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Dogan M, Liou KH, Chelikowsky JR. Real-space solution to the electronic structure problem for nearly a million electrons. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:244114. [PMID: 37366310 DOI: 10.1063/5.0150864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2023] [Accepted: 06/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
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We report a Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculation of a system with more than 200 000 atoms and 800 000 electrons using a real-space high-order finite-difference method to investigate the electronic structure of large spherical silicon nanoclusters. Our system of choice was a 20 nm large spherical nanocluster with 202 617 silicon atoms and 13 836 hydrogen atoms used to passivate the dangling surface bonds. To speed up the convergence of the eigenspace, we utilized Chebyshev-filtered subspace iteration, and for sparse matrix-vector multiplications, we used blockwise Hilbert space-filling curves, implemented in the PARSEC code. For this calculation, we also replaced our orthonormalization + Rayleigh-Ritz step with a generalized eigenvalue problem step. We utilized all of the 8192 nodes (458 752 processors) on the Frontera machine at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. We achieved two Chebyshev-filtered subspace iterations, yielding a good approximation of the electronic density of states. Our work pushes the limits on the capabilities of the current electronic structure solvers to nearly 106 electrons and demonstrates the potential of the real-space approach to efficiently parallelize large calculations on modern high-performance computing platforms.
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- Mehmet Dogan
- Center for Computational Materials, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Center for Computational Materials, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Pseudodiagonalization Method for Accelerating Nonlinear Subspace Diagonalization in Density Functional Theory. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:3474-3482. [PMID: 35608960 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In density functional theory, each self-consistent field (SCF) nonlinear step updates the discretized Kohn-Sham orbitals by solving a linear eigenvalue problem. The concept of pseudodiagonalization is to solve this linear eigenvalue problem approximately and specifically utilizing a method involving a small number of Jacobi rotations that takes advantage of the good initial guess to the solution given by the approximation to the orbitals from the previous SCF iteration. The approximate solution to the linear eigenvalue problem can be very rapid, particularly for those steps near SCF convergence. We adapt pseudodiagonalization to finite-temperature and metallic systems, where partially occupied orbitals must be individually resolved with some accuracy. We apply pseudodiagonalization to the subspace eigenvalue problem that arises in Chebyshev-filtered subspace iteration. In tests on metallic and other systems for a range of temperatures, we show that pseudodiagonalization achieves similar rates of SCF convergence to exact diagonalization.
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Bhardwaj A, Sharma A, Suryanarayana P. Torsional strain engineering of transition metal dichalcogenide nanotubes: an ab initiostudy. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2021; 32:47LT01. [PMID: 34348245 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac1a90] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We study the effect of torsional deformations on the electronic properties of single-walled transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanotubes. In particular, considering forty-five select armchair and zigzag TMD nanotubes, we perform symmetry-adapted Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations to determine the variation in bandgap and effective mass of charge carriers with twist. We find that metallic nanotubes remain so even after deformation, whereas semiconducting nanotubes experience a decrease in bandgap with twist-originally direct bandgaps become indirect-resulting in semiconductor to metal transitions. In addition, the effective mass of holes and electrons continuously decrease and increase with twist, respectively, resulting in n-type to p-type semiconductor transitions. We find that this behavior is likely due to rehybridization of orbitals in the metal and chalcogen atoms, rather than charge transfer between them. Overall, torsional deformations represent a powerful avenue to engineer the electronic properties of semiconducting TMD nanotubes, with applications to devices like sensors and semiconductor switches.
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- Arpit Bhardwaj
- College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States of America
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- College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States of America
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- College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States of America
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Liou KH, Biller A, Kronik L, Chelikowsky JR. Space-Filling Curves for Real-Space Electronic Structure Calculations. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:4039-4048. [PMID: 34081448 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Hamiltonian matrices for Kohn-Sham calculations implemented in real space are often large (millions by millions) but very sparse. This poses challenges and opportunities for iterative eigensolvers, which often require a large number of matrix-vector multiplications. As a consequence, an efficient parallel sparse matrix-vector multiplication algorithm is desired. Here, we investigate the benefits of using Hilbert space-filling curves (SFCs) in domain partitioning. We show that the use of Hilbert SFCs in grid-point partitioning brings better locality of the grid points, improves balance of communication, and reduces communication overhead. We also demonstrate an extension of Hilbert SFCs coupled with blockwise operations. The use of blockwise operations helps exploit the vector-processing units in contemporary computational platforms. We illustrate speedup and scalability improvements for an iterative eigensolver based on the Chebyshev-filtered subspace iteration method. Using blockwise Hilbert SFCs, we solve the Kohn-Sham problem for silicon nanocrystals up to 10 nm in diameter, which contain over 26,000 atoms. We illustrate how the density of states of silicon nanocrystals evolves to the bulk limit, where Van Hove singularities are clearly apparent.
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- Kai-Hsin Liou
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX 78712, United States
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- Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth 76100, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth 76100, Israel
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX 78712, United States.,Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.,Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Bhardwaj A, Sharma A, Suryanarayana P. Torsional moduli of transition metal dichalcogenide nanotubes from first principles. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2021; 32:28LT02. [PMID: 33827066 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/abf59c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We calculate the torsional moduli of single-walled transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanotubes usingab initiodensity functional theory (DFT). Specifically, considering forty-five select TMD nanotubes, we perform symmetry-adapted DFT calculations to calculate the torsional moduli for the armchair and zigzag variants of these materials in the low-twist regime and at practically relevant diameters. We find that the torsional moduli follow the trend: MS2> MSe2> MTe2. In addition, the moduli display a power law dependence on diameter, with the scaling generally close to cubic, as predicted by the isotropic elastic continuum model. In particular, the shear moduli so computed are in good agreement with those predicted by the isotropic relation in terms of the Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio, both of which are also calculated using symmetry-adapted DFT. Finally, we develop a linear regression model for the torsional moduli of TMD nanotubes based on the nature/characteristics of the metal-chalcogen bond, and show that it is capable of making reasonably accurate predictions.
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- Arpit Bhardwaj
- College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States of America
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- College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States of America
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- College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States of America
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Kumar S, Suryanarayana P. Bending moduli for forty-four select atomic monolayers from first principles. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2020; 31:43LT01. [PMID: 32619990 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/aba2a2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We calculate bending moduli along the principal directions for forty-four select atomic monolayers using ab initio density functional theory (DFT). Specifically, considering representative materials from each of Groups IV, III-V, V monolayers, Group IV monochalcogenides, transition metal trichalcogenides, transition metal dichalcogenides and Group III monochalcogenides, we utilize the recently developed Cyclic DFT method to calculate the bending moduli in the practically relevant but previously intractable low-curvature limit. We find that the moduli generally increase with thickness of the monolayer, while spanning three orders of magnitude between the different materials. In addition, structures with a rectangular lattice are prone to a higher degree of anisotropy relative to those with a honeycomb lattice. Exceptions to these trends are generally a consequence of unusually strong/weak bonding and/or significant structural relxation related effects.
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- Shashikant Kumar
- College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States of America
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Xu Q, Suryanarayana P, Pask JE. Discrete discontinuous basis projection method for large-scale electronic structure calculations. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:094104. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5037794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Qimen Xu
- College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Physics Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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