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We use the exact strong-interaction limit of the Hohenberg-Kohn energy density functional to construct an approximation for the exchange-correlation term of the Kohn-Sham approach. The resulting exchange-correlation potential is able to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-05 Francesc Malet , André Mirtschink , Jonas C. Cremon , Stephanie M. Reimann , Paola Gori-Giorgi

We construct the orthogonal eigenbasis for a discrete elliptic Ruijsenaars type quantum particle Hamiltonian with hyperoctahedral symmetry. In the trigonometric limit the eigenfunctions in question recover a previously studied $q$-Racah…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jan Felipe van Diejen , Tamás Görbe

One of the most powerful strategies to address properties of real many-body systems is to incorporate data obtained for models, for example, to use data of the homogeneous electron gas in order to build the Local Density Approximation for…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Muhammed Hüseyin Güneş , Ayoub Aouina , Vitaly Gorelov , Matteo Gatti , Lucia Reining

In this paper we develop a plane wave type method for discretization of homogeneous Helmholtz equations with variable wave numbers. In the proposed method, local basis functions (on each element) are constructed by the geometric optics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Qiya Hu , Zezhong Wang

This paper represents one contribution to a larger Roadmap article reviewing the current status of the FHI-aims code. In this contribution, the implementation of density-functional perturbation theory in a numerical atom-centered framework…

In this work we propose two new, closely related, efficient basis sets for the electronic structure problem. The basis sets are based on the Muffin Tin Orbital (MTO) idea that the eigenstates of the Khon Sham (KS) Hamiltonian may we be…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-10 Garry Goldstein

A general procedure for the optimization of atomic density-fitting basis functions is designed with the balance between accuracy and numerical stability in mind. Given one-electron wavefunctions and energies, weights are assigned to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Dimitri N. Laikov

Accurate local Kohn-Sham potentials have been constructed for the ground $1s^2 ^1S$ state and, in particular, for the lowest triplet $1s2s ^{3}S$ state of the helium atom, using electron densities from many-body calculations and the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 I. Lindgren , S. Salomonson , F. Möller

We develop a sparse hierarchical $hp$-finite element method ($hp$-FEM) for the Helmholtz equation with variable coefficients posed on a two-dimensional disk or annulus. The mesh is an inner disk cell (omitted if on an annulus domain) and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos , Sheehan Olver

The Hubbard model provides a test bed to investigate the complex behaviour arising from electron-electron interaction in strongly-correlated systems and naturally emerges as the foundation model for lattice density functional theory (DFT).…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-29 Eoghan Cronin , Rajarshi Tiwari , Stefano Sanvito

The present work demonstrates a robust protocol for probing localized electronic structure in condensed-phase systems, operating in terms of a recently proposed theory for decomposing the results of Kohn-Sham density functional theory in a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Janus J. Eriksen

In this work, the dynamics of dephasing (without relaxation) in the presence of a chaotic oscillator is theoretically investigated. The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) framework was employed in tandem with the Lindblad…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 T. Ganesan

We present an accurate and efficient finite-difference formulation and parallel implementation of Kohn-Sham Density (Operator) Functional Theory (DFT) for non periodic systems embedded in a bulk environment. Specifically, employing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Swarnava Ghosh , Kaushik Bhattacharya

A uniform derivation is presented of the self-consistent field equations in a finite basis set. Both restricted and unrestricted Hartree-Fock (HF) theory as well as various density functional (DF) approximations are considered. The unitary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Susi Lehtola , Frank Blockhuys , Christian Van Alsenoy

Based on standard perturbation theory, we present a full quantum derivation of the formula for the orbital magnetization in periodic systems. The derivation is generally valid for insulators with or without a Chern number, for metals at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Junren Shi , G. Vignale , Di Xiao , Qian Niu

The density of an atom in a state of well-defined angular momentum has a specific finite spherical harmonic content, without and with interactions. Approximate single-particle schemes, such as the Hartree, Hartree-Fock, and Local Density…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-05 H. A. Fertig , W. Kohn

In this short note, we present a rigorous derivation of the one-body double-hybrid density functional (OBDHF) theory, a self-consistent double-hybrid density functional framework that unifies the generalized Kohn-Sham (GKS) formalism with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Lan Nguyen Tran

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a pivotal method within quantum chemistry and materials science, with its core involving the construction and solution of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian. Despite its importance, the application of DFT is…

We present a real-space formulation and higher-order finite-difference implementation of periodic Orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT). Specifically, utilizing a local reformulation of the electrostatic and kernel terms, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Swarnava Ghosh , Phanish Suryanarayana

We present an ab-initio approach for grand canonical ensembles in thermal equilibrium with local or nonlocal external potentials based on the one-reduced density matrix. We show that equilibrium properties of a grand canonical ensemble are…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-03 Tim Baldsiefen , Attila Cangi , E. K. U. Gross