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Most present applications of time-dependent density functional theory use adiabatic functionals, i.e. the effective potential at time t is determined solely by the density at the same time. This paper discusses a method that aims to go…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Yair Kurzweil , Roi Baer

In this work we review the mapping from densities to potentials in quantum mechanics, which is the basic building block of time-dependent density-functional theory and the Kohn-Sham construction. We first present detailed conditions such…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Michael Ruggenthaler , Markus Penz , Robert van Leeuwen

Given the time-evolution of an electron charge density, the local potential in Kohn-Sham time-dependent density functional theory (KS-TDDFT) can be modeled as a sum of instantaneous and dynamic contributions by assuming a certain form of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 R. J. Magyar

A general method is introduced for verifying multitime quantum correlations through the characteristic function of the time-dependent P functional that generalizes the Glauber-Sudarshan P function. Quantum correlation criteria are derived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-30 F. Krumm , J. Sperling , W. Vogel

Using the Runge-Gross theorem that establishes the foundation of Time-dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) we prove that for a given electronic Hamiltonian, choice of initial state, and choice of fragmentation, there is a unique…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin A. Mosquera , Daniel Jensen , Adam Wasserman

A density-functional theory is established for inhomogeneous superfluids at finite temperature, subject to time-dependent external fields in isothermal conditions. After outlining parallelisms between a neutral superfluid and a charged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. L. Chiofalo , M. P. Tosi

The concept of time-coarsened density matrix for open systems has frequently featured in equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, without being probed as to the detailed consequences of the time averaging procedure. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-11 Robert Englman , Asher Yahalom

Time-dependent density functional theory is thought to work well for the test cases of He and Be atoms. We perform a quantum defect analysis of the s, p, and d Rydberg states of Be with accurate ground state Kohn-Sham potentials. The s- and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Meta van Faassen , Kieron Burke

We use analytic (current) density-potential maps of time-dependent (current) density functional theory (TD(C)DFT) to inverse engineer analytically solvable time-dependent quantum problems. In this approach the driving potential (the control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Mehdi Farzanehpour , I. V. Tokatly

The trajectories of the pilot-wave formulation of quantum mechanics and hence its empirical predictions may be recovered via the dynamics of a density function on the configuration space of a system, without reference to a physical wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Philipp Roser , Matthew T. Scoggins

Time-dependent nonequilibrium Green's functions (TDNEGF) are shown to provide a flexible, effective tool for the description of quantum mechanical single particle scattering on a spatially localized, time-dependent potential. Focusing on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-07 Peter Foldi

After revealing difficulties of the standard time-dependent perturbation theory in quantum mechanics mainly from the viewpoint of practical calculation, we propose a new quasi-canonical perturbation theory. In the new theory, the dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Y. Chen

We construct the quantum mechanical model of the COW experiment assuming that the underlying space time has a granular structure, described by a canonical noncommutative algebra of coordinates $x^{\mu}$. The time-space sector of the algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-28 Anirban Saha

We show that the time-dependent particle density $n(\vec r,t)$ and the current density ${\vec j}(\vec r,t)$ of a many-particle system that evolves under the action of external scalar and vector potentials $V(\vec r,t)$ and $\vec A(\vec…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Vignale

In time-dependent density-functional theory, exchange and correlation (xc) beyond the adiabatic local density approximation can be described in terms of viscoelastic stresses in the electron liquid. In the time domain, this leads to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. O. Wijewardane , C. A. Ullrich

Real-time computation of time-dependent quantum mechanical problems are presented for nuclear many-body problems. Quantum tunneling in nuclear fusion at low energy is described using a time-dependent wave packet. A real-time method of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-10-16 Takashi Nakatsukasa

We give a microscopic derivation of time-dependent correlation functions of the $1D$ cubic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (NLS) from many-body quantum theory. The starting point of our proof is our previous work on the time-independent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Jürg Fröhlich , Antti Knowles , Benjamin Schlein , Vedran Sohinger

The concept of the macroscopic wave function is a key for understanding macroscopic quantum phenomena. The existence of this object reflects a certain order, as is present in a Bose-Einstein condensate when a single-particle orbital is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-25 Bettina Gertjerenken , Martin Holthaus

We show that Liouville-von Neumann approach to quantum mechanical systems, which demands the existence of invariant operators, reproduces the time-dependent variational Gaussian approximation. We find the effective action of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Jae Hyung Yee

We derive a time-dependent density functional theory appropriate for calculating the near-edge X-ray absorption spectrum in molecules and condensed matter. The basic assumption is to increase the space of many-body wave functions from one…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 G. F. Bertsch , A. Lee