Title
Computing charge densities with partially reorthogonalized Lanczos
Abstract
This paper considers the problem of computing charge densities in a density functional theory (DFT) framework. In contrast to traditional, diagonalization-based, methods, we utilize a technique which exploits a Lanczos basis, without explicit reference to individual eigenvectors. The key ingredient of this new approach is a partial reorthogonalization strategy whose goal is to ensure a good level of orthogonality of the basis vectors. The experiments reveal that the method can be a few times faster than ARPACK, the implicit restart Lanczos method. This is achievable by exploiting more memory and BLAS3 (dense) computations while avoiding the frequent updates of eigenvectors inherent to all restarted Lanczos methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.cpc.2005.05.005
Computer Physics Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
73.22.-f,71.15.Mb
Mathematical optimization,Lanczos approximation,Lanczos resampling,Orthogonality,Lanczos algorithm,Density functional theory,Basis (linear algebra),Mathematics,Eigenvalues and eigenvectors,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
171
3
0010-4655
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
2.40
2
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Constantine Bekas1496.59
Yousef Saad21940254.74
Murilo L. Tiago3519.72
James R. Chelikowsky414221.60