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A very specific ensemble of ground and excited states is shown to yield an exact formula for any excitation energy as a simple correction to the energy difference between orbitals of the Kohn-Sham ground state. This alternative scheme…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Zeng-hui Yang , Aurora Pribram-Jones , Kieron Burke , Carsten A. Ullrich

Recent progress has been made in capturing spectral features of electronic states of double-excitation character in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) through a frequency-dependent kernel. While it might appear that this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Dhyey Ray , Anna Baranova , Davood B. Dar , Neepa T. Maitra

We propose a computationally efficient approach to the nonadiabatic time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) which is based on a representation of the frequency-dependent exchange correlation kernel as a response of a set of damped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Dmitry R. Gulevich , Yaroslav V. Zhumagulov , Alexei V. Vagov , Vasili Perebeinos

We formulate a time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) in terms of the density matrix to study ultrafast phenomena in semiconductor structures. A system of equations for the density matrix components, which is equivalent to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Turkowski , C. A. Ullrich

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) often successfully reproduces excitation energies of finite systems, already in the adiabatic local-density approximation (ALDA). Here we show for prototypical molecular materials, i.e.,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-25 Caterina Cocchi , Claudia Draxl

By inverting the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equation for a numerically exact dynamics of the helium atom, we show that the dynamical step and peak features of the exact correlation potential found previously in one-dimensional models persist…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 Davood Dar , Lionel Lacombe , Johannes Feist , Neepa Maitra

The particle-hole interaction problem is longstanding within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and leads to extreme errors in the prediction of K-edge X-ray absorption spectra (XAS). We derive a linear-response formalism that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Kevin Carter-Fenk , Leonardo A. Cunha , Juan E. Arias-Martinez , Martin Head-Gordon

As a universal quantum mechanical approach to the dynamical many-body problem, the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) might be inadequate to describe crucial observables that rely on two-body evolution behavior, like the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Jiong-Hang Liang , Yunfeng Xiong

Ultrafast electronic dynamics in solids lies at the core of modern condensed matter and materials physics. To build up a practical ab initio method for studying solids under photoexcitation, we develop a momentum-resolved real-time time…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 Chao Lian , Shi-Qi Hu , Meng-Xue Guan , Sheng Meng

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is an extension of ground-state density-functional theory which allows the treatment of electronic excited states and a wide range of time-dependent phenomena in the linear and nonlinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-10 Carsten A. Ullrich

A real-space representation of the current response of many-electron systems with possible applications to x-ray nonlinear spectroscopy and magnetic susceptibilities is developed. Closed expressions for the linear, quadratic and third-order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Oleg Berman , Shaul Mukamel

We formulate a time-dependent density-matrix functional theory (TDDMFT) approach for higher-order correlation effects like biexcitons in optical processes in solids based on the reduced two-particle density-matrix formalism within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Volodymyr Turkowski , Carsten A. Ullrich , Talat S. Rahman , Michael N. Leuenberger

The charge-density response of extended materials is usually dominated by the collective oscillation of electrons, the plasmons. Beyond this feature, however, intriguing many-body effects are observed. They cannot be described by one of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-20 Martin Panholzer , Matteo Gatti , Lucia Reining

In their famous paper Kohn and Sham formulated a formally exact density-functional theory (DFT) for the ground-state energy and density of a system of $N$ interacting electrons, albeit limited at the time by certain troubling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Miquel Huix-Rotllant , Mark E. Casida

Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) has recently been extended to describe many-body open quantum systems (OQS) evolving under non-unitary dynamics according to a quantum master equation. In the master equation approach,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 David G. Tempel , Mark A. Watson , Roberto Olivares-Amaya , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

The time-dependent density functional (TDDFT) equations may be written either for the Kohn-Sham orbitals in Hilbert space or for the single electron density matrix in Liouville space. A collective-oscillator, quasiparticle, representation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Oleg Berman , Shaul Mukamel

In principle, we should not need the time-dependent extension of density-functional theory (TDDFT) for excitations, and in particular not for Molecular Dynamics (MD) studies: the theorem by Hohenberg and Kohn teaches us that for any…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 J. L. Alonso , Alberto Castro , Pablo Echenique , Angel Rubio

Inspired by the formulation of quantum-electrodynamical time-dependent density functional theory (QED-TDDFT) by Rubio and coworkers, we propose an implementation that uses dimensionless amplitudes for describing the photonic contributions…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-20 Junjie Yang , Qi Ou , Zheng Pei , Hua Wang , Binbin Weng , Kieran Mullen , Yihan Shao

X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) constitutes an essential technique for diagnosing material properties under extreme conditions, such as high pressures and intense laser heating. Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is one of the…

The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is the leading computationally feasible theory to treat excitations by strong electromagnetic fields. Here the theory is applied to coherent optical phonon generation produced by intense…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Y. Shinohara , S. A. Sato , K. Yabana , J. -I. Iwata , T. Otobe , G. F. Bertsch