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Aiming to combine density functional theory (DFT) and wavefunction theory, we study a mapping from the many-body interacting system to an effectively-interacting Kohn-Sham system instead of a non-interacting Kohn-Sham system. Because a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Shunsuke A. Sato , Angel Rubio

An extremely easy method for accurately calculating the adiabatic connection of density functional theory is presented, and its accuracy tested on both Hooke's atom and the He atom. The method is easy because calculations are needed only…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Derek Frydel , William H. Terilla , Kieron Burke

A long-standing puzzle in density-functional theory is the issue of the long-range behavior of the Kohn-Sham exchange-correlation potential at metal surfaces. As an important step towards its solution, it is proved here, through a rigurouos…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 C. M. Horowitz , C. R. Proetto , J. M. Pitarke

The practical success of density functional theory (DFT) is largely credited to the Kohn-Sham approach, which enables the exact calculation of the non-interacting electron kinetic energy via an auxiliary noninteracting system. Yet, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sangita Majumdar , Zekun Shi , Giovanni Vignale

Many recent applications of time-dependent density functional theory begin in an initially excited state, and propagate it using an adiabatic approximation for the exchange-correlation potential. This however inserts the excited-state…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-04-02 Peter Elliott , Neepa T. Maitra

A density functional theory (DFT) framework is presented that links functional derivatives of free-energy functionals to non-linear static density response functions in quantum many-body systems. Within this framework, explicit expressions…

Over the years, several schemes have been proposed to describe multireference systems with Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory. Problematic is the combination of two aspects: the Kohn-Sham reference wavefunction is usually taken to be a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-01 Pablo Ramos , Michele Pavanello

Static correlation is a difficult problem for density-functional theory (DFT) as it arises in cases of degenerate or quasi-degenerate states where a multideterminantal wave function provides the simplest reasonable first approximation to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-01 Abraham Ponra , Carolyne Bakasa , Anne Justine Etindele , Mark E. Casida

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is the workhorse of quantum chemistry, offering an attractive balance between accuracy and computational cost. Although exact in principle, DFT in practice relies on an approximation to the unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Karim K. Alaa El-Din , Antonius v. Strachwitz , Sam M. Vinko

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is widely used for atomistic simulations. However, its reach stays limited due to several limitations such as lack of accurate exchange-correlation functional, requirement of costly O(N 3) diagonalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Namrata Manglani , Samrit Kumar Maity , Shashank Sharma , Soham Phulare , Sanjay Wandhekar

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is used extensively in the computation of electronic properties of matter, with various applications. Approximating the exchange-correlation (XC) functional is the key to the Kohn-Sham DFT approach, the basis…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-17 Sameerah Helal , Zhe Tao , Cindy Rubio-González , Francois Gygi , Aditya V. Thakur

Classical density functional theory (DFT) provides an exact variational framework for determining the equilibrium properties of inhomogeneous fluids. We report a generalization of DFT to treat the non-equilibrium dynamics of classical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-06 Matthias Schmidt , Joseph M. Brader

Exact density-functional theory is reconstructed here from its convex variational structure as two parallel exact ensemble hierarchies: an interacting hierarchy rooted in Lieb's ensemble formulation and a noninteracting hierarchy rooted in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Nan Sheng

Ensemble density functional theory (eDFT) is an exact time-independent alternative to time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) for the calculation of excitation energies. Despite its formal simplicity and advantages in contrast to TD-DFT (multiple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-19 Killian Deur , Laurent Mazouin , Emmanuel Fromager

Classical density functional theory (cDFT) and dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) are modern statistical mechanical theories for modeling many-body colloidal systems at the one-body density level. The theories hinge on knowing the…

We present a perturbative approach within the scope of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). The method is based on the exact exchange-only optimized effective potential method, and correlation is included via perturbation expansion…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Sule

A new formalism to describe steady-state electronic and thermal transport in the framework of density functional theory is presented. A one-to-one correspondence is proven between the three basic variables of the theory, i.e., the density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Nahual Sobrino , Florian Eich , Gianluca Stefanucci , Roberto D'Agosta , Stefan Kurth

The superadiabatic dynamical density functional theory (superadiabatic-DDFT) is a promising new method for the study of colloidal systems out-of-equilibrium. Within this approach the viscous forces arising from interparticle interactions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-10 S. M. Tschopp , J. M. Brader

We introduce a non-equilibrium density-functional theory of local temperature and associated local energy density that is suited for the study of thermoelectric phenomena. The theory rests on a local temperature field coupled to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-16 F. G. Eich , M. Di Ventra , G. Vignale

By inverting the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equation for a numerically exact dynamics of the helium atom, we show that the dynamical step and peak features of the exact correlation potential found previously in one-dimensional models persist…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 Davood Dar , Lionel Lacombe , Johannes Feist , Neepa Maitra