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We consider electronic exchange and correlation effects in density-functional calculations of two-dimensional systems. Starting from wave function calculations of total energies and electron densities of inhomogeneous model systems, we…

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Electron-positron interactions have been utilized in various fields of science. Here we develop time-dependent multi-component density functional theory to study the coupled electron-positron dynamics from first principles. We prove that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Yasumitsu Suzuki , Satoshi Hagiwara , Kazuyuki Watanabe

Long-range charge transfer excited states are notoriously badly underestimated in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). We resolve how {\it exact} TDDFT captures charge transfer between open-shell species: in particular the role…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Neepa T. Maitra

The derivative discontinuity in the exact exchange-correlation potential of ensemble Density Functional Theory (DFT) is investigated at the specific integer number that corresponds to the maximum number of bound electrons, $J_{max}$. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Daniel L. Whitenack , Yu Zhang , Adam Wasserman

The exact formulation of multi-configuration density-functional theory (DFT) is discussed in this work. As an alternative to range-separated methods, where electron correlation effects are split in the coordinate space, the combination of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Emmanuel Fromager

State-of-the-art simulation tools for non-equilibrium quantum transport systems typically take the current-carrier occupations to be described in terms of equilibrium distribution functions characterised by two different electro-chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Mera , P. Bokes , R. W. Godby

Recent progress has been made in capturing spectral features of electronic states of double-excitation character in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) through a frequency-dependent kernel. While it might appear that this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Dhyey Ray , Anna Baranova , Davood B. Dar , Neepa T. Maitra

We formulate a rigorous method for calculating a nonadiabatic (frequency-dependent) exchange-correlation (XC) kernel required for correct description of both equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties of strongly correlated systems within…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-13 Volodymyr Turkowski , Talat S. Rahman

In approximate Kohn-Sham density-functional theory, self-interaction manifests itself as the dependence of the energy of an orbital on its fractional occupation. This unphysical behavior translates into qualitative and quantitative errors…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-28 Ismaila Dabo , Andrea Ferretti , Nicolas Poilvert , Yanli Li , Nicola Marzari , Matteo Cococcioni

We investigate optical absorption spectra obtained through time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) based on nonempirical hybrid functionals that are designed to correctly reproduce the dielectric function. The comparison with…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-17 Alexey Tal , Peitao Liu , Georg Kresse , Alfredo Pasquarello

We aim to learn wavefunctions simulated by time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), which can be efficiently represented as linear combination coefficients of atomic orbitals. In real-time TDDFT, the electronic wavefunctions of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xuan Zhang , Haiyang Yu , Chengdong Wang , Jacob Helwig , Shuiwang Ji , Xiaofeng Qian

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

We explore an asymmetric two-fermion Hubbard dimer to test the accuracy of the adiabatic approximation of time-dependent density functional theory in modelling time-resolved charge transfer. We show that the model shares essential features…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 Johanna I. Fuks , Neepa T. Maitra

We calculate the `exact' potential corresponding to a one-dimensional interacting system of two electrons with a specific, tailored density. We use one-dimensional density-functional theory with a local-density approximation (LDA) on the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 J. P. Coe , I. D'Amico

A spin-current density-functional theory (SCDFT) is introduced, which takes into account currents of the spin-density and thus currents of the magnetization in addition to the electron density, the non-collinear spin-density, and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefan Rohra , Andreas Goerling

A non-empirical exchange functional based on an interpolation between two limits of electron density: slowly varying limit and asymptotic limit, is proposed. In the slowly varying limit, we follow the study by Kleinman in 1984 which…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-04 Teepanis Chachiyo , Hathaithip Chachiyo

The derivative discontinuity is a key concept in electronic structure theory in general and density functional theory in particular. The electronic energy of a quantum system exhibits derivative discontinuities with respect to different…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Paula Mori-Sánchez , Aron J. Cohen

In this comparative study we benchmark a recently developed non-adiabatic exchange-correlation potential within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) (Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett.\ {\bf 120}, 157701 (2018)) by (a) validating the transient…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-20 Niklas Dittmann , Nicole Helbig , Dante M. Kennes

We present the exact adiabatic theory for the dynamics of the inhomogeneous density distribution of a classical fluid. Erroneous particle number fluctuations of dynamical density functional theory are absent, both for canonical and grand…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-25 Daniel de las Heras , Joseph M. Brader , Andrea Fortini , Matthias Schmidt

We calculate the exact Kohn-Sham potential that describes, within time-dependent density-functional theory, the propagation of an electron quasiparticle wavepacket of non-zero crystal momentum added to a ground-state model semiconductor.…

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