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most citedFirst-Principles Calculation of the Optical Rotatory Power of Periodic Systems: Modern Theory with Modern Functionals

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

A test drive for exchange-correlation functionals on noncollinear magnets: MnIr, MnGe, NiS, and YMnO

Marie-Therese Huebsch, Martijn Marsman, Jacques K. Desmarais +2

A first-principles description of noncollinear magnets is challenging, and the practical behavior of genuinely noncollinear exchange-correlation approximations is largely untested.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Model density approach to Ewald summations

Chiara Ribaldone, Jacques Kontak Desmarais

The evaluation of the electrostatic potential is fundamental to the study of condensed phase systems. We discuss the calculation of the relevant lattice summations by Ewald-type te…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Physical spin torques from exactly constrained exchange-correlation torques

Jacques K. Desmarais, Kamel Bencheikh, Giovanni Vignale +1

The problem of capturing physical spin torques in non-collinear magnetic systems has dominated the scene of spin-density functional theory (SDFT) in the last two decades. Progress…

cond-mat.other2024

Spherical to Cartesian Coordinates Transformation for Solid Harmonics Revisited

Chiara Ribaldone, Jacques Kontak Desmarais

Spherical Harmonic Gaussian type orbitals and Slater functions can be expressed using spherical coordinates or a linear combinations of the appropriate Cartesian functions. General…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Meta-Generalized-Gradient Approximation made Magnetic

Jacques K. Desmarais, Alessandro Erba, Giovanni Vignale +1

The Jacob's ladder of density functional theory (DFT) proposes the compelling view that by extending the form of successful approximations -- being guided by exact conditions and s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Electron localization function for non-collinear spins

Jacques K. Desmarais, Giovanni Vignale, Kamel Bencheikh +2

Understanding of bonding is key to modelling materials and predicting properties thereof. A widely adopted indicator of bonds and atomic shells is the electron localization functio…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Spin-currents via the gauge-principle for meta-generalized-gradient exchange-correlation functionals

Jacques K. Desmarais, Jefferson Maul, Bartolomeo Civalleri +3

The prominence of density functional theory (DFT) in the field of electronic structure computation stems from its ability to usefully balance accuracy and computational effort. At…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Generalized Kohn-Sham Approach for the Electronic Band Structure of Spin-Orbit Coupled Materials

Jacques K. Desmarais, Giacomo Ambrogio, Giovanni Vignale +2

Spin-current density functional theory (SCDFT) is a formally exact framework designed to handle the treatment of interacting many-electron systems including spin-orbit coupling at…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Hidden Relaxation Term in Approximate Treatments of Responses to Electric and Magnetic Fields

Jacques K. Desmarais

Recently a generalization of the ``\textit{modern theory of orbital magnetization}'' to include non-local Hamiltonians (e.g. hybrid functionals of the generalized Kohn-Sham theory)…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Structural Relaxation of Materials with Spin-Orbit Coupling: Analytical Forces in Spin-Current DFT

Jacques K. Desmarais, Alessandro Erba, Jean-Pierre Flament

Analytical gradients of the total energy are provided for local density and generalized-gradient hybrid approximations to generalized Kohn-Sham spin-current density functional theo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 4 cited

Efficient Calculation of Derivatives of Integrals in a Basis of Non-Separable Gaussians Through Exploitation of Sparsity

Jacques K. Desmarais, Alessandro De Frenza, Alessandro Erba

A computational procedure is developed for the efficient calculation of derivatives of integrals over non-separable Gaussian-type basis functions, used for the evaluation of gradie…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Perturbation Theory Treatment of Spin-Orbit Coupling. III: Coupled Perturbed Method for Solids

Jacques K. Desmarais, Alberto Boccuni, Jean-Pierre Flament +2

A previously proposed non-canonical coupled-perturbed Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT)/Hartree-Fock (HF) treatment for spin-orbit coupling is here generalized to infini…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 11 cited

First-Principles Calculation of the Optical Rotatory Power of Periodic Systems: Modern Theory with Modern Functionals

Jacques K. Desmarais, Bernard Kirtman, Michel Rérat

An analysis of orbital magnetization in band insulators is provided. It is shown that a previously proposed electronic orbital angular-momentum operator generalizes the ``modern th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 9 cited

Spin Current Density Functional Theory of the Quantum Spin-Hall Phase

William P. Comaskey, Filippo Bodo, Alessandro Erba +2

The spin current density functional theory (SCDFT) is the generalization of the standard DFT to treat a fermionic system embedded in the effective external field produced by the sp…