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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik
O 70: Poster Wednesday: Electronic Structure
O 70.9: Poster
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 17:45–20:00, Poster B2
PyFLOSIC: OpenSource implementation of Fermi-Löwdin orbital self-interaction corrected DFT — •Sebastian Schwalbe1, Lenz Fiedler1, Kai Trepte2, Torsten Hahn1, and Jens Kortus1 — 1TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Germany — 2Central Michigan University, Department of Physics, USA
We present the first developer version of the OpenSource implementation of the Fermi-Löwdin orbital self-interaction correction (FLO-SIC) [1,2]
within the highly modular and modern PySCF code infrastructure.
FLO-SIC aims to counter the well-known self-interaction error (SIE) of density functional theory (DFT) in a computationally efficient and size-extensive way,
replacing the explicit solution of the N2 localization equations with the optimization of 3N so called Fermi-orbital descriptors.
The new implementation allows the usage of different unified Hamiltonians and is written
in density matrix notation. These methodical changes allow the FLO-SIC method to be applicable on any functional implemented in the libxc library.
Various examples for FLO-SIC applied to LDA-PW, the GGA functional PBE as well as the promising metaGGA SCAN functional will be discussed in detail.
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S. Schwalbe et al., J. Comput. Chem., vol. 39, 2463 (2018)