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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.comp-ph2025★ 1 cited

An Atomic Cluster Expansion Potential for Twisted Multilayer Graphene

Yangshuai Wang, Drake Clark, Sambit Das +5

Twisted multilayer graphene, characterized by its moiré patterns arising from inter-layer rotational misalignment, serves as a rich platform for exploring quantum phenomena. Machin…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 5 cited

Ionic forces and stress tensor in all-electron DFT calculations using enriched finite element basis

Nelson D. Rufus, Vikram Gavini

The enriched finite element basis -- wherein the finite element basis is enriched with atom-centered numerical functions -- has recently been shown to be a computationally efficien…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 73 cited

DFT-FE 1.0: A massively parallel hybrid CPU-GPU density functional theory code using finite-element discretization

Sambit Das, Phani Motamarri, Vishal Subramanian +2

We present DFT-FE 1.0, building on DFT-FE 0.6 [Comput. Phys. Commun. 246, 106853 (2020)], to conduct fast and accurate large-scale density functional theory (DFT) calculations (rea…

physics.comp-ph2021

TTDFT: A GPU accelerated Tucker tensor DFT code for large-scale Kohn-Sham DFT calculations

Chih-Chuen Lin, Vikram Gavini

We present the Tucker tensor DFT (TTDFT) code which uses a tensor-structured algorithm with graphic processing unit (GPU) acceleration for conducting ground-state DFT calculations…

physics.comp-ph2020

Tensor-structured algorithm for reduced-order scaling large-scale Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations

Chih-Chuen Lin, Phani Motamarri, Vikram Gavini

We present a tensor-structured algorithm for efficient large-scale DFT calculations by constructing a Tucker tensor basis that is adapted to the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian and localized…

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-ph2020★ 6 cited

Treecode-accelerated Green Iteration for Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory

Nathan Vaughn, Vikram Gavini, Robert Krasny

We present a real-space computational method called treecode-accelerated Green Iteration (TAGI) for all-electron Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory. TAGI is based on a reformulati…

physics.comp-ph2019★ 195 cited

DFT-FE -- A massively parallel adaptive finite-element code for large-scale density functional theory calculations

Phani Motamarri, Sambit Das, Shiva Rudraraju +3

We present an accurate, efficient and massively parallel finite-element code, DFT-FE, for large-scale ab-initio calculations (reaching electrons) using Kohn-Sham den…

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-ph2017★ 29 cited

Configurational forces in electronic structure calculations using Kohn-Sham density functional theory

Phani Motamarri, Vikram Gavini

We derive the expressions for configurational forces in Kohn-Sham density functional theory, which correspond to the generalized variational force computed as the derivative of the…

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…

physics.comp-ph2016★ 12 cited

Spectrum-splitting approach for Fermi-operator expansion in all-electron Kohn-Sham DFT calculations

Phani Motamarri, Vikram Gavini, Kaushik Bhattacharya +1

We present a spectrum-splitting approach to conduct all-electron Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) calculations by employing Fermi-operator expansion of the Kohn-Sham Hamil…

physics.comp-ph2014★ 44 cited

A subquadratic-scaling subspace projection method for large-scale Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations using spectral finite-element discretization

Phani Motamarri, Vikram Gavini

We present a subspace projection technique to conduct large-scale Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations using spectral finite-element discretization. The proposed method…

physics.comp-ph2012★ 143 cited

Higher-order adaptive finite-element methods for Kohn-Sham density functional theory

Phani Motamarri, Michael R Nowak, Kenneth Leiter +2

We present an efficient computational approach to perform real-space electronic structure calculations using an adaptive higher-order finite-element discretization of Kohn-Sham den…

physics.comp-ph2011★ 31 cited

Higher-order adaptive finite-element methods for orbital-free density functional theory

Phani Motamarri, Mrinal Iyer, Jaroslaw Knap +1

In the present work, we investigate the computational efficiency afforded by higher-order finite-element discretization of the saddle-point formulation of orbital-free density func…