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Variational optimization of orbitals in time-independent density functional calculations of excited electronic states presents a significant challenge, as excited states typically correspond to saddle points on the electronic energy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Yorick L. A. Schmerwitz , Elli Selenius , Gianluca Levi

We present a novel route to constructing cost-efficient semi-empirical approximations for the non-additive kinetic energy in subsystem density functional theory. The developed methodology is based on the use of Slater determinants composed…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Larissa Sophie Eitelhuber , Denis G. Artiukhin

By means of the scattering angles, we obtain an effective metric of spinless binaries with radiation-reaction effects up to fourth post-Minkowskian order, which is the foundation of the effective-one-body theory. We note that there are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-17 Jiliang Jing , Weike Deng , Sheng Long , Jieci Wang

Employing a local formula for the electron-electron interaction energy, we derive a self-consistent approximation for the total energy of a general $N$-electron system. Our scheme works as a local variant of the Thomas-Fermi approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 E. Rasanen , A. Odriazola , I. Makkonen , A. Harju

The strong boundary normalized condition of wavefunction for fully occupied semicore 3d orbitals leads the linear response DFT+U on such metal oxide to have an insurmountable obstacle in Hubbard U determination. We treated the orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-17 Bolong Huang

We investigate the particle and kinetic-energy densities for a system of $N$ fermions confined in a potential $V(\bfr)$. In an earlier paper [J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. {\bf 36}, 1111 (2003)], some exact and asymptotic relations involving the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Brack , A. Koch , M. V. N. Murthy , J. Roccia

The study of isolated defects in solids is a natural target for classical or quantum embedding methods that treat the defect at a high level of theory and the rest of the solid at a lower level of theory. Here, in the context of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-25 Bryan T. G. Lau , Brian Busemeyer , Timothy C. Berkelbach

Entanglement is one of the most fascinating concepts of modern physics. In striking contrast to its abstract, mathematical foundation, its practical side is, however, remarkably underdeveloped. Even for systems of just two orbitals or sites…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Lexin Ding , Zoltan Zimboras , Christian Schilling

Most approximate exchange-correlation functionals used within density functional theory are constructed as the sum of two distinct contributions for exchange and correlation. Separating the exchange component from the entire functional is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Claudia Filippi , C. J. Umrigar , Xavier Gonze

Modeling the Pauli energy, the contribution to the kinetic energy caused by Pauli statistics, without using orbitals is the open problem of orbital-free density functional theory. An important aspect of this problem is correctly reproducing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Jeremy J. Redd , Antonio C. Cancio

The exact exchange potential in time-dependent density-functional theory is defined as an orbital functional through the time-dependent optimized effective potential (TDOEP) method. We numerically solve the TDOEP integral equation for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. O. Wijewardane , C. A. Ullrich

To establish a self-consistent effective one-body (EOB) theory that describes the dynamical evolution of binary systems based on the post-Minkowskian (PM) approximation, where the Hamiltonian, radiation reaction force, and waveforms are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 Jiliang Jing , Weike Deng , Sheng Long

We present an ``orbital'' free density functional theory for computing the quantum ground state of atomic clusters and liquids. Our approach combines the Bohm hydrodynamical description of quantum mechanics with an information theoretical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Sean W. Derrickson , Eric R. Bittner

We present a spectral finite-element formulation of the optimized effective potential (OEP) method for atomic structure calculations in the random phase approximation (RPA). In particular, we develop a finite-element framework that employs…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Shubhang Krishnakant Trivedi , Phanish Suryanarayana

We prove by means of a renormalization group method that in weakly interacting many-electron systems at half-filling on a periodic hyper-cubic lattice, the free energy density uniformly converges to an analytic function of the coupling…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-19 Yohei Kashima

We investigate the behavior of the kinetic and the exchange energy densities near the nuclear cusp of atomic systems. Considering hydrogenic orbitals, we derive analytical expressions near the nucleus, for single shells, as well as in the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-01 L. A. Constantin , E. Fabiano , F. Della Sala

In the present work, we investigate the computational efficiency afforded by higher-order finite-element discretization of the saddle-point formulation of orbital-free density functional theory. We first investigate the robustness of viable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Phani Motamarri , Mrinal Iyer , Jaroslaw Knap , Vikram Gavini

The ground state of atoms from H to Ar was calculated using a self-interaction correction to local and gradient dependent density functionals. The correction can significantly improve the total energy and makes the orbital energies…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2013-08-29 Simon Klüpfel , Peter Klüpfel , Hannes Jonsson

Perhaps the simplest first-principles approach to electronic structure is to fit the charge distribution of each orbital pair and use those fits wherever they appear in the entire electron-electron (EE) interaction energy. The charge…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Brett I Dunlap , Mark C Palenik

Within the nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) framework, the real-time NEO time-dependent density functional theory (RT-NEO-TDDFT) approach enables the simulation of coupled electronic-nuclear dynamics. In this approach, the electrons and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Tao E. Li , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer