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We study response and velocity autocorrelation functions for a tagged particle in a shear driven suspension governed by underdamped stochastic dynamics. We follow the idea of an effective confinement in dense suspensions and exploit a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-08 Boris Lander , Udo Seifert , Thomas Speck

The formalism of density functional theory (DFT) can be easily extended to the time dependent case (TDDFT). However, while in the static case the theory is well established and is expected to be, at least in principle, an exact approach for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandro Stringari

We put forward a general procedure to obtain an approximate free energy density functional for any hard-core lattice gas, regardless of the shape of the particles, the underlying lattice or the dimension of the system. The procedure is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luis Lafuente , Jose A. Cuesta

Simulation of warm dense matter requires computational methods that capture both quantum and classical behavior efficiently under high-temperature, high-density conditions. Currently, density functional theory molecular dynamics is used to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Attila Cangi , Aurora Pribram-Jones

A density functional theory for a mixture of hard rods and polymers modeled as chains built of hard tangent spheres is proposed by combining the functional due to Yu and Wu for the polymer mixtures [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 117}, 2368 (2002)]…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bryk

We evaluate analytically some ground state properties of two-dimensional harmonically confined Fermi vapors with isotropy and for an arbitrary number of closed shells. We first derive a differential form of the virial theorem and an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Minguzzi , N. H. March , M. P. Tosi

We present an extension of our recently introduced molecular density functional theory of water [G. Jeanmairet et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 4, 619, 2013] to the solvation of hydrophobic solutes of various sizes, going from angstroms to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maximilien Levesque , Daniel Borgis

We study many-body correlation functions within various Fundamental Measure Theory (FMT) formulations and compare their predictions to Monte Carlo simulations of hard-sphere fluids. FMT accurately captures the qualitative behavior of three-…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Ilian Pihlajamaa , Teunike A. van de Pol , Liesbeth M. C. Janssen

Although the classical density functional theory (DFT) of inhomogeneous fluids was formulated more than four decades ago, its application to broken symmetry phases of molecular systems remained a challenge. Approximate free energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yashwant Singh

Reduced-density-matrix-functional theory is applied to open-shell systems. We introduce a spin-restricted formulation by appropriately expressing approximate correlation-energy functionals in terms of spin-dependent occupation numbers and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 N. N. Lathiotakis , N. Helbig , E. K. U. Gross

The new mathematical framework based on the free energy of pure classical fluids presented in [R. D. Rohrmann, Physica A 347, 221 (2005)] is extended to multi-component systems to determine thermodynamic and structural properties of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. D. Rohrmann , J. Zorec

We describe a test particle approach based on dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) for studying the correlated time evolution of the particles that constitute a fluid. Our theory provides a means of calculating the van Hove…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-17 Paul Hopkins , Andrea Fortini , Andrew Archer , Matthias Schmidt

The principle of dynamic equivalence between soft-sphere and hard-sphere fluids [Phys. Rev. E \textbf{68}, 011405 (2003)] is employed to describe the interplay of the effects of varying the density n, the temperature T, and the softness…

A fermion ground state energy functional is set up in terms of particle density, relative pair density, and kinetic energy tensor density. It satisfies a minimum principle if constrained by a complete set of compatibility conditions. A…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-17 Bin Liu , Jerome K. Percus

Density functional theory has become the workhorse of quantum physics, chemistry, and materials science. Within these fields, a broad range of applications needs to be covered. These applications range from solids to molecular systems, from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Christof Holzer , Yannick J. Franzke

An atom placed inside a cavity of finite dimension offers many interesting features, and thus has been a topic of great current activity. This work proposes a density functional approach to pursue both ground and excited states of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 Sangita Majumdar , Amlan K. Roy

We review the literature on scaled particle theory (SPT) and its extensions and discuss results applied to describe the thermodynamics of hard particle mixtures. After explaining the basic concepts of scaled particle theory to compute the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-01 Volodymyr Shmotolokha , Jonas Maier-Borst , Mark Vis , Anja Kuhnhold , Remco Tuinier

Sticky hard spheres, i.e., hard particles decorated with a short-ranged attractive interaction potential, constitute a relatively simple model with highly non-trivial glassy dynamics. The mode-coupling theory of the glass transition (MCT)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-26 Chengjie Luo , Liesbeth M. C. Janssen

A simple result for the pressure of a hard sphere fluid that was developed many years ago by Rennert is extended in a straightforward manner by adding the terms that are of the same form as the Rennert's formula. The resulting expression is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-13 D. Henderson

Finite temperature density functional theory requires representations for the internal energy, entropy, and free energy as functionals of the local density field. A central formal difficulty for an orbital-free representation is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-12 James W. Dufty , S. B. Trickey
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