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A model is developed, based on the density functional perturbation theory and the inverse Kohn-Sham method, that can be used to improve relativistic nuclear energy density functionals towards an exact but unknown Kohn-Sham…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Giacomo Accorto , Tomoya Naito , Haozhao Liang , Tamara Niksic , Dario Vretenar

The stationary states of the half-line Coulomb potential are described by quantum-mechanical wavefunctions which are controlled by the Laguerre polynomials $L_n^{(1)}(x$). Here we first calculate the $q$th-order frequency or entropic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-23 P. Sanchez-Moreno , J. J. Omiste , J. S. Dehesa

We perform first-principles path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) and density functional theory molecular dynamics (DFT-MD) calculations to explore warm dense matter states of LiF. Our simulations cover a wide density-temperature range of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 K. P. Driver , B. Militzer

We present the results of numerical studies for selected materials with strongly correlated electrons using a combination of the local-density approximation and dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). For the solution of the DMFT equations a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-11 Arno P. Kampf , Marcus Kollar , Jan Kunes , Michael Sentef , Dieter Vollhardt

The electron-electron mutual Coulomb repulsion energy density functional satisfies an equation that links functionals and functional derivatives at N-electron and (N-1)-electron densities for densities determined from the same adiabatic…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-19 Daniel P. Joubert

A stochastic minimization method for a real-space wavefunction, $\Psi({\bf r}_{1},{\bf r}_{2}\ldots{\bf r}_{n})$, constrained to a chosen density, $\rho({\bf r})$, is developed. It enables the explicit calculation of the Levy constrained…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Paula Mori-Sánchez , Aron J. Cohen

We propose and benchmark a Gross-Pitaevskii-like equation for two-component Bose mixtures with competing interactions in 1D. Our approach follows the density-functional theory with the energy functional based on the exact Quantum Monte…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-04-26 Jakub Kopyciński , Luca Parisi , Nick G. Parker , Krzysztof Pawłowski

This paper derives and demonstrates a new, purely density-based ab initio approach for calculation of the energies and properties of many-electron systems. It is based upon the discovery of relationships that govern the "mechanics" of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 James C. Ellenbogen

Forty-five years after the point de d\'epart [1] of density functional theory, its applications in chemistry and the study of electronic structures keep steadily growing. However, the precise form of the energy functional in terms of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Philippe Blanchard , José M. Gracia-Bondía , Joseph C. Várilly

We perform calculations of the {3D} finite-temperature homogeneous electron gas (HEG) in the warm-dense regime ({r_{s} \equiv (3/4\pi n)^{1/3}a_{B}^{- 1} = 1.0- 40.0} and {\Theta \equiv T/T_{F} = 0.0625- 8.0}) using restricted path integral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-10 Ethan W. Brown , Bryan K. Clark , Jonathan L. DuBois , David M. Ceperley

The new {\em ab initio} quantum path integral Monte Carlo approach has been developed and applied for the entropy difference calculations for the strongly coupled degenerated uniform electron gas (UEG), a well--known model of simple metals.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Vladimir Filinov , Pavel Levashov , Alexander Larkin

We present a local density approximation (LDA) for one-dimensional (1D) systems interacting via the soft-Coulomb interaction based on quantum Monte-Carlo calculations. Results for the ground-state energies and ionization potentials of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 N. Helbig , J. I. Fuks , M. Casula , M. J. Verstraete , M. A. L. Marques , I. V. Tokatly , A. Rubio

We present a general approach for the construction of the exact local-energy-density functionals for a uniform N-dimensional electronic system in a magnetic field. For arbitrary dimension, we obtain explicit expressions for the matter,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. P. van Zyl

We study the problem of computing energy density in one-dimensional quantum systems. We show that the ground-state energy per site or per bond can be computed in time (i) independent of the system size and subexponential in the desired…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-05 Yichen Huang

The energy density is calculated in coordinate space for $^{12}$C, $^{40}$Ca, $^{48}$Ca, and $^{208}$Pb using a dispersive optical model constrained by all relevant data including the corresponding energy of the ground state. The energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-04 M. C. Atkinson , W. H. Dickhoff , M. Piarulli , A. Rios , R. B. Wiringa

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

Based on a microscopic model, we use a functional integral approach to evaluate the quantum interaction energy between two neutral atoms. Each atom is coupled to the electromagnetic (EM) field via a dipole term, generated by an electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 C. D. Fosco , G. Hansen

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 propose a method for microscopic calculations of nuclear ground-state properties in the framework of density functional theory. We discuss how the density functional is equivalent to the effective action for the density, thereby…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Schwenk , J. Polonyi

We calculated the total energy of a semiconductor quantum dot which is defined by the trench gate method. In our calculation we used a recently developed energy functional called ``orbital-free energy functional". We compared the total…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-30 G. Bilgeç Akyüz , K. Akgüngör , S. Şakiroglu , A. Siddiki , İ. Sökmen