Exploiting underlying crystal lattice for efficient computation of Coulomb matrix elements in multi-million atoms nanostructures

Phys. Rev. B 9, 4 (2023)

This work presents an updated strategy for computing Coulomb matrix elements directly on a regular grid superimposed on the underlying crystal lattice. It removes the need for an auxiliary basis transfer while retaining near-linear practical scaling.

Keywords: Coulomb integrals, linear scaling, silicon dopants

Main result: Coulomb matrix elements for multi-million-atom systems can be computed with O(N log N) scaling while remaining numerically consistent with direct summation. This substantially expands the feasible size of atomistic many-body calculations.

PDF: 1-s2.0-S0010465523000383-main.pdf

DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108693

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