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We present a study of ground state energies and densities of quantum dots in a magnetic field, which takes into account correlation effects through the Current-density functional theory (CDFT). The method is first tested against exact…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Ferconi , G. Vignale

Density functional theory is currently the most widely applied method in electronic structure theory. The Kohn-Sham method, based on a fictitious system of non-interacting particles, is the work horse of the theory. The particular form of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Hubertus J J van Dam

The density functional theory is used to study the electronic structure of a quantum wire in a magnetic field. The Kohn-Sham equations are solved numerically for different values of electron densities and filling factors. The critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 A. A. Vasilchenko

We formulate the Kohn-Sham equations for the fractional quantum Hall effect by mapping the original electron problem into an auxiliary problem of composite fermions that experience a density dependent effective magnetic field.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-30 Yayun Hu , J. K. Jain

The exchange-correlation energy in Kohn-Sham density functional theory is expressed as a functional of the electronic density and the Kohn-Sham orbitals. An alternative to Kohn-Sham theory is to express the energy as a functional of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Goedecker , C. Umrigar

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

We introduce an orbital free electron density functional approximation based on alchemical perturbation theory. Given convergent perturbations of a suitable reference system, the accuracy of popular self-consistent Kohn-Sham density…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Guido Falk von Rudorff , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Ground-state Kohn-Sham density functional theory provides, in principle, the exact ground-state energy and electronic spin-densities of real interacting electrons in a static external potential. In practice, the exact density functional for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-11 Aaron D. Kaplan , Mel Levy , John P. Perdew

Quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory (QEDFT) provides a promising avenue for exploring complex light-matter interactions in optical cavities for real materials. Similar to conventional density-functional theory, the Kohn-Sham…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 I-Te Lu , Michael Ruggenthaler , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Simone Latini , Markus Penz , Angel Rubio

Recent work has established Moreau-Yosida regularization as a mathematical tool to achieve rigorous functional differentiability in density-functional theory. In this article, we extend this tool to paramagnetic current-density-functional…

The self consistent version of the density functional theory (DFT) is presented, which allows to calculate the ground state and dynamic properties of finite multi-electron systems such as atoms, molecules and clusters. The exact functional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ya. Amusia , V. R. Shaginyan

In the density functional (DF) theory of Kohn and Sham, the kinetic energy of the ground state of a system of noninteracting electrons in a general external field is calculated using a set of orbitals. Orbital free methods attempt to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeng-Da Chai , John D Weeks

It is shown that the Hohenberg-Kohn lemma and theorem are direct consequences of the statement that the ground state energy (or free energy) of a system of interacting particles in an external field is a unique functional of the potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-17 V. B. Bobrov , S. A. Trigger , G. J. F. van Heijst

It is observed that the exact interacting ground-state electronic energy of interest may be obtained directly, in principle, as a simple sum of orbital energies when a universal density-dependent term is added to $w\left(\left[ \rho…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Mel Levy , Federico Zahariev

The ground state energy of a system of electrons and nuclei is proven to be a variational functional of the conditional electronic density $n_R(\mathbf{r})$, the nuclear wavefunction $\chi(R)$ and an induced vector potential $A_{\mu}(R)$…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-08 Ryan Requist , E. K. U. Gross

A model is developed, based on the density functional perturbation theory and the inverse Kohn-Sham method, that can be used to improve relativistic nuclear energy density functionals towards an exact but unknown Kohn-Sham…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Giacomo Accorto , Tomoya Naito , Haozhao Liang , Tamara Niksic , Dario Vretenar

We derive the full linear-response theory for non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics in the long wavelength limit, show quantum modifications of the well-known Maxwell's equation in matter and provide a practical framework to solve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Johannes Flick , Davis M. Welakuh , Michael Ruggenthaler , Heiko Appel , Angel Rubio

It has recently been proven that certain effective wavefunctions in fractional quantum mechanics and condensed matter do not have a locally conserved current; as a consequence, their coupling to the electromagnetic field leads to extended…

General Physics · Physics 2019-01-11 G. Modanese

Quantum dots with conduction electrons or holes originating from several bands are considered. We assume the particles are confined in a harmonic potential and assume the electrons (or holes) belonging to different bands to be different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Karkkainen M. Koskinen , S. M. Reimann , M. Manninen

An atom placed inside a cavity of finite dimension offers many interesting features, and thus has been a topic of great current activity. This work proposes a density functional approach to pursue both ground and excited states of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 Sangita Majumdar , Amlan K. Roy