TY - JOUR
T1 - Efficient computation of the coupling matrix in time-dependent density functional theory
AU - De La Grandmaison, Emmanuel Lorin
AU - Gowda, Shivaraju B.
AU - Saad, Yousef
AU - Tiago, Murilo L.
AU - Chelikowsky, James R.
N1 - Funding Information:
Work supported by NSF grants ITR-0082094, DMR-0325218, by DOE under Grants DE-FG02-03ER25585, DE-FG02-03ER15491, and by the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute.
PY - 2005/4/1
Y1 - 2005/4/1
N2 - We present an efficient implementation of the computation of the coupling matrix arising in time-dependent density functional theory. The two important aspects involved, solution of Poisson's equation and the assembly of the coupling matrix, are investigated in detail and proper approximations are used. Poisson's equation is solved in the reciprocal space and bounded support of the wave functions are exploited in the numerical integration. Experiments show the new implementation is more efficient by an order of magnitude when compared with a standard real-space code. The method is tested to compute optical spectra of realistic systems with hundreds of atoms from first principles. Details of the formalism and implementation are provided and comparisons with a standard real-space code are reported.
AB - We present an efficient implementation of the computation of the coupling matrix arising in time-dependent density functional theory. The two important aspects involved, solution of Poisson's equation and the assembly of the coupling matrix, are investigated in detail and proper approximations are used. Poisson's equation is solved in the reciprocal space and bounded support of the wave functions are exploited in the numerical integration. Experiments show the new implementation is more efficient by an order of magnitude when compared with a standard real-space code. The method is tested to compute optical spectra of realistic systems with hundreds of atoms from first principles. Details of the formalism and implementation are provided and comparisons with a standard real-space code are reported.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cpc.2004.12.003
DO - 10.1016/j.cpc.2004.12.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:14844287009
SN - 0010-4655
VL - 167
SP - 7
EP - 22
JO - Computer Physics Communications
JF - Computer Physics Communications
IS - 1
ER -