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The particle-hole interaction problem is longstanding within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and leads to extreme errors in the prediction of K-edge X-ray absorption spectra (XAS). We derive a linear-response formalism that…

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Ground-state electronic structure calculations using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) offer an unprecedented balance between efficiency and accuracy, now paradigmatic to the fields of quantum chemistry and condensed matter…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Lucien Dupuy , Toni Chiti , Jérémy Morere , Emmanuel Fromager

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presently enjoying enormous popularity in quantum chemistry, as a useful tool for extracting electronic excited state energies. This article discusses how TDDFT is much broader in scope,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kieron Burke , Jan Werschnik , E. K. U. Gross

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) runs at low computational cost that scales linearly with the number of simulated atoms, making it suitable for large-scale material simulations. It is generally considered that OF-DFT strictly…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-05 Qiang Xu , Cheng Ma , Wenhui Mi , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

We investigate an extension of excited state mean-field theory in which the energy expression is augmented with density functional components in an effort to include the effects of weak electron correlations. The approach remains…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Luning Zhao , Eric Neuscamman

Steady-state density functional theory, called i-DFT, is employed to compute spectral and transmission properties of general interacting nanoscale regions coupled to electronic reservoirs. Exchange-correlation functionals are constructed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Nahual Sobrino , Stefan Kurth

Density functional theory within the local or semilocal density approximations (DFT-LDA/GGA) has become a workhorse in electronic structure theory of solids, being extremely fast and reliable for energetics and structural properties, yet…

It has long been postulated that within density-functional theory (DFT) the total energy of a finite electronic system is convex with respect to electron count, so that 2 E_v[N_0] <= E_v[N_0 - 1] + E_v[N_0 + 1]. Using the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Andrew C. Burgess , Edward Linscott , David D. O'Regan

The journey of theoretical study on semiconductors is reviewed in a non-conventional way. We have started with the basic introduction of Hartree-Fock method and introduce the fundamentals of Density Functional Theory (DFT). From the oldest…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-04 Sujoy Datta , Debnarayan Jana

Time-dependent (current) density functional theory for many-electron systems strongly coupled to quantized electromagnetic modes of a microcavity is proposed. It is shown that the electron-photon wave function is a unique functional of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 I. V. Tokatly

A very specific ensemble of ground and excited states is shown to yield an exact formula for any excitation energy as a simple correction to the energy difference between orbitals of the Kohn-Sham ground state. This alternative scheme…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Zeng-hui Yang , Aurora Pribram-Jones , Kieron Burke , Carsten A. Ullrich

The modified local spin density functional and the related local potential for excited states is tested by employing the ionization potential theorem. The functional is constructed by splitting $k$-space. Since its functional derivative…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 M. Hemanadhan , Md. Shamim , Manoj K. Harbola

There has been a high demand in rectifying the band gap under-estimation problem in density functional theory (DFT), while keeping the computational load at the same level as local density approximation. DFT-1/2 and shell DFT-1/2 are useful…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Shengxin Yang , Jiangzhen Shi , Kan-Hao Xue , Jun-Hui Yuan , Xiangshui Miao

While in principle exact, Kohn-Sham density functional theory -- the workhorse of computational chemistry -- must rely on approximations for the exchange-correlation functional. Despite staggering successes, present-day approximations still…

The performance of time-independent, orbital optimized calculations of excited states is assessed with respect to charge transfer excitations in organic molecules in comparison to the linear-response time-dependent density functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Elli Selenius , Alec Elías Sigurdarson , Yorick L. A. Schmerwitz , Gianluca Levi

By introducing the self-energy density functionals for the dissipative interactions between the reduced system and its environment, we develop a time-dependent density-functional theory formalism based on an equation of motion for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao Zheng , Fan Wang , Chi Yung Yam , Yan Mo , GuanHua Chen

Recent high resolution Compton scattering experiments clearly reveal that there are fundamental limitations to the conventional local density approximation (LDA) based description of the ground state electron momentum density (EMD) in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-11 B. Barbiellini , A. Bansil

We describe a massively parallel implementation of the recently developed discontinuous Galerkin density functional theory (DGDFT) [J. Comput. Phys. 2012, 231, 2140] method, for efficient large-scale Kohn-Sham DFT based electronic structure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Wei Hu , Lin Lin , Chao Yang

Recently, we introduced (e-print arXiv:1407.7128) {\em local reduced density matrix functional theory} (local RDMFT), a theoretical scheme capable of incorporating static correlation effects in Kohn-Sham equations. Here, we apply local…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 Nektarios N. Lathiotakis , Nicole Helbig , Angel Rubio , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos

The adiabatic approximation in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is known to give an incorrect pole structure in the quadratic response function, leading to unphysical divergences in excited state-to-state transition…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-01 Davood Dar , Saswata Roy , Neepa T. Maitra