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1 Computational Nanoscience Applications for Molecules, Clusters, and Solids Computer simulation is an indispensable research tool in modeling, understanding, and predicting nanoscale phenomena. However, the advanced computer codes used by researchers are sometimes too complex for graduate students wanting to understand computer simulations of physical systems. This book gives students the tools to develop their own codes. Describing advanced algorithms, the book is ideal for students in computational physics, quantum mechanics, atomic and molecular physics, and condensed matter theory. It contains a wide variety of practical examples of varying complexity to help readers at all levels of experience. An algorithm library in Fortran 90, available online at / , implements the advanced computational approaches described in the text to solve physical problems. Kálmán Varga is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University. His main research interest is computational nanoscience, focusing on developing novel computational methods for electronic structure calculations. Joseph A. Driscoll is a Research Assistant in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, where he researches in theoretical and computational physics, mostly in the area of nanoscale phenomena.

2 Computational Nanoscience Applications for Molecules, Clusters, and Solids KÁLMÁN VARGA AND JOSEPH A. DRISCOLL Vanderbilt University, Tennessee

3 cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Tokyo, Mexico City Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Information on this title: / Kálmán Varga and Joseph A. Driscoll 2011 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2011 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Varga, Kálmán, Computational nanoscience : applications for molecules, clusters, and solids / Kálmán Varga, Joseph A. Driscoll. p. cm. ISBN (Hardback) 1. Nanostructures Data processing. 2. Physics Data processing. 3. Computer algorithms. I. Driscoll, Joseph Andrew, II. Title. QC176.8.N35V dc ISBN hardback Additional resources for this publication at / Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

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5 Contents Preface page xi Part I One-dimensional problems 1 1 Variational solution of the Schrödinger equation Variational principle Variational calculations with Gaussian basis functions 5 2 Solution of bound state problems using a grid Discretization in space Finite differences Solution of the Schrödinger equation using three-point finite differences Fourier grid approach: position and momentum representations Lagrange functions 21 3 Solution of the Schrödinger equation for scattering states Green s functions The transfer matrix method The complex-absorbing-potential approach R-matrix approach to scattering Green s functions Spectral projection Appendix: One-dimensional scattering states 83 4 Periodic potentials: band structure in one dimension Periodic potentials; Bloch s theorem Finite difference approach Periodic cardinals R-matrix calculation of Bloch states Green s function of a periodic system Calculation of the Green s function by continued fractions 103

6 viii Contents 5 Solution of time-dependent problems in quantum mechanics The Schrödinger, Heisenberg, and interaction pictures Floquet theory Time-dependent variational method Time propagation by numerical integration Time propagation using the evolution operator Examples Photoionization of atoms in intense laser fields Calculation of scattering wave functions by wave packet propagation Steady state evolution from a point source Calculation of bound states by imaginary time propagation Appendix Solution of Poisson s equation Finite difference approach Fourier transformation 167 Part II Two- and three-dimensional systems Three-dimensional real-space approach: from quantum dots to Bose Einstein condensates Three-dimensional grid Bound state problems on the 3D grid Solution of the Poisson equation Harmonic quantum dots Gross Pitaevskii equation for Bose Einstein condensates Time propagation of a Gaussian wave packet Variational calculations in two dimensions: quantum dots Introduction Formalism Code description Examples Few-electron quantum dots Appendix Variational calculations in three dimensions: atoms and molecules Three-dimensional trial functions Small atoms and molecules Quantum dots 217

7 Contents ix 9.4 Appendix: Matrix elements Appendix: Symmetrization Monte Carlo calculations Monte Carlo simulations Classical interacting many-particle system Kinetic Monte Carlo Two-dimensional Ising model Variational Monte Carlo Diffusion Monte Carlo Molecular dynamics simulations Introduction Integration of the equation of motions Lennard Jones system Molecular dynamics with three-body interactions Thermostats Physical quantities Implementation and examples Tight-binding approach to electronic structure calculations Tight-binding calculations Electronic structure of carbon nanotubes Tight-binding model with Slater-type orbitals Appendix: Matrix elements of Slater-type orbitals Plane wave density functional calculations Density functional theory Description of the plane wave code and examples Density functional calculations with atomic orbitals Atomic orbitals Matrix elements for numerical atomic orbitals Examples Appendix: Three-center matrix elements Real-space density functional calculations Ground state energy and the Kohn Sham equation Real-space approach Examples 337

8 x Contents 16 Time-dependent density functional calculations Linear response Linear optical response Solution of the time-dependent Kohn Sham equation Simulation of the Coulomb explosion of H Calculation of the dielectric function in real time and real space Scattering and transport in nanostructures Landauer formalism R-matrix approach to scattering in three dimensions Transfer matrix approach Quantum constriction Nonequilibrium Green s function method Simulation of transport in nanostructures Numerical linear algebra Conjugate gradient method Conjugate gradient diagonalization The Lanczos algorithm Diagonalization with subspace iteration Solving linear block tridiagonal equations 398 Appendix Code descriptions 407 References 409 Index 428

9 Preface Computer simulation is an indispensible research tool for modeling, understanding, and predicting nanoscale phenomena. There is a huge gap between the complexity of the programs and algorithms used in computational physics courses and and those used in research for computer simulations of nanoscale systems. The advanced computer codes used by researchers are often too complicated for students who want to develop their own codes, want to understand the essential details of computer simulations, or want to improve existing programs. The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive program library and description of advanced algorithms to help students and researchers learn novel methods and develop their own approaches. An important contribution of this book is that it is accompanied by an algorithm library in Fortran 90 that implements the computational approaches described in the text. The physical problems are solved at various levels of sophistication using methods based on classical molecular dynamics, tight binding, density functional approaches, or fully correlated wave functions. Various basis functions including finitedifferences, Lagrange functions, plane waves, and Gaussians are introduced to solve bound state and scattering problems and to describe electronic structure and transport properties of materials. Different methods of solving the same problem are introduced and compared. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part we concentrate on onedimensional problems. The solution of these problems is obviously simpler and this part serves as an introduction to the second, more advanced, part, in which we describe simulations in three-dimensional problems. The first part can be used in undergraduate computational physics education. The second part is more appropriate for graduate and higher-level undergraduate classes. The problems in the first part are sufficiently simple that the essential parts of the codes can be presented and explained in the text. The second part contains more elaborate codes, often requiring hundreds of lines and sets of different algorithms. Here only the main structure of the codes is explained. We do not try to teach computer programming, as there are excellent books available for that purpose. The codes are written to be simple and easy to follow, sacrificing speed and efficiency for clarity. The reader is encouraged to rewrite these codes to tailor them to his or her own needs.

10 xii Preface The computer codes and examples used in this book are available from the book s website; see / The codes are grouped corresponding to the sections of the book where they appear. A short description of how to use the code and example inputs and outputs is provided. We are continuing work on upgrading the codes and refreshing the program library with new examples and novel algorithms. We would like to thank all our friends who contributed and helped us in this project. Special thanks are due to Professor Yasuyuki Suzuki (Niigata, Japan), Professor Daniel Baye (Brussels, Belgium) and Professor Kazuhiro Yabana (Tsukuba, Japan).

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