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Robust Mixing for Ab-Initio Quantum Mechanical Calculations

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 نشر من قبل Laurence Marks
 تاريخ النشر 2008
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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We study the general problem of mixing for ab-initio quantum-mechanical problems. Guided by general mathematical principles and the underlying physics, we propose a multisecant form of Broydens second method for solving the self-consistent field equations of Kohn-Sham density functional theory. The algorithm is robust, requires relatively little finetuning and appears to outperform the current state of the art, converging for cases that defeat many other methods. We compare our technique to the conventional methods for problems ranging from simple to nearly pathological.



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