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A conceptual difficulty in formulating the density functional theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect is that while in the standard approach the Kohn-Sham orbitals are either fully occupied or unoccupied, the physics of the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-12 Jianyun Zhao , Manisha Thakurathi , Manish Jain , Diptiman Sen , J. K. Jain

We present a self-contained theoretical and computational framework for dynamics following photoexcitation in quantum dots near planar interfaces. A microscopic Hamiltonian parameterized by first principles calculations is merged with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Kuljit S. Virk , Mark S. Hybertsen , David R. Reichman

The gas of the interacted electrons is usually described within Kohn-Sham approximation by the set of Poisson and Schr\"{o}dinger equations with an effective potential for the single-particle wave functions. The solution of these equations…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ya. Shul'man , D. V. Posvyanskii

Kohn-Sham density functional theory is one of the most widely used electronic structure theories. In the pseudopotential framework, uniform discretization of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian generally results in a large number of basis functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Lin Lin , Jianfeng Lu , Lexing Ying , E. Weinan

When a molecule dissociates, the exact Kohn-Sham (KS) and Pauli potentials may form step structures. Reproducing these steps correctly is central for the description of dissociation and charge-transfer processes in density functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Jakub Kocák , Eli Kraisler , Axel Schild

In this paper we analyze again a transition from the classical to quantum description of bound charged particles, which involves a substantial modification of the structure of their electromagnetic (EM) fields related to the well-known fact…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-03-22 T. Yarman , A. L. Kholmetskii , O. V. Missevitch

Effective field theory (EFT) methods are applied to density functional theory (DFT) as part of a program to systematically go beyond mean-field approaches to medium and heavy nuclei. A system of fermions with short-range, natural…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. J. Puglia , A. Bhattacharyya , R. J. Furnstahl

We develop a method in which the electronic densities of small fragments determined by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) are embedded using stochastic DFT to form the exact density of the full system. The new method preserves the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer , Eran Rabani

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is rapidly emerging as a premier method for solving dynamical many-body problems in physics and chemistry. The mathematical foundations of TDDFT are established through the formal existence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-22 J. D. Whitfield , M. -H. Yung , D. G. Tempel , S. Boixo , A. Aspuru-Guzik

We present our successful implementation of the quantum electrodynamics coupled-cluster method with single and double excitations (QED-CCSD) for electronic and bosonic amplitudes, covering both individual and mixed excitation processes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Himadri Pathak , Nicholas P. Bauman , Ajay Panyala , Karol Kowalski

A Kohn-Sham density-functional energy expression is derived for any (ground or excited) state within a given many-electron ensemble along with the stationarity condition it fulfills with respect to the ensemble density, thus giving access…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Emmanuel Fromager

We describe an electrodynamic mechanism for coherent, quantum mechanical coupling between spacially separated quantum dots on a microchip. The technique is based on capacitive interactions between the electron charge and a superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. I. Childress , A. S. Sorensen , M. D. Lukin

Density-functional theory is a formally exact description of a many-body quantum system in terms of its density; in practice, however, approximations to the universal density functional are required. In this work, a model based on deep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Jeffrey M. McMahon

Density-functional theory is applied to compute the ground-state energies of quantum hard-sphere solids. The modified weighted-density approximation is used to map both the Bose and the Fermi solid onto a corresponding uniform Bose liquid,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. R. Denton , P. Nielaba , N. W. Ashcroft

We develop an ensemble density functional theory for the fractional quantum Hall effect using a local density approximation. Model calculations for edge reconstructions of a spin-polarized quantum dot give results in good agreement with…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 O. Heinonen , M. I. Lubin , M. D. Johnson

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

Time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy provides a unique and direct way to explore the real-time nonequilibrium dynamics of electrons and holes. The formal theory of the spectral function evolution requires inclusion of electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-09 Thomas Blommel , Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci , Vojtěch Vlček

This article is part-I of a review of density-functional theory (DFT) that is the most widely used method for calculating electronic structure of materials. The accuracy and ease of numerical implementation of DFT methods has resulted in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-25 Prashant Singh , Manoj K Harbola

The thorough treatment of electron-lattice interactions from first principles is one of the main goals in condensed matter physics. While the commonly applied adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer approximation is sufficient for describing many…

We demonstrate that in semiconductor quantum dots wave functions probed by imaging techniques based on local tunneling spectroscopies like STM show characteristic signatures of electron-electron Coulomb correlation. We predict that such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Massimo Rontani , Elisa Molinari