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By including a fraction of exact exchange (EXX), hybrid functionals reduce the self-interaction error in semi-local density functional theory (DFT), and thereby furnish a more accurate and reliable description of the electronic structure in systems throughout biology, chemistry, physics, and materials science. However, the high computational cost associated with the evaluation of all required EXX quantities has limited the applicability of hybrid DFT in the treatment of large molecules and complex condensed-phase materials. To overcome this limitation, we have devised a linear-scaling yet formally exact approach that utilizes a local representation of the occupied orbitals (e.g., maximally localized Wannier functions, MLWFs) to exploit the sparsity in the real-space evaluation of the quantum mechanical exchange interaction in finite-gap systems. In this work, we present a detailed description of the theoretical and algorithmic advances required to perform MLWF-based ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations of large-scale condensed-phase systems at the hybrid DFT level. We provide a comprehensive description of the exx algorithm, which is currently implemented in the Quantum ESPRESSO program and employs a hybrid MPI/OpenMP parallelization scheme to efficiently utilize high-performance computing (HPC) resources. This is followed by a critical assessment of the accuracy and parallel performance of this approach when performing AIMD simulations of liquid water in the canonical ensemble. With access to HPC resources, we demonstrate that exx enables hybrid DFT based AIMD simulations of condensed-phase systems containing 500-1000 atoms with a walltime cost that is comparable to semi-local DFT. In doing so, exx takes us closer to routinely performing AIMD simulations of large-scale condensed-phase systems for sufficiently long timescales at the hybrid DFT level of theory.
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