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Exchange hole is the principle constituent in density functional theory, which can be used to accurately design exchange energy functional and range separated hybrid functionals coupled with some appropriate correlation. Recently, density…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-14 Bikash Patra , Subrata Jana , Prasanjit Samal

The self consistent version of the density functional theory is presented, which allows to calculate the ground state and dynamic properties of finite multi-electron systems. An exact functional equation for the effective interaction, from…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Ya. Amusia , A. Z. Msezane , V. R. Shaginyan

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

Density-functional theory is a formally exact description of a many-body quantum system in terms of its density; in practice, however, approximations to the universal density functional are required. In this work, a model based on deep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Jeffrey M. McMahon

In the present work, we introduce a Self-Consistent Density-Functional Embedding technique, which leaves the realm of standard energy-functional approaches in Density Functional Theory and targets directly the density-to-potential mapping…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Uliana Mordovina , Teresa E. Reinhard , Iris Theophilou , Heiko Appel , Angel Rubio

Density-corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT) is enjoying substantial success in improving semilocal DFT calculations in a wide variety of chemical problems. This paper provides the formal theoretical framework and assumptions for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Stefan Vuckovic , Suhwan Song , John Kozlowski , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

Density-functional theory simplifies many-electron calculations by approximating the exchange and correlation interactions with a one-electron operator that is a functional of the density. Hybrid functionals incorporate some amount of exact…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-03 John Vinson

A hybrid Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) and 1-electron Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory (1-RDMFT) has recently been developed to describe strongly correlated systems at mean-field computational cost. This approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn

Recently, a microscopically motivated nuclear energy density functional was derived by applying the density matrix expansion to the Hartree-Fock (HF) energy obtained from long-range chiral effective field theory two- and three-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-15 Y. N. Zhang , S. K. Bogner , R. J. Furnstahl

We describe a density-functional method which aims at computing the ground state electron density and the spectral function at the same time. One basic ingredient of our method is the construction of the spectral function from the first…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-10 Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

A framework for developing new approximate electronic structure methods is presented, in which the correlation energy of a many-electron system in the ground state is computed as in the single-reference second-order many-body perturbation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2011-06-15 Dimitri Laikov

Two of the most widely used electronic structure theory methods, namely Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham density functional theory, both requires the iterative solution of a set of Schr\"odinger-like equations. The speed of convergence of such…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 S. Hazra , U. Patil , S. Sanvito

In order to assess the accuracy of commonly used approximate exchange-correlation density functionals, we present a comparison of accurate exchange and correlation potentials, exchange energy densities and energy components with the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Claudia Filippi , Xavier Gonze , C. J. Umrigar

An approximation for the exchange-correlation energy of reduced-density-matrix-functional theory was recently derived from a study of the homogeneous electron gas (N.N. Lathiotakis, N. Helbig, E.K.U. Gross, Phys. Rev. B 75, 195120 (2007)).…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 N. N. Lathiotakis , N. Helbig , A. Zacarias , E. K. U. Gross

This work explores the use of joint density-functional theory, a new form of density-functional theory for the ab initio description of electronic systems in thermodynamic equilibrium with a liquid environment, to describe electrochemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Kendra Letchworth-Weaver , T. A. Arias

We present a density functional theory (DFT) for lattice models with local electron-electron (e-e) and electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions. Exchange-correlation potentials are derived via dynamical mean field theory for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 E. Viñas Boström , P. Helmer , P. Werner , C. Verdozzi

Density functional theory is the workhorse of modern electronic structure calculations, with wide-ranging applications in chemistry, physics, materials science, and machine learning. At its heart lies the exchange-correlation functional, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Fabien Tran , Susi Lehtola , Stefano Pittalis , Miguel A. L. Marques

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is one of the most widely used methods for "ab initio" calculations of the structure of atoms, molecules, crystals, surfaces, and their interactions. Unfortunately, the customary introduction to DFT is often…

Physics Education · Physics 2010-12-07 Nathan Argaman , Guy Makov

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

Embedded density functional theory (e-DFT) is used to describe the electronic structure of strongly interacting molecular subsystems. We present a general implementation of the Exact Embedding (EE) method [J. Chem. Phys. 133, 084103 (2010)]…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-27 Jason D. Goodpaster , Taylor A. Barnes , Thomas F. Miller