A convergence analysis of a structure-preserving gradient flow method for the all-electron Kohn-Sham model

2023/03/07 by Shen, Yedan, Wang, Ting, Zhou, Jie +1
#FOS: Mathematics #Numerical Analysis (math.NA)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2303.03878

Abstract

In [Dai et al, Multi. Model. Simul., 2020], a structure-preserving gradient flow method was proposed for the ground state calculation in Kohn-Sham density functional theory, based on which a linearized method was developed in [Hu, et al, EAJAM, accepted] for further improving the numerical efficiency. In this paper, a complete convergence analysis is delivered for such a linearized method for the all-electron Kohn-Sham model. Temporally, the convergence, the asymptotic stability, as well as the structure-preserving property of the linearized numerical scheme in the method is discussed following previous works, while spatially, the convergence of the h-adaptive mesh method is demonstrated following [Chen et al, Multi. Model. Simul., 2014], with a key study on the boundedness of the Kohn-Sham potential for the all-electron Kohn-Sham model. Numerical examples confirm the theoretical results very well.

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