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most citedLarge-scale all-electron density functional theory calculations using an enriched finite element basis

50 citations · 118 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Vertical ionization energies from inverse generalized Kohn-Sham calculations at fixed electron density

Vishal Subramanian, Bikash Kanungo, John P. Perdew +2

The exact Kohn--Sham (KS) system must have its highest occupied orbital energy equal to the negative of the lowest vertical ionization energy (VIE). No comparable theorem connects…

physics.chem-ph2026

Machine-learned Laplacian-level density functional from exact exchange-correlation potentials and energies

Arghadwip Paul, Bikash Kanungo, Sambit Das +1

We present NNLap, a machine-learned Laplacian-level exchange-correlation (XC) functional that augments PBE with a neural-network correction depending on the electron density, its g…

physics.chem-ph2026

Exchange-Correlation Potentials and Energies from Inverse Generalized Kohn-Sham Calculations

Vishal Subramanian, Bikash Kanungo, Vaibhav Khanna +2

The Kohn-Sham (KS) formulation of density functional theory (DFT) is a map from the many-electron problem to an effective single-electron problem that is governed by a local multip…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Large-scale pseudopotential density functional theory calculations using orthogonalized enriched finite element basis

Avirup Sircar, Bikash Kanungo, Sambit Das +1

We present an efficient and scalable computational framework for pseudopotential Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) calculations using an enriched finite element (EFE) ba…

physics.chem-ph2025

Field theoretic atomistics: Learning thermodynamic and variational surrogate to density functional theory

Sambit Das, Bikash Kanungo, Arghadwip Paul +1

The Hohenberg-Kohn (HK) theorem -- the bedrock of density functional theory (DFT) -- establishes a universal map from the external potential to the energy. It also relates the elec…

physics.comp-ph2025

invDFT: A CPU-GPU massively parallel tool to find exact exchange-correlation potentials from groundstate densities

Vishal Subramanian, Bikash Kanungo, Vikram Gavini

Density functional theory (DFT) remains the most widely used electronic structure method. Although exact in principle, in practice, it relies on approximations to the exchange-corr…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 3 cited

Exchange-Correlation Potentials and Energy Densities through Orbital Averaging and Aufbau Integration

Vaibhav Khanna, Bikash Kanungo, Jeffrey Hatch +2

Exchange-correlation potentials vxc and energy densities exc are derived for integer and fractional electron counts using an orbital-averaged Kohn-Sham inversion procedure. The ref…

physics.chem-ph2024

Learning local and semi-local density functionals from exact exchange-correlation potentials and energies

Bikash Kanungo, Jeffrey Hatch, Paul M. Zimmerman +1

Finding accurate exchange-correlation (XC) functionals remains the defining challenge in density functional theory (DFT). Despite 40 years of active development, the desired chemic…

physics.chem-ph2024

Accelerating inverse Kohn-Sham calculations using reduced density matrices

Bikash Kanungo, Soumi Tribedi, Paul M. Zimmerman +1

The Ryabinkin-Kohut-Staroverov (RKS) and Kanungo-Zimmerman-Gavini (KZG) methods offer two approaches to find exchange-correlation (XC) potentials from ground state densities. The R…

math.NA2024★ 1 cited

Exponential time propagators for elastodynamics

Paavai Pari, Bikash Kanungo, Vikram Gavini

We propose a computationally efficient and systematically convergent approach for elastodynamics simulations. We recast the second-order dynamical equation of elastodynamics into a…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 3 cited

Examining the Impact of Local Condition Violations on Energy Computations in DFT

Vaibhav Khanna, Bikash Kanungo, Vikram Gavini +2

This work introduces Extent of Violation Indices (EVIs), a novel metric for quantifying how well exchange-correlation functionals adhere to local conditions. Applying EVIs to a div…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 12 cited

Exact and model exchange-correlation potentials for open-shell systems

Bikash Kanungo, Jeffrey Hatch, Paul M. Zimmerman +1

The conventional approaches to the inverse density functional theory problem typically assume non-degeneracy of the Kohn-Sham (KS) eigenvalues, greatly hindering their use in open-…

physics.chem-ph2023

Unconventional Error Cancellation Explains the Success of Hartree-Fock Density Functional Theory for Barrier Heights

Bikash Kanungo, Aaron D. Kaplan, Chandra Shahi +2

Energy barriers, which control the rates of chemical reactions, are seriously underestimated by computationally-efficient semi-local approximations for the exchange-correlation ene…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 14 cited

Exchange Correlation Potentials from Full Configuration Interaction in a Slater Orbital Basis

Soumi Tribedi, Duy-Khoi Dang, Bikash Kanungo +2

Ryabinkin-Kohut-Staroverov (RKS) theory builds a bridge between wave function theory and density functional theory by using quantities from the former to produce accurate exchange-…

physics.chem-ph2022

Efficient all-electron time-dependent density functional theory calculations using an enriched finite element basis

Bikash Kanungo, Nelson D. Rufus, Vikram Gavini

We present an efficient and systematically convergent approach to all-electron real-time time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations using a mixed basis, termed a…

physics.chem-ph2021

A comparison of exact and model exchange-correlation potentials for molecules

Bikash Kanungo, Paul M. Zimmerman, Vikram Gavini

Accurate exchange-correlation (XC) potentials for 3-dimensional systems -- via solution of the \emph{inverse} density functional theory (DFT) problem -- are now available to test t…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 16 cited

Fast and robust all-electron density functional theory calculations in solids using orthogonalized enriched finite elements

Nelson D. Rufus, Bikash Kanungo, Vikram Gavini

We present a computationally efficient approach to perform systematically convergent real-space all-electron Kohn-Sham DFT calculations for solids using an enriched finite element…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 19 cited

Real-time time-dependent density functional theory using higher order finite element methods

Bikash Kanungo, Vikram Gavini

We present a computationally efficient approach to solve the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations in real-time using higher-order finite-element spatial discretization, applicable to…

physics.comp-ph2016★ 50 cited

Large-scale all-electron density functional theory calculations using an enriched finite element basis

Bikash Kanungo, Vikram Gavini

We present a computationally efficient approach to perform large-scale all-electron density functional theory calculations by enriching the classical finite element basis with comp…