LARGE-SCALE ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS WITH MULTIGRID ACCELERATION

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BRIGGS, EL
SULLIVAN, DJ
BERNHOLC, J
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[1] Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
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10.1103/PhysRevB.52.R5471
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
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We have developed a set of techniques for performing large-scale ab initio calculations using multigrid accelerations and a real-space grid as a basis. The multigrid methods permit efficient calculations on ill-conditioned systems with long length scales or high-energy cutoffs. The technique has been applied to systems containing up to 100 atoms, including a highly elongated diamond cell, an isolated C-60 molecule, and a 32-atom cell of GaN with the Ga d states in valence. The method is well suited for implementation on both vector and massively parallel architectures.
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