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A procedure for removing explicit orbital dependence from meta-generalized-gradient approximation (mGGA) exchange-correlation functionals by converting them into Laplacian-dependent functionals recently was developed by us and shown to be…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-03 Daniel Mejia-Rodriguez , S. B. Trickey

We present a first-principles approach to describe magnetic and superconducting systems and the phenomena of competition between these electronic effects. We develop a density functional theory: SpinSCDFT, by extending the Hohenberg-Kohn…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-10 A. Linscheid , A. Sanna , F. Essenberger , E. K. U. Gross

We find the analytical solution to the time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) problem for the quasi-low-dimensional (2D and 1D) electron gas (QLDEG) with only one band filled in the direction perpendicular to the system extent.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Vladimir U. Nazarov

A relativistic density-functional theory based on a Fock-space effective quantum-electrodynamics (QED) Hamiltonian using the Coulomb or Coulomb-Breit two-particle interaction is developed. This effective QED theory properly includes the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Julien Toulouse

An explicitly orbital-dependent correlation energy functional is proposed, which is to be used in combination with the orbital-dependent exchange energy functional in energy-band calculations. It bears a close resemblance to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Masahiko Higuchi , Hiroshi Yasuhara

In this paper, we study numerical discretizations to solve density functional models in the "strictly correlated electrons" (SCE) framework. Unlike previous studies our work is not restricted to radially symmetric densities. In the SCE…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Huajie Chen , Gero Friesecke , Christian B. Mendl

We investigate, assess, and suggest possibilities for a measurement of the local spin susceptibility of a conducting low-dimensional electron system. The basic setup of the experiment we envisage is a source-probe one. Locally induced spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Peter Stano , Jelena Klinovaja , Amir Yacoby , Daniel Loss

This is a comprehensive review of the strong-interaction limit of density functional theory. It covers the derivation of the limiting strictly correlated electrons (SCE) functional from exact Hohenberg-Kohn DFT, basic aspects of SCE physics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Gero Friesecke , Augusto Gerolin , Paola Gori-Giorgi

An accurate description of the two-electron density, crucial for magnetic coupling in spin systems, provides in general a major challenge for density functional theory calculations. It affects, e.g., the calculated zero-field splitting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Timur Biktagirov , Wolf Gero Schmidt , Uwe Gerstmann

The combination of density functional theory with other approaches to the many-electron problem through the separation of the electron-electron interaction into a short-range and a long-range contribution is a promising method, which is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

Recent experiments in the two dimensional electron systems in silicon MOSFETs have shown that the in-plane magnetic field $H_{sat}$ required to saturate the conductivity to its high-field value and the magnetic field $H_s$ needed to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Vitkalov , M. P. Sarachik , T. M. Klapwijk

We train a neural network as the universal exchange-correlation functional of density-functional theory that simultaneously reproduces both the exact exchange-correlation energy and potential. This functional is extremely non-local, but…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Jonathan Schmidt , Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Miguel A. L. Marques

As shown by Overhauser and others, accurate pair densities for the uniform electron gas may be found by solving a two-electron scattering problem with an effective screened electron-electron repulsion. In this work we explore the extension…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

We introduce a short-range correlation density functional defined with respect to a multi-determinantal reference which is meant to be used in a multi-determinantal extension of the Kohn-Sham scheme of density functional theory based on a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julien Toulouse , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

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

This article generalizes the notion of the local density of a many-body system to introduce collective coordinates as explicit degrees of freedom. It is shown that the energy of the system can be expressed as a functional of this object.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 Thomas Lesinski

Electron density and electron momentum density, while independently tractable experimentally, bear no direct connection without going through the many-electron wave function. However, invoking a variant of the constrained-search formulation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. K. Harbola , Rajendra R. Zope , Anjali Kshirsagar , Rajeev K. Pathak

A recently developed formalism in which Kohn-Sham calculations are combined with an ``average pair density functional theory'' is reviewed, and some new properties of the effective electron-electron interaction entering in this formalism…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

An explicit expression for the quadratic density-response function of a many-electron system is obtained in the framework of the time-dependent density-functional theory, in terms of the linear and quadratic density-response functions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 V. U. Nazarov , J. M. Pitarke , C. S. Kim , Y. Takada

In electron density functional theory formal properties of density functionals play an important role in constructing and testing approximate functionals. In this paper it is shown that a set of density functionals satisfy an equation that…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-09 Daniel P. Joubert