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We present the first successful functional renormalization group(FRG)-aided density-functional (DFT) calculation of the equation of state (EOS) of an infinite nuclear matter (NM) in (1+1)-dimensions composed of spinless nucleons. We give a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-06 Takeru Yokota , Kenichi Yoshida , Teiji Kunihiro

Over this past decade, we combined the idea of stochastic resolution of identity with a variety of electronic structure methods. In our stochastic Kohn-Sham DFT method, the density is an average over multiple stochastic samples, with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Wenfei Li , Ming Chen , Eran Rabani , Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser

Quantum computers open up new avenues for modelling the physical properties of materials and molecules. Density Functional Theory (DFT) is the gold standard classical algorithm for predicting these properties, but relies on approximations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Evan Sheridan , Lana Mineh , Raul A. Santos , Toby Cubitt

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

We introduce 'single-particle-exact density functional theory' (1pEx-DFT), a novel density functional approach that represents all single-particle contributions to the energy with exact functionals. Here, we parameterize interaction energy…

Typical density functional theory (DFT) and approximations thereto solve the many-electron ground state problem by working from a numerically efficient non-interacting Kohn-Sham reference system; and benefit from useful minimization…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Tim Gould

Constrained density functional theory (cDFT) is a versatile electronic structure method that enables ground-state calculations to be performed subject to physical constraints. It thereby broadens their applicability and utility. Automated…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-03 David D. O'Regan , Gilberto Teobaldi

We present a systematic Density Functional Theory (DFT) study of geometries and energies of the nucleic acid DNA bases (guanine, adenine, cytosine and thymine) and 30 different DNA base-pairs. We use a recently developed linear-scaling DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maider Machado , Pablo Ordejon , Emilio Artacho , Daniel Sanchez-Portal , Jose M. Soler

This review gives an overview of effective field theory (EFT) as applied at finite density, with a focus on nuclear many-body systems. Uniform systems with short-range interactions illustrate the ingredients and virtues of many-body EFT and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 R. J. Furnstahl , G. Rupak , T. Schaefer

While the success of density functional theory (DFT) has led to its use in a wide variety of fields such as physics, chemistry, materials science and biochemistry, it has long been recognised that conventional methods are very inefficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 D. R. Bowler , R. Choudhury , M. J. Gillan , T. Miyazaki

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is one of the most used ab initio theoretical frameworks in materials science. It derives the ground state properties of a multi-atomic ensemble directly from the computation of its one-particle density \nr…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Edoardo Di Napoli , Stefan Blügel , Paolo Bientinesi

Effective field theory (EFT) methods for a uniform system of fermions with short-range, natural interactions are extended to include pairing correlations, as part of a program to develop a systematic Kohn-Sham density functional theory…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. J. Furnstahl , H. -W. Hammer , S. J. Puglia

A microscopic method for calculating nuclear level density (NLD) based on the covariant density functional theory (CDFT) is developed. The particle-hole state density is calculated by combinatorial method using the single-particle levels…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-27 Kun-Peng Geng , Peng-Xiang Du , Jian Li , Dong-Liang Fang

We present a theoretical framework based on an extension of dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) for describing the structure and dynamics of cells in living tissues and tumours. DDFT is a microscopic statistical mechanical theory for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-03 Hayder M. Al-Saedi , Andrew J. Archer , John Ward

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density-functional theory (DFT) is broadly considered the conceptual basis for a full characterization of an electronic system in its ground state by just the one-body particle density. Part I of this review…

The extension of the density functional theory (DFT) to include pairing correlations without formal violation of the particle-number conservation condition is described. This version of the theory can be considered as a foundation of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Krewald , V. B. Soubbotin , V. I. Tselyaev , X. Vinas

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is widely used to describe electronic excitations in complex finite systems with large numbers of atoms, such as biomolecules and nanocrystals. The first part of this paper will give a simple…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-15 C. A. Ullrich , V. Turkowski

Density functional theory (DFT) embedding provides a formally exact framework for interfacing correlated wave-function theory (WFT) methods with lower-level descriptions of electronic structure. Here, we report techniques to improve the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jason D. Goodpaster , Taylor A. Barnes , Frederick R. Manby , Thomas F. Miller

Density Functional Theory (DFT) has become the quasi-standard for ab-initio simulations for a wide range of applications. While the intrinsic cubic scaling of DFT was for a long time limiting the accessible system size to some hundred…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-23 Stephan Mohr , Marc Eixarch , Maximilian Amsler , Mervi J. Mantsinen , Luigi Genovese

We propose an in-silico experiment to introduce classical density functional theory (cDFT). Den- sity functional theories, whether quantum or classical, rely on abstract concepts that are non- intuitive. However, they are at the heart of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Nicolas Levy , Maximilien Levesque , Daniel Borgis