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Density functional theory (DFT) and linear-response time-dependent density functional theory (LR-TDDFT) rely on an exchange-correlation (xc) approximation that provides not only energy but also its functional derivatives that enter the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Xiaoyu Zhang

Capturing the discontinuous shift by $\Delta$ in the exact exchange-correlation (xc) potential is the standard proposal for calculating the fundamental gap, $E_\mathrm{g}$, from the Kohn-Sham (KS) gap, $\varepsilon_\mathrm{g}$, within KS…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-14 M. J. P. Hodgson , J. Wetherell , Emmanuel Fromager

Ensemble density functional theory (eDFT) is an exact time-independent alternative to time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) for the calculation of excitation energies. Despite its formal simplicity and advantages in contrast to TD-DFT (multiple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-19 Killian Deur , Laurent Mazouin , Emmanuel Fromager

According to time-dependent density functional theory, the exact exchange-correlation kernel f$_{xc}$(n, q, $\omega$) determines not only the ground-state energy but also the excited-state energies/lifetimes and time-dependent linear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Adrienn Ruzsinszky , Niraj K. Nepal , J. M. Pitarke , John P. Perdew

The electronic structure of noble-gas solids is calculated within density functional theory's exact-exchange method (EXX) and compared with the results from the local-density approximation (LDA). It is shown that the EXX method does not…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Magyar , A. Fleszar , E. K. U. Gross

Adiabatic time-dependent density functional theory fails for excitations of a heteroatomic molecule composed of two open-shell fragments at large separation. Strong frequency-dependence of the exchange-correlation kernel is necessary for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Neepa T. Maitra , David G. Tempel

The fundamental gap is a central quantity in the electronic structure of matter. Unfortunately, the fundamental gap is not generally equal to the Kohn-Sham gap of density functional theory (DFT), even in principle. The two gaps differ…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-01 Eli Kraisler , Leeor Kronik

Using an end-to-end differentiable implementation of the Kohn-Sham self-consistent field equations, we obtain an accurate neural network-based exchange and correlation (XC) functional of the electronic density. The functional is optimized…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Sebastian Dick , Marivi Fernandez-Serra

The derivative discontinuity is a key concept in electronic structure theory in general and density functional theory in particular. The electronic energy of a quantum system exhibits derivative discontinuities with respect to different…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Paula Mori-Sánchez , Aron J. Cohen

The reliability of density-functional calculations hinges on accurately approximating the unknown exchange-correlation (xc) potential. Common (semi-)local xc approximations lack the jump experienced by the exact xc potential as the number…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 M. J. P. Hodgson , E. Kraisler , E. K. U. Gross

We show that the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density-functional theory displays dynamical step structures that have a spatially non-local and time non-local dependence on the density. Using one-dimensional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Peter Elliott , Johanna I. Fuks , Angel Rubio , Neepa T. Maitra

Standard approximations for the exchange-correlation functional have been found to give big errors for the linearity condition of fractional charges, leading to delocalization error, and the constancy condition of fractional spins, leading…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Paula Mori-Sanchez , Aron J. Cohen , Weitao Yang

Standard approximations for the exchange-correlation functional are known to deviate from linear dependence of the energy on the electron and spin numbers (in -space). Violation of this flat-plane condition underlies the failure of all…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-10-28 Ali M. Malek , Robert Balawender

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

It is shown here that the Exact Exchange (EE) formalism provides a natural and rigorous approach for a Density Functional Theory (DFT) of the Integer Quantum Hall Effect (IQHE). Application of a novel EE method to a quasi two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 D. Miravet , G. J. Ferreira , C. R. Proetto

While the variational principle for excited-state energies leads to a route to obtaining excited-state densities from time-dependent density functional theory, relatively little attention has been paid to the quality of the resulting…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Anna Baranova , Neepa T. Maitra

Linear-response time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) can describe excitonic features in the optical spectra of insulators and semiconductors, using exchange-correlation (xc) kernels behaving as $-1/k^{2}$ to leading order. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-18 Jiuyu Sun , Cheng-Wei Lee , Alina Kononov , André Schleife , Carsten A. Ullrich

Time-dependent current-density-functional theory (TDCDFT) provides an in principle exact scheme to calculate efficiently response functions for a very broad range of applications. However, the lack of approximations valid for a range of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Matteo Gatti

We propose a nonadiabatic time-dependent spin-density functional theory (TDSDFT) approach for studying the single-electron excited states and the ultrafast response of systems with strong electron correlations. The correlations are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-27 Volodymyr Turkowski , Talat S. Rahman

A diagrammatic expansion for the dynamic exchange-correlation kernel f_xc of time dependent density functional theory is formulated. It is shown that f_xc has no singularities at Kohn-Sham transition energies in every order of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 I. V. Tokatly , R. Stubner , O. Pankratov