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Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presently enjoying enormous popularity in quantum chemistry, as a useful tool for extracting electronic excited state energies. This article explains what TDDFT is, and how it differs from…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Elliott , Kieron Burke , Filipp Furche

The magnetic extension of the Thomas-Fermi-Weizs\"acker kinetic energy is used within density-functional-theory to numerically obtain the ground state densities and energies of two-dimensional quantum dots. The results are thoroughly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Llorenç Serra , Antonio Puente

We present excited states density functional theory (DFT) to calculate band gap for semiconductors and insulators. For the excited states exchange-correlation functional, we use a simple local density approximation (LDA) like functional and…

We present a stable and systematically improvable quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) approach to calculating excited-state energies, which we implement using our fast randomized iteration method for the full configuration interaction problem…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Samuel M. Greene , Robert J. Webber , James E. T. Smith , Jonathan Weare , Timothy C. Berkelbach

We present two new developments for computing excited state energies within the $GW$ approximation. First, calculations of the Green's function and the screened Coulomb interaction are decomposed into two parts: one is deterministic while…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Mariya Romanova , Vojtěch Vlček

From the microscopic view, the energy partition between two fission fragments are associated with the splitting of wave functions of an entangled fissioning system, in contrast to most fission models using an explicit statistical partition…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-14 Haoyu Shang , Yu Qiang , Junchen Pei

The treatment of degenerate states within Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) is a problem of longstanding interest. We propose a solution to this mapping from the interacting degenerate system to that of the noninteracting fermion…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Viraht Sahni , Xiao-Yin Pan

Density functional theory can be extended to excited states by means of a unified variational approach for passive state ensembles. This extension overcomes the restriction of the typical density functional approach to ground states, and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Tim Gould , Stefano Pittalis

A general procedure based on shift operators is formulated to deal with anharmonic potentials. It is possible to extract the ground state energy analytically using our method provided certain consistency relations are satisfied. Analytic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 L. C. Kwek , Yong Liu , C. H. Oh , Xiang-Bin Wang

We propose a new method of calculating electronically excited states that combines a density functional theory (DFT) based ground state calculation with a linear response treatment that employs approximations used in the time-dependent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Robert Rüger , Erik van Lenthe , Thomas Heine , Lucas Visscher

The potential of mean-field decomposition techniques in interpreting electronic transitions in molecules is explored, particularly, the usefulness of these for offering computational signatures of different classes of such excitations. When…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Janus J. Eriksen

Excited states of many-body quantum systems play a key role in a wide range of physical and chemical phenomena. Unlike ground states, for which many efficient variational techniques exist, there are few ways to systematically construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 D. A. Millar , L. W. Anderson , E. Altamura , O. Wallis , M. E. Sahin , J. Crain , S. J. Thomson

A novel, exact, theoretical method for the study of the excited states of a system is presented. It is demonstrated how to transform the excited state problem of one Hamiltonian into the ground state problem of an auxiliary one. From this,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 Ramón Alain Miranda Quintana

Computing excitation spectra of quantum many-body systems is a promising avenue to demonstrate the practical utility of current noisy quantum devices, especially as we move toward the ``megaquop'' regime. For this task, here we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Ji-Yao Chen , Bochen Huang , D. L. Zhou , Norbert Schuch , Chenfeng Cao , Muchun Yang

This chapter provides a basic introduction to excited-state extensions of density functional theory (DFT), including time-dependent (TD-)DFT in both its linear-response and its explicitly time-dependent formulations. As applied to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 John M. Herbert

For quantum systems with competing potentials, the conventional perturbation theory often yields an asymptotic series and the subsequent numerical outcome becomes uncertain. To tackle such kind of problems, we develop a general solution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 H. Mineo , Sheng D. Chao

Phenomena analogous to ground state quantum phase transitions have recently been noted to occur among states throughout the excitation spectra of certain many-body models. These excited state phase transitions are manifested as simultaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 M. A. Caprio , P. Cejnar , F. Iachello

Early work extending the Kohn-Sham theory to excited states utilized an ensemble average of the Hamiltonian considered as a functional of the corresponding average density. We propose and develop an alternative that utilizes the matrix…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Abraham Klein , Reiner M. Dreizler

Accurate prediction of adiabatic $0$-$0$ excited-state energies is crucial for modeling molecular photophysical processes. Here, we benchmark computational strategies for evaluating excited-state energies and singlet-triplet gaps obtained…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Amrita Bera , Atreyee Majumdar , Raghunathan Ramakrishnan

We extend the notion of quantum blob studied in previous work to excited states of the generalized harmonic oscillator in n dimensions. This extension is made possible by Fermi's observation in 1930 that the state of a quantum system may be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-08 Maurice A. de Gosson , Serge M. de Gosson