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It is shown that the exchange-correlation part of the action functional $A_{xc}[\rho (\vec r,t)]$ in time-dependent density functional theory , where $\rho (\vec r,t)$ is the time-dependent density, is invariant under the transformation to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 G. Vignale

By propagating the many-body Schr\"odinger equation, we determine the exact time-dependent Kohn-Sham potential for a system of strongly correlated electrons which undergo field-induced tunneling. Numerous features are entirely absent from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-15 Matthew J. P. Hodgson , James D. Ramsden , Jacob B. J. Chapman , Piers Lillystone , Rex W Godby

We show that the time dependent single electron, nuclear density matrix of an interacting electronic system coupled to nuclear degrees of freedom can be exactly reproduced by that of an electronic system with arbitrarily specified…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-07 Vinod Krishna

We introduce a non-equilibrium density-functional theory of local temperature and associated local energy density that is suited for the study of thermoelectric phenomena. The theory rests on a local temperature field coupled to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-16 F. G. Eich , M. Di Ventra , G. Vignale

We introduced a new electron density n({\epsilon}) by projecting the spatial electron density n(r) onto the energy coordinate {\epsilon} defined with the external potential \upsion (r) of interest. Then, a density functional theory (DFT)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 Hideaki Takahashi

In the present work we propose a theory for obtaining successively better approximations to the linear response functions of time-dependent density or current-density functional theory. The new technique is based on the variational approach…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulf von Barth , Nils Erik Dahlen , Robert van Leeuwen , Gianluca Stefanucci

Excitonic effects in the optical absorption spectra of solids can be described with time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) in the linear-response regime, using a simple class of approximate, long-range corrected (LRC)…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-10 Jared R. Williams , Carsten A. Ullrich

Time-dependent density functional theory continues to draw a large number of users in a wide range of fields exploring myriad applications involving electronic spectra and dynamics. Although in principle exact, the predictivity of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Lionel Lacombe , Neepa T. Maitra

We review the progress that has been recently made in the application of time-dependent density functional theory to thermoelectric phenomena. As the field is very young, we emphasize open problems and fundamental issues. We begin by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 F. G. Eich , M. Di Ventra , G. Vignale

The asymmetric Hubbard dimer is used to study the density-dependence of the exact frequency-dependent kernel of linear-response time-dependent density functional theory. The exact form of the kernel is given, and the limitations of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-17 D. J. Carrascal , J. Ferrer , N. Maitra , K. Burke

We present a computationally tractable scheme of time-dependent transport phenomena within open-boundary time-dependent density-functional-theory. Within this approach all the response properties of a system are determined from the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Kurth , G. Stefanucci , C. -O. Almbladh , A. Rubio , E. K. U. Gross

Modern X-ray spectroscopy has proven itself as a robust tool for probing the electronic structure of atoms in complex environments. Despite working on energy scales that are much larger than those corresponding to nuclear motions, taking…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Sven Karsten , Sergey I. Bokarev , Saadullah G. Aziz , Sergei D. Ivanov , Oliver Kühn

Phase shifts for single-channel elastic electron-atom scattering are derived from time-dependent density functional theory. The H$^-$ ion is placed in a spherical box, its discrete spectrum found, and phase shifts deduced. Exact-exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Meta van Faassen , Adam Wasserman , Eberhard Engel , Fan Zhang , Kieron Burke

This chapter provides a basic introduction to excited-state extensions of density functional theory (DFT), including time-dependent (TD-)DFT in both its linear-response and its explicitly time-dependent formulations. As applied to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 John M. Herbert

We present an implementation of time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) in the linear response formalism enabling the calculation of low energy optical absorption spectra for large molecules and nanostructures. The method avoids…

Within a Lagrangian formalism we derive the time-dependent Gutzwiller approximation for general multi-band Hubbard models. Our approach explicitly incorporates the coupling between time-dependent variational parameters and a time-dependent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Bünemann , M. Capone , J. Lorenzana , G. Seibold

We investigate the time an electronic excitation travels in a supermolecular setup using a measurement process in an open quantum-system framework. The approach is based on the stochastic Schr\"odinger equation and uses a Hamiltonian from…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-09 Dirk Hofmann , Heiko Appel , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Stephan Kümmel

Specific matrix elements of exchange and correlation kernels in time-dependent density-functional theory are computed. The knowledge of these matrix elements not only constraints approximate time-dependent functionals, but also allows to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 X. Gonze , M. Scheffler

The equations of time-dependent density functional theory are derived, via the expression for the quantum weak value, from ring polymer quantum theory using a symmetry between time and imaginary time. The imaginary time path integral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Russell B. Thompson , Zarin Tasneem , Yves Caudano

An approach is presented for theoretical calculations of the Debye-Waller factors in x-ray absorption spectra. These factors are represented in terms of the cumulant expansion up to third order. They account respectively for the net thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Fernando D. Vila , J. J. Rehr , H. H. Rossner , H. J. Krappe