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The exchange-correlation potential experienced by an electron in the free space adjacent to a solid surface or to a low-dimensional system defines the fundamental image states and is generally important in surface- and nano-science. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 V. U. Nazarov

We present a new approach how to calculate the scalar exchange-correlation potentials and the vector exchange-correlation potentials from current-carrying ground states of two-dimensional quantum dots. From these exchange-correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andreas Wensauer , Ulrich Rössler

We show that the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density-functional theory displays dynamical step structures that have a spatially non-local and time non-local dependence on the density. Using one-dimensional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Peter Elliott , Johanna I. Fuks , Angel Rubio , Neepa T. Maitra

The uniform electron gas and the hydrogen atom play fundamental roles in condensed matter physics and quantum chemistry. The former has an infinite number of electrons uniformly distributed over the neutralizing positively-charged…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Jianwei Sun , John P. Perdew , Zenghui Yang , Haowei Peng

There are several approximations to the exchange-correlation functional in density-functional theory that accurately predict total energy-related properties of many-electron systems, such as binding energies, bond lengths, and crystal…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Eli Kraisler , Tobias Schmidt , Stephan Kümmel , Leeor Kronik

We prove that, in the large-dimension limit, the high-density correlation energy $\Ec$ of two opposite-spin electrons confined in a $D$-dimensional space and interacting {\em via} a Coulomb potential is given by $\Ec \sim -1/(8D^2)$ for any…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-17 Pierre-François Loos , Peter M. W. Gill

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

Correlation effects of an electron gas in an external potential are derived using an Effective Action functional method. Corrections beyond the random phase approximation (RPA) are naturally incorporated by this method. The Effective Action…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Rebei , W. N. G. Hitchon

We derive a generalized gradient approximation to the exchange energy to be used in density functional theory calculations of two-dimensional systems. This class of approximations has a long and successful history, but it has not yet been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-01-07 S. Pittalis , E. Rasanen , J. G. Vilhena , M. A. L. Marques

We introduce a new functional for simulating ground-state and time-dependent electronic systems within density-functional theory. The functional combines an expression for the exact Kohn-Sham (KS) potential in the limit of complete electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 M. J. P. Hodgson , J. D. Ramsden , T. R. Durrant , R. W. Godby

We calculate the short-range exchange-correlation energy of the uniform electron gas with two modified electron-electron interactions. While the short-range exchange functionals are calculated analytically, Coupled-Cluster and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-16 Julien Toulouse , Andreas Savin , Heinz-Jürgen Flad

Electronic structures are fully determined by the exchange-correlation (XC) potential. In this work, we develop a new method to construct reliable XC potentials by properly mixing the exact exchange and the local density approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Chen Huang

The exchange-correlation hole and potential of the homogeneous electron gas have been investigated within the random-phase approximation, employing the plasmon-pole approximation for the linear density response function. The angular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-12 K. Karlsson , F. Aryasetiawan

The time-dependent exchange-correlation potential has an unusual task in directing fictitious non-interacting electrons to move with exactly the same probability density as true interacting electrons. This has intriguing implications for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Davood Dar , Lionel Lacombe , Neepa T. Maitra

Recent progress in the formulation of a fully dynamical local approximation to time-dependent Density Functional Theory appeals to the longitudinal and transverse components of the exchange and correlation kernel in the linear…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-18 R. Nifosi' , S. Conti , M. P. Tosi

The effective potential of electron--electron interaction and the two-particle \textquotedblleft density--density\textquotedblright\ correlation function have been calculated for a simple semiinfinite metal making allowance for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-29 B. M. Markovych , I. M. Zadvorniak

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

Exact density functionals for the exchange and correlation energies are approximated in practical calculations for the ground-state electronic structure of a many-electron system. An important exact constraint for the construction of…

The correlation holes for densities of equal and opposite spin around a test electron are determined from the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with proper boundary conditions. The traditional "exchange" term follows from the boundary condition…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Jarlborg

Density functional theory is the workhorse of modern electronic structure calculations, with wide-ranging applications in chemistry, physics, materials science, and machine learning. At its heart lies the exchange-correlation functional, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Fabien Tran , Susi Lehtola , Stefano Pittalis , Miguel A. L. Marques