Title
Adaptive Regularized Self-Consistent Field Iteration with Exact Hessian for Electronic Structure Calculation.
Abstract
The self-consistent field (SCF) iteration has been used ubiquitously for solving the Kohn-Sham (KS) equation or the minimization of the KS total energy functional with respect to orthogonality constraints in electronic structure calculations. Although SCF with heuristics such as charge mixing often works remarkably well on many problems, it is well known that its convergence can be unpredictable and there is no general theoretical analysis on its performance. We regularize the SCF iteration and establish rigorous global convergence to the first-order optimality conditions. The Hessian of the total energy functional is further exploited. By adding the part of the Hessian which is not considered in SCF, our methods can always achieve a highly accurate solution on problems for which SCF fails and exhibit a better convergence rate than SCF in the KSSOLV toolbox under the MATLAB environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1137/120894385
SIAM JOURNAL ON SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
Keywords
Field
DocType
density functional theory,Kohn-Sham total energy minimization,orthogonality constraints,regularized SCF,trust-region methods
Convergence (routing),Mathematical optimization,MATLAB,Mathematical analysis,Hessian matrix,Orthogonality,Heuristics,Minification,Rate of convergence,Energy functional,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
35
3
1064-8275
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.58
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zaiwen Wen193440.20
Andre Milzarek2101.97
Michael Ulbrich3765.70
Hongchao Zhang480943.29