Turbo charging time-dependent density-functional theory with Lanczos chains

Details Turbo charging time-dependent density-functional theory with Lanczos chains Turbo charging time-dependent density-functional theory with Lanczos chains

2008-01-09

arxiv.org/abs/0801.1393v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

15 pages, 7 figures, to be pdflatex + bibtex

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2899649

We introduce a new implementation of time-dependent density-functional theory which allows the \emph{entire} spectrum of a molecule or extended system to be computed with a numerical effort comparable to that of a \emph{single} standard ground-state calculation. This method is particularly well suited for large systems and/or large basis sets, such as plane waves or real-space grids. By using a super-operator formulation of linearized time-dependent density-functional theory, we first represent the dynamical polarizability of an interacting-electron system as an off-diagonal matrix element of the resolvent of the Liouvillian super-operator. One-electron operators and density matrices are treated using a representation borrowed from time-independent density-functional perturbation theory, which permits to avoid the calculation of unoccupied Kohn-Sham orbitals. The resolvent of the Liouvillian is evaluated through a newly developed algorithm based on the non-symmetric Lanczos method. Each step of the Lanczos recursion essentially requires twice as many operations as a single step of the iterative diagonalization of the unperturbed Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian. Suitable extrapolation of the Lanczos coefficients allows for a dramatic reduction of the number of Lanczos steps necessary to obtain well converged spectra, bringing such number down to hundreds (or a few thousands, at worst) in typical plane-wave pseudopotential applications. The resulting numerical workload is only a few times larger than that needed by a ground-state Kohn-Sham calculation for a same system. Our method is demonstrated with the calculation of the spectra of benzene, C$_{60}$ fullerene, and of chlorofyll a.

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