This document describes the use of the electronic transport functionality that is implemented in the ONETEP code[1]. The implementation computes the ballistic Landauer-Büttiker conductance at zero bias through a device and associated properties using electronic structure derived from density functional theory (DFT). The calculation proceeds as a post-processing step after a ground-state single-...

Plane wave pseudopotential (PWP) density functional theory (DFT) calculation is the most widely used material science simulation, and the PWP DFT codes are arguably the most important material science codes. We have implemented a PWP DFT code PEtot on a multi-node GPU machine. Starting from a previous work, we have further improved the speed of the code, and achieved x13-x22 speedups over the C...

In order to investigate the selective catalytic reduction of NOx by hydrocarbons, Ag/Al2O3 models were constructed by means of density functional theory (DFT) and experimental results. The geometrical structures and vibrational frequencies obtained at B3LYP levels of DFT were compared with the corresponding experimental results. EXAFS results suggest silver ion species were predominant on the A...

NMR crystallography has recently been applied to great effect for silica zeolites. Here we investigate whether it is possible to extend the structural information available from routine NMR spectra via a simple structure-spectrum relationship. Unlike previous empirically derived relationships that have compared experimental crystal structures for (often disordered) silicates with experimental N...

The single-molecule magnet [Ni(hmp)(MeOH)Cl]4 (hmp denotes the anion of 2-hydroxymethylpyridine and Me denotes methyl) is studied using both density functional theory (DFT) and the DFT+U method, and the results are compared. By incorporating a Hubbard-U like term for both the nickel and oxygen atoms, the experimentally determined ground state is successfully obtained, and the exchange coupling ...

A recently developed method, symmetry-adapted perturbation theory based on the density-functional description of monomers [SAPT(DFT)], is shown to be sufficiently accurate and numerically efficient to facilitate predictions of the structure of molecular crystals from first principles. In one application, a SAPT(DFT) potential was used to generate and order polymorphs of the cyclotrimethylene tr...

The stability of small fractal graphene models with two different symmetries and Fe atoms at their mixed edges is addressed by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Four kinds edge configurations atom localizations are determined depending on the model. have configuration, zig-zag “intra-zig-zag” in symmetrical structures armchair type architectures rotational symmetry. symmetry exhibit...

In this study the molecular geometries, experimental vibrational and electronic absorption spectra and quantum chemical calculations of free dimethyl phenylphosphonite, (C8H11PO2), (with synonym, dimethoxyphenylphosphine or phenyldimethoxyphosphine) (Abbreviated as DMPP) and its [Cd(DMPP)].Cl2.H2O metal halide complex have been investigated by using elemental analysis, FT-IR, micro-Raman and UV...