DFTpy: An efficient and object-oriented platform for orbital-free DFT simulations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02985v1
• Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 19:07:41 GMT
• Title: DFTpy: An efficient and object-oriented platform for orbital-free DFT simulations
• Authors: Xuecheng Shao, Kaili Jiang, Wenhui Mi, Alessandro Genova, and Michele Pavanello
• Abstract summary: In this work, we present DFTpy, an open source software implementing OFDFT written entirely in Python 3. We showcase the electronic structure of a million-atom system of aluminum metal which was computed on a single CPU. DFTpy is released under the MIT license.
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• Abstract: In silico materials design is hampered by the computational complexity of Kohn-Sham DFT, which scales cubically with the system size. Owing to the development of new-generation kinetic energy density functionals (KEDFs), orbital-free DFT (OFDFT, a linear-scaling method) can now be successfully applied to a large class of semiconductors and such finite systems as quantum dots and metal clusters. In this work, we present DFTpy, an open source software implementing OFDFT written entirely in Python 3 and outsourcing the computationally expensive operations to third-party modules, such as NumPy and SciPy. When fast simulations are in order, DFTpy exploits the fast Fourier transforms (FFTs) from PyFFTW. New-generation, nonlocal and density-dependent-kernel KEDFs are made computationally efficient by employing linear splines and other methods for fast kernel builds. We showcase DFTpy by solving for the electronic structure of a million-atom system of aluminum metal which was computed on a single CPU. The Python 3 implementation is object-oriented, opening the door to easy implementation of new features. As an example, we present a time-dependent OFDFT implementation (hydrodynamic DFT) which we use to compute the spectra of small metal cluster recovering qualitatively the time-dependent Kohn-Sham DFT result. The Python code base allows for easy implementation of APIs. We showcase the combination of DFTpy and ASE for molecular dynamics simulations (NVT) of liquid metals. DFTpy is released under the MIT license.

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