Bypassing the Kohn-Sham equations with machine learning

Machine learning allows electronic structure calculations to access larger system sizes and, in dynamical simulations, longer time scales. Here, the authors perform such a simulation using a machine-learned density functional that avoids direct solution of the Kohn-Sham equations.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Felix Brockherde, Leslie Vogt, Li Li, Mark E. Tuckerman, Kieron Burke, Klaus-Robert Müller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00839-3