Multigrid Methods in Electronic Structure Calculations

Details Multigrid Methods in Electronic Structure Calculations Multigrid Methods in Electronic Structure Calculations

1996-06-21

arxiv.org/abs/mtrl-th/9606002v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

RevTeX preprint format, 41 pages, 4 postscript figures

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We describe 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 provide effective convergence acceleration and preconditioning on all length scales, thereby permitting efficient calculations for ill-conditioned systems with long length scales or high energy cut-offs. We discuss specific implementations of multigrid and real-space algorithms for electronic structure calculations, including an efficient multigrid-accelerated solver for Kohn-Sham equations, compact yet accurate discretization schemes for the Kohn-Sham and Poisson equations, optimized pseudo\-potentials for real-space calculations, efficacious computation of ionic forces, and a complex-wavefunction implementation for arbitrary sampling of the Brillioun zone. A particular strength of a real-space multigrid approach is its ready adaptability to massively parallel computer architectures, and we present an implementation for the Cray-T3D with essentially linear scaling of the execution time with the number of processors. The method has been applied to a variety of periodic and non-periodic systems, including disordered Si, a N impurity in diamond, AlN in the wurtzite structure, and bulk Al. The high accuracy of the atomic forces allows for large step molecular dynamics; e.g., in a 1 ps simulation of Si at 1100 K with an ionic step of 80 a.u., the total energy was conserved within 27 microeV per atom.

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