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Inspired by the synthesis of XB3C3 (X= Sr, La) compounds in the bipartite sodalite clathrate structure, density functional theory (DFT) calculations are performed on members of this family containing up to two different metal atoms. A…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-27 Nisha Geng , Katerina P. Hilleke , Li Zhu , Xiaoyu Wang , Timothy A. Strobel , Eva Zurek

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

We numerically investigate the Spin Density Functional theory for superconductors (SpinSCDFT) and the approximated exchange-correlation functional, derived and presented in the preceding paper I. As a test system we employ a free electron…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-10 A. Linscheid , A. Sanna , E. K. U. Gross

Exchange-correlation hole is a central concept in density functional theory. It not only provides justification for an exchange-correlation energy functional, but also serves as a local ingredient in nonlocal range-separation density…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-05 Jianmin Tao , Ireneusz W. Bulik , Gustavo E. Scuseria

In the context of the conjectured AdS-CFT correspondence of string theory, we consider a class of asymptotically Anti-de Sitter black holes whose conformal boundary consists of a single connected component, identical to the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 Jorma Louko , Donald Marolf

Density functional theory (DFT) and thermal DFT (thDFT) calculations were used to evaluate the energy band structure, bandgap, and the total energy of various graphene quantum dots (GQDs). The DFT calculations were performed using local…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-20 Majid Ghandchi , Ghafar Darvish , Mohammad Kazem Moravvej-Farshi

Density functional theory(DFT) and Hartree-Fock(HF) calculations are reported for the family of transition metal fluorides $\mbox{ScF}_3$, $\mbox{TiF}_4$, $\mbox{VF}_5$, and $\mbox{CrF}_6$. Both HF and the local-density-aproximation (LDA)…

chem-ph · Physics 2016-08-31 Thomas V. Russo , Richard L. Martin , P. Jeffrey Hay

In the paper we further refine the thermodynamics method of black hole/CFT correspondence. We show that one can derive the central charges of different holographic pictures directly from the entropy product $S_+S_-$ if it is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-04 Bin Chen , Zhao Xue , Jia-ju Zhang

We formulate a rigorous method for calculating a nonadiabatic (frequency-dependent) exchange-correlation (XC) kernel required for correct description of both equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties of strongly correlated systems within…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-13 Volodymyr Turkowski , Talat S. Rahman

The derivative discontinuity of the exchange-correlation functional of density-functional theory is cast as the difference of two types of electron affinities. We show that standard Kohn-Sham calculations can be used to calculate both…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-12-13 F. P. Rosselli , A. B. F. da Silva , K. Capelle

Most realistic calculations of moderately correlated materials begin with a ground-state density functional theory (DFT) calculation. While Kohn-Sham DFT is used in about 40,000 scientific papers each year, the fundamental underpinnings are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-26 Kieron Burke , John Kozlowski

It is well known that the electronic thermal conductivity of clean compensated semimetals can be greatly enhanced over the electric conductivity by the availability of an ambipolar mechanism of conduction, whereby electrons and holes flow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Mohammad Zarenia , Alessandro Principi , Giovanni Vignale

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is widely used for first-principles simulations in chemistry and materials science, but its computational cost remains a key limitation for large systems. Motivated by recent advances in ML-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-19 Rakshit Kumar Singh , Aryan Amit Barsainyan , Bharath Ramsundar

The superconducting state of metals has long provided a classic example of particle-hole symmetry (PHS) at low energy. Fermionic self-energy results based on first principles theory for the electron-phonon coupling in H$_3$S presented here…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-25 Soham S. Ghosh , Yundi Quan , Warren E. Pickett

The derivative discontinuity in the exact exchange-correlation potential of ensemble Density Functional Theory (DFT) is investigated at the specific integer number that corresponds to the maximum number of bound electrons, $J_{max}$. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Daniel L. Whitenack , Yu Zhang , Adam Wasserman

The transition metal dichalcogenide $1T$-TiSe$_2$ is a quasi-two-dimensional layered material with a phase transition towards a commensurate charge density wave (CDW) at a critical temperature T$_{c}\approx 200$K. The relationship between…

We report specific heat capacity measurements on a LiFeAs single crystal at temperatures down to 400 mK and magnetic fields up to 9 Tesla. A small specific heat jump at Tc and finite residual density of states at T=0 K in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-03-08 Dong-Jin Jang , J. B. Hong , Y. S. Kwon , T. Park , K. Gofryk , F. Ronning , J. D. Thompson , Yunkyu Bang

Improving the accuracy and thus broadening the applicability of electronic density functional theory (DFT) is crucial to many research areas, from material science, to theoretical chemistry, biophysics and biochemistry. In the last three…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Michael Seidl

The van Leeuwen proof of linear-response time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is generalized to thermal ensembles. This allows generalization to finite temperatures of the Gross-Kohn relation, the exchange-correlation kernel of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Aurora Pribram-Jones , Paul E. Grabowski , Kieron Burke

Semi-local density functionals for the exchange-correlation energy of electrons are extensively used as it produce realistic and accurate results for finite and extended systems. The choice of techniques play crucial role in constructing…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-01 Subrata Jana , Prasanjit Samal