Discretization error cancellation in the plane-wave approximation of periodic Hamiltonians with Coulomb singularities

DOI10.1007/S10915-019-00959-6zbMATH Open1416.65424arXiv1810.01329OpenAlexW2895261330WikidataQ114225622 ScholiaQ114225622MaRDI QIDQ2316243FDOQ2316243

Authors: Mi-Song Dupuy 

Publication date: 26 July 2019

Published in: Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In solid-state physics, energies of molecular systems are usually computed with a plane-wave discretization of Kohn-Sham equations. A priori estimates of plane-wave convergence for periodic Kohn-Sham calculations with pseudopotentials have been proved , however in most computations in practice, plane-wave cut-offs are not tight enough to target the desired accuracy. It is often advocated that the real quantity of interest is not the value of the energy but of energy differences for different configurations. The computed energy difference is believed to be much more accurate because of `discretization error cancellation', since the sources of numerical errors are essentially the same for different configurations. For periodic linear Hamiltonians with Coulomb potentials, error cancellation can be explained by the universality of the Kato cusp condition. Using weighted Sobolev spaces, Taylor-type expansions of the eigenfunctions are available yielding a precise characterization of this singularity. This then gives an explicit formula of the first order term of the decay of the Fourier coefficients of the eigenfunctions. It enables one to prove that errors on eigenvalue differences are reduced but converge at the same rate as the error on the eigenvalue.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01329

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zbMATH Keywords

error analysiseigenvalue problemsspectral method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Numerical methods for eigenvalue problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N25) Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35)

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