Density linear-scaling method

Inserting Eq. (84) in Eq. (82) and then inserting this expression for the density matrix into the variational principle yield the linear-scaling method proposed by Kim et al. [42] ... 

The present review has been very selective, stressing the rationale behind density-functional methods above their applications and excluding many important topics (both theoretical and computational). The interested reader may refer to anyone of the many books [91-93] or review articles [94-101] on density-functional theory for more details. Of special importance is the extension of density-functional theory to time-dependent external potentials [102-105], as this enables the dynamical behavior of molecules, including electronic excitation, to be addressed in the context of DFT [106-108]. As they are particularly relevant to the present discussion, we cite several articles related to the formal foundations of density-functional theory [85,100,109-111], linear-scaling methods [63,112-116], exchange-correlation energy functionals [25, 117-122], and qualitative tools for describing chemical reactions [123-126,126-132]. 

Some recent developments concerning macromolecular quantum chemistry, especially the first linear-scaling method applied successfully for the ab initio quality quantum-chemistry computation of the electron density of proteins, have underlined the importance and the applicability of quantum chemistry-based approaches to molecular similarity. These methods, the linear-scaling numerical Molecular Electron Density Lego Approach (MEDLA) method [6 9] and the more advanced and more generally applicable linear-scaling macromolecular density matrix method called Adjustable Density Matrix Assembler or ADMA method [10,11], have been employed for the calculation of ab initio quality protein electron densities and other... 

Traditional wavefunction and density functional theories are applicable to large systems, including nanomaterials however, their inqilementation often involves different algorithms. These include the various linear scaling methods, hybrid (often referred to as QM/MM) mediods, and sparse matrix mediods. 

Kussmann, J., 8c Ochsenfeld, C. (2007). Linear-scaling method for calculating nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shifts using gauge-including atomic orbitals within Hartree-Fock and density-functional theory. Journal of Chemical Physics, 127, 054103. 

Basis Sets Correlation Consistent Sets Configuration Interaction Coupled-cluster Theory Density Functional Applications Density Functional Theory Applications to Transition Metal Problems G2 Theory Integrals of Electron Repulsion Integrals Overlap Linear Scaling Methods for Electronic Structure Calculations Localized MO SCF Methods Mpller-Plesset Perturbation Theory Monte Carlo Quantum Methods for Electronic Structure Numerical Hartree-Fock Methods for Molecules Pseudospectral Methods in Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry Self-consistent Reaction Field Methods Symmetry in Hartree-Fock Theory. 

The local Hamiltonian approaches obtain the local properties, like the electron density and the energy density, from the one-electron Hamiltonian locally, bypassing the solution to the eigenequations. " In other words, we do not need to have the whole system Hamiltonian, or the set of its delocalized eigenfunctions to calculate the electronic properties of a local region. The definition of the local properties and the choice of the local Hamiltonian are the two main ingredients of the local Hamiltonian approaches. The divide-and-conquer approach was the first of linear scaling methods and it is particularly well suited for calculations based on atomic orbitals. The method, which we describe in detail here, illustrates the idea of the local Hamiltonian approaches. 

Configuration Interaction Density Functional Theory (DFT), Hartree-Fock (HF), and the Self-consistent Field Linear Scaling Methods for Electronic Structure Calculations Pseudospectral Methods in Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry. 

Linear-Scaling Methods in Quantum Chemistry and the corresponding density operator p as... 

Smooth COSMO solvation model. We have recently extended our smooth COSMO solvation model with analytical gradients [71] to work with semiempirical QM and QM/MM methods within the CHARMM and MNDO programs [72, 73], The method is a considerably more stable implementation of the conventional COSMO method for geometry optimizations, transition state searches and potential energy surfaces [72], The method was applied to study dissociative phosphoryl transfer reactions [40], and native and thio-substituted transphosphorylation reactions [73] and compared with density-functional and hybrid QM/MM calculation results. The smooth COSMO method can be formulated as a linear-scaling Green s function approach [72] and was applied to ascertain the contribution of phosphate-phosphate repulsions in linear and bent-form DNA models based on the crystallographic structure of a full turn of DNA in a nucleosome core particle [74],... 

White, C. A., B. G. Johnson, P. W. Gill, and M. Head-Gordon. 1996. Linear scaling density functional calculations via the continuous fast multipole method. Chem. Phys. Lett. 253, 268. 

Gallant, R. T. and A. St-Amant. 1996. Linear scaling for the charge density fitting procedure of the linear combination of Gaussian-type orbitals density functional method. Chem. Phys. Lett. 256, 569. 

The concept of purification is well known in the linear-scaling literature for one-particle theories like Hartree-Fock and density functional theory, where it denotes the iterative process by which an arbitrary one-particle density matrix is projected onto an idempotent 1-RDM [2,59-61]. An RDM is said to be pure A-representable if it arises from the integration of an Al-particle density matrix T T, where T (the preimage) is an Al-particle wavefiinction [3-5]. Any idempotent 1-RDM is N-representable with a unique Slater-determinant preimage. Within the linear-scaling literature the 1-RDM may be directly computed with unconstrained optimization, where iterative purification imposes the A-representabUity conditions [59-61]. Recently, we have shown that these methods for computing the 1 -RDM directly... 

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