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The advent of the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem in 1964, its extension to finite-T, Kohn-Sham theory, and relativistic extensions provide the well-established formalism of density-functional theory (DFT). This theory enables the calculation of all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-18 M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

We formulate a time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) in terms of the density matrix to study ultrafast phenomena in semiconductor structures. A system of equations for the density matrix components, which is equivalent to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Turkowski , C. A. Ullrich

Force fields are usually formulated directly in nuclear configuration space, whereas density functional theory is naturally formulated in terms of external potentials, densities, and variational duality. We show that exact force fields are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Nan Sheng

Understanding the properties of warm dense hydrogen is of key importance for the modeling of compact astrophysical objects and to understand and further optimize inertial confinement fusion (ICF) applications. The work horse of warm dense…

Bridging the gap between first principles methods and empirical schemes, the density functional based tight-binding method (DFTB) has become a versatile tool in predictive atomistic simulations over the past years. One of the major…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-02 Vitalij Lutsker , Balint Aradi , Thomas A. Niehaus

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is widely used for atomistic simulations. However, its reach stays limited due to several limitations such as lack of accurate exchange-correlation functional, requirement of costly O(N 3) diagonalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Namrata Manglani , Samrit Kumar Maity , Shashank Sharma , Soham Phulare , Sanjay Wandhekar

Relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (RHFB) theory with density-dependent meson-nucleon couplings is presented. The integro-differential RHFB equations are solved by expanding the different components of the quasi-particle spinors in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Wen Hui Long , Peter Ring , Nguyen Van Giai , Jie Meng

As a universal quantum mechanical approach to the dynamical many-body problem, the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) might be inadequate to describe crucial observables that rely on two-body evolution behavior, like the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Jiong-Hang Liang , Yunfeng Xiong

To explore the applicability of orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) in nuclear physics, we perform a systematic benchmark of 36 one-point kinetic energy density functionals, which are originally developed for electron systems in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 Tian Shuai Shang , Jian Li , Haozhao Liang , Xinhui Wu , Cheng Ma , Wenhui Mi , Xuecheng Shao , Yanchao Wang

We formulate a time-dependent density-matrix functional theory (TDDMFT) approach for higher-order correlation effects like biexcitons in optical processes in solids based on the reduced two-particle density-matrix formalism within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Volodymyr Turkowski , Carsten A. Ullrich , Talat S. Rahman , Michael N. Leuenberger

It is shown that the density-potential mapping and the ${\cal V}$-representability problems in the time-dependent current density functional theory (TDCDFT) are reduced to the solution of a certain many-body nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-27 I. V. Tokatly

This paper studies the performance of time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) for calculating the dielectric function of semiconductors and insulators at finite momentum transfer, comparing against the standard Bethe-Salpeter…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-03 Didarul Alam , Jiuyu Sun , Carsten A. Ullrich

We present simple equations for a canonical-basis formulation of the time-dependent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (TDHFB) theory. The equations are obtained from the TDHFB theory with an approximation that the pair potential is assumed to be…

A new and thorough derivation of linear-response subsystem time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) is presented and analyzed in detail. Two equivalent derivations are presented and naturally yield self-consistent subsystem TD-DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Michele Pavanello

Density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful theoretical tool widely used in such diverse fields as computational condensed matter physics, atomic physics, and quantum chemistry. DFT establishes that a system of $N$ interacting electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Giovanni Manfredi

We present dynamic density functional theory (DDFT) incorporating general inhomogeneous, incompressible, time dependent background flows and inertia, describing externally driven passive colloidal systems out of equilibrium. We start by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-11 Rory D. Mills-Williams , Benjamin D. Goddard , Andrew J. Archer

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

Density functional theory (DFT) is shown to provide a novel conceptual and computational framework for entanglement in interacting many-body quantum systems. DFT can, in particular, shed light on the intriguing relationship between quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. -A. Wu , M. S. Sarandy , D. A. Lidar , L. J. Sham

While ab initio many-body techniques have been able to successfully describe the properties of light and intermediate mass nuclei based on chiral effective field theory interactions, neutron-rich nuclei still remain out of reach for these…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 R. Navarro Pérez , N. Schunck

Although many programs have been published for fully numerical Hartree--Fock (HF) or density functional (DF) calculations on atoms, we are not aware of any that support hybrid DFs, which are popular within the quantum chemistry community…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Susi Lehtola