Charting the electronic structure of inorganic materials.
ORAL · Invited
Abstract
I'll first present our efforts towards verified, curated, and reproducible materials simulations, powered by AiiDA (https://www.aiida.net/) and disseminated on the Materials Cloud (https://www.materialscloud.org/), under a model of open-source software and open-access data with full provenance of every step in the simulation workflows. Brief mention will be made of the verification of pseudopotentials for density-functional theory calculations, the curation of protocols for targeted accuracies, and the deployment of robust direct-minimization approaches on accelerated architectures. Then, I will discuss our approach to capture the electronic structure fingerprints of inorganic materials in the form of atom-centered maximally localized Wannier functions spanning the valence and the lower part of the conduction manifolds, obtained through a novel approach to disentanglement and localization also aimed at full automation. Early applications to the exploration of the electronic-structure fingerprints will also be presented.
*We acknowledge funding from the Swiss National Center for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (NCCR MARVEL) and the H2020 Centre of Excellence for Materials Design at the eXascale (MaX)
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Presenters
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Nicola Marzari
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
- Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS) and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne