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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…