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 …

DFT: A theory full of holes?

A Pribram-Jones, DA Gross… - Annual review of physical …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
This article is a rough, quirky overview of both the history and present state of the art of
density functional theory. The field is so huge that no attempt to be comprehensive is made …

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 …

Understanding machine‐learned density functionals

L Li, JC Snyder, IM Pelaschier, J Huang… - … Journal of Quantum …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Machine learning (ML) is an increasingly popular statistical tool for analyzing either
measured or calculated data sets. Here, we explore its application to a well‐defined physics …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Many recent density functionals are numerically ill-behaved

S Lehtola, MAL Marques - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Most computational studies in chemistry and materials science are based on the use of
density functional theory. Although the exact density functional is unknown, several density …

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 …

Orbital-free bond breaking via machine learning

JC Snyder, M Rupp, K Hansen, L Blooston… - The Journal of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Using a one-dimensional model, we explore the ability of machine learning to approximate
the non-interacting kinetic energy density functional of diatomics. This nonlinear …

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 …