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Over the last few decades, classical density-functional theory (DFT) and its dynamic extensions (DDFTs) have become powerful tools in the study of colloidal fluids. Recently, previous DDFTs for spherically-symmetric particles have been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-02 Miguel A. Durán-Olivencia , Benjamin D. Goddard , Serafim Kalliadasis

In the past decade, classical dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) has been developed and widely applied to the Brownian dynamics of interacting colloidal particles. One of the possible derivation routes of DDFT from the microscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen , Helmut R. Brand

Maximally-localized Wannier functions are quantum wavefunctions resembling atomic orbitals that are used to describe electrons in condensed matter. Since their introduction in 1997, these functions have become ubiquitous in ab initio…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Sabyasachi Tiwari , Bruno Cucco , Viet-Anh Ha , Feliciano Giustino

Vertical stacking of two-dimensional (2D) crystals, such as graphene and hexagonal boron nitride, has recently lead to a new class of materials known as van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) with unique and highly tunable electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Kirsten Andersen , Simone Latini , Kristian S. Thygesen

We perform high-throughput density functional theory (DFT) calculations for optoelectronic properties (electronic bandgap and frequency dependent dielectric function) using the OptB88vdW functional (OPT) and the Tran-Blaha modified Becke…

Accurate computational predictions of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their properties is crucial for discovering optimal compositions and applying them in relevant technological areas. This work benchmarks density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-11 Joshua Edzards , Julia Santana Andreo , Holger-Dietrich Saßnick , Caterina Cocchi

We implemented various DFT+U schemes, including the ACBN0 self-consistent density-functional version of the DFT+U method [Phys. Rev. X 5, 011006 (2015)] within the massively parallel real-space time-dependent density functional theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-27 Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Micael J. T. Oliveira , Angel Rubio

The contour integration technique applied to calculate the optical conductivity tensor at finite temperatures in the case of layered systems within the framework of the spin-polarized relativistic screened Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker band…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Vernes , L. Szunyogh , P. Weinberger

We present a method to calculate the Landau levels and the corresponding edge states of two dimensional (2D) crystals using as a starting point their electronic structure as obtained from standard density functional theory (DFT). The DFT…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-16 J. L. Lado , J. Fernandez-Rossier

The dielectric function is one of the most important quantities that describes the electrical and optical properties of solids. Accurate modeling of the frequency-dependent dielectric function has great significance in the study of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-18 Fan Zheng , Jianmin Tao , Andrew M. Rappe

We calculate density profiles of a simple model fluid in contact with a planar surface using density functional theory (DFT), in particular for the case where there is a vapour layer intruding between the wall and the bulk liquid. We apply…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-16 Hanyu Yin , David N. Sibley , Andrew J. Archer

Cyclometalled Ir(III) compounds are the preferred choice as organic emitters in Organic Light Emitting Diodes. In practice, the presence of the transition metals surrounded by carefully designed ligands allows the fine tuning of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-25 Marco Cazzaniga , Fausto Cargnoni , Marta Penconi , Alberto Bossi , Davide Ceresoli

We formulate a time-dependent density-matrix functional theory (TDDMFT) approach for higher-order correlation effects like biexcitons in optical processes in solids based on the reduced two-particle density-matrix formalism within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Volodymyr Turkowski , Carsten A. Ullrich , Talat S. Rahman , Michael N. Leuenberger

Density-potential functional theory (DPFT) is an alternative formulation of orbital-free density functional theory that may be suitable for modeling the electronic structure of large systems. To date, DPFT has been applied mainly to quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-21 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , William C. Witt , Sergei Manzhos

Development of artificial materials exhibiting unusual optical properties is one of the major strands of current photonics research. Of particular interest are soft-matter systems reconfigurable by external stimuli that play an important…

We calculate the phonon-dispersion relations of several two-dimensional materials and diamond using the density-functional based tight-binding approach (DFTB). Our goal is to verify if this numerically efficient method provides sufficiently…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-04 Thomas A. Niehaus , Sigismund T. A. G. Melissen , Balint Aradi , S. Mehdi Vaez Allaei

Optical properties of symmetry-forbidden pi-pi transitions in benzene are calculated with the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), using an adiabatic LDA functional. Quantities calculated are the envelopes of the Franck-Condon…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Schnell , G. F. Bertsch , K. Yabana

A degenerate perturbation $k\cdot p$ approach for effective mass calculations is implemented in the all-electron density functional theory (DFT) package WIEN2k. The accuracy is tested on major group IVA, IIIA-VA, and IIB-VIA semiconductor…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-06 Oleg Rubel , Fabien Tran , Xavier Rocquefelte , Peter Blaha

A top-level designed forecasting system for predicting computational times of density-functional theory (DFT)/time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) calculations is presented. The computational time is assumed as the intrinsic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Shuo Ma , Yingjin Ma , Baohua Zhang , Yingqi Tian , Zhong Jin

Pairing the accuracy of Kohn-Sham density-functional framework with the efficiency of a stochastic algorithmic approach, mixed stochastic-deterministic Density Functional Theory (mDFT) achieves a favorable computational scaling with system…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Vidushi Sharma , Lee A. Collins , Alexander J. White