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The Seebeck coefficient plays a fundamental role in identifying the efficiency of a thermoelectric device. Its theoretical evaluation for atomistic models is routinely based on Density Functional Theory calculations combined with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kaike Yang , Enrico Perfetto , Stefan Kurth , Gianluca Stefanucci , Roberto D'Agosta

Multiscale plasmonic systems e.g. extended metallic nanostructures with sub-nanometer inter-distances) play a key role in the development of next-generation nano-photonic devices. An accurate modeling of the optical interactions in these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Cristian Ciracì , Fabio Della Sala

Quantum computing offers the promise of speedups for scientific computations, but its application to reacting flows is hindered by nonlinear source terms, the challenges of time-dependent simulations, and the difficulty of extracting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Jizhi Zhang , Ziang Yang , Zhaoyuan Meng , Zhen Lu , Yue Yang

The key features of density-functional theory (DFT) within a minimalistic implementation of quantum electrodynamics are demonstrated, thus allowing to study elementary properties of quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory…

The classic density-functional theory (DFT) formalism introduced by Hohenberg, Kohn, and Sham in the mid-1960s, is based upon the idea that the complicated N-electron wavefunction can be replaced with the mathematically simpler 1-electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. E. Casida , M. Huix-Rotllant

Quantum Optimal Control Theory (QOCT) provides the necessary tools to theoretically design driving fields capable of controlling a quantum system towards a given state or along a prescribed path in Hilbert space. This theory must be…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2013-05-30 Alberto Castro , Jan Werschnik , Eberhard K. U. Gross

Quantum dots with conduction electrons or holes originating from several bands are considered. We assume the particles are confined in a harmonic potential and assume the electrons (or holes) belonging to different bands to be different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Karkkainen M. Koskinen , S. M. Reimann , M. Manninen

The nonequilibrium thermodynamics of interacting quantum many-body systems is investigated within the framework of thermal time-dependent density functional theory using a generalized linear-response formulation for the full quantum work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Antonio Palamara , Francesco Plastina , Antonello Sindona , Irene D'Amico

We prove that the theorems of TDDFT can be applied to a class of qubit Hamiltonians that are universal for quantum computation. The theorems of TDDFT applied to universal Hamiltonians imply that single-qubit expectation values can be used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-20 David G. Tempel , Alan Aspuru-Guzik

This is the second and the final part of the review on density functional theory (DFT), referred to as DFT-II. In the first review, DFT-I, we have discussed wavefunction-based methods, their complexity, and the basic of density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-25 Ashish Kumar , Prashant Singh , Manoj K. Harbola

We provide a new formulation of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) based on the geometric structure of the set of states constrained to have a fixed density. Orbital-free TDDFT is formulated using a hydrodynamics equation…

Simulations in the warm dense matter regime using finite temperature Kohn-Sham density functional theory (FT-KS-DFT), while frequently used, are computationally expensive due to the partial occupation of a very large number of high-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-04 Yael Cytter , Eran Rabani , Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density-functional theory (DFT) is broadly considered the conceptual basis for a full characterization of an electronic system in its ground state by just the one-body particle density. Part I of this review…

Forty-five years after the point de d\'epart [1] of density functional theory, its applications in chemistry and the study of electronic structures keep steadily growing. However, the precise form of the energy functional in terms of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Philippe Blanchard , José M. Gracia-Bondía , Joseph C. Várilly

I summarize Density Functional Theory (DFT) in a language familiar to quantum field theorists, and introduce several apparently novel ideas for constructing {\it systematic} approximations for the density functional. I also note that, at…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-11 T. Banks

A novel parallel hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for the solution of the quantum-chemical ground-state energy problem on gate-based quantum computers is presented. This approach is based on the reduced density-matrix functional theory…

Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been…

A quantum electrodynamical time-dependent density functional theory framework is applied to describe strongly coupled light--matter interactions in cavity environments. The formalism utilizes a tensor product approach, coupling real-space…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Yetmgeta Aklilu , Matthew Shepherd , Cody L. Covington , Kalman Varga

A quantitative and predictive theory of quantum light-matter interactions in ultra thin materials involves several fundamental challenges. Any realistic model must simultaneously account for the ultra-confined plasmonic modes and their…

Density functional theory has become the workhorse of quantum physics, chemistry, and materials science. Within these fields, a broad range of applications needs to be covered. These applications range from solids to molecular systems, from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Christof Holzer , Yannick J. Franzke