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We present a rigorous formulation of generalized Kohn-Sham density-functional theory. This provides a straightforward Kohn-Sham description of many-body systems based not only on particle-density but also on any other observable. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Valiev , G. W. Fernando

The approximate atomic self-interaction corrections (ASIC) method to density functional theory is put to the test by calculating the exchange interaction for a number of prototypical materials, critical to local exchange and correlation…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Akande , S. Sanvito

Following Hollins et al. [J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 29, 04LT01 (2017)], we invert the electronic ground state densities for various semiconducting and insulating solids calculated using several density functional approximations within the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Visagan Ravindran , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos , Stewart J. Clark

We obtain the exact Kohn-Sham potentials $V_{\mathrm{KS}}$ of time-dependent density-functional theory for 1D Hubbard chains, driven by a d.c.\ external field, using the time-dependent electron density and current density obtained from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 L. Mancini , J. D. Ramsden , M. J. P. Hodgson , R. W. Godby

Current-density-functional theory is used to perturbatively calculate single-particle energies of open-shell atoms prepared in a current-carrying state. We focus on the highest occupied such energy, because its negative is, in principle,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 E. Orestes , A. B. F. da Silva , K. Capelle

A semi-relativistic density-functional theory that includes spin-orbit couplings and Zeeman fields on equal footing with the electromagnetic potentials, is an appealing framework to develop a unified first-principles computational approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 S. Pittalis , G. Vignale , F. G. Eich

We find the numerically exact partition potential for 1-D systems of interacting electrons designed to model diatomic molecules. At integer fragment occupations, the kinetic contribution to the partition potential develops sharp features in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Yan Oueis , Adam Wasserman

Density functional theory (DFT) and beyond-DFT methods are often used in combination with photoelectron spectroscopy to obtain physical insights into the electronic structure of molecules and solids. The Kohn-Sham eigenvalues are not…

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is nowadays widely used for electronic structure theory simulations, and the accuracy and efficiency of DFT rely on approximations of the exchange-correlation functional. By inclusion of the kinetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-01 Renxi Liu , Daye Zheng , Xinyuan Liang , Xinguo Ren , Mohan Chen , Wenfei Li

Accurate treatment of the electronic correlation in inhomogeneous electronic systems, combined with the ability to capture the correlation energy of the homogeneous electron gas, allows to reach high predictive power in the application of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-22 E. Rasanen , S. Pittalis , C. R. Proetto

The density-functional approach to quantum electrodynamics is extending traditional density-functional theory and opens the possibility to describe electron-photon interactions in terms of effective Kohn-Sham potentials. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Johannes Flick , Michael Ruggenthaler , Heiko Appel , Angel Rubio

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

Based on exact limits and quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we obtain, at any density and spin polarization, an accurate estimate for the energy of a modified homogeneous electron gas where electrons repel each other only with a long-range…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Simone Paziani , Saverio Moroni , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Giovanni B. Bachelet

A decomposition of the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density functional theory into an interaction component and a kinetic component offers a new starting point for non- adiabatic approximations. The components are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Johanna I. Fuks , Lionel Lacombe , Soeren E. B. Nielsen , Neepa T. Maitra

Development of the electronic kinetic-energy density functional is a subject of major interest in theoretical physics and chemistry. In this work, the nonlocal kinetic-energy functional is developed in terms of the response function for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Hideaki Takahashi

A hybrid Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) and 1-electron Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory (1-RDMFT) has recently been developed to describe strongly correlated systems at mean-field computational cost. This approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn

Spin-dependent exchange-correlation energy functionals in use today depend on the charge density and the magnetization density: $E_{\rm xc}[\rho,{\bf m}]$. However, it is also correct to define the functional in terms of the curl of ${\bf…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-18 S. Sharma , E. K. U. Gross , A. Sanna , J. K. Dewhurst

We propose approximations which go beyond the local density approximation for the short-range exchange and correlation density functionals appearing in a multi-determinantal extension of the Kohn-Sham scheme. A first approximation consists…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Toulouse , Francois Colonna , Andreas Savin

A bivariate perspective on Kohn-Sham density functional theory is proposed, treating potential and density as simultaneous independent variables, and used to make fruitful connection between Lieb's rigorous foundational framework and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-07 Paul E. Lammert

Density functional theory has been an essential analysis tool for both theoretical and experimental chemists since accurate hybrid functionals were developed. Here we propose a local hybrid method derived from the optimized effective…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-24 Jaewook Kim , Kwangwoo Hong , Sang-Yeon Hwang , Seongok Ryu , Sunghwan Choi , Woo Youn Kim