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20192025
most citedOn preconditioning the self-consistent field iteration in real-space Density Functional Theory

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14 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Ab initio study of flexoelectricity in MXene monolayers

Shashikant Kumar, Zixi Zhang, Phanish Suryanarayana

We investigate flexoelectricity in MXene monolayers from first principles. Specifically, we compute the transverse flexoelectric coefficients of 126 MXene monolayers along their tw…

physics.chem-ph2024

SPARC-X-API: Versatile Python Interface for Real-space Density Functional Theory Calculations

Tian Tian, Lucas R Timmerman, Shashikant Kumar +3

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is the de facto workhorse for large-scale electronic structure calculations in chemistry and materials science. While plane-wave DFT implementations…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Cyclic and helical symmetry-informed machine learned force fields: Application to lattice vibrations in carbon nanotubes

Abhiraj Sharma, Shashikant Kumar, Phanish Suryanarayana

We present a formalism for developing cyclic and helical symmetry-informed machine learned force fields (MLFFs). In particular, employing the smooth overlap of atomic positions des…

physics.comp-ph2024

Shock Hugoniot calculations using on-the-fly machine learned force fields with ab initio accuracy

Shashikant Kumar, John E. Pask, Phanish Suryanarayana

We present a framework for computing the shock Hugoniot using on-the-fly machine learned force field (MLFF) molecular dynamics simulations. In particular, we employ an MLFF model b…

physics.comp-ph2024

Overcoming the chemical complexity bottleneck in on-the-fly machine learned molecular dynamics simulations

Lucas R. Timmerman, Shashikant Kumar, Phanish Suryanarayana +1

We develop a framework for on-the-fly machine learned force field molecular dynamics simulations based on the multipole featurization scheme that overcomes the bottleneck with the…

physics.comp-ph2024

On-the-fly machine learned force fields for the study of warm dense matter: application to diffusion and viscosity of CH

Shashikant Kumar, Xin Jing, John E. Pask +1

We develop a framework for on-the-fly machine learned force field (MLFF) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of warm dense matter (WDM). In particular, we employ an MLFF scheme bas…