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Numerical analysis of the planewave discretization of some orbital-free and Kohn-Sham models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2011

Eric Cancès ,
Rachida Chakir  and
Yvon Maday
Eric Cancès
Affiliation:
Université Paris-Est, CERMICS, Project-team Micmac, INRIA-École des Ponts, 6 & 8 avenue Blaise Pascal, 77455 Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2, France. [email protected]
Rachida Chakir
Affiliation:
UPMC Univ. Paris 06, UMR 7598 LJLL, 75005 Paris, France CNRS, UMR 7598 LJLL, 75005 Paris, France
Yvon Maday
Affiliation:
UPMC Univ. Paris 06, UMR 7598 LJLL, 75005 Paris, France CNRS, UMR 7598 LJLL, 75005 Paris, France Division of Applied Mathematics, 182 George Street, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA

Abstract

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In this article, we provide a priori error estimates for the spectral andpseudospectral Fourier (also called planewave) discretizations of theperiodic Thomas-Fermi-von Weizsäcker (TFW) model and for the spectraldiscretization of the periodic Kohn-Shammodel, within the local density approximation (LDA). These modelsallow to compute approximations of the electronic ground state energy and densityof molecular systems in the condensed phase. The TFW model is strictlyconvex with respect to the electronic density, and allows for acomprehensive analysis. This is not the case for the Kohn-Sham LDAmodel, for which the uniqueness of the ground state electronic densityis not guaranteed. We prove that, for any local minimizer $\Phi^0$ of the Kohn-Sham LDA model, and under a coercivity assumption ensuring the local uniqueness of this minimizer up to unitary transform, the discretized Kohn-Sham LDA problem has a minimizer in the vicinity of $\Phi^0$ for large enough energy cut-offs, and that this minimizer is unique up to unitary transform. We then derive optimal a priori error estimates for the spectral discretization method.

Keywords

Electronic structure calculationdensity functional theoryThomas-Fermi-von Weizsäcker modelKohn-Sham modelnonlinear eigenvalue problemspectral methods
Type
Research Article
Information
ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , March 2012 , pp. 341 - 388
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2011

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