Convergent and Orthogonality Preserving Schemes for Approximating the Kohn-Sham Orbitals

Convergent and Orthogonality Preserving Schemes for Approximating the Kohn-Sham Orbitals

Year:    2023

Author:    Aihui Zhou, Xiaoying Dai, Liwei Zhang, Aihui Zhou

Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 16 (2023), Iss. 1 : pp. 1–25

Abstract

To obtain convergent numerical approximations without using any orthogonalization operations is of great importance in electronic structure calculations. In this paper, we propose and analyze a class of iteration schemes for the discretized Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory model, with which the iterative approximations are guaranteed to converge to the Kohn-Sham orbitals without any orthogonalization as long as the initial orbitals are orthogonal and the time step sizes are given properly. In addition, we present a feasible and efficient approach to get suitable time step sizes and report some numerical experiments to validate our theory.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/nmtma.OA-2022-0026

Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 16 (2023), Iss. 1 : pp. 1–25

Published online:    2023-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    25

Keywords:    Gradient flow based model density functional theory orthogonality preserving scheme convergence temporal discretization.

Author Details

Aihui Zhou

Xiaoying Dai

Liwei Zhang

Aihui Zhou