First-principles Electronic Structure Calculations of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: DFT+U and DFT+DMFT

First-principles calculations of the electronic structure and spectra of strongly correlated systems:dynamical mean-field theory

A recently developed dynamical mean-field theory in the iterated perturbation theory approximation was used as a basis for construction of the ”first principles” calculation scheme for investigating electronic structure of strongly correlated electron systems. This scheme is based on Local Density Approximation (LDA) in the framework of the Linearized Muffin-Tin-Orbitals (LMTO) method. The clas...

First-principles calculations of the electronic structure and spectra of strongly correlated systems: the LDA +U method

A generalization of the local density approximation (LDA) method for systems with strong Coulomb correlations is described which gives a correct description of the Mott insulators. The LDA + U method takes into account orbital dependence of the Coulomb and exchange interactions which is absent in the LDA. The scheme can be regarded as a ‘firstprinciples’ method because there are no adjustable p...

Electronic structure calculations of strongly correlated electron systems by the dynamical mean-field method

In recent years understanding of the physics of strongly correlated materials has undergone tremendous increase. This is in part due to the advances in the theoretical treatments of correlations, such as the development of dynamical mean-field theory DMFT .1 This approach offers a minimal description of the electronic structure of correlated materials, treating both the Hubbard and the quasipar...

Electronic-structure calculations by first-principles density-based embedding of explicitly correlated systems

A first-principles embedding theory that combines the salient features of density functional theory ~DFT! and traditional quantum chemical methods is presented. The method involves constructing a DFT-based embedding potential and then using it as a one-electron operator within a very accurate ab initio calculation. We demonstrate how DFT calculations can be systematically improved via this proc...

Strongly correlated electron systems.