First-principles calculations for point defects in solids

C Freysoldt, B Grabowski, T Hickel, J Neugebauer… - Reviews of modern …, 2014 - APS
Point defects and impurities strongly affect the physical properties of materials and have a
decisive impact on their performance in applications. First-principles calculations have …

Maximally localized Wannier functions: Theory and applications

N Marzari, AA Mostofi, JR Yates, I Souza… - Reviews of Modern …, 2012 - APS
The electronic ground state of a periodic system is usually described in terms of extended
Bloch orbitals, but an alternative representation in terms of localized “Wannier functions” …

Fractional Chern Insulator in Twisted Bilayer

C Wang, XW Zhang, X Liu, Y He, X Xu, Y Ran, T Cao… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
A recent experiment has reported the first observation of a zero-field fractional Chern
insulator (FCI) phase in twisted bilayer MoTe 2 moiré superlattices [J. Cai, Signatures of …

Molecular dynamics with on-the-fly machine learning of quantum-mechanical forces

Z Li, JR Kermode, A De Vita - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
We present a molecular dynamics scheme which combines first-principles and machine-
learning (ML) techniques in a single information-efficient approach. Forces on atoms are …

Machine Learning Energies of 2 Million Elpasolite Crystals

FA Faber, A Lindmaa, OA Von Lilienfeld, R Armiento - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Elpasolite is the predominant quaternary crystal structure (AlNaK 2 F 6 prototype) reported in
the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database. We develop a machine learning model to …

van der Waals density functional made accurate

I Hamada - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
I propose a van der Waals density functional (vdW-DF) that improves upon the description of
energetics and geometries of molecules, solids, and adsorption systems over the original …

Ion irradiation and modification: The role of coupled electronic and nuclear energy dissipation and subsequent nonequilibrium processes in materials

Y Zhang, WJ Weber - Applied Physics Reviews, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Understanding material responses to energy deposition from energetic charged particles is
important for defect engineering, ion-beam processing, ion-beam analysis and modification …

Van der Waals density functionals applied to solids

J Klimeš, DR Bowler, A Michaelides - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2011 - APS
The van der Waals density functional (vdW-DF) of M. Dion [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 246401
(2004)] PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett. 92.246401 is a promising approach for …

First-principles Green's-function method for surface calculations: A pseudopotential localized basis set approach

S Smidstrup, D Stradi, J Wellendorff, PA Khomyakov… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We present an efficient implementation of a surface Green's-function method for atomistic
modeling of surfaces within the framework of density functional theory using a …

Possible do** strategies for MoS monolayers: An ab initio study

K Dolui, I Rungger, C Das Pemmaraju, S Sanvito - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
Density functional theory is used to systematically study the electronic properties of doped
MoS 2 monolayers, where the dopants are incorporated both via S/Mo substitution or as …