To understand correlated quantum materials, we develop new theoretical concepts, advanced methods and better algorithms. For our recent efforts, see:
"Frozen spin ratio and the detection of Hund correlations", Phys. Rev. Research (2023)
"DFT+DMFT with natural atomic orbital projectors", Phys. Rev. B (2019)
"Maximum Quantum Entropy Method", Phys. Rev. B (2018)
"Analytic continuation via domain-knowledge-free machine learning", Phys. Rev. B (2018)
"Quantified degeneracy and metal-insulator transition in complex transition-metal oxides", Phys. Rev. B (2018)
"The effect of double counting, spin density, and Hund interaction in the different DFT+U functionals", Sci. Rep. (2018)
"Calculating branching ratio and spin-orbit coupling from first-principles: A formalism and its application to iridates", Phys. Rev. B (2016)
Our materials research covers a wide range of quantum materials and phenomena, including high-temperature superconductors, Hund metals and other correlated metallic phases, Kondo and heavy-fermion systems, correlated electrons at interface, large spin-orbit coupling materials, magnetic and topological materials.
Code and Software
Since 2002, we have participated in the development of the DFT software package 'OpenMX (Open source package for Materials eXplore)'. This pseudopotential local-basis code has been developed through international collaboration, under the main supervision of Prof. Ozaki at ISSP, University of Tokyo. Our main interests and contributions lie in methods for correlated electronic structure and magnetism.
The Jx code performs magnetic force calculations using DFT solutions as input. It supports both collinear and noncollinear spin Hamiltonian. For the former, implementation details can be found in
"Jx: An open-source software for calculating magnetic interactions based on magnetic force theory" Comput. Phys. Comm. 247, 106927 (2020).
See also,
"Reliability and applicability of magnetic force linear response theory: Numerical parameters, predictability and orbital resolution" Phys. Rev. B 97, 125132 (2018).
DMFT-pack is designed to perform DFT+DMFT calculations primarily using full-band OpenMX Hamiltonians. The code employs CT-QMC DMFT solvers together with internal semi-empirical ones. It is equipped with a unique Natural Atomic Orbital projector and a Maximum Quantum Entropy analytical continuation algorithm. For more details, see:
"DFT+DMFT with natural atomic orbital projectors", Phys. Rev. B (2019)
"Maximum Quantum Entropy Method", Phys. Rev. B (2018).
Kai-EDJ is designed to perform DMFT and MFT calculations in either separate or combined modes. It provides an internal ED-DMFT solver as well as interfaces to external CT-QMC solvers. For magnetic force theory, Kai-EDJ operates independently, separated from Jx. At present, only collinear MFT is supported. For more details, see:
"KaiEDJ: A program conducting dynamical mean-field theory and magnetic force theory calculation for correlated magnetic materials", Comput. Phys. Comm. 316, 109779 (2025)
Fundings