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The combination of deep learning and ab initio materials calculations is emerging as a trending frontier of materials science research, with deep-learning density functional theory (DFT) electronic structure being particularly promising. In…

Classical density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful framework to study inhomogeneous fluids. Its standard form is based on the knowledge of a generating free energy functional. If this is known exactly, then the results obtained by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-02 S. M. Tschopp , H. Vahid , A. Sharma , J. M. Brader

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem and the Kohn-Sham equations, which are at the basis of the Density Functional Theory, are reformulated in terms of a particular many-body density, which is translational invariant and therefore is relevant for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 A. Kievsky , G. Orlandini , M. Gattobigio

Two forms of relativistic density functional are derived from Dirac equation. Based on their structure analysis model of split electron is proposed. In this model electric charge and mass of electron behave like two point-like particles. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-29 Kirill Koshelev

Density functional theory is discussed in the context of one-particle systems. We show that the ground state density $\rho_0(x)$ and energy $E_0$ are simply related to a family of external potential energy functions with ground state wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. L. Neal

We describe an ab initio method for calculating the electronic structure, electronic transport, and forces acting on the atoms, for atomic scale systems connected to semi-infinite electrodes and with an applied voltage bias. Our method is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Mads Brandbyge , Jose-Luis Mozos , Pablo Ordejon , Jeremy Taylor , Kurt Stokbro

We survey approaches to nonrelativistic density functional theory (DFT) for nuclei using progress toward ab initio DFT for Coulomb systems as a guide. Ab initio DFT starts with a microscopic Hamiltonian and is naturally formulated using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 J. E. Drut , R. J. Furnstahl , L. Platter

Partition density functional theory is a formally exact procedure for calculating molecular properties from Kohn-Sham calculations on isolated fragments, interacting via a global partition potential that is a functional of the fragment…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Peter Elliott , Kieron Burke , Morrel H. Cohen , Adam Wasserman

Machine learning is used to approximate density functionals. For the model problem of the kinetic energy of non-interacting fermions in 1d, mean absolute errors below 1 kcal/mol on test densities similar to the training set are reached with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 John C. Snyder , Matthias Rupp , Katja Hansen , Klaus-Robert Müller , Kieron Burke

Density functional theory (DFT), the most widely adopted method in modern computational chemistry, fails to describe accurately the electronic structure of strongly correlated systems. Here we show that DFT can be formally and practically…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn , David A. Mazziotti

A model is developed, based on the density functional perturbation theory and the inverse Kohn-Sham method, that can be used to improve relativistic nuclear energy density functionals towards an exact but unknown Kohn-Sham…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Giacomo Accorto , Tomoya Naito , Haozhao Liang , Tamara Niksic , Dario Vretenar

We apply reduced density-matrix functional theory to the parabolically confined quantum Hall droplet in the spin-frozen strong magnetic field regime. One-body reduced density matrix functional method performs remarkably well in obtaining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Tölö , A. Harju

The formalism of density functional theory (DFT) can be easily extended to the time dependent case (TDDFT). However, while in the static case the theory is well established and is expected to be, at least in principle, an exact approach for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandro Stringari

Quantum embedding theories are promising approaches to investigate strongly-correlated electronic states of active regions of large-scale molecular or condensed systems. Notable examples are spin defects in semiconductors and insulators. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-14 He Ma , Nan Sheng , Marco Govoni , Giulia Galli

Density functional theory offers a very accurate way of computing materials properties from first principles. However, it is too expensive for modelling large-scale molecular systems whose properties are, in contrast, computed using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-12-12 Alexander V. Shapeev

I review the quantum theory of the electron moving in a random environment. First, the quantum mechanics of individual particles scattered on a random potential is discussed. The quantum-mechanical description is extended to many-body…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-13 Václav Janiš

Electronic structure calculations are routinely carried out within the framework of density-functional theory, often with great success. For electrons in reduced dimensions, however, there is still a need for better approximations to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-22 S. Pittalis , E. Rasanen , E. K. U. Gross

The LSDA+U approach to density functional theory is carefully reanalyzed. Its possible link to single-particle Green's function theory is occasionally discussed. A simple and elegant derivation of the important sum rules for the on-site…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Eschrig , K. Koepernik , I. Chaplygin

Though calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) are used remarkably widely in chemistry, physics, materials science, and biomolecular research and though the modern form of DFT has been studied for almost 60 years, some…

The relationship between the exact kinetic energy density in a quantum system in the frame of Density Functional Theory and the semiclassical functional expression for the same quantity is investigated. The analysis is performed with Monte…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2014-12-15 D. I. Palade