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We study the influence of electron-electron interactions on the density of states (DOS) of clean 2D electron gas. We confirm the linear cusp in the DOS around the Fermi level, which was obtained previously. The cusp crosses over to a pure…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Kogan , B. Rosenstein

Orbital-free density functional theory as an extension of traditional Thomas-Fermi theory has attracted a lot of interest in the past decade because of developments in both more accurate kinetic energy functionals and highly efficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Hong Jiang , Weitao Yang

We consider electronic exchange and correlation effects in density-functional calculations of two-dimensional systems. Starting from wave function calculations of total energies and electron densities of inhomogeneous model systems, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-30 Ilja Makkonen , Mikko M. Ervasti , Ville Kauppila , Ari Harju

Implementation of orbital-free free-energy functionals in the Profess code and the coupling of Profess with the Quantum Espresso code are described. The combination enables orbital-free DFT to drive ab initio molecular dynamics simulations…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-24 Valentin V. Karasiev , Travis Sjostrom , S. B. Trickey

An accurate non-gradient-expansion based correction to Thomas--Fermi is developed using solvable model. The used model is a system of $N$ non-interacting electrons moving independently in the Coulomb field of the nuclear charge. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexey Sergeev , Raka Jovanovic , Sabre Kais , Fahhad H Alharbi

The various thermodynamic functions dependence on degree of energy band occupation and temperature was studied. The one-band tight binding approximation for the electron energy spectrum was used. The Fermi energy, density of states,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-11 B. V. Karpenko , A. V. Kuznetzov , V. V. Dyakin

We investigate the particle and kinetic-energy densities for $N$ non-interacting fermions confined in a local potential. Using Gutzwiller's semi-classical Green function, we describe the oscillating parts of the densities in terms of closed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jérôme Roccia , Matthias Brack

Koopmans-compliant functionals emerge naturally from extending the constraint of piecewise linearity of the total energy as a function of the number of electrons to each fractional orbital occupation. When applied to approximate…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Giovanni Borghi , Andrea Ferretti , Ngoc Linh Nguyen , Ismaila Dabo , Nicola Marzari

We study Density Functional Theory models for systems which are translationally invariant in some directions, such as a homogeneous 2-d slab in the 3-d space. We show how the different terms of the energy are modified and we derive reduced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-24 David Gontier , Salma Lahbabi , Abdallah Maichine

Electron density and electron momentum density, while independently tractable experimentally, bear no direct connection without going through the many-electron wave function. However, invoking a variant of the constrained-search formulation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. K. Harbola , Rajendra R. Zope , Anjali Kshirsagar , Rajeev K. Pathak

It was realized two decades ago that the two-dimensional diffusive Fermi liquid phase is unstable against arbitrarily weak electron-electron interactions. Recently, using the nonlinear sigma model developed by Finkelstein, several authors…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiao Yang , Chetan Nayak

We generalize the treatment of the electronic spin degrees of freedom in density functional calculations to the case where the spin vector variables employed in the definition of the energy functional can vary in any direction in space. The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan E. Peralta , Gustavo E. Scuseria , Michael J. Frisch

We recently proposed a nonlocal form for the 3-body induced interaction that is consistent with the Fock space representation of interaction operators but leads to a fractional power dependence on the density. Here we examine the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-03-19 Alexandros Gezerlis , G. F. Bertsch

We present new method for studying the equilibrium properties of interacting fluids in an arbitrary external filed. The method is valid in any dimension and it yields an exact results in one dimension. Using this approach, we derive a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-17 Benaoumeur Bakhti

Based on a microscopic model, we use a functional integral approach to evaluate the quantum interaction energy between two neutral atoms. Each atom is coupled to the electromagnetic (EM) field via a dipole term, generated by an electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 C. D. Fosco , G. Hansen

A Kohn-Sham density-functional energy expression is derived for any (ground or excited) state within a given many-electron ensemble along with the stationarity condition it fulfills with respect to the ensemble density, thus giving access…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Emmanuel Fromager

The effective potential of electron--electron interaction and the two-particle \textquotedblleft density--density\textquotedblright\ correlation function have been calculated for a simple semiinfinite metal making allowance for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-29 B. M. Markovych , I. M. Zadvorniak

One-electron self-interaction and an incorrect asymptotic behavior of the Kohn-Sham exchange-correlation potential are among the most prominent limitations of many present-day density functionals. However, a one-electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Tobias Schmidt , Eli Kraisler , Leeor Kronik , Stephan Kümmel

By splitting the Coulomb interaction into long-range and short-range components, we decompose the energy of a quantum electronic system into long-range and short-range contributions. We show that the long-range part of the energy can be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Toulouse , Francois Colonna , Andreas Savin

We present and test a new approximation for the exchange-correlation (xc) energy of Kohn-Sham density functional theory. It combines exact exchange with a compatible non-local correlation functional. The functional is by construction free…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Tobias Schmidt , Eli Kraisler , Adi Makmal , Leeor Kronik , Stephan Kümmel