Electronic state calculation method, electronic state calculation device, and recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9792255-B2
Application number	US-201113817586-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 17, 2011
Priority date	Aug 18, 2010
Publication date	Oct 17, 2017
Grant date	Oct 17, 2017

Abstract

A method of calculating an electronic state of a material by using a calculation device, wherein the calculation device sets a set containing, as elements, a plurality of operation models, where each of operation models provides an approximate solution to the electronic state of the material, determines an optimized operation model that are close in distance in a space formed by the set while defining a direction in which the calculated self-consistent solutions of the effective Hamiltonian of an electron system continuously change, evaluates a variational energy of the electron system by the self-consistent solution, updates the operation model so that the evaluated variational energy approaches an energy of an exact solution to be calculated and further, so that the variational energy forms a monotonically decreasing convex function, and calculates the exact solution of the electronic state from one or a plurality of variational energy series.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of calculating an electronic state of a material by using a calculation device, the method comprising:
setting a set containing, as elements, a plurality of operation models loaded in a memory of the calculation device by using the calculation device, where each of the operation models provides an approximate solution to an exact solution of the electronic state of the material;
determining, in order to specify all of the operation models, for each operation model, an effective Hamiltonian including effective interactions that act on an electron system containing two or more electrons existing on a plurality of electron orbitals, by using the calculation device;
determining, in a process of calculating a self-consistent solution of the effective Hamiltonian by using each of the operation models in the set, an optimized operation model among a plurality of operation models that are close in distance in a space obtained by introducing a distance to the set through a use of an absolute norm between electronic densities given by the operation models, based on a quantum mechanical variational method while defining a direction in which the calculated self-consistent solutions continuously change by using the calculation device;
evaluating, when the optimized operation model is successively updated, a variational energy of the electron system by the self-consistent solution of the effective Hamiltonian by using the calculation device;
updating the optimized operation model by using the calculation device so that the evaluated variational energy approaches an energy of the exact solution to be calculated and further, so that the variational energy forms a monotonically decreasing convex function;
calculating the exact solution of the electronic state from one or a plurality of variational energy series by using the calculation device, and
executing an operation of storing the calculated exact solution or a series of the variational energy that approaches the exact solution in the memory by using the calculation device;
wherein among one or a plurality of series of the operation models that provide a series of the variational energy that approaches the exact solution, the series that includes the following operation model is determined by the calculation device,
wherein the operation model provides a quantum phase shown by the electronic state, the quantum phase is equated with the exact solution without occurring a phase transition, and the operation model attains the self-consistent solution of the effective Hamiltonian by a minimum number of calculation steps, and
wherein all of the operation models which are contained in the set are defined to be those satisfying following conditions (i) to (v),
(i) the operation models obey a variational principle of a quantum mechanics,
(ii) the series of the operation models is a coverging series with respect to a primary order parameter of the electron system, where the primary order parameter is electron density,
(iii) the series has no phase transition point among the operation models in the series,
(iv) each of the operation models has a continuous modification path connecting to an exact quantum mechanical representation of the material,
(v) without the phase transition point, each of the operation models connects to a higher-ranked model series where a lambda-modification path defined by subtraction of a positive-definite functional from the exact quantum mechanical representation exists.

2. The electronic state calculation method according to claim 1 , wherein the effective Hamiltonian is determined through a procedure of determining non-local operators indicating fluctuations as the effective interactions, based on a local density approximation method, a generalized-gradient approximation method or a Hartree-Fock method.

3. The electronic state calculation method according to claim 2 , wherein the fluctuations include density fluctuations which are equal to the deviation of a Hartree mean-field term and a Coulomb interaction.

4. The electronic state calculation method according to claim 1 , wherein the self-consistent solution by each of the operation models is obtained by a parallel calculation using an LAPW (linearized augmented plane wave) method, a PAW (projector augmented wave) method or a numerical basis expansion method.

5. A device that calculates an electronic state of a material comprising:
a setting part configured to set a set containing, as elements, a plurality of operation models loaded in a memory of the device, where each of the operation models provides an approximate solution to an exact solution of the electronic state of the material;
a first determining part configured to determine, in order to specify all of the operation models, for each operation model, an effective Hamiltonian including effective interactions that act on an electron system containing two or more electrons existing on a plurality of electron orbitals;
a second determining part configured to determine, in a process of calculating a self-consistent solution of the effective Hamiltonian by using each of the operation models in the set, an optimized operation model among a plurality of operation models that are close in distance in a space obtained by introducing a distance to the set through a use of an absolute norm between electronic densities given by the operation models, based on a quantum mechanical variational method while defining a direction in which the calculated self-consistent solutions continuously change;
an evaluating part configured to evaluate, when the optimized operation model is successively updated, a variational energy of the electron system by the self-consistent solution of the effective Hamiltonian;
an updating part configured to update the optimized operation model so that the evaluated variational energy approaches an energy of the exact solution to be calculated and further, so that the variational energy forms a monotonically decreasing convex function;
a calculating part configured to calculate the exact solution of the electronic state from one or a plurality of variational energy series, and
a storing part configured to store the calculated exact solution or a series of the variational energy that approaches the exact solution in the memory;
wherein among one or a plurality of series of the operation models that provide a series of the variational energy that approaches the exact solution, the series that includes the following operation model is determined by the device,
wherein the operation model provides a quantum phase shown by the electronic state, the quantum phase is equated with the exact solution without occurring a phase transition, and the operation model attains the self-consistent solution of the effective Hamiltonian by a minimum number of calculation steps, and
wherein all of the operation models which are contained in the set are defined to be those satisfying following conditions (i) to (v),
(i) the operation models obey a variational principle of a quantum mechanics,
(ii) the series of the operation models is a coverging series with respect to a primary order parameter of the electron system, where the primary order parameter is electron density,
(iii) the series has no phase transition point among the operation models in the series,
(iv) each of the operation models has a continuous modification path connecting to an exact quantum mechanical representation of the material,
(v) without the phase transition point, each of the operation models connects to a higher-ranked model series where a lambda-modification path defined by subtraction of a positive-definite functional from the exact quantum mechanical representation exists.

6. The electronic state calcula

Assignees

• Kusakabe Koichi
• Maruyama Isao
• Univ Osaka

Inventors

• Kusakabe Koichi
• Maruyama Isao

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