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20182026
most citedRoadmap on Electronic Structure Codes in the Exascale Era

74 citations · 120 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CE2026

Extreme-Scale Linear-Scaling Kohn-Sham DFT at 100 Million Atoms: Bridging Quantum Simulations and Experiments

Qimen Xu, Yu Zhang, Dixing Ni +11

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) remains the workhorse of ab initio materials simulation, yet cubic computational and quadratic memory scaling have confined calculations t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Self-consistent convolutional density functional approximations: Application to adsorption at metal surfaces

Sushree Jagriti Sahoo, Qimen Xu, Xiangyun Lei +5

The exchange-correlation (XC) functional in density functional theory is used to approximate multi-electron interactions. A plethora of different functionals is available, but near…

physics.comp-ph2023

Version 2.0.0 -- SPARC: Simulation Package for Ab-initio Real-space Calculations

Boqin Zhang, Xin Jing, Qimen Xu +8

SPARC is an accurate, efficient, and scalable real-space electronic structure code for performing ab initio Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations. Version 2.0.0 of the s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 74 cited

Roadmap on Electronic Structure Codes in the Exascale Era

Vikram Gavini, Stefano Baroni, Volker Blum +38

Electronic structure calculations have been instrumental in providing many important insights into a range of physical and chemical properties of various molecular and solid-state…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 6 cited

Real-space density kernel method for Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations at high temperature

Qimen Xu, Xin Jing, Boqin Zhang +2

Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations using conventional diagonalization based methods become increasingly expensive as temperature increases due to the need to compute…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 12 cited

Implementation of Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction in real space using Fermi-Löwdin orbitals

Carlos M. Diaz, Phanish Suryanarayana, Qimen Xu +3

Most widely used density functional approximations suffer from self-interaction (SI) error, which can be corrected using the Perdew-Zunger (PZ) self-interaction correction (SIC). W…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 5 cited

SPARC: Simulation Package for Ab-initio Real-space Calculations

Qimen Xu, Abhiraj Sharma, Benjamin Comer +5

We present SPARC: Simulation Package for Ab-initio Real-space Calculations. SPARC can perform Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations for isolated systems such as molecule…

physics.comp-ph2019★ 3 cited

M-SPARC: MATLAB-Simulation Package for Ab-initio Real-space Calculations

Qimen Xu, Abhiraj Sharma, Phanish Suryanarayana

We present M-SPARC: MATLAB-Simulation Package for Ab-initio Real-space Calculations. It can perform pseudopotential spin-polarized and unpolarized Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theo…

physics.comp-ph2019★ 20 cited

On preconditioning the self-consistent field iteration in real-space Density Functional Theory

Shashikant Kumar, Qimen Xu, Phanish Suryanarayana

We present a real-space formulation for isotropic Fourier-space preconditioners used to accelerate the self-consistent field iteration in Density Functional Theory calculations. Sp…

physics.comp-ph2018

Discrete discontinuous basis projection method for large-scale electronic structure calculations

Qimen Xu, Phanish Suryanarayana, John E. Pask

We present an approach to accelerate real-space electronic structure methods several fold, without loss of accuracy, by reducing the dimension of the discrete eigenproblem that mus…