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¹Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Zürich, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland. valeryweber@hotmail.com

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Area of Science:

Quantum Chemistry
Computational Materials Science

Background:

Orbital coefficients are fundamental in describing electronic structure.
Achieving sparse representations can simplify calculations and improve efficiency.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce a novel smooth L1-norm based function for sparse orbital representations.
Parametrize this function for optimization within electronic structure calculations.
Demonstrate its application in inducing and maintaining orbital sparsity.

Main Methods:

Developed a smooth L1-norm based sparseness function.
Incorporated unitary transformations of occupied orbitals.
Applied the method to liquid water and bulk silicon.
Tested stability during Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics.

Main Results:

Successfully induced sparsity in orbital coefficients for liquid water and bulk silicon.
Demonstrated stable orbital sparsity maintenance over a molecular dynamics trajectory of 1024 water molecules.
Showcased minimal additional computational effort required for sparsity maintenance.

Conclusions:

The introduced method provides an effective way to achieve sparse orbital representations.
Sparsity can be reliably maintained during dynamic simulations.
This approach offers a computationally efficient path for electronic structure studies.