Orbital-free density functional theory: An attractive electronic structure method for large-scale first-principles simulations

W Mi, K Luo, SB Trickey, M Pavanello - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Kohn–Sham Density Functional Theory (KSDFT) is the most widely used electronic structure
method in chemistry, physics, and materials science, with thousands of calculations cited …

The analysis of electron densities: from basics to emergent applications

D Koch, M Pavanello, X Shao, M Ihara… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The electron density determines all properties of a system of nuclei and electrons. It is both
computable and observable. Its topology allows gaining insight into the mechanisms of …

Orbital-free density functional theory for materials research

WC Witt, BG Del Rio, JM Dieterich… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) is both grounded in quantum physics and
suitable for direct simulation of thousands of atoms. This article describes the application of …

Machine learning for the solution of the Schrödinger equation

S Manzhos - Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Machine learning (ML) methods have recently been increasingly widely used in
quantum chemistry. While ML methods are now accepted as high accuracy approaches to …

Kinetic energy of hydrocarbons as a function of electron density and convolutional neural networks

K Yao, J Parkhill - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2016 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate a convolutional neural network trained to reproduce the Kohn–Sham
kinetic energy of hydrocarbons from an input electron density. The output of the network is …

Higher-order adaptive finite-element methods for Kohn–Sham density functional theory

P Motamarri, MR Nowak, K Leiter, J Knap… - Journal of Computational …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present an efficient computational approach to perform real-space electronic structure
calculations using an adaptive higher-order finite-element discretization of Kohn–Sham …

Nonlocal orbital-free kinetic energy density functional for semiconductors

C Huang, EA Carter - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2010 - APS
We propose a nonlocal kinetic energy density functional (KEDF) for semiconductors based
on the expected asymptotic behavior of its susceptibility function. The KEDF's kernel …

A simple generalized gradient approximation for the noninteracting kinetic energy density functional

K Luo, VV Karasiev, SB Trickey - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
A simple, unconventional, nonempirical, constraint-based orbital-free generalized gradient
approximation (GGA) noninteracting kinetic energy density functional is presented along …

Issues and challenges in orbital-free density functional calculations

VV Karasiev, SB Trickey - Computer Physics Communications, 2012 - Elsevier
Solving the Euler equation which corresponds to the energy minimum of a density functional
expressed in orbital-free form involves related but distinct computational challenges. One is …

Nonlocal pseudopotential energy density functional for orbital-free density functional theory

Q Xu, C Ma, W Mi, Y Wang, Y Ma - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) is an electronic structure method with a low
computational cost that scales linearly with the number of simulated atoms, making it …