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Density functional theory (DFT) provides a theoretical framework for efficient and fairly accurate calculations of the electronic structure of molecules and crystals. The main features of density functional theory are described and DFT…

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We construct phase-space distribution functions for the oblate, cuspy mass models of Sridhar & Touma, which may contain a central point mass (black hole) and have potentials of St\"ackel form in parabolic coordinates. The density in the ST…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mir Abbas Jalali , P. Tim de Zeeuw

Measurements of a weighted energy density average taken in the vacuum state of a conformal field theory in $1+1$ dimensions are randomly distributed with vanishing expectation value. The probability distribution is computed in closed form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Matthew C. Anthony , Christopher J. Fewster

We consider the signed density of the extremal points of (two-dimensional) scalar fields with a Gaussian distribution. We assign a positive unit charge to the maxima and minima of the function and a negative one to its saddles. At first, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Georg Foltin

We investigate insterstellar gas spheres by determining the metric functions, the material distribution, and the features of particle orbits in terms of stability and geodesics. An exact solution of the Einstein's equations for interstellar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-21 Dániel Barta

In order to describe the nonisothermal dynamics of two-phase flows or binary mixtures such as colloidal suspensions consisting of colloidal particles and solvent on a microscopic level, we derive a new extended dynamical density functional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-06 Michael te Vrugt , Hartmut Löwen , Helmut R. Brand , Raphael Wittkowski

A system of soft ellipsoid molecules confined between two planar walls is studied using classical Density Functional Theory (DFT). Both the isotropic and nematic phases are considered. The excess free energy is evaluated using two different…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 David Cheung , Friederike Schmid

The probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass surface density of molecular clouds provides essential information about the structure of molecular cloud gas and condensed structures out of which stars may form. In general, the PDF…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Jörg Fischera

A formulation of the density functional theory is constructed on the foundations of entropic inference. The theory is introduced as an application of maximum entropy for inhomogeneous fluids in thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-29 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha

The nearest neighbor distribution (Chandrasekhar 1943) is generalized to fractal stellar systems.For such systems an asymptotic distribution of the magnitude of large random forces and a formula for the effective mean interparticle spacing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-01 Oleg V. Chumak , Alexey S. Rastorguev

Isolated, steady-state galaxies correspond to equilibrium solutions of the Poisson--Vlasov system. We show that (i) all galaxies with a distribution function depending on energy alone must be spherically symmetric and (ii) all axisymmetric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 J. An , N. W. Evans , J. L. Sanders

We simultaneously model the gravitational potential and phase space distribution function (DF) of giant stars near the Sun using the {\it Gaia} DR2 radial velocity catalog. We assume that the Galaxy is in equilibrium and is symmetric about…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 Haochuan Li , Lawrence Widrow

To constrain the large-scale magnetic field strengths in cosmologically distant galax- ies, we derive the probability distribution function of Faraday rotation measure (RM) when random lines of sight pass through a sample of disc galaxies,…

We show that the gravitational potential in the plane of an axisymmetrical flat disk where the surface density varies as a power of the radius obeys an inhomogeneous first-order Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) solvable by standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. -M. Huré , F. Hersant

A set of bi-orthogonal potential-density basis functions is introduced to model the density and its associated gravitational field of three dimensional stellar systems. Radial components of our basis functions are weighted integral forms of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alireza Rahmati , Mir Abbas Jalali

The structural and electronic properties of the carbonyl sulfide dimer anion are calculated using density functional theory within a pseudopotential method. Three geometries are optimized and investigated: C2v and C2 symmetric, as well as…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-06-16 G. Bilalbegovic

We consider systems of particles hopping stochastically on $d$-dimensional lattices with space-dependent probabilities. We map the master equation onto an evolution equation in a Fock space where the dynamics are given by a quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Gunter Schuetz , Sven Sandow

We present new exact solutions for two-dimensional geometries generated by continuous distributions of topological defects within a conformal metric framework. By reformulating Einstein's equations in two dimensions as a Poisson equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-09 A. M. de M. Carvalho , G. Q. Garcia , C. Furtado

A formalism is presented to obtain closed evolution equations for asymptotic probability distribution functions of turbulence magnitudes. The formalism is derived for a generic evolution equation, so that the final result can be easily…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-06-25 F. O. Minotti , E. Speranza