Publications de Matteo Cococcioni

Energy Level Alignment at the Cobalt Phosphate/Electrolyte Interface: Intrinsic Stability vs Interfacial Chemical Reactions in 5 V Lithium Ion Batteries

The intrinsic stability of the 5 V LiCoPO4-LiCo2P3O10 thin-film (carbon-free) cathode material coated with MoO3 thin layer is studied using a comprehensive synchrotron electron spectroscopy in situ approach combined with firstprinciple calculations. The at ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Optimizing accuracy and efficacy in data-driven materials discovery for the solar production of hydrogen (vol 14, pg 2335, 2021)

Matteo Cococcioni, Iurii Timrov

Correction for 'Optimizing accuracy and efficacy in data-driven materials discovery for the solar production of hydrogen' by Yihuang Xiong et al., Energy Environ. Sci., 2021, 14, 2335-2348; DOI: 10.1039/D0EE02984J. ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

HP - A code for the calculation of Hubbard parameters using density-functional perturbation theory

Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni, Iurii Timrov

We introduce HP, an implementation of density-functional perturbation theory, designed to compute Hubbard parameters (on-site U and inter-site V ) in the framework of DFT+U and DFT+U+V. The code does not require the use of computationally expensive superce ...

ELSEVIER2022

Ab Initio Electron-Phonon Interactions in Correlated Electron Systems

Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni, Iurii Timrov, Andrea Floris

Electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions are pervasive in condensed matter, governing phenomena such as transport, superconductivity, charge-density waves, polarons, and metal-insulator transitions. First-principles approaches enable accurate calculations of e- ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Optimizing accuracy and efficacy in data-driven materials discovery for the solar production of hydrogen dagger

Matteo Cococcioni, Iurii Timrov

The production of hydrogen fuels, via water splitting, is of practical relevance for meeting global energy needs and mitigating the environmental consequences of fossil-fuel-based transportation. Water photoelectrolysis has been proposed as a viable approa ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Self-consistent Hubbard parameters from density-functional perturbation theory in the ultrasoft and projector-augmented wave formulations

Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni, Iurii Timrov

The self-consistent evaluation of Hubbard parameters using linear-response theory is crucial for quantitatively predictive calculations based on Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory. Here, we extend a recently introduced approach based on density-fu ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Hubbard-corrected density functional perturbation theory with ultrasoft pseudopotentials

Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni, Iurii Timrov, Andrea Floris

We present in full detail a newly developed formalism enabling density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) calculations from a DFT + U ground state. The implementation includes ultrasoft pseudopotentials and is valid for both insulating and metallic syst ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Self-consistent DFT

Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni, Iurii Timrov

Contradictory theoretical results for oxygen vacancies in SrTiO3 (STO) were often related to the peculiar properties of STO, which is a d(0) transition metal oxide with mixed ionic-covalent bonding. Here, we apply, for the first time, density functional th ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Pulay forces in density-functional theory with extended Hubbard functionals: From nonorthogonalized to orthogonalized manifolds

Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni, Iurii Timrov, Francesco Aquilante, Luca Binci

We present a derivation of the exact expression for Pulay forces in density-functional theory calculations augmented with extended Hubbard functionals and arising from the use of orthogonalized atomic orbitals as projectors for the Hubbard manifold. The de ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Electronic structure of pristine and Ni-substituted LaFeO3 from near edge x-ray absorption fine structure experiments and first-principles simulations

Xinyu Zhang, Nicola Marzari, Piyush Agrawal, Matteo Cococcioni, Artur Braun, Iurii Timrov, Daniele Passerone

We present a joint theoretical and experimental study of the oxygen K-edge spectra for LaFeO3 and homovalent Ni-substituted LaFeO3 (LaFe0.75Ni0.25O3), using first-principles simulations based on density-functional theory with extended Hubbard functionals a ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Self-consistent site-dependent DFT plus U study of stoichiometric and defective SrMnO3

Ulrich Aschauer, Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni, Iurii Timrov

We propose a self-consistent site-dependent Hubbard U approach for density functional theory (DFT)+U calculations of defects in complex transition metal oxides, using Hubbard parameters computed via linear response theory. The formation of a defect locally ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Energetics and cathode voltages of LiMPO4 olivines (M = Fe, Mn) from extended Hubbard functionals

Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni

Transition-metal compounds pose serious challenges to first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT), due to the inability of most approximate exchange-correlation functionals to capture the localization of valence electrons on thei ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Hubbard parameters from density-functional perturbation theory

Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni, Iurii Timrov

2018

Advanced capabilities for materials modelling with QUANTUM ESPRESSO

Roberto Car, Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Emine Küçükbenli, Ngoc Linh Nguyen, Riccardo Sabatini, Giorgia Fugallo, Lorenzo Paulatto, Matteo Cococcioni, Nicola Colonna, Iurii Timrov, Andrea Floris, Andrea Ferretti

QUANTUM ESPRESSO is an integrated suite of open-source computer codes for quantum simulations of materials using state-of-the-art electronic-structure techniques, based on density-functional theory, density-functional perturbation theory, and many-body per ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

First-principles Hubbard U approach for small molecule binding in metal-organic frameworks

Matteo Cococcioni, Berend Smit

We apply first-principles approaches with Hubbard U corrections for calculation of small molecule binding energetics to open-shell transition metal atoms in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Using density functional theory with van derWaals dispersion-corre ...

American Institute of Physics2016

Atomic bonding effects in annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy. I. Computational predictions

Matteo Cococcioni

Annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy (ADF-STEM) image simulations were performed for zone-axis-oriented light-element single crystals, using a multislice method adapted to include charge redistribution due to chemical bonding. Exami ...

American Vacuum Society2016

Thermoelasticity of Fe3+- and Al-bearing bridgmanite: Effects of iron spin crossover

Matteo Cococcioni

We report ab initio (LDA + U-sc) calculations of thermoelastic properties of ferric iron (Fe3+)- and aluminum (Al)-bearing bridgmanite (MgSiO3 perovskite), the main Earth forming phase, at relevant pressure and temperature conditions and compositions. Thre ...

American Geophysical Union2016

Thermoelasticity of Fe2+-bearing bridgmanite

Matteo Cococcioni, Andrea Floris

We present local density approximation augmented by the Hubbard-type correction calculations of high-temperature elastic properties of bridgmanite with composition (Mg(1-x)Fex2+)SiO3 for 0

Amer Geophysical Union2015

Bridging density-functional and many-body perturbation theory: Orbital-density dependence in electronic-structure functionals

Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni, Andrea Ferretti

Energy functionals which depend explicitly on orbital densities, rather than on the total charge density, appear when applying self-interaction corrections to density-functional theory; this is, e.g., the case for Perdew-Zunger and Koopmans-compliant funct ...

Amer Physical Soc2014

Donor and acceptor levels of organic photovoltaic compounds from first principles

Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni, Andrea Ferretti

Accurate and efficient approaches to predict the optical properties of organic semiconducting compounds could accelerate the search for efficient organic photovoltaic materials. Nevertheless, predicting the optical properties of organic semiconductors has ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2013