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Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a formally exact approach to the time-dependent electronic many-body problem which is widely used for calculating excitation energies. We present a survey of the fundamental framework,…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-29 Carsten A. Ullrich , Zeng-hui Yang

When running time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations for real-time simulations of non-equilibrium dynamics, the user has a choice of initial Kohn-Sham state, and typically a Slater determinant is used. We explore the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Johanna I. Fuks , Soeren E. B. Nielsen , Michael Ruggenthaler , Neepa T. Maitra

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a computationally efficient first-principles approach for calculating optical spectra in insulators and semiconductors, including excitonic effects. We show how exciton wave functions can…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-29 Jared R. Williams , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Carsten A. Ullrich

The formalism of density functional theory (DFT) can be easily extended to the time dependent case (TDDFT). However, while in the static case the theory is well established and is expected to be, at least in principle, an exact approach for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandro Stringari

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is deemed to be a formally rigorous way of dealing with the time-evolution of a many-electron system at the level of electron densities rather than the underlying wavefunctions, which in turn…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Jochen Schirmer

The density functional theory (DFT) is a remarkably successful theory of electronic structure of matter. At the foundation of this theory lies the Kohn-Sham (KS) equation. In this paper, we describe the long-time behaviour of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Fabio Pusateri , Israel Michael Sigal

Electronic response properties of high-energy density (HED) systems influence planetary structure, drive evolution of fusion targets, and underpin diagnostics in laboratory astrophysics. Real-time time-dependent density functional theory…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Alina Kononov , Minh Nguyen , Andrew D. Baczewski

Imaginary-time time-dependent Density functional theory (it-TDDFT) has been proposed as an alternative method for obtaining the ground state within density functional theory (DFT) which avoids some of the difficulties with convergence…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 John McFarland , Efstratios Manousakis

We present a variational formulation of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory similar to the constrained-search variational formulation of ground-state density-function theory. The formulation is applied to justify the time-dependent…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-10-26 Jérôme Daligault

One route to numerically propagating quantum systems is time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). The application of TDDFT to a particular system's time evolution is predicated on V-representability which we have analyzed in a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 J. D. Whitfield

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is a standard approach for calculating optical excitations of molecules and solids, while ensemble DFT (EDFT) is a promising alternative under development. We introduce ensemble TDDFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Kimberly J. Daas , Steven Crisostomo , Kieron Burke

Real-Time Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) has become an attractive tool to model quantum dynamics on a first-principles Density Functional Theory level. In recent years, several developments and applications in this field…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-21 Joscha Hekele , Peter Kratzer

We present the extension of Frozen Density Embedding (FDE) theory to real-time Time Dependent Density Functional Theory (rt-TDDFT). FDE a is DFT-in-DFT embedding method that allows to partition a larger Kohn-Sham system into a set of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Alisa Krishtal , Davide Ceresoli , Michele Pavanello

Modeling many-body quantum systems with strong interactions is one of the core challenges of modern physics. A range of methods has been developed to approach this task, each with its own idiosyncrasies, approximations, and realm of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-21 Brett Larder , Dirk Gericke , Scott Richardson , Paul Mabey , Thomas White , Gianluca Gregori

Time-dependent (current) density functional theory for many-electron systems strongly coupled to quantized electromagnetic modes of a microcavity is proposed. It is shown that the electron-photon wave function is a unique functional of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 I. V. Tokatly

The real-time-propagation formulation of time-dependent density-functional theory (RT-TDDFT) is an efficient method for modeling the optical response of molecules and nanoparticles. Compared to the widely adopted linear-response TDDFT…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-15 Tuomas P. Rossi , Mikael Kuisma , Martti J. Puska , Risto M. Nieminen , Paul Erhart

Using the Runge-Gross theorem that establishes the foundation of Time-dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) we prove that for a given electronic Hamiltonian, choice of initial state, and choice of fragmentation, there is a unique…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin A. Mosquera , Daniel Jensen , Adam Wasserman

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a central tool for studying the dynamical electronic structure of molecules and solids, yet aspects of its mathematical foundations remain insufficiently understood. In this work, we…

We use analytic (current) density-potential maps of time-dependent (current) density functional theory (TD(C)DFT) to inverse engineer analytically solvable time-dependent quantum problems. In this approach the driving potential (the control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Mehdi Farzanehpour , I. V. Tokatly

Nuclear Density Functional Theory (DFT) plays a prominent role in the understanding of nuclear structure, being the approach with the widest range of applications. Hohenberg and Kohn theorems warrant the existence of a nuclear Energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-03 G. Accorto , P. Brandolini , F. Marino , A. Porro , A. Scalesi , G. Colò , X. Roca-Maza , E. Vigezzi