear magnetism and spin-orbit coupling. The approach, implemented within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-11 Nikhil Kodali , Phani Motamarri

In this paper, we construct an efficient numerical scheme for full-potential electronic structure calculations of periodic systems. In this scheme, the computational domain is decomposed into a set of atomic spheres and an interstitial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Xiaoxu Li , Huajie Chen

We use a finite-element method to obtain highly converged results for a nano-optical light scattering setup with a non-periodic geometry.

Optics · Physics 2013-10-11 S. Burger , L. Zschiedrich , J. Pomplun , F. Schmidt

We present a novel approach for the construction of basis functions to be employed in selective or adaptive h-refined finite element applications with arbitrary-level hanging node configurations. Our analysis is not restricted to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Eugenio Aulisa , Giacomo Capodaglio , Guoyi Ke

We define a generalized finite element method for the discretization of elliptic partial differential equations in heterogeneous media. An adaptive local finite element basis (AL basis) on a coarse mesh which does not resolve the matrix of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Monika Weymuth