A Mortar Spectral Element Method for Full-Potential Electronic Structure Calculations

A Mortar Spectral Element Method for Full-Potential Electronic Structure Calculations

Year:    2021

Author:    Yichen Guo, Lueling Jia, Huajie Chen, Huiyuan Li, Zhimin Zhang

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 29 (2021), Iss. 5 : pp. 1541–1569

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an efficient mortar spectral element approximation scheme for full-potential electronic structure calculations. As a subsequent work of [24], the paper adopts a similar domain decomposition that the computational domain is first decomposed into a number of cuboid subdomains satisfying each nucleus is located in the center of one cube, in which a small ball element centered at the site of the nucleus is attached, and the remainder of the cube is further partitioned into six curvilinear hexahedrons. Specially designed Sobolev-orthogonal basis is adopted in each ball. Classic conforming spectral element approximations using mapped Jacobi polynomials are implemented on the curvilinear hexahedrons and the cuboid elements without nuclei. A mortar technique is applied to patch the different discretizations. Numerical experiments are carried out to demonstrate the efficiency of our scheme, especially the spectral convergence rates of the ground state approximations. Essentially the algorithm can be extended to general eigenvalue problems with the Coulomb singularities.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2020-0020

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 29 (2021), Iss. 5 : pp. 1541–1569

Published online:    2021-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    29

Keywords:    Kohn-Sham equation full-potential calculations mortar spectral element method exponential order of convergence.

Author Details

Yichen Guo

Lueling Jia

Huajie Chen

Huiyuan Li

Zhimin Zhang