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The electron density $n(\rb,t)$, which is the central tool of time-dependent density functional theory, is presently considered to be derivable from a one-body time-dependent potential $V(\rb,t)$, via one-electron wave functions satisfying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Thomas A. Niehaus , Norman H. March

We derive a time-dependent density functional theory appropriate for calculating the near-edge X-ray absorption spectrum in molecules and condensed matter. The basic assumption is to increase the space of many-body wave functions from one…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 G. F. Bertsch , A. Lee

Long-range charge-transfer excitations pose a major challenge for time-dependent density functional approximations. We show that spin-symmetry-breaking offers a simple solution for molecules composed of open-shell fragments, yielding…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Johanna I. Fuks , Angel Rubio , Neepa T. Maitra

We determine the energy-dependent amplitude for elastic {\pi}{\pi} P-wave scattering in isospin-1 by computing part of the discrete energy spectrum of QCD in finite cubic boxes. We observe a rapidly rising phase shift that can be well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-24 Jozef J. Dudek , Robert G. Edwards , Christopher E. Thomas

We show that as an electron transfers between closed-shell molecular fragments at large separation, the exact correlation potential of time-dependent density functional theory gradually develops a step and peak structure in the bonding…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Johanna I. Fuks , Peter Elliott , Angel Rubio , Neepa T. Maitra

By minimizing the difference between the left- and the right-hand sides of the many-body time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation with the Slater-determinant wave-function, we derive a non-adiabatic and self-interaction free time-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-26 V. U. Nazarov

A review of the approximations in any time-dependent density functional calculation of excitation energies is given. The single-pole approximation for the susceptibility is used to understand errors in popular approximations for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Kieron Burke , Martin Petersilka , E. K. U. Gross

The role of the exchange-correlation potential and the exchange-correlation kernel in the calculation of excitation energues from time-dependent density functional theory is studied. Excitation energies of the He and Be atoms are…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Petersilka , E. K. U. Gross , Kieron Burke

Most present applications of time-dependent density functional theory use adiabatic functionals, i.e. the effective potential at time t is determined solely by the density at the same time. This paper discusses a method that aims to go…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Yair Kurzweil , Roi Baer

The cross section of elastic electron-proton scattering taking place in an electron gas is calculated within the Closed Time Path method. It is found to be the sum of two terms, one being the expression in the vacuum except that it involves…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Janos Polonyi , Karima Zazoua

The coupling constant dependence is derived in time-dependent {\em current} density functional theory. The scaling relation can be used to check approximate functionals and in conjunction with the adiabatic connection formula to obtain the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Maxime Dion , Kieron Burke

Conceiving a molecule as composed of smaller molecular fragments, or subunits, is one of the pillars of the chemical and physical sciences, and leads to productive methods in quantum chemistry. Using a fragmentation scheme, efficient…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Martín A. Mosquera , Adam Wasserman

We calculate the imaginary part of the frequency-dependent dielectric function of bulk silicon by applying time-dependent density-functional theory based on the exact-exchange (EXX) Kohn-Sham (KS) band structure and the adiabatic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-01 Yong-Hoon Kim , Martin Staedele , Andreas Goerling

In the current density functional theory of linear and nonlinear time-dependent phenomena, the treatment of exchange and correlation beyond the level of the adiabatic local density approximation is shown to lead to the appearance of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Vignale , C. A. Ullrich , S. Conti

We investigate the possibility to deduce momentum space properties from time-dependent density functional calculations. Electron and ion momentum distributions after double ionization of a model Helium atom in a strong few-cycle laser pulse…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Wilken , D. Bauer

We investigate the time an electronic excitation travels in a supermolecular setup using a measurement process in an open quantum-system framework. The approach is based on the stochastic Schr\"odinger equation and uses a Hamiltonian from…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-09 Dirk Hofmann , Heiko Appel , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Stephan Kümmel

We show that the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density-functional theory displays dynamical step structures that have a spatially non-local and time non-local dependence on the density. Using one-dimensional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Peter Elliott , Johanna I. Fuks , Angel Rubio , Neepa T. Maitra

Distance-dependent phase shifts, amplitude functions, and radial wave functions for neutron-alpha elastic scattering are studied using the Variable Phase Approach. The microscopic KKNN potential is employed to calculate scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 Anil Khachi

Time-dependent density functionals in principle depend on the initial state of the system, but this is ignored in functional approximations presently in use. For one electron it is shown there is no initial-state dependence: for any…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Neepa T. Maitra , Kieron Burke

In this work, the transition matrix elements for inelastic electron--electron scattering are investigated. The angular part is given by spherical harmonics. For the weighted radial wave function overlap, analytic expressions are derived in…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-09 Stefan Löffler , Peter Schattschneider