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@ARTICLE{Winkelmann:888147,
author = {Winkelmann, Miriam and Di Napoli, Edoardo and Wortmann,
Daniel and Blügel, Stefan},
title = {{K}erker mixing scheme for self-consistent muffin-tin based
all-electron electronic structure calculations},
journal = {Physical review / B},
volume = {102},
number = {19},
issn = {2469-9950},
address = {Woodbury, NY},
publisher = {Inst.},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-04721},
pages = {195138},
year = {2020},
abstract = {We propose a computationally efficient Kerker mixing scheme
for robust and rapidly converging self-consistent-field
calculations using all-electron first-principles electronic
structure methods based on the muffin-tin partitioning of
space. The mixing scheme is composed of the Kerker
preconditioner in combination with quasi-Newton methods. We
construct the Kerker preconditioner in the muffin-tin sphere
by determining the screened Coulomb potential in real space,
solving a modified Helmholtz equation by adopting Weinert's
pseudocharge method for calculating the Poisson equation for
periodic charge densities without shape approximation to the
solution of the modified Helmholtz equation. Implemented in
a full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave (FLAPW)
method, we found that the Kerker preconditioning scheme (i)
leads to a convergence to self-consistency that is
independent of system size, (ii) is extremely robust in the
choice of the mixing and preconditioning parameters, (iii)
scales linearly with system size in computational cost, and
(iv) conserves the total charge. We have related the
preconditioning parameter to the density of states of the
delocalized electrons at the Fermi energy and developed a
model to choose the preconditioning parameter either prior
to the calculation or on the fly. Our computationally
validated model supports the hypothesis that, in the absence
of Kerker preconditioning, the delocalized s and p electrons
of simple and transition metals are the primary cause for
the slowing of the convergence speed and that the stronger,
localized d and f electrons account for only a small
fraction of the charge sloshing problem. The presented
formulation of the Kerker preconditioning scheme establishes
an efficient methodology for the simulation of magnetic and
nonmagnetic metallic large-scale material systems by means
of muffin-tin-based all-electron methods.},
cin = {IAS-1 / PGI-1 / JARA-FIT / JARA-HPC / JSC},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-1-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-1-20110106 /
$I:(DE-82)080009_20140620$ / $I:(DE-82)080012_20140620$ /
I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406},
pnm = {142 - Controlling Spin-Based Phenomena (POF3-142) / 143 -
Controlling Configuration-Based Phenomena (POF3-143) / 511 -
Computational Science and Mathematical Methods (POF3-511) /
Simulation and Data Laboratory Quantum Materials (SDLQM)
(SDLQM)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-142 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-143 /
G:(DE-HGF)POF3-511 / G:(DE-Juel1)SDLQM},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000591182700003},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.102.195138},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/888147},
}