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We combine techniques from quantum and from classical density functional theory (DFT) to describe electron-ion mixtures. For homogeneous systems, we show how to calculate ion-ion and ion-electron correlation functions within Chihara's…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Louis , H. Xu , J. A. Anta

A first principle theory of charge transport in spatially inhomogeneous quantum systems composed of any finite number of particles and subject to weak electro-magnetic fields is developed. Simple analytical expressions for the linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Liudmila A. Pozhar

We present a generalized approach for computing electron conductance and I-V characteristics in multiterminal junctions from first-principles. Within the framework of Keldysh theory, electron transmission is evaluated employing an O(N)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Kamal K. Saha , Wenchang Lu , J. Bernholc , Vincent Meunier

The lowest energy configurations of close-packed clusters up to N=110 atoms with stacking faults are studied using the Monte Carlo method with Metropolis algorithm. Two types of contact interactions, a pair-potential and a many-atom…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Manninen , J. Akola , M. Manninen

Ion clustering has been proposed as a mechanism leading to the peculiar 'anomalous underscreening' phenomenon seen for electrostatic interactions between charge surfaces immersed in concentrated electrolytes. These interactions have been…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-01 Clifford E. Woodward , David Ribar , Jan Forsman

A novel approach to electronic correlations and magnetism of crystals based on realistic electronic structure calculations is reviewed. In its simplest form it is a combination of the ``local density approximation'' (LDA) and the dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Lichtenstein , M. I. Katsnelson , G. Kotliar

We study electron transport through a multichannel fractional quantum Hall edge in the presence of both interchannel interaction and random tunneling between channels, with emphasis on the role of contacts. The prime example in our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 C. Spånslätt , Yuval Gefen , I. V. Gornyi , D. G. Polyakov

The charge form factor of ${}^6$Li nucleus is considered on the basis of its cluster structure. The charge density of ${}^6$Li is presented as a superposition of two terms. One of them is a folded density and the second one is a sum of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Z. Krumova , E. Tomasi-Gustafsson , A. N. Antonov

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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 Hauke Paulsen , Alfred Xaver Trautwein

In this work, we propose an efficient computational scheme for first-principle quantum transport simulations to evaluate the open-boundary conditions. Its partitioning differentiates from conventional methods in that the contact self-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-01 Guido Gandus , Youseung Lee , Daniele Passerone , Mathieu Luisier

We demonstrate the existence of different density-density functionals designed to retain selected properties of the many-body ground state in a non-interacting solution starting from the standard density functional theory ground state. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 F. A. Reboredo , P. R. C. Kent

An efficient computational methodology is used to explore charge transport properties in chemically-modified (and randomly disordered) graphene-based materials. The Hamiltonians of various complex forms of graphene are constructed using…

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We use coupled-cluster quantum chemical methods to calculate the energetics of molecular clusters cut out of periodic molecular hydrogen structures that model observed phases of solid hydrogen. The hydrogen structures are obtained from…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-15 J. R. Trail , P. López Ríos , R. J. Needs

We study the transport properties of interacting electrons in a disordered quantum wire within the framework of the Luttinger liquid model. We demonstrate that the notion of weak localization is applicable to the strongly correlated…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin , D. G. Polyakov

We develop an ensemble density functional theory for the fractional quantum Hall effect using a local density approximation. Model calculations for edge reconstructions of a spin-polarized quantum dot give results in good agreement with…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 O. Heinonen , M. I. Lubin , M. D. Johnson

Recent theoretical advances, based on a combination of concepts from Thouless' topological theory of adiabatic charge transport and a newly introduced gauge-invariance principle for transport coefficients, have permitted to connect (and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-08 Paolo Pegolo , Stefano Baroni , Federico Grasselli

The framework of nuclear energy density functionals is applied to a study of the formation and evolution of cluster states in nuclei. The relativistic functional DD-ME2 is used in triaxial and reflection-asymmetric relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 J. P. Ebran , E. Khan , T. Niksic , D. Vretenar

Building on the many existing algorithms for calculating the DC transport properties of quantum tight-binding models, we develop a systematic approach that expresses finite frequency observables in terms of the stationary Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-15 Oleksii Shevtsov , Xavier Waintal

In this work we present a coupled-cluster theory for the propagation of multireference electronic systems initiating at general quantum mechanical states. Our formalism is based on the infinitesimal analysis of modified cluster operators,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Martín A. Mosquera

The electronic conductance of a molecule making contact to electrodes is determined by the coupling of discrete molecular states to the continuum electrode density of states. Interactions between bound states and continua can be modeled…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas M. Henderson , Giorgos Fagas , Eoin Hyde , James C. Greer