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Current-density-functional theory is used to calculate ionization energies of current-carrying atomic states. A perturbative approximation to full current-density-functional theory is implemented for the first time, and found to be…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Orestes , T. Marcasso , K. Capelle

The notion of viscosity solutions of scalar fully nonlinear partial differential equations of second order provides a framework in which startling comparison and uniqueness theorems, existence theorems, and theorems about continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Michael G. Crandall , Hitoshi Ishii , Pierre-Louis Lions

Recently it has been shown that the heuristic Rosenfeld functional derives from the virial expansion for particles which overlap in one center. Here, we generalize this approach to any number of intersections. Starting from the virial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Stephan Korden

As a first step towards a microscopic understanding of the effective interaction between colloidal particles suspended in a solvent we study the wetting behavior of one-component fluids at spheres and fibers. We describe these phenomena…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Bieker , S. Dietrich

Hard-sphere mixtures provide one a solvable reference system that can be used to improve the density functional theory of realistic molecular fluids. We show how the Kierlik-Rosinberg's scalar version of the fundamental measure density…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-07-23 Maximilien Levesque , Rodolphe Vuilleumier , Daniel Borgis

Simulation of warm dense matter requires computational methods that capture both quantum and classical behavior efficiently under high-temperature, high-density conditions. Currently, density functional theory molecular dynamics is used to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Attila Cangi , Aurora Pribram-Jones

One of the potential applications of a quantum computer is solving quantum chemical systems. It is known that one of the fastest ways to obtain somewhat accurate solutions classically is to use approximations of density functional theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Thomas E. Baker , David Poulin

The virial expansion method is applied within a harmonic approximation to an interacting N-body system of identical fermions. We compute the canonical partition functions for two and three particles to get the two lowest orders in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-12-27 J. R. Armstrong , N. T. Zinner , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen

A variational formulation for the calculation of interacting fermion systems based on the density-matrix functional theory is presented. Our formalism provides for a natural integration of explicit many-particle effects into standard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Peter E. Bloechl , Christian F. J. Walther , Thomas Pruschke

Classical density functional theory for finite temperatures is usually formulated in the grand-canonical ensemble where arbitrary variations of the local density are possible. However, in many cases the systems of interest are closed with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-06 James F. Lutsko

We reformulate time evolution of systems in mixed states in terms of the classical observables of correlators using the Weyl correspondence rule. The resulting equation of motion for the Wigner functional of the density matrix is found to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Herbert Nachbagauer

Classical density-functional theory provides an efficient alternative to molecular dynamics simulations for understanding the equilibrium properties of inhomogeneous fluids. However, application of density-functional theory to multi-site…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 Ravishankar Sundararaman , T. A. Arias

By combining methods of kinetic and density functional theory, we present a description of molecular fluids which accounts for their microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties as well as for the hydrodynamic behavior. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

A density functional theory is developed for fermions in one dimension, interacting via a delta-function. Such systems provide a natural testing ground for questions of principle, as the local density approximation should work well for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Magyar , K. Burke

A brief review is presented of the scaling of complex fluids, polymers and polyelectrolytes in solution and in confined geometry, in thermodynamical, structural and rheology properties using equilibrium and nonequilibrium dissipative…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-06 Armando Gama Goicochea

The standard model of classical Density Functional Theory for pair potentials consists of a hard-sphere functional plus a mean-field term accounting for long ranged attraction. However, most implementations using sophisticated Fundamental…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 James F. Lutsko , Cédric Schoonen

We derive an exact Volterra series expansion for a mean field of an interacting particle system subject to a potential perturbation, expressing the Volterra expansion kernels in terms of the field's response functions, to any order.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-12 Ion Santra , Matthias Krüger

The recently proposed universal relations between the moments of the polydispersity distributions of a phase-separated weakly polydisperse system are analyzed in detail using the numerical results obtained by solving a simple density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hong Xu , Marc Baus

Density functional theory can be extended to excited states by means of a unified variational approach for passive state ensembles. This extension overcomes the restriction of the typical density functional approach to ground states, and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Tim Gould , Stefano Pittalis

A continuum version of the virial theorem is derived for a radiating self-gravitating accretion disc around a compact object. The central object is point-like, but we can avoid the regularization of its gravitational potential. This is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-19 Patryk Mach