Hybrid functionals applied to perovskites

C Franchini - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
After being used for years in the chemistry community to describe molecular properties,
hybrid functionals have been increasingly and successfully employed for a wide range of …

Screened hybrid functional applied to 33 transition-metal perovskites LaO ( = Sc–Cu): Influence of the exchange mixing parameter on the structural …

J He, C Franchini - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2012 - APS
We assess the performance of the Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof (HSE) screened hybrid density
functional scheme applied to the perovskite family La MO 3 (M= Sc–Cu) and discuss the role …

Strong coupling of Jahn-Teller distortion to oxygen-octahedron rotation and functional properties in epitaxially strained orthorhombic LaMnO

JH Lee, KT Delaney, E Bousquet, NA Spaldin… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
First-principles calculations reveal a large cooperative coupling of Jahn-Teller (JT) distortion
to oxygen-octahedron rotations in perovskite LaMnO 3. The combination of the two …

Where does the density localize in the solid state? Divergent behavior for hybrids and DFT+ U

Q Zhao, HJ Kulik - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2018 - ACS Publications
Approximate density functional theory (DFT) is widely used in chemistry and physics, despite
delocalization errors that affect energetic and density properties. DFT+ U (ie, semilocal DFT …

Converged quasiparticle energies for transition metal oxide perovskites

Z Ergönenc, B Kim, P Liu, G Kresse, C Franchini - Physical Review Materials, 2018 - APS
The ab initio calculation of quasiparticle (QP) energies is a technically and computationally
challenging problem. In condensed matter physics, the most widely used approach to …

Electronic, structural, and magnetic properties of phase transition at high temperature

P Rivero, V Meunier, W Shelton - Physical review B, 2016 - APS
We develop a procedure to determine the portion of exact Hartree-Fock exchange
interaction contained in a hybrid density functional to treat the range of electronic correlation …

Electronic structure of

M Sotoudeh, S Rajpurohit, P Blöchl, D Mierwaldt… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The electronic structure of Pr 1− x Ca x MnO 3 has been investigated using a combination of
first-principles calculations, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), x-ray absorption …

Assessing the performance of self-consistent hybrid functional for band gap calculation in oxide semiconductors

J He, C Franchini - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we assess the predictive power of the self-consistent hybrid functional scPBE0
in calculating the band gap of oxide semiconductors. The computational procedure is based …

Stable surfaces that bind too tightly: Can range-separated hybrids or DFT+ U improve paradoxical descriptions of surface chemistry?

Q Zhao, HJ Kulik - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Approximate, semilocal density functional theory (DFT) suffers from delocalization error that
can lead to a paradoxical model of catalytic surfaces that both overbind adsorbates yet are …

Impact of approximate DFT density delocalization error on potential energy surfaces in transition metal chemistry

F Liu, HJ Kulik - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2019 - ACS Publications
For approximate density functional theory (DFT) to be useful in catalytic applications of
transition metal complexes, modeling strategies must simultaneously address electronic …