Electronic structure reading group - Density Functional Perturbation Theory Treatment of Monochromatic and Electric Field Perturbations

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Event details

Date 05.05.2026
Hour 16:0017:30
Speaker Bruno Ploumhans, PhD student, EPFL
Location
MA-B1-524
Category Conferences - Seminars
Event Language English


Abstract:
I will start with a short review of density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) and how it can be used to compute arbitrary derivatives when coupled with algorithmic differentiation (AD). Then I will discuss two kinds of perturbations which have so far not been expressed in the AD-DFPT framework, but can be computed from DFPT: monochromatic perturbations and electric field perturbations. I will discuss how this enables the efficient ab initio computation of phonons.

Practical information

  • Expert
  • Free
  • This event is internal

Organizer

  • Noé Blassel, Postdoc, EPFL

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