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Statistically studied are the equilibrium characteristics of a subsystem of mobile charges of one sort, taking into account the subsystem of fixed charges of the opposite sign creating a compensating electric background. The distribution of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-07 H. S. Bokun , D. di Caprio

Concepts from information geometry are used to analyse parameter sensitivity for a nuclear energy density functional, representative of a class of semi-empirical functionals that start from a microscopically motivated ansatz for the density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-29 Tamara Niksic , Dario Vretenar

We propose a multiconfigurational hybrid density-functional theory which rigorously combines a multiconfiguration self-consistent-field calculation with a density-functional approximation based on a linear decomposition of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-08-20 Kamal Sharkas , Andreas Savin , Hans Jørgen Aa. Jensen , Julien Toulouse

A generalization of the Density Functional Theory is proposed. The theory developed leads to single-particle equations of motion with a quasi-local mean-field operator, which contains a quasi-particle position-dependent effective mass and a…

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Osmotic coefficients, individual and mean activity coefficients of primitive model electrolyte solutions are computed at different molar concentrations using the symmetric Poisson-Boltzmann and modified Poisson-Boltzmann theories. The…

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We introduce a new functional for simulating ground-state and time-dependent electronic systems within density-functional theory. The functional combines an expression for the exact Kohn-Sham (KS) potential in the limit of complete electron…

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As a proof of principle, self-consistent Kohn--Sham calculations are performed with the exact exchange-correlation functional. Finding the exact functional for even one trial density requires solving the interacting Schr\"odinger equation…

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We investigate a system of dense polyelectrolytes in solution. The Langevin dynamics of the system with linearized hydrodynamics is formulated in the functional integral formalism and a transformation made to collective coordinates. Within…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Kristian K. M"uller-Nedebock , Thomas A. Vilgis

A rigorous derivation of the density functional in the Hohenberg-Kohn theory is presented. With no assumption regarding the magnitude of the electric coupling constant $e^2$ (or correlation), this work provides a firm basis for…

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General theory in case of homogenous Bose-Einstein condensed systems with spinor condensate is presented for the correlation functions of density and spin fluctuations and for the one-particle propagators as well. The random phase…

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Based on recently derived exact stochastic Liouville-von Neumann equations, several strategies for the efficient simulation of open quantum systems are developed and tested on the spin-boson model. The accuracy and efficiency of these…

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We consider the problems of \emph{learning} and \emph{testing} real-valued convex functions over Gaussian space. Despite the extensive study of function convexity across mathematics, statistics, and computer science, its learnability and…

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We introduce approximate, functional renormalization group based schemes to obtain correlation functions in pure excited eigenstates of large fermionic many-body systems at arbitrary energies. The algorithms are thouroughly benchmarked and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-23 Christian Klöckner , Dante Marvin Kennes , Christoph Karrasch

Simulations carried out with COMSOL software in order to study the electrical resistivity of rectangular samples are reported. The comparison of the results with the four-probe method allows to understand the meaning of the geometric factor…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 F. S. Oliveira , L. M. S. Alves , M. S. da Luz , E. C. Romão , C. A. M. dos Santos