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It has been known for some time that the exchange-correlation potential in time-dependent density functional theory is an intrinsically nonlocal functional of the density as soon as one goes beyond the adiabatic approximation. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Qian , A. Constantinescu , G. Vignale

A rigorous derivation of the density functional via the effective action in the Hohenberg-Kohn theory is outlined. Using the auxiliary field method, in which the electric coupling constant $e^2$ need not be small, we show that the loop…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-22 Yi-Kuo Yu

Two-dimensional moire superlattices have recently emerged as a fertile ground for creating novel electronic phases of matter with unprecedented control. Despite intensive efforts, theoretical investigation of correlated moire systems has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-12 Yang Zhang , Hiroki Isobe , Liang Fu

The homogeneous electron gas is one of the most studied model systems in condensed matter physics. It is also at the basis of the large majority of approximations to the functionals of density functional theory. As such, its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-14 Robert Schlesier , Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Miguel A. L. Marques

We show that the parallel magnetic field-induced increase in the critical electron density for the Anderson transition in a strongly interacting two-dimensional electron system is caused by the effects of exchange and correlations. If the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-21 V. T. Dolgopolov , A. A. Shashkin , S. V. Kravchenko

Quasi-two-dimensional (2D) systems, such as an electron gas confined in a quantum well, are important model systems for many-body theories. Earlier studies of the crossover from 3D to 2D in ground-state density-functional theory showed that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Shahrzad Karimi , Carsten A. Ullrich

Density functional theory has become the workhorse of quantum physics, chemistry, and materials science. Within these fields, a broad range of applications needs to be covered. These applications range from solids to molecular systems, from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Christof Holzer , Yannick J. Franzke

A long-standing puzzle in density-functional theory is the issue of the long-range behavior of the Kohn-Sham exchange-correlation potential at metal surfaces. As an important step towards its solution, it is proved here, through a rigurouos…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 C. M. Horowitz , C. R. Proetto , J. M. Pitarke

In spin-density-functional theory for noncollinear magnetic materials, the Kohn-Sham system features exchange-correlation (xc) scalar potentials and magnetic fields. The significance of the xc magnetic fields is not very well explored; in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-25 Edward A. Pluhar , Carsten A. Ullrich

In this work we have studied a new functional for the correlation energy obtained from the exact-exchange (EXX) approximation within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). Correlation energies have been calculated for a number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Maria Hellgren , Ulf von Barth

We introduce a new functional for simulating ground-state and time-dependent electronic systems within density-functional theory. The functional combines an expression for the exact Kohn-Sham (KS) potential in the limit of complete electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 M. J. P. Hodgson , J. D. Ramsden , T. R. Durrant , R. W. Godby

We present an analytic theory of the pair distribution function and the ground-state energy in a two-dimensional (2D) electron gas with an arbitrary degree of spin polarization. Our approach involves the solution of a zero-energy scattering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Asgari , B. Davoudi , M. P. Tosi

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

Electronic correlation is a fundamental topic in many-electron systems. To characterize this correlation, one may introduce the concept of exchange-correlation hole. In this paper, we first briefly revisit its definition and relation to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 JingChun Wang , Yu Su , Haoyang Cheng , Yao Wang , Rui-Xue Xu

A free-energy functional that contains both the symmetry conserved and symmetry broken parts of the direct pair correlation function has been used to investigate the freezing of a system of hard spheres into crystalline and amorphous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-27 Swarn Lata Singh , Atul S. Bharadwaj , Yashwant Singh

We discuss an efficient scheme for obtaining spin-polarized quasi-particle excitation energies within the general framework of the density functional theory (DFT). Our approach is to correct the DFT eigenvalues via the electrostatic energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-11 B. Barbiellini , A. Bansil

The transport properties of interacting electrons for which the spin degree of freedom is taken into account are numerically studied for small two dimensional diffusive clusters. On-site electron-electron interactions tend to delocalize the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Richard Berkovits , Jan W. Kantelhardt

We study the spin dynamics of two dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling by taking account of electron-electron interactions. The diffusion equations for charge and spin densities are derived by making use of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuan Li , You-Quan Li

We introduce a new form of density functional theory for the {\em ab initio} description of electronic systems in contact with a molecular liquid environment. This theory rigorously joins an electron density-functional for the electrons of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Sahak Petrosyan , Jean-Francois Briere , David Roundy , T. A. Arias

The exchange energy of an arbitrary collinear-spin many-body system in an external magnetic field is a functional of the spin-resolved charge and current densities, $E_x[n_{\uparrow},n_{\downarrow},j_{\uparrow},j_{\downarrow}]$. Within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 J. M. Morbec , K. Capelle