Iterative minimization techniques for ab initio total-energy calculations: molecular dynamics and conjugate gradients

MC Payne, MP Teter, DC Allan, TA Arias… - Reviews of modern …, 1992 - APS
This article describes recent technical developments that have made the total-energy
pseudopotential the most powerful ab initio quantum-mechanical modeling method …

Thermal contraction and disordering of the Al (110) surface

N Marzari, D Vanderbilt, A De Vita, MC Payne - Physical review letters, 1999 - APS
Al (110) has been studied for temperatures up to 900 K via ensemble density-functional
molecular dynamics. The strong anharmonicity displayed by this surface results in a …

Electron transport through molecular junctions

NA Zimbovskaya, MR Pederson - Physics Reports, 2011 - Elsevier
At present, metal–molecular tunnel junctions are recognized as important active elements in
molecular electronics. This gives a strong motivation to explore physical mechanisms …

Infrared intensities and Raman-scattering activities within density-functional theory

D Porezag, MR Pederson - Physical Review B, 1996 - APS
We show that the computational complexity associated with the density-functional-based
determination of infrared intensities and nonresonant Raman scattering activities is the …

Density-functional theory calculations for poly-atomic systems: electronic structure, static and elastic properties and ab initio molecular dynamics

M Bockstedte, A Kley, J Neugebauer… - Computer physics …, 1997 - Elsevier
The package fhi96md is an efficient code to perform density-functional theory total-energy
calculations for materials ranging from insulators to transition metals. The package employs …

A self‐consistent charge density‐functional based tight‐binding method for predictive materials simulations in physics, chemistry and biology

T Frauenheim, G Seifert, M Elsterner… - … status solidi (b), 2000 - Wiley Online Library
We outline recent developments in quantum mechanical atomistic modelling of complex
materials properties that combine the efficiency of semi-empirical quantum-chemistry and …

Nanocapillarity in fullerene tubules

MR Pederson, JQ Broughton - Physical Review Letters, 1992 - APS
Fullerene tubules are shown to be highly polarizable ''molecular straws''capable of ingesting
dipolar molecules. Local-density-functional calculations on HF molecules within a finite …

Fractional occupations and density-functional energies and forces

M Weinert, JW Davenport - Physical Review B, 1992 - APS
The explicit inclusion of fractional occupation numbers in density-functional calculations is
shown to require an additional term to make the energy functional variational. The …

Chemical and structural disorder in eumelanins: a possible explanation for broadband absorbance

ML Tran, BJ Powell, P Meredith - Biophysical journal, 2006 - cell.com
We report the results of an experimental and theoretical study of the electronic and structural
properties of a key eumelanin precursor—5, 6,-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (DHICA) …

Lattice dynamics of metals from density-functional perturbation theory

S de Gironcoli - Physical Review B, 1995 - APS
The density-functional perturbation theory approach to lattice-dynamical calculations is
extended to metallic systems. The smearing technique is used to deal with the Fermi surface …