Linear-Scaling DFT + U for Large Strongly-Correlated Systems

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Abstract

Electronic correlation effects, perhaps even more so than large system sizes, have long captivated electronic structure theorists. In this chapter, we seek to tackle both challenges simultaneously, detailing and demonstrating a linear-scaling implementation of an efficacious ab initio method for strongly-correlated materials. Specifically, we begin by describing the physics of strongly-correlated systems and we discuss the difficulties experienced, and their origins, when exchange-correlation functionals of the local density approximation type are applied to such materials.

Keywords

Density Kernel Hubbard Model Local Magnetic Moment Sparsity Pattern Wannier Function 
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  1. 1. Cavendish LaboratoryTCM Group, University of CambridgeCambridgeUK

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