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In this work, we illustrate the recently introduced concept of the cavity Born-Oppenheimer approximation for correlated electron-nuclear-photon problems in detail. We demonstrate how an expansion in terms of conditional electronic and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Johannes Flick , Heiko Appel , Michael Ruggenthaler , Angel Rubio

Density functional theory is discussed in the context of one-particle systems. We show that the ground state density $\rho_0(x)$ and energy $E_0$ are simply related to a family of external potential energy functions with ground state wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. L. Neal

We construct a density functional theory for two-dimension electron (hole) gases subjected to both strong magnetic fields and external potentials. In particular, we are focused on regimes near even-denominator filling factors, in which the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-11 Yinhan Zhang , Junren Shi

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 V. B. Soubbotin , V. I. Tselyaev , X. Vinas

The practical success of density functional theory (DFT) is largely credited to the Kohn-Sham approach, which enables the exact calculation of the non-interacting electron kinetic energy via an auxiliary noninteracting system. Yet, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sangita Majumdar , Zekun Shi , Giovanni Vignale

In the exact Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT), the total energy versus the number of electrons is a series of linear segments between integer points. However, commonly used approximate density functionals produce total energies…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-03 Eli Kraisler , Leeor Kronik

The treatment of degenerate states within Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) is a problem of longstanding interest. We propose a solution to this mapping from the interacting degenerate system to that of the noninteracting fermion…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Viraht Sahni , Xiao-Yin Pan

We extend ground-state density-functional theory to excited states and provide the theoretical formulation for the widely used $\Delta SCF$ method for calculating excited-state energies and densities. As the electron density alone is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Weitao Yang , Paul W. Ayers

We introduce new and robust decompositions of mean-field Hartree-Fock (HF) and Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) relying on the use of localized molecular orbitals and physically sound charge population protocols. The new…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Janus J. Eriksen

We propose a framework to construct the ground-state energy and density matrix of an N-electron system by solving selfconsistently a set of single-particle equations. The method can be viewed as a non-trivial extension of the Kohn-Sham…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Van Neck , S. Verdonck , G. Bonny , P. W. Ayers , M. Waroquier

We re-adapt a spectral renormalization method, introduced in nonlinear optics, to solve the Kohn-Sham (KS) equations of density functional theory (DFT), with a focus on functionals based on the strictly-correlated electrons (SCE) regime,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-23 Juri Grossi , Ziad H. Musslimani , Michael Seidl , Paola Gori-Giorgi

Density functional theory is generalized to incorporate electron-phonon coupling. A Kohn-Sham equation yielding the electronic density $n_U(\mathbf{r})$, a conditional probability density depending parametrically on the phonon normal mode…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-25 Ryan Requist , C. R. Proetto , E. K. U. Gross

A time-dependent current-density-functional theory for many-particle systems in interaction with arbitrary external baths is developed. We prove that, given the initial quantum state $|\Psi_0>$ and the particle-bath interaction operator,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Massimiliano Di Ventra , Roberto D'Agosta

Following a recent work [Gal, Phys. Rev. A 64, 062503 (2001)], a simple derivation of the density-functional correction of the Hartree-Fock equations, the Hartree-Fock-Kohn-Sham equations, is presented, completing an integrated view of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-09-11 Tamas Gal

In an external constant magnetic field, so strong that the electron Larmour length is much shorter than its Compton length, we consider the modification of the Coulomb potential of a point charge owing to the vacuum polarization. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. E. Shabad , V. V. Usov

The State--Specific Kohn--Sham Density Functional Theory [arXiv:physics/0506037] is used to derive the Kohn-Sham exchange-correlation potential $\vxc$ and exchange-correlation energy $\Eco$ as explicit functionals of $v_s$ and $\phi_1$,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 James P. Finley

Expectation values of the electromagnetic field and the electric current are introduced at space-time resolution which belongs to the quantum domain. These allow us to approach some key features of classical electrodynamics from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-09-17 Mathieu Planat , Janos Polonyi

The ground states of few electrons confined in two vertically coupled quantum rings in the presence of an external magnetic field are studied systematically within the current spin-density functional theory. Electron-electron interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-05 L. K. Castelano , G. -Q. Hai , B. Partoens , F. M. Peeters

We consider the electric and magnetic energy densities (or equivalently field fluctuations) in the space around a point-like field source in its ground state, after having subtracted the spatially uniform zero-point energy terms, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 Roberto Passante , Lucia Rizzuto , Salvatore Spagnolo

It is shown here that Kohn-Sham equations cannot be derived from Hohenberg-Kohn theory without an additional postulate. Assuming that a functional derivative with respect to total electron density exists leads in general to a theory…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. K. Nesbet