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This work explores the use of joint density-functional theory, a new form of density-functional theory for the ab initio description of electronic systems in thermodynamic equilibrium with a liquid environment, to describe electrochemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Kendra Letchworth-Weaver , T. A. Arias

We compare predictions from two familiar models of the metastable supercooled liquid respectively constructed with thermodynamic and dynamic approach. In the so called density functional theory (DFT) the free energy $F[\rho]$ of the liquid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-20 Leishangthem Premkumar , Neeta Bidhoodi , Shankar P. Das

A monte carlo density functional theory is developed for chain molecules which both intra and intermolecularly associate. The approach can be applied over a range of chain lengths. The theory is validated for the case of an associating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-30 B. D. Marshall , A. J. Garcia-Cuellar , W. G. Chapman

Understanding the dynamic behavior of polar fluids is essential for modeling complex systems such as electrolytes and biological media. In this work, we develop and apply a Stochastic Density Functional Theory (SDFT) framework to describe…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-23 Sleeba Varghese , Pierre Illien , Benjamin Rotenberg

We describe recent progress in the statistical mechanical description of many-body systems via machine learning combined with concepts from density functional theory and many-body simulations. We argue that the neural functional theory by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-04 Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

Dynamic density functional theory (DDFT) is a promising approach for predicting the structural evolution of a drying suspension containing one or more types of colloidal particles. The assumed free-energy functional is a key component of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-23 Mayukh Kundu , Michael P. Howard

Environmental concerns are driving the search for greener yet efficient solvents. Supercritical CO2 (scCO2) is a promising candidate due to its non-toxicity and the potential for reusing CO2 emissions. It also offers a versatile range of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Mohamed Houssein Mohamed , Luc Belloni , Daniel Borgis , Francesca Ingrosso , Antoine Carof

The organization of water molecules and ions between charged mineral surfaces determines the stability of colloidal suspensions and the strength of phase-separated particulate gels. In this article we assemble a density functional that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-15 Thomas Petersen

Though calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) are used remarkably widely in chemistry, physics, materials science, and biomolecular research and though the modern form of DFT has been studied for almost 60 years, some…

We argue in favour of developing a comprehensive dynamical theory for rationalizing, predicting, designing, and machine learning nonequilibrium phenomena that occur in soft matter. To give guidance for navigating the theoretical and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-28 Daniel de las Heras , Toni Zimmermann , Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

I describe the foundation of a Density Functional Theory approach to include pairing correlations, which was applied to a variety of systems ranging from dilute fermions, to neutron stars and finite nuclei. Ground state properties as well…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Aurel Bulgac

Although the classical density functional theory (DFT) of inhomogeneous fluids was formulated more than four decades ago, its application to broken symmetry phases of molecular systems remained a challenge. Approximate free energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yashwant Singh

Fluids in nanopores are of importance for many engineering applications, including energy storage in supercapacitors, hydrocarbons recovery from unconventional sources, or water desalination. Thermodynamic properties of fluids confined in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Gennady Y. Gor , Geordy Jomon , Andrei L. Kolesnikov

Electrostatic correlations between ions dissolved in water are known to impact their transport properties in numerous ways, from conductivity to ion selectivity. The effects of these correlations on the solvent itself remain, however, much…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-31 Paul Robin

A numerical method is presented for first-principle simulations of charged colloidal dispersions in electrolyte solutions. Utilizing a smoothed profile for colloid-solvent boundaries, efficient mesoscopic simulations are enabled for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kang Kim , Ryoichi Yamamoto

Hydrodynamic density functional theory (DFT) is applied to analyse dynamic contact angles of droplets in order to assess its predictive capability regarding wetting phenomena at the microscopic scale and to evaluate its feasibility for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-06 Benjamin Bursik , Rolf Stierle , Hamza Oukili , Martin Schneider , Gernot Bauer , Joachim Gross

We reexamine the recently introduced basis-set correction theory based on density-functional theory consisting in correcting the basis-set incompleteness error of wave-function methods using a density functional. We use a one-dimensional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Diata Traore , Emmanuel Giner , Julien Toulouse

Based on recent advancements in using machine learning for classical density functional theory for systems with one-dimensional, planar inhomogeneities, we propose a machine learning model for application in two dimensions (2D) akin to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-22 Felix Glitsch , Jens Weimar , Martin Oettel

We suggest to include the density of electron charge explicitly in the electron potential of density functional theory, rather than implicitly via exchange-correlation functionals. The advantages of the approach are conceptual and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Werner A. Hofer , Krisztian Palotas

The extraction of inhomogeneous 3-dimensional densities around tagged solutes from molecular simulations is known to have a very high computational cost because this is traditionally performed by collecting histograms, with each discrete…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-22 Samuel W. Coles , Daniel Borgis , Rodolphe Vuilleumier , Benjamin Rotenberg