Efficient simulations of Hartree--Fock equations by an accelerated gradient descent method

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Hauptverfasser: Ohno, Y., Del Maestro, A., Lakoba, T. I.
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author Ohno, Y.
Del Maestro, A.
Lakoba, T. I.
author_facet Ohno, Y.
Del Maestro, A.
Lakoba, T. I.
contents We develop convergence acceleration procedures that enable a gradient descent-type iteration method to efficiently simulate Hartree--Fock equations for atoms interacting both with each other and with an external potential. Our development focuses on three aspects: (i) optimization of a parameter in the preconditioning operator; (ii) adoption of a technique that eliminates the slowest-decaying mode to the case of many equations (describing many atoms); and (iii) a novel extension of the above technique that allows one to eliminate multiple modes simultaneously. We illustrate performance of the numerical method for the 2D model of the first layer of helium atoms above a graphene sheet. We demonstrate that incorporation of aspects (i) and (ii) above into the ``plain" gradient descent method accelerates it by at least two orders of magnitude, and often by much more. Aspect (iii) -- a multiple-mode elimination -- may bring further improvement to the convergence rate compared to aspect (ii), the single-mode elimination. Both single- and multiple-mode elimination techniques are shown to significantly outperform the well-known Anderson Acceleration. We believe that our acceleration techniques can also be gainfully employed by other numerical methods, especially those handling hard-core-type interaction potentials.
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spellingShingle Efficient simulations of Hartree--Fock equations by an accelerated gradient descent method
Ohno, Y.
Del Maestro, A.
Lakoba, T. I.
Computational Physics
Other Condensed Matter
Pattern Formation and Solitons
We develop convergence acceleration procedures that enable a gradient descent-type iteration method to efficiently simulate Hartree--Fock equations for atoms interacting both with each other and with an external potential. Our development focuses on three aspects: (i) optimization of a parameter in the preconditioning operator; (ii) adoption of a technique that eliminates the slowest-decaying mode to the case of many equations (describing many atoms); and (iii) a novel extension of the above technique that allows one to eliminate multiple modes simultaneously. We illustrate performance of the numerical method for the 2D model of the first layer of helium atoms above a graphene sheet. We demonstrate that incorporation of aspects (i) and (ii) above into the ``plain" gradient descent method accelerates it by at least two orders of magnitude, and often by much more. Aspect (iii) -- a multiple-mode elimination -- may bring further improvement to the convergence rate compared to aspect (ii), the single-mode elimination. Both single- and multiple-mode elimination techniques are shown to significantly outperform the well-known Anderson Acceleration. We believe that our acceleration techniques can also be gainfully employed by other numerical methods, especially those handling hard-core-type interaction potentials.
title Efficient simulations of Hartree--Fock equations by an accelerated gradient descent method
topic Computational Physics
Other Condensed Matter
Pattern Formation and Solitons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17843