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We present a probabilistic approach to water-water hydrogen bonding that allows one to obtain an analytic expression for the number of bonds per water molecule as a function of both its distance to a hydrophobic particle and hydrophobe…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-03-20 Yuri S. Djikaev , Eli Ruckenstein

The ongoing scientific interest in the properties and structure of electric double layers (EDLs) stems from their pivotal role in (super)capacitive energy storage, energy harvesting, and water treatment technologies. Classical density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-28 Andreas Härtel , Sela Samin , Rene van Roij

Dynamic density functional theory (DDFT) is a promising approach for predicting the structural evolution of a drying suspension containing one or more types of colloidal particles. The assumed free-energy functional is a key component of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-23 Mayukh Kundu , Michael P. Howard

Stochastic and mixed stochastic-deterministic density functional theory (DFT) are promising new approaches for the calculation of the equation-of-state and transport properties in materials under extreme conditions. In the intermediate warm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Vidushi Sharma , Lee A. Collins , Alexander J. White

In order to describe the nonisothermal dynamics of two-phase flows or binary mixtures such as colloidal suspensions consisting of colloidal particles and solvent on a microscopic level, we derive a new extended dynamical density functional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-06 Michael te Vrugt , Hartmut Löwen , Helmut R. Brand , Raphael Wittkowski

We assess the performance of molecular densityfunctional theory (MDFT) to predict hydration freeenergies of the small drug-like molecules benchmark,FreeSolv. MDFT in the hyper-netted chain approx-imation (HNC) coupled with a pressure…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Sohvi Luukkonen , Luc Belloni , Daniel Borgis , Maximilien Levesque

We study the dynamics of a colloidal fluid including inertia and hydrodynamic interactions, two effects which strongly influence the non-equilibrium properties of the system. We derive a general dynamical density functional theory (DDFT)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-24 Benjamin D. Goddard , Andreas Nold , Nikos Savva , Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Serafim Kalliadasis

One of the potential applications of a quantum computer is solving quantum chemical systems. It is known that one of the fastest ways to obtain somewhat accurate solutions classically is to use approximations of density functional theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Thomas E. Baker , David Poulin

In recent years, the theoretical description of electrical noise and fluctuation-induced effects in electrolytes has gained a renewed interest, enabled by stochastic field theories like stochastic density functional theory (SDFT). Such…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-25 Pierre Illien , Antoine Carof , Benjamin Rotenberg

Although the classical density functional theory (DFT) of inhomogeneous fluids was formulated more than four decades ago, its application to broken symmetry phases of molecular systems remained a challenge. Approximate free energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yashwant Singh

Fundamental Measure Theory (FMT) is a successful and versatile approach for describing the properties of the hard-sphere fluid and hard-sphere mixtures within the framework of classical density functional theory (DFT). Lutsko [Phys. Rev. E…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-04 Melih Gül , Roland Roth , Robert Evans

Million-atom quantum simulations are in principle feasible with Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) because the algorithms only require simple functional minimizations with respect to the electron density function. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-17 Wenhui Mi , Michele Pavanello

Nuclear density functional theory (DFT) is the only microscopic, global approach to the structure of atomic nuclei. It is used in numerous applications, from determining the limits of stability to gaining a deep understanding of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-06 Nicolas Schunck , Jordan D. McDonnell , Jason Sarich , Stefan M. Wild , Dave Higdon

The nonlocal dielectric properties of liquid water are studied in the context of {\it ab initio} molecular dynamics simulations based on density functional theory. We calculate the dielectric response from the charge structure factor of the…

We report here how the hydration of complex surfaces can be efficiently studied thanks to recent advances in classical molecular density functional theory. This is illustrated on the example of the pyrophylite clay. After presenting the…

The hydration or binding free energy of a drug-like molecule is a key data for early stage drug discovery. Hundreds of thousands of evaluations are needed, which rules out the exhaustive use of atomistic simulations and free energy methods.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 Sohvi Luukkonen , Luc Belloni , Daniel Borgis , Maximilien Levesque

We present a versatile density functional approach (DFT) for calculating the depletion potential in general fluid mixtures. In contrast to brute force DFT, our approach requires only the equilibrium density profile of the small particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Roth , R. Evans , S. Dietrich

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is the standard method for first-principles calculations in computational chemistry and materials science. More accurate theories such as the random-phase approximation (RPA) are limited in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-25 Stefan Riemelmoser , Carla Verdi , Merzuk Kaltak , Georg Kresse

Over the last few decades, classical density-functional theory (DFT) and its dynamic extensions (DDFTs) have become powerful tools in the study of colloidal fluids. Recently, previous DDFTs for spherically-symmetric particles have been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-02 Miguel A. Durán-Olivencia , Benjamin D. Goddard , Serafim Kalliadasis

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is widely used to describe electronic excitations in complex finite systems with large numbers of atoms, such as biomolecules and nanocrystals. The first part of this paper will give a simple…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-15 C. A. Ullrich , V. Turkowski