Deep dive into machine learning density functional theory for materials science and chemistry

L Fiedler, K Shah, M Bussmann, A Cangi - Physical Review Materials, 2022 - APS
With the growth of computational resources, the scope of electronic structure simulations has
increased greatly. Artificial intelligence and robust data analysis hold the promise to …

Improved band gaps and structural properties from Wannier–Fermi–Löwdin self-interaction corrections for periodic systems

R Shinde, SS Yamijala, BM Wong - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The accurate prediction of band gaps and structural properties in periodic systems continues
to be one of the central goals of electronic structure theory. However, band gaps obtained …

[HTML][HTML] A step in the direction of resolving the paradox of Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction

RR Zope, Y Yamamoto, CM Diaz, T Baruah… - The Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Self-interaction (SI) error, which results when exchange-correlation contributions to the total
energy are approximated, limits the reliability of many density functional approximations …

[HTML][HTML] Stretched or noded orbital densities and self-interaction correction in density functional theory

C Shahi, P Bhattarai, K Wagle, B Santra… - The Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Semilocal approximations to the density functional for the exchange-correlation energy of a
many-electron system necessarily fail for lobed one-electron densities, including not only the …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of self-interaction error on electrostatic dipoles calculated using density functional theory

AI Johnson, KPK Withanage, K Sharkas… - The Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Spurious electron self-interaction in density functional approximations (DFAs) can lead to
inaccurate predictions of charge transfer in heteronuclear molecules that manifest as errors …

[HTML][HTML] Fermi-Löwdin orbital self-interaction correction using the strongly constrained and appropriately normed meta-GGA functional

Y Yamamoto, CM Diaz, L Basurto… - The Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Despite the success of density functional approximations (DFAs) in describing the electronic
properties of many-electron systems, the most widely used approximations suffer from self …

[HTML][HTML] Study of self-interaction errors in density functional predictions of dipole polarizabilities and ionization energies of water clusters using Perdew–Zunger and …

S Akter, Y Yamamoto, CM Diaz, KA Jackson… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We studied the effect of self-interaction error (SIE) on the static dipole polarizabilities of
water clusters modeled with three increasingly sophisticated, non-empirical density …

Spin-state gaps and self-interaction-corrected density functional approximations: Octahedral Fe (II) complexes as case study

S Romero, T Baruah, RR Zope - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Accurate prediction of a spin-state energy difference is crucial for understanding the spin
crossover phenomena and is very challenging for density functional approximations …

Self-consistent implementation of locally scaled self-interaction-correction method

Y Yamamoto, T Baruah, PH Chang… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Recently proposed local self-interaction correction (LSIC) method [Zope et al., J. Chem.
Phys. 151, 214108 (2019)] is a one-electron self-interaction-correction (SIC) method that …

The one-electron self-interaction error in 74 density functional approximations: a case study on hydrogenic mono-and dinuclear systems

DR Lonsdale, L Goerigk - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The self-interaction error (SIE), ie unphysical interactions of electrons with themselves, has
plagued developers and users of Density Functional Approximations (DFAs) since the …