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We propose a new method of calculating electronically excited states that combines a density functional theory (DFT) based ground state calculation with a linear response treatment that employs approximations used in the time-dependent…

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We present an improved method to calculate defect formation energies that overcomes the band-gap problem of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT) and reduces the self-interaction error of the local-density approximation (LDA) to DFT. We…

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We present an accurate local density-functional for electronic-structure calculations within the density functional theory (DFT). The functional is derived by analyzing the structure of the standard perturbative expansion of the correlation…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-28 Mario Benites , Angel Rosado , Efstratios Manousakis

Ensemble Density Functional Theory (EDFT) is a promising extension to Density Functional Theory (DFT) for calculating excited states. While Kohn-Sham eigenvalue differences underestimate gaps, EDFT has been shown to provide more accurate…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-10 Gregory G. V. Kenning , Remi J. Leano , David A. Strubbe

Improving the accuracy and thus broadening the applicability of electronic density functional theory (DFT) is crucial to many research areas, from material science, to theoretical chemistry, biophysics and biochemistry. In the last three…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Michael Seidl

Density functional theory (DFT) is a widespread and effective tool in electronic structure calculations for ground-state electron systems. Its success has prompted exploration into the use of DFT for non-collective excited states. The delta…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Ethan Pollack , Rohan Maniar , John P. Perdew

The uniform electron gas (UEG) is a cornerstone of density-functional theory (DFT) and the foundation of the local-density approximation (LDA), one of the most successful approximations in DFT. In this work, we extend the concept of UEG by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Pierre-François Loos

Effective field theory (EFT) methods are applied to density functional theory (DFT) as part of a program to systematically go beyond mean-field approaches to medium and heavy nuclei. A system of fermions with short-range, natural…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. J. Puglia , A. Bhattacharyya , R. J. Furnstahl

We have proposed a method for correcting the Kohn-Sham eigen energies in the density functional theory (DFT) based on the Koopmans theorem using Wannier functions. The method provides a general approach applicable for molecules and solids…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-02 Jie Ma , Lin-Wang Wang

We present an approach based on density-functional theory for the calculation of fundamental gaps of both finite and periodic two-dimensional (2D) electronic systems. The computational cost of our approach is comparable to that of total…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-11 Alberto Guandalini , Alice Ruini , Esa Räsänen , Carlo Andrea Rozzi , Stefano Pittalis

A Kohn-Sham density-functional energy expression is derived for any (ground or excited) state within a given many-electron ensemble along with the stationarity condition it fulfills with respect to the ensemble density, thus giving access…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Emmanuel Fromager

We show that a lattice formulation of density-functional theory (DFT), guided by renormalization-group concepts, can be used to obtain numerical predictions of energy gaps, spin-density profiles, critical exponents, sound velocities,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Francisco C. Alcaraz , Klaus Capelle

We study the accuracy of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) for warm- and hot-dense matter (WDM and HDM). Specifically, considering a wide range of systems, we perform accurate ab initio molecular dynamics simulations with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Phanish Suryanarayana , Arpit Bhardwaj , Xin Jing , Shashikant Kumar , John E. Pask

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

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is one of the most widely used methods for "ab initio" calculations of the structure of atoms, molecules, crystals, surfaces, and their interactions. Unfortunately, the customary introduction to DFT is often…

Physics Education · Physics 2010-12-07 Nathan Argaman , Guy Makov

Standard approximations for the exchange-correlation (XC) functional in Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) typically lead to unacceptably large errors when applied to strongly-correlated electronic systems. Partition-DFT (PDFT) is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Yi Shi , Yuming Shi , Adam Wasserman

We develop a new density functional theory (DFT) and formalism for correlated electron systems by taking as reference an interacting electron system that has a ground state wavefunction which obeys exactly the Gutzwiller approximation for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 K. M. Ho , J. Schmalian , C. Z. Wang

An oversight of several previous results from local density approximation (LDA) calculations appear to have led to an incomplete, and hence misleading, characterization of the capability of density functional theory (DFT) to describe…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-01-28 Diola Bagayoko , Lashounda Franklin , G. L. Zhao

Following a recent work [E. Fromager, J. Phys. Chem. A 2025, 129, 4, 1143-1155] on the ensemble density functional theory (DFT) of excited electronic energy levels, we derive in this paper the ensuing static linear response theory, thus…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Lucien Dupuy , Emmanuel Fromager

Due to efficient scaling with electron number N, density functional theory (DFT) is widely used for studies of large molecules and solids. Restriction of an exact mean-field theory to local potential functions has recently been questioned.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Robert K. Nesbet