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To leverage the redundancy between the electronic structure computed at each step of first-principles molecular dynamics, we present a data-driven modeling framework for Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory that bypasses the explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Siu Wun Cheung , Youngsoo Choi , Jean-Luc Fattebert , Jonas Kaufman , Daniel Osei-Kuffuor

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 constrained electron density method of embedding a Kohn-Sham system in a substrate system (first described by P. Cortona, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 44}, 8454 (1991) and T.A. Wesolowski and A. Warshel, J. Phys. Chem {\bf 97}, 8050 (1993)) is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 J. R. Trail , D. M. Bird

One of the potential applications of a quantum computer is solving quantum chemical systems. It is known that one of the fastest ways to obtain somewhat accurate solutions classically is to use approximations of density functional theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Thomas E. Baker , David Poulin

Time-dependent (current) density functional theory for many-electron systems strongly coupled to quantized electromagnetic modes of a microcavity is proposed. It is shown that the electron-photon wave function is a unique functional of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 I. V. Tokatly

Two of the most widely used electronic structure theory methods, namely Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham density functional theory, both requires the iterative solution of a set of Schr\"odinger-like equations. The speed of convergence of such…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 S. Hazra , U. Patil , S. Sanvito

Density Functional Theory's Kohn-Sham (KS) potential emerges as the minimizing effective potential in an unconstrained variational scheme that does not involve fixing the unknown single-electron density. The physical content behind the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 N. I. Gidopoulos

We formulate the Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) as a statistical theory in which the electron density is deter-mined from an average of correlated stochastic densities in a trace formula. The key idea is that it is sufficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser , Eran Rabani

In a recent Letter, Baer et al. present a stochastic method for Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations. Their convergence criterion is the self-averaging total energy per electron, which requires a number of statistical samples…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-15 Jonathan E. Moussa , Andrew D. Baczewski

We present an alternative to the Kohn-Sham formulation of density functional theory for the ground-state properties of strongly interacting electronic systems. The idea is to start from the limit of zero kinetic energy and systematically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Michael Seidl , G. Vignale

We describe a novel iterative strategy for Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations aimed at large systems (> 1000 electrons), applicable to metals and insulators alike. In lieu of explicit diagonalization of the Kohn-Sham…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-22 Amartya S. Banerjee , Lin Lin , Phanish Suryanarayana , Chao Yang , John E. Pask

Starting from the observation that one of the most successful methods for solving the Kohn-Sham equations for periodic systems -- the plane-wave method -- is a spectral method based on eigenfunction expansion, we formulate a spectral method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Amartya S. Banerjee , Ryan S. Elliott , Richard D. James

An efficient low-order scaling method is presented for large-scale electronic structure calculations based on the density functional theory using localized basis functions, which directly computes selected elements of the density matrix by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-04 Taisuke Ozaki

We present, within Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory calculations, a quantitative method to identify and assess the partitioning of a large quantum mechanical system into fragments. We then show how within this framework simple…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-28 Stephan Mohr , Michel Masella , Laura E. Ratcliff , Luigi Genovese

We present a new theory for partitioning simulations of periodic and solid-state systems into physically sound atomic contributions at the level of Kohn-Sham density functional theory. Our theory is based on spatially localized linear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Luna Zamok , Janus J. Eriksen

We introduce a new approach to density functional theory based on kinetic theory, showing that the Kohn-Sham equations can be derived as a macroscopic limit of a suitable Boltzmann kinetic equation in the limit of small mean free path…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Mendoza , S. Succi , H. J. Herrmann

Kohn-Sham density functional theory is one of the most widely used electronic structure theories. In the pseudopotential framework, uniform discretization of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian generally results in a large number of basis functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Lin Lin , Jianfeng Lu , Lexing Ying , E. Weinan

Given a set of Kohn-Sham orbitals from an insulating system, we present a simple, robust, efficient and highly parallelizable method to construct a set of, optionally orthogonal, localized basis functions for the associated subspace. Our…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 Anil Damle , Lin Lin , Lexing Ying

We develop a method in which the electronic densities of small fragments determined by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) are embedded using stochastic DFT to form the exact density of the full system. The new method preserves the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer , Eran Rabani

We investigate fully self-consistent multiscale quantum-classical algorithms on current generation superconducting quantum computers, in a unified approach to tackle the correlated electronic structure of large systems in both quantum…