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Real-time, time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) has gained popularity as a first-principles approach to study a variety of excited-state phenomena such as optical excitations and electronic stopping. Within RT-TDDFT…

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Despite the variety of available computational approaches, state-of-the-art methods for calculating excitation energies such as time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), are computationally demanding and thus limited to moderate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Martina Stella , Kritam Thapa , Luigi Genovese , Laura E. Ratcliff

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) often successfully reproduces excitation energies of finite systems, already in the adiabatic local-density approximation (ALDA). Here we show for prototypical molecular materials, i.e.,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-25 Caterina Cocchi , Claudia Draxl

A quantum electrodynamical time-dependent density functional theory framework is applied to describe strongly coupled light--matter interactions in cavity environments. The formalism utilizes a tensor product approach, coupling real-space…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Yetmgeta Aklilu , Matthew Shepherd , Cody L. Covington , Kalman Varga

We discuss issues related to pairing dynamics in nuclear large amplitude collective motion. The examples of effects which are not properly described within BCS theory are presented. In the second part we review properties of TDDFT and in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-03 P. Magierski , J. Grineviciute , K. Sekizawa

The frequency-dependent response of a one-dimensional fermion system is investigated using Current Density Functional Theory (CDFT) within the local approximation (LDA). DFT-LDA, and in particular CDFT-LDA, reproduces very well the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-04-01 Michael Dzierzawa , Ulrich Eckern , Stefan Schenk , Peter Schwab

Classical dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) is one of the cornerstones of modern statistical mechanics. It is an extension of the highly successful method of classical density functional theory (DFT) to nonequilibrium systems.…

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The Lindblad equation describes the dissipative time evolution of a density matrix that characterizes an open quantum system in contact with its environment. The widespread ensemble interpretation of a density matrix requires its time…

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Understanding the properties of warm dense hydrogen is of key importance for the modeling of compact astrophysical objects and to understand and further optimize inertial confinement fusion (ICF) applications. The work horse of warm dense…

While the variational principle for excited-state energies leads to a route to obtaining excited-state densities from time-dependent density functional theory, relatively little attention has been paid to the quality of the resulting…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Anna Baranova , Neepa T. Maitra

Time-dependent spin density functional theory (TD-SDFT) allows the theoretical description of spin and magnetization dynamics in electronic systems from first quantum mechanical principles. TD-SDFT accounts for electronic interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-04 Jenna L. Bologa , Carsten A. Ullrich

Real-time time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) is a powerful approach for investigating various ultrafast phenomena in materials. However, most existing RT-TDDFT studies rely on adiabatic local or semi-local approximations,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Yuyang Ji , Haotian Zhao , Peize Lin , Xinguo Ren , Lixin He

Multipole moments are the first order responses of the energy to spatial derivatives of the electric field strength. The quality of density functional theory (DFT) prediction of molecular multipole moments thus characterizes errors in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Diptarka Hait , Yu Hsuan Liang , Martin Head-Gordon

The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is the leading computationally feasible theory to treat excitations by strong electromagnetic fields. Here the theory is applied to coherent optical phonon generation produced by intense…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Y. Shinohara , S. A. Sato , K. Yabana , J. -I. Iwata , T. Otobe , G. F. Bertsch

We demonstrate the capabilities of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) for strong-field, short wavelength (soft X-ray) physics, as compared to a formalism based on rate equations. We find that TDDFT provides a very good…

A formulation for the efficient calculation of the electromagnetic retarded potential generated by time-dependent electron density in the context of real-time time dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) is presented. The electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Matan Shapira , Vitaliy Lomakin , Amir Boag , Amir Natan

One route to numerically propagating quantum systems is time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). The application of TDDFT to a particular system's time evolution is predicated on V-representability which we have analyzed in a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 J. D. Whitfield

Dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) is a powerful variational framework to study the nonequilibrium properties of colloids by only considering a time-dependent one-body number density. Despite the large number of recent successes,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-13 René Wittmann , Hartmut Löwen , Joseph M. Brader

The interplay of interactions and disorder in two-dimensional (2D) electron systems has actively been studied for decades. The paradigmatic approach involves starting with a clean Fermi liquid and perturbing the system with both disorder…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-29 P. A. Nosov , I. S. Burmistrov , S. Raghu

We derive an exact representation of the exchange-correlation energy within density functional theory (DFT) which spawns a class of approximations leading to correct long-range asymptotic behavior. In what amounts to be the simplest…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser