Preconditioned conjugate gradient method for the sparse generalized eigenvalue problem in electronic structure calculations (Q5934196)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1606130
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    Preconditioned conjugate gradient method for the sparse generalized eigenvalue problem in electronic structure calculations
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1606130

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      Preconditioned conjugate gradient method for the sparse generalized eigenvalue problem in electronic structure calculations (English)
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      19 December 2001
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      The paper is inspired by the needs of solid state physics (the lowest few energies and wave functions of the chlorine molecule and of a 64-atomic silicon crystal are calculated for illustration). Its physical background is the density-functional theory represented in localized (non-orthogonal) basis. The algorithm offered is an iterative one, making an ample use of the sparsity of the matrices in question (first of all, via a one-parametric family of the kinetic-energy preconditionings). Empirically, the convergence appears to be linear.
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      conjugate gradient method
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      generalized eigenvalue problem
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      preconditioning
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      the first few lowest eigensolutions
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      application to electronic structure
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      chlorine molecule
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      silicon crystal
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      density functional approach
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      localised basis set
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      algorithm
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      convergence
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