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Strictly correlated electrons in density functional theory: A general formulation with applications to spherical densities

Materials Science 2007-05-23 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Chemical Physics

Abstract

We reformulate the strong-interaction limit of electronic density functional theory in terms of a classical problem with a degenerate minimum. This allows us to clarify many aspects of this limit, and to write a general solution, which is explicitly calculated for spherical densities. We then compare our results with previous approximate solutions and discuss the implications for density functional theory.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0701025,
  title  = {Strictly correlated electrons in density functional theory: A general formulation with applications to spherical densities},
  author = {Michael Seidl and Paola Gori-Giorgi and Andreas Savin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0701025},
  year   = {2007}
}

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12 pages, 9 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. A