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The full-potential linearized augmented-plane wave (FP-LAPW) method is well known to enable most accurate calculations of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of crystals and surfaces. The implementation of atomic forces has…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Max Petersen , Frank Wagner , Lars Hufnagel , Matthias Scheffler , Peter Blaha , Karlheinz Schwarz

A grid-based real-space implementation of the Projector Augmented Wave (PAW) method of P. E. Blochl [Phys. Rev. B 50, 17953 (1994)] for Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations is presented. The use of uniform 3D real-space grids for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 J. J. Mortensen , L. B. Hansen , K. W. Jacobsen

The Projected Augmented Waves (PAW) method is based on a linear transformation between the pseudo wavefunctions and the all electron wavefunctions. To obtain high accuracy with this method, it is important that the local part of the linear…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-15 Garry Goldstein

We propose accurate computable error bounds for quantities of interest in plane-wave electronic structure calculations, in particular ground-state density matrices and energies, and interatomic forces. These bounds are based on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Eric Cancès , Geneviève Dusson , Gaspard Kemlin , Antoine Levitt

This study presents a novel optimisation technique for atomic structure calculations using the Flexible Atomic Code, focussing on complex multielectron systems relevant to $r$-process nucleosynthesis and kilonova modelling. We introduce a…

We devise a mixing algorithm for full-potential (FP) all-electron calculations in the linearized augmented planewave (LAPW) method. Pulay's direct inversion in the iterative subspace is complemented with the Kerker preconditioner and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-21 Jongmin Kim , Andris Gulans , Claudia Draxl

Quantum simulation of materials is a promising application area of quantum computers. To practically realize this promise, we must reduce quantum resources while maintaining accuracy. In electronic structure calculations on classical…

We examine the challenge of performing accurate electronic structure calculations at high pressures by comparing the results of all-electron full potential linearized augmented-plane-wave calculations with those of the projector augmented…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 Kanchan Sarkar , Mehmet Topsakal , N. A. W. Holzwarth , Renata M. Wentzcovitch

We propose the complex-plane generalization of a powerful algebraic sequence acceleration algorithm, the Method of Weighted Averages (MWA), to guarantee exponential-cum-algebraic convergence of Fourier and Fourier-Hankel (F-H) integral…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Kamalesh Sainath , Fernando Teixeira , Burkay Donderici

In the Projector Augmented Wave (PAW) method, a local potential, basis functions, and projector functions form an All-Electron (AE) basis for valence wave functions in the application of Density Functional Theory (DFT). The construction of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-08-05 R. J. Snow , A. F. Wright , C. Y. Fong

We provide a straightforward and efficient procedure to combine LDA+U total energy functional with the full potential linearized augmented plane wave method. A detailed derivation of the LDA+U Kohn-Sham type equations is presented for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 A. B. Shick , A. I. Liechtenstein , W. E. Pickett

In Kohn-Sham electronic structure computations, wave functions have singularities at nuclear positions. Because of these singularities, plane-wave expansions give a poor approximation of the eigenfunctions. In conjunction with the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Xavier Blanc , Eric Cancès , Mi-Song Dupuy

In this paper the salient features of the Plane Wave Expansion (PWE) method and the mixed variational technique are combined for the fast eigenvalue computations of arbitrarily complex phononic unit cells. This is done by expanding the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-29 Yan Lu , Ankit Srivastava

The Lagrange multiplier method has proven highly effective for mitigating the ill-conditioning of full waveform inversion (FWI), enabling robust and computationally efficient algorithms that converge to accurate velocity models even from…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Ali Gholami , Kamal Aghazade , Akshay Vishwakarma

In order to increase the accuracy of the linearized augmented plane wave method (LAPW) we present a new approach where the plane wave basis function is augmented by two different atomic radial components constructed at two different…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-10 A. V. Nikolaev , D. Lamoen , B. Partoens

We present an efficient implementation of Wiener filtering of real-space linear field and optimal quadratic estimator of its power spectrum Band-powers. We first recast the field reconstruction into an optimization problem, which we solve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Benjamin Horowitz , Uros Seljak , Grigor Aslanyan

We propose an adaptive planewave method for eigenvalue problems in electronic structure calculations. The method combines a priori convergence rates and accurate a posteriori error estimates into an effective way of updating the energy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Beilei Liu , Huajie Chen , Geneviève Dusson , Jun Fang , Xingyu Gao

Solving optimization problems on quantum annealers usually requires each variable of the problem to be represented by a connected set of qubits called a logical qubit or a chain. Chain weights, in the form of ferromagnetic coupling between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Hristo N. Djidjev

In this work, we present a computationally efficient methodology that utilizes a local real-space formulation of the projector augmented wave (PAW) method discretized with a finite-element (FE) basis to enable accurate and large-scale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Kartick Ramakrishnan , Sambit Das , Phani Motamarri

Optical force responses underpin nanophotonic actuator design, which requires a large number of force simulations to optimize structures. Commonly used computation methods, such as the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, are…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-30 Bo Gao , Henkjan Gersen , Simon Hanna
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