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Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been…

We obtain the conductance of a system of electrons connected to leads, within time-dependent density-functional theory, using a direct relation between the conductance and the density response function. Corrections to the non-interacting…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-10-04 P. Bokes , J. Jung , R. W. Godby

A method for calculating the Kohn--Sham exchange-correlation potential, $v_\text{XC}(\mathbf{r})$, from a given electronic wavefunction is devised and implemented. It requires on input one- and two-electron density matrices and involves…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Ilya G. Ryabinkin , Sviataslau V. Kohut , Viktor N. Staroverov

Ground and excited states of a confined negative Hydrogen ion has been pursued under Kohn-Sham density functional approach by invoking a physically motivated work-function-based exchange potential. The exchange-only results are of near…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-05-23 Sangita Majumdar , Neetik Mukherjee , Amlan K. Roy

We introduce a new form of density functional theory for the {\em ab initio} description of electronic systems in contact with a molecular liquid environment. This theory rigorously joins an electron density-functional for the electrons of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Sahak Petrosyan , Jean-Francois Briere , David Roundy , T. A. Arias

In electron density functional theory formal properties of density functionals play an important role in constructing and testing approximate functionals. In this paper it is shown that a set of density functionals satisfy an equation that…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-09 Daniel P. Joubert

We provide a new derivation of a formula for the Fukui function of density-functional chemical reactivity theory which incorporates the discontinuities in the Kohn-Sham reference system. Orbital relaxations are described in terms of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Hellgren , E. K. U. Gross

The ab initio simulation of charged interfaces in the framework of density functional theory (DFT) is heavily employed for the study of electrochemical energy conversion processes. The capacitance is the primary descriptor for the response…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-26 Tobias Binninger

This chapter presents the development of a density functional theory (DFT)-based method for accurate, reliable treatment of various resonances in atoms. Many of these are known to be notorious for their strong correlation, proximity to more…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Amlan K. Roy

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem and the Kohn-Sham equations, which are at the basis of the Density Functional Theory, are reformulated in terms of a particular many-body density, which is translational invariant and therefore is relevant for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 A. Kievsky , G. Orlandini , M. Gattobigio

Anions and radicals are important for many applications including environmental chemistry, semiconductors, and charge transfer, but are poorly described by the available approximate energy density functionals. Here we test an approximate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 André Mirtschink , C. J. Umrigar , John D. Morgan , Paola Gori-Giorgi

Most density functionals have been developed by imposing the known exact constraints on the exchange-correlation energy, or by a fit to a set of properties of selected systems, or by both. However, accurate modeling of the conventional…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-24 Jianmin Tao , Yuxiang Mo

We employ the density matrix renormalization group to construct the exact time-dependent exchange correlation potential for an impurity model with an applied transport voltage. Even for short-ranged interaction we find an infinitely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Peter Schmitteckert , Michael Dzierzawa , Peter Schwab

We introduce Density Functional Theory for inhomogeneous Bose-Fermi mixtures, derive the associated Kohn-Sham equations, and determine the exchange-correlation energy in local density approximation. We solve numerically the Kohn-Sham system…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander P. Albus , Fabrizio Illuminati , Martin Wilkens

Commonly used semilocal density functional approximations for the exchange-correlation energy fail badly when the true two dimensional limit is approached. We show, using a quasi-two-dimensional uniform electron gas in the infinite barrier…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Lucian A. Constantin

We present a new class of non-adiabatic approximations in time-dependent density functional theory derived from an exact expression for the time-dependent exchange-correlation potential. The approximations reproduce dynamical step and peak…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-21 Lionel Lacombe , Neepa T. Maitra

An atom placed inside a cavity of finite dimension offers many interesting features, and thus has been a topic of great current activity. This work proposes a density functional approach to pursue both ground and excited states of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 Sangita Majumdar , Amlan K. Roy

We identify peak and valley structures in the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density functional theory that are crucial for time-resolved electron scattering in a model one-dimensional system. These structures are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Yasumitsu Suzuki , Lionel Lacombe , Kazuyuki Watanabe , Neepa T. Maitra

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem and Kohn-Sham procedure are extended to functionals of the localized intrinsic density of a self-bound system such as a nucleus. After defining the intrinsic-density functional, we modify the usual Kohn-Sham…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Engel

We show that deep neural networks can be integrated into, or fully replace, the Kohn-Sham density functional theory scheme for multi-electron systems in simple harmonic oscillator and random external potentials with no feature engineering.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-25 Kevin Ryczko , David Strubbe , Isaac Tamblyn