Tensor-structured algorithm for reduced-order scaling large-scale Kohn–Sham density functional theory calculations

Autor: Chih-Chuen Lin, Phani Motamarri, Vikram Gavini
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: npj Computational Materials, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2057-3960
DOI: 10.1038/s41524-021-00517-5
Popis: Abstract We present a tensor-structured algorithm for efficient large-scale density functional theory (DFT) calculations by constructing a Tucker tensor basis that is adapted to the Kohn–Sham Hamiltonian and localized in real-space. The proposed approach uses an additive separable approximation to the Kohn–Sham Hamiltonian and an L 1 localization technique to generate the 1-D localized functions that constitute the Tucker tensor basis. Numerical results show that the resulting Tucker tensor basis exhibits exponential convergence in the ground-state energy with increasing Tucker rank. Further, the proposed tensor-structured algorithm demonstrated sub-quadratic scaling with system-size for both systems with and without a gap, and involving many thousands of atoms. This reduced-order scaling has also resulted in the proposed approach outperforming plane-wave DFT implementation for systems beyond 2000 electrons.
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