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The random phase approximation (RPA) to the correlation energy is extended to fractional occupations and its performance examined for exact conditions on fractional charges and fractional spins. RPA satisfies the constancy condition for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-26 Paula Mori-Sánchez , Aron J. Cohen , Weitao Yang

The adiabatic connection fluctuation-dissipation theorem with the random phase approximation (RPA) has recently been applied with success to obtain correlation energies of a variety of chemical and solid state systems. The main merit of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-20 Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

We evaluate the stopping and image forces on a charged particle moving parallel to a doped sheet of graphene by using the dielectric response formalism for graphene's $\pi$-electron bands in the random phase approximation (RPA). The forces…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 K. F. Allison , D. Borka , I. Radović , Lj. Hadžievski , Z. L. Mišković

Semi-local density functional approximations are widely used. None of them can capture the long-range van der Waals (vdW) attraction between separated subsystems, but they differ remarkably in the extent to which they capture…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-04 Santosh Adhikari , Hong Tang , Bimal Neupane , Gabor I. Csonka , Adrienn Ruzsinszky

We use the random phase approximation (RPA) method with the singles correlation energy contributions to calculate lattice energies of ten molecular solids. While RPA gives too weak binding, underestimating the reference data by $13.7$\% on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Jiří Klimeš

Relativistic Continuum Random Phase Approximation (CRPA) is used to investigate collective excitation phenomena in several spherical nuclei along the periodic table. We start from relativistic mean field calculations based on a covariant…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-21 J. Daoutidis , P. Ring

In this thesis are shown developments in the random phase approximation (RPA) in the context of range-separated theories. We present advances in the formalism of the RPA in general, and particularly in the "dielectric matrix" formulation of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-11-24 B. Mussard

The focus of the present work is the application of the random phase approximation (RPA), derived for inhomogeneous fluids [Frydel and Ma, Phys. Rev. E 93, 062112 (2016)], to penetrable-spheres. As penetrable-spheres transform into…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-17 Yan Xiang , Derek Frydel

In wavefunction-based $\textit{ab-initio}$ quantum mechanical calculations, achieving absolute convergence with respect to the one-electron basis set is a long-standing challenge. In this work, using the random phase approximation (RPA)…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-17 Hao Peng , Xinguo Ren

The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) for total energies has previously been shown to provide a qualitatively correct description of static correlation in molecular systems, where density functional theory (DFT) with local functionals are…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-27 Thomas Olsen

We use continuum mechanics [Tao \emph{et al}, PRL{\bf 103},086401] to approximate the dynamic density response of interacting many-electron systems. Thence we develop a numerically efficient exchange-correlation energy functional based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 Tim Gould , John F. Dobson

In recent work, generalized gradient approximations (GGA's) have been constructed from the energy density of the Airy gas for exchange but not for correlation. We report the random phase approximation (RPA) conventional correlation energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-06-30 Lucian A. Constantin , Adrienn Ruzsinszky , John P. Perdew

We extend the capabilities of correlation energy functionals based on the adiabatic-connection fluctuation-dissipation theorem by implementing the analytical atomic forces within the random phase approximation (RPA), in the context of plane…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-19 Damian Contant , Maria Hellgren

The many-body theory of interacting electrons poses an intrinsically difficult problem that requires simplifying assumptions. For the determination of electronic screening properties of the Coulomb interaction, the Random Phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-26 Erik G. C. P. van Loon , Malte Rösner , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Tim O. Wehling

The accurate computation of non-linear optical properties (NLOPs) in large polymers requires accounting for electronic correlation effects with a reasonable computational cost. The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) used in the adiabatic…

Using the adiabatic connection, we formulate the free energy in terms of the correlation function of a fictitious system, $h_{\lambda}({\bf r},{\bf r}')$, where $\lambda$ determines the interaction strength. To obtain $h_{\lambda}({\bf…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-15 Derek Frydel , Manman Ma

In the derivation of low-energy effective models for solids targeting the bands near the Fermi level, the constrained random phase approximation (cRPA) has become an appreciated tool to compute the effective interactions. The Wick-ordered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-15 Michael Kinza , Carsten Honerkamp

We formulate an adiabatic connection for the exchange-correlation energy in terms of pairing matrix fluctuation. This connection opens new channels for density functional approximations based on pairing interactions. Even the simplest…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Helen van Aggelen , Yang Yang , Weitao Yang

The random-phase approximation (RPA) formulated within the adiabatic connection fluctuation-dissipation framework is a powerful approach to compute the ground-state energies and properties of molecules and materials. Its overall…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Muhammad N. Tahir , Honghui Shang , Xinguo Ren

We present an extensive set of surface and chemisorption energies calculated using state of the art many-body perturbation theory. In the first part of the paper we consider ten surface reactions in the low coverage regime where…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-01 Per Simmendefeldt Schmidt , Kristian Sommer Thygesen