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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 105, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.196403
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- Chesonis Family Foundation
- Eni S.p.A. under the Eni-MIT Alliance
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An efficient method for the prediction of fundamental band gaps in solids using density functional theory (DFT) is proposed. Generalizing the Delta self-consistent-field (Delta SCF) method to infinite solids, the Delta-sol method is based on total-energy differences and derived from dielectric screening properties of electrons. Using local and semilocal exchange-correlation functionals (local density and generalized gradient approximations), we demonstrate a 70% reduction of mean absolute errors compared to Kohn-Sham gaps on over 100 compounds with experimental gaps of 0.5-4 eV, at computational costs similar to typical DFT calculations.
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