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Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) has found widespread application in accurate electronic structure calculations. However, it can be computationally demanding especially for large-scale simulations, motivating recent efforts…

We present a reformulation of QM/MM as a fully quantum mechanical theory of interacting subsystems, all treated at the level of density functional theory (DFT). For the MM subsystem, which lacks orbitals, we assign an ad hoc electron…

Development of the electronic kinetic-energy density functional is a subject of major interest in theoretical physics and chemistry. In this work, the nonlocal kinetic-energy functional is developed in terms of the response function for the…

Imaginary-time time-dependent Density functional theory (it-TDDFT) has been proposed as an alternative method for obtaining the ground state within density functional theory (DFT) which avoids some of the difficulties with convergence…

Efficient hybrid DFT simulations of solid state materials would be extremely beneficial for computational chemistry and materials science, but is presently bottlenecked by difficulties in computing Hartree-Fock (HF) exchange with plane wave…

We revisit Kohn-Sham time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) equations and show that they derive from a canonical Hamiltonian formalism. We use this geometric description of the TDDFT dynamics to define families of symplectic…

Ideal density-functional approximations (DFAs) should account for dynamic, static, and nondynamic correlation. While common DFAs struggle with the latter two, the Ziegler-Rauk-Baerends-Daul multiplet sum method (MSM) provides a pragmatic…

We have developed a multi-objective optimization (MOO) procedure to construct modified-embedded-atom-method (MEAM) potentials with minimal manual fitting. This procedure has been applied successfully to develop a new MEAM potential for…

The continued miniaturization of semiconductor devices, represented by Moore's law, has reached the atomic scale limit, requiring nanoscale quantum mechanical effects to be included in device simulations without empirical parameters. For…

Multipole moments are the first order responses of the energy to spatial derivatives of the electric field strength. The quality of density functional theory (DFT) prediction of molecular multipole moments thus characterizes errors in…

We introduce and discuss a hybrid quantum-mechanics molecular-mechanics (QM-MM) approach for Car-Parrinello DFT simulations with pseudopotentials and planewaves basis, designed for the treatment of periodic systems. In this implementation…

The density functional theory (DFT) is a remarkably successful theory of electronic structure of matter. At the foundation of this theory lies the Kohn-Sham (KS) equation. In this paper, we describe the long-time behaviour of the…

First-principles simulations of electronic properties of hybrid inorganic/organic interfaces are challenging, as common density-functional theory (DFT) approximations target specific material classes like bulk semiconductors or gas-phase…

We introduce real-time density matrix embedding theory (DMET), a dynamical quantum embedding theory for computing non-equilibrium electron dynamics in strongly correlated systems. As in the previously developed static DMET, real-time DMET…

Density-potential functional theory (DPFT) is an alternative formulation of orbital-free density functional theory that may be suitable for modeling the electronic structure of large systems. To date, DPFT has been applied mainly to quantum…

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…

In this work, the dynamics of dephasing (without relaxation) in the presence of a chaotic oscillator is theoretically investigated. The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) framework was employed in tandem with the Lindblad…

We present M-SPARC: MATLAB-Simulation Package for Ab-initio Real-space Calculations. It can perform pseudopotential spin-polarized and unpolarized Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (DFT) simulations for isolated systems such as molecules…

We introduce a general, variational scheme applied to Kohn-Sham density functional theory that allows for partitioning of the ground-state density matrix into distinct spectral domains, each of which spanned by an independent diagonal…

Practical density functional theory (DFT) owes its success to the groundbreaking work of Kohn and Sham that introduced the exact calculation of the non-interacting kinetic energy of the electrons using an auxiliary mean-field system.…