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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

Density functional theory (DFT) is routinely employed in material science and in quantum chemistry to simulate weakly correlated electronic systems. Recently, deep learning (DL) techniques have been adopted to develop promising functionals…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-02 Emanuele Costa , Rosario Fazio , Sebastiano Pilati

I summarize Density Functional Theory (DFT) in a language familiar to quantum field theorists, and introduce several apparently novel ideas for constructing {\it systematic} approximations for the density functional. I also note that, at…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-11 T. Banks

In the past decade, classical dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) has been developed and widely applied to the Brownian dynamics of interacting colloidal particles. One of the possible derivation routes of DDFT from the microscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen , Helmut R. Brand

Approximations to the many-fermion free energy density functional that include the Thomas-Fermi (TF) form for the non-interacting part lead to singular densities for singular external potentials (e.g. attractive Coulomb). This limitation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-21 James W. Dufty , S. B. Trickey

Density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful theoretical tool widely used in such diverse fields as computational condensed matter physics, atomic physics, and quantum chemistry. DFT establishes that a system of $N$ interacting electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Giovanni Manfredi

In order to obtain a reasonably accurate and easily implemented approach to many-electron calculations, we will develop a new Density Functional Theory (DFT). Specifically, we derive an approximation to electron density, the first term of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-23 Gregory C. Dente

This paper gives a summary of basic concepts of density-functional theory (DFT) and its use in state-of-the-art computations of complex processes in condensed matter physics and materials science. In particular we discuss how microscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-03 C. Ratsch , P. Ruggerone , M. Scheffler

The self consistent version of the density functional theory (DFT) is presented, which allows to calculate the ground state and dynamic properties of finite multi-electron systems such as atoms, molecules and clusters. The exact functional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ya. Amusia , V. R. Shaginyan

The present work proposes to use density-functional theory (DFT) to correct for the basis-set error of wave-function theory (WFT). One of the key ideas developed here is to define a range-separation parameter which automatically adapts to a…

Our everyday descriptions of the universe are highly coarse-grained, following only a tiny fraction of the variables necessary for a perfectly fine-grained description. Coarse graining in classical physics is made natural by our limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Murray Gell-Mann , James Hartle

The classic density-functional theory (DFT) formalism introduced by Hohenberg, Kohn, and Sham in the mid-1960s, is based upon the idea that the complicated N-electron wavefunction can be replaced with the mathematically simpler 1-electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. E. Casida , M. Huix-Rotllant

Coarse graining enables the investigation of molecular dynamics for larger systems and at longer timescales than is possible at atomic resolution. However, a coarse graining model must be formulated such that the conclusions we draw from it…

Understanding the structure and dynamics of liquids is pivotal for the study of larger spatiotemporal processes, especially in glass-forming materials at low temperatures. Density scaling, observed in many molecular systems through…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-29 Jaehyeok Jin , David R. Reichman , Jeppe C. Dyre , Ulf R. Pedersen

Principled decision-making in continuous state--action spaces is impossible without some assumptions. A common approach is to assume Lipschitz continuity of the Q-function. We show that, unfortunately, this property fails to hold in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Omer Gottesman , Kavosh Asadi , Cameron Allen , Sam Lobel , George Konidaris , Michael Littman

In this paper we are interested in the studying coarse-graining in field theories using the language of quantum open systems. Motivated by the ideas of Calzetta and Hu on correlation histories we employ the Zwanzig projection technique to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Anastopoulos

We use the framework of $\textit{fixed-point BCFT tensor networks}$ to present a microscopic CFT derivation of the correspondence between reflected entropy (RE) and entanglement wedge cross section (EW) in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$, for both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Ning Bao , Jinwei Chu , Yikun Jiang , Jacob March

A generalization of the Density Functional Theory is proposed. The theory developed leads to single-particle equations of motion with a quasi-local mean-field operator, which contains a quasi-particle position-dependent effective mass and a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 V. B. Soubbotin , V. I. Tselyaev , X. Vinas

This is a comprehensive review of the strong-interaction limit of density functional theory. It covers the derivation of the limiting strictly correlated electrons (SCE) functional from exact Hohenberg-Kohn DFT, basic aspects of SCE physics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Gero Friesecke , Augusto Gerolin , Paola Gori-Giorgi

We propose a density functional to find the ground state energy and density of interacting particles, where both the density and the pair density can adjust in the presence of an inhomogeneous potential. As a proof of principle we formulate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Lorenzana , Z. -J. Ying , V. Brosco