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We report on a methodology for the treatment of the Coulomb energy and potential in Kohn-Sham density functional theory that is free from self-interaction effects. Specifically, we determine the Coulomb potential given as the functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-29 M. Däne , A. Gonis , D. M. Nicholson , G. M. Stocks

Understanding the thermodynamic properties of many-body quantum systems and their emergence from microscopic laws is a topic of great significance due to its profound fundamental implications and extensive practical applications. Recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Antonio Palamara , Francesco Plastina , Antonello Sindona , Irene D'Amico

The Kohn-Sham approach to time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) can be formulated, in principle exactly, by invoking the force-balance equation for the density, which leads to an explicit expression for the exchange-correlation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Walter Tarantino , Carsten A. Ullrich

A system of electrons in a local or nonlocal external potential can be studied with 1-matrix functional theory (1MFT), which is similar to density functional theory (DFT) but takes the one-particle reduced density matrix (1-matrix) instead…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-07-23 Ryan Requist , Oleg Pankratov

We propose a novel scheme to bring reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT) into the realm of density functional theory (DFT) that preserves the accurate density functional description at equilibrium, while incorporating accurately…

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

Thermal density functional theory calculations often use the Mermin-Kohn-Sham scheme, but employ ground-state approximations to the exchange-correlation (XC) free energy. In the simplest solvable nontrivial model, an asymmetric Hubbard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-29 Justin C Smith , Aurora Pribram-Jones , Kieron Burke

The many-body space fractional quantum system is studied using the density matrix method. We give the new results of the Thomas-Fermi model, and obtain the quantum pressure of the free electron gas. We also show the validity of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-27 Jianping Dong

Accurate modeling of the electronic structure of warm dense matter is a challenging problem whose solution would allow a better understanding of material properties like equation of state, opacity, and conductivity, with resulting…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 M. Laraia , C. Hanson , N. R. Shaffer , D. Saumon , D. P. Kilcrease , C. E. Starrett

We develop a technique for generating a set of optimized local basis functions to solve models in the Kohn-Sham density functional theory for both insulating and metallic systems. The optimized local basis functions are obtained by solving…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Lin Lin , Jianfeng Lu , Lexing Ying , E. Weinan

We generalize the exact strong-interaction limit of the exchange-correlation energy of Kohn-Sham density functional theory to open systems with fluctuating particle numbers. When used in the self-consistent Kohn-Sham procedure on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 André Mirtschink , Michael Seidl , Paola Gori-Giorgi

We present recent developments of the NTChem program for performing large scale hybrid Density Functional Theory calculations on the supercomputer Fugaku. We combine these developments with our recently proposed Complexity Reduction…

Density-functional theory is a formally exact description of a many-body quantum system in terms of its density; in practice, however, approximations to the universal density functional are required. In this work, a model based on deep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Jeffrey M. McMahon

A theory is developed for magnetically confined Fermi gas at low temperature based on the density functional theory. The theory is illustrated by numerical calculation of density distributions of Fermi atoms $^{40}$K with parameters…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu-Jun Chen , H. R. Ma

We evaluate analytically some ground state properties of two-dimensional harmonically confined Fermi vapors with isotropy and for an arbitrary number of closed shells. We first derive a differential form of the virial theorem and an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Minguzzi , N. H. March , M. P. Tosi

Development of the electronic kinetic-energy density functional is a subject of major interest in theoretical physics and chemistry. In this work, the nonlocal kinetic-energy functional is developed in terms of the response function for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Hideaki Takahashi

Using a central limit theorem for arrays of interacting quantum systems, we give analytical expressions for the density of states and the partition function at finite temperature of such a system, which are valid in the limit of infinite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Hartmann , Guenter Mahler , Ortwin Hess

Mejia-Rodriguez and Trickey recently proposed a procedure for removing the explicit dependence of meta-GGA exchange-correlation energy functionals $E_{\rm xc}$ on the kinetic energy density $\tau$. We present a simple modification to this…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-22 Pietro Bonfà , Sangeeta Sharma , John Kay Dewhurst

We present an ab-initio approach for grand canonical ensembles in thermal equilibrium with local or nonlocal external potentials based on the one-reduced density matrix. We show that equilibrium properties of a grand canonical ensemble are…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-03 Tim Baldsiefen , Attila Cangi , E. K. U. Gross

In this paper, we propose a new Green's function embedding method called PEXSI-$\Sigma$ for describing complex systems within the Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KSDFT) framework, after revisiting the physics literature of Green's…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-20 Xiantao Li , Lin Lin , Jianfeng Lu

We examine the density-functional theory of macroscopic insulators, obtained in the large-cluster limit or under periodic boundary conditions. For polar crystals, we find that the two procedures are not equivalent. In a large-cluster case,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-28 X. Gonze , Ph. Ghosez , R. W. Godby