First-principles computational screening of two-dimensional polar materials for photocatalytic water splitting

Y Gao, Q Zhang, W Hu, J Yang - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
The band gap constraint of the photocatalyst for overall water splitting limits the utilization of
solar energy. A strategy to broaden the range of light absorption is employing a two …

Recent advances in density functional theory approach for optoelectronics properties of graphene

AL Olatomiwa, T Adam, CO Edet, AA Adewale, A Chik… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Graphene has received tremendous attention among diverse 2D materials because of its
remarkable properties. Its emergence over the last two decades gave a new and distinct …

High-throughput inverse design for 2D ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors

J Chen, K Wu, W Hu, J Yang - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A long-standing goal in spintronics is electric control of spin. Herein, we perform an inverse
design to search for 2D ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors, whose spin texture can be …

Machine Learning K-Means Clustering of Interpolative Separable Density Fitting Algorithm for Accurate and Efficient Cubic-Scaling Exact Exchange Plus Random …

Z Zhang, X Yin, W Hu, J Yang - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The exact-exchange plus random-phase approximation (EXX+ RPA) method has emerged
as a crucial tool for precisely characterizing electronic structures in molecular and solid …

Riemannian Newton methods for energy minimization problems of Kohn–Sham type

R Altmann, D Peterseim, T Stykel - Journal of Scientific Computing, 2024 - Springer
This paper is devoted to the numerical solution of constrained energy minimization problems
arising in computational physics and chemistry such as the Gross–Pitaevskii and Kohn …

Low-rank approximations for accelerating plane-wave hybrid functional calculations in unrestricted and noncollinear spin density functional theory

S Chen, K Wu, W Hu, J Yang - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The adaptively compressed exchange (ACE) operator combined with interpolative
separable density fitting (ISDF) decomposition has been utilized to accelerate plane-wave …

[HTML][HTML] Version 2.0. 0-M-SPARC: Matlab-simulation package for ab-initio real-space calculations

B Zhang, X Jing, S Kumar, P Suryanarayana - SoftwareX, 2023 - Elsevier
M-SPARC is a Matlab code for performing ab initio Kohn–Sham Density Functional Theory
simulations. Version 2.0. 0 of the software further extends its capability to include relativistic …

Excitonic Effects of the Excited-State Photocatalytic Reaction at the Molecule/Metal Oxide Interface

L Wang, X Liu, L Wan, Y Gao, X Wang… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Excitonic effects caused by the Coulomb interaction between electrons and holes play a
crucial role in photocatalysis at the molecule/metal oxide interface. As an ideal model for …

Machine Learning K-Means Clustering in Interpolative Separable Density Fitting Algorithm: Advancing Accurate and Efficient Cubic-Scaling Density Functional …

J Li, L Yang, L Wan, W Hu, J Yang - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) is a crucial tool for accurately describing lattice
dynamics. The adaptively compressed polarizability (ACP) method reduces the …

An efficient implementation of analytical nuclear gradients for linear-response time-dependent density functional theory in the plane wave basis

J Liu, W Hu, J Yang - Electronic Structure, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an efficient implementation of the analytical nuclear gradient of linear-response
time-dependent density functional theory (LR-TDDFT) with the frozen core approximation …