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We derive an exact representation of the exchange-correlation energy within density functional theory (DFT) which spawns a class of approximations leading to correct long-range asymptotic behavior. In what amounts to be the simplest…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser

We investigate the van der Waals interactions in solid molecular hydrogen structures. We calculate enthalpy and the Gibbs free energy to obtain zero and finite temperature phase diagrams, respectively. We employ density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-10 Sam Azadi , Graeme J. Ackland

A high-throughput benchmarking technique for testing the performance of different exchange-correlation functionals and pseudopotentials is proposed and applied to bulk SnS. It is shown that, contrary to the popular view that the local…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-22 Stefanos Giaremis , Joseph Kioseoglou , Eleni Chatzikyriakou

The nonlocal van der Waals (NL-vdW) functionals [Dion et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 246401 (2004)] are being applied more and more frequently in solid-state physics, since they have shown to be much more reliable than the traditional…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-07 Fabien Tran , Leila Kalantari , Boubacar Traoré , Xavier Rocquefelte , Peter Blaha

We establish a general equivalence between van der Waals interaction energies within the formalism of the non-local van der Waals functional of the density functional theory and within the formalism of the field approach based on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Gregor Veble , Rudolf Podgornik

Recently, Tao and Mo proposed an accurate meta-generalized gradient approximation for the exchange-correlation energy. The exchange part is derived from the density matrix expansion, while the correlation part is obtained by improving the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Yuxiang Mo , Guocai Tian , Jianmin Tao

Semilocal density functional theory is the most used computational method for electronic structure calculations in theoretical solid-state physics and quantum chemistry of large systems, providing good accuracy with a very attractive…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-31 L. A. Constantin , E. Fabiano , J. M. Pitarke , F. Della Sala

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 formulate an adiabatic connection for the exchange-correlation energy in terms of pairing matrix fluctuation. This connection opens new channels for density functional approximations based on pairing interactions. Even the simplest…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Helen van Aggelen , Yang Yang , Weitao Yang

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

Based on exact limits and quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we obtain, at any density and spin polarization, an accurate estimate for the energy of a modified homogeneous electron gas where electrons repel each other only with a long-range…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Simone Paziani , Saverio Moroni , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Giovanni B. Bachelet

We present a new scheme to include the van der Waals (vdW) interactions in approximated Density Functional Theory (DFT) by combining the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator model with the Maximally Localized Wannier Function technique. With respect…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Pier Luigi Silvestrelli

In principle, many-electron correlation energy can be precisely computed from a reduced Wigner distribution function ($\mathcal{W}$) thanks to a universal functional transformation ($\mathcal{F}$), whose formal existence is akin to that of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Rutvij Vihang Bhavsar , Raghunathan Ramakrishnan

Commonly used semilocal density functional approximations for the exchange-correlation energy fail badly when the true two dimensional limit is approached. We show, using a quasi-two-dimensional uniform electron gas in the infinite barrier…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Lucian A. Constantin

We construct the complementary short-range correlation relativistic local-density-approximation functional to be used in relativistic range-separated density-functional theory based on a Dirac-Coulomb Hamiltonian in the no-pair…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Julien Paquier , Julien Toulouse

A new implementation is proposed for including van der Waals (vdW) interactions in Density Functional Theory (DFT) using the Maximally-Localized Wannier functions (MLWFs), which is free from empirical parameters. With respect to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Pier Luigi Silvestrelli , Alberto Ambrosetti

A dynamical generalisation of the nonlocal coherent-potential approximation is derived based upon the functional integral approach to the interacting electron problem. The free energy is proven to be variational with respect to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-25 D. A. Rowlands , Yu-Zhong Zhang

We show that deep neural networks can be integrated into, or fully replace, the Kohn-Sham density functional theory scheme for multi-electron systems in simple harmonic oscillator and random external potentials with no feature engineering.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-25 Kevin Ryczko , David Strubbe , Isaac Tamblyn

We propose a systematic and constructive way to determine the exchange-correlation potentials of density-functional theories including vector potentials. The approach does not rely on energy or action functionals. Instead it is based on…

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