4 papers
Rationalizing defect formation energies in metals and semiconductors with semilocal density functionals
Jorge Vega Bazantes, Timo Lebeda, Akilan Ramasamy +4
The study of defects in materials is of utmost importance for technological applications and the design of new materials. In this work, we analyze the performance of density functi…
Meta-generalized gradient approximation made in the Hartree gauge
Yan Oueis, Akilan Ramasamy, James W. Furness +3
In density functional theory (DFT), exact constraints, fundamental mathematical properties of the exchange-correlation (XC) energy and its underlying XC hole, along with paradigm s…
How Semilocal Are Semilocal Density Functional Approximations? -Tackling Self-Interaction Error in One-Electron Systems
Akilan Ramasamy, Lin Hou, Jorge Vega Bazantes +4
Self-interaction error (SIE), arising from the imperfect cancellation of the spurious classical Coulomb interaction between an electron and itself, is a persistent challenge in mod…
Advances and challenges of SCAN and r2SCAN density functionals in transition-metal compounds
Yubo Zhang, Akilan Ramasamy, Kanun Pokharel +4
Transition-metal compounds (TMCs) with open-shell d-electrons are characterized by a complex interplay of lattice, charge, orbital, and spin degrees of freedom, giving rise to a di…