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We present a comparative full-potential study of generalized Kohn-Sham schemes (gKS) with explicit focus on their suitability as starting point for the solution of the quasiparticle equation. We compare $G_0W_0$ quasiparticle band…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-05-06 F. Fuchs , J. Furthmüller , F. Bechstedt , M. Shishkin , G. Kresse

We present a symmetry-adapted real-space formulation of Kohn-Sham density functional theory for cylindrical geometries and apply it to the study of large X (X=C, Si, Ge, Sn) nanotubes. Specifically, starting from the Kohn-Sham equations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Swarnava Ghosh , Amartya S. Banerjee , Phanish Suryanarayana

We present the theoretical foundations and the implementation details of a density-functional approach for coupled photons, electrons, and effective nuclei in non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics. Starting point of the formalism is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 René Jestädt , Michael Ruggenthaler , Micael J. T. Oliveira , Angel Rubio , Heiko Appel

Density functional calculations on atoms are often used for determining accurate initial guesses as well as generating various types of pseudopotential approximations and efficient atomic-orbital basis sets for polyatomic calculations. To…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Susi Lehtola

We resolve a fundamental issue associated with the conventional Kohn-Sham formulation of real-time time-dependent density functional theory. We show that unphysical multielectron excitations, generated during time propagation of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-16 Xiaoning Zang , Udo Schwingenschlogl , Mark T. Lusk

The second-order optical susceptibility of semiconductors $\chi_{ijk}^{(2)}(-2\omega;\omega,\omega)$ finds application in metrology, spectroscopy, telecommunications, material characterization, and quantum information. Pioneering…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Angiolo Huaman , Luis Enrique Rosas-Hernandez , Salvador Barraza-Lopez

Quantum embedding theories are playing an increasingly important role in bridging different levels of approximation to the many body Schr\"odinger equation in physics, chemistry and materials science. In this paper, we present a linear…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Lin Lin , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

The positive definite Kohn-Sham kinetic energy(KS-KE) density plays crucial role in designing semilocal meta generalized gradient approximations(meta-GGAs) for low dimensional quantum systems. It has been rigorously shown that near nucleus…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-17 Subrata Jana , Prasanjit Samal

The grand canonical density functional theory for inhomogeneous systems of interacting bosons is developed in the effective action approach. The Legendre transform of the generating functional for Green's functions is used to define the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-03 Anna Okopińska

Accurate local Kohn-Sham potentials have been constructed for the ground $1s^2 ^1S$ state and, in particular, for the lowest triplet $1s2s ^{3}S$ state of the helium atom, using electron densities from many-body calculations and the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 I. Lindgren , S. Salomonson , F. Möller

In approximate Kohn-Sham density-functional theory, self-interaction manifests itself as the dependence of the energy of an orbital on its fractional occupation. This unphysical behavior translates into qualitative and quantitative errors…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-28 Ismaila Dabo , Andrea Ferretti , Nicolas Poilvert , Yanli Li , Nicola Marzari , Matteo Cococcioni

We introduce a general, variational scheme applied to Kohn-Sham density functional theory that allows for partitioning of the ground-state density matrix into distinct spectral domains, each of which spanned by an independent diagonal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Babak Sadigh , Daniel Aberg , John Pask

A complete solution to the inverse problem of Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory is proposed. Our method consists of two steps. First, the effective KS potential is determined from the ground state density of a given system. Then, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 A. Liardi , F. Marino , G. Colò , X. Roca-Maza , E. Vigezzi

We present a method to perform fully selfconsistent density-functional calculations, which scales linearly with the system size and which is well suited for very large systems. It uses strictly localized pseudoatomic orbitals as basis…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Pablo Ordejon , Emilio Artacho , Jose M. Soler

Response calculations in density functional theory aim at computing the change in ground-state density induced by an external perturbation. At finite temperature these are usually performed by computing variations of orbitals, which involve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Eric Cancès , Michael F. Herbst , Gaspard Kemlin , Antoine Levitt , Benjamin Stamm

Partition density functional theory is a formally exact procedure for calculating molecular properties from Kohn-Sham calculations on isolated fragments, interacting via a global partition potential that is a functional of the fragment…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Peter Elliott , Kieron Burke , Morrel H. Cohen , Adam Wasserman

The Kohn-Sham equation is a powerful, widely used approach for computation of ground state electronic energies and densities in chemistry, materials science, biology, and nanosciences. In this paper, we study the adaptive finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-22 Huajie Chen , Xiaoying Dai , Xingao Gong , Lianhua He , Aihui Zhou

To leverage the redundancy between the electronic structure computed at each step of first-principles molecular dynamics, we present a data-driven modeling framework for Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory that bypasses the explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Siu Wun Cheung , Youngsoo Choi , Jean-Luc Fattebert , Jonas Kaufman , Daniel Osei-Kuffuor

A logical foundation of equilibrium state density functional theory in a Kohn-Sham type formulation is presented on the basis of Mermin's treatment of the grand canonical state. it is simpler and more satisfactory compared to the usual…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Helmut Eschrig

Spectral density functions quantify how environmental modes couple to quantum systems and govern their open dynamics. Inferring such frequency-dependent functions from time-domain measurements is an ill-conditioned inverse problem. Here, we…