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We establish the global well-posedness of overdamped dynamic density functional theory (DDFT): a nonlinear, nonlocal integro-partial differential equation used in statistical mechanical models of colloidal fluids, and other applications…

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Using concepts from classical density functional theory (DFT) we investigate the freezing of a two-dimensional (2D) system of ultra-soft particles in a one-dimensional (1D) external potential; a phenomenon often called laser-induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-05 Alexander Kraft , Sabine H. L. Klapp

While the theory of diffusion of a single Brownian particle in confined geometries is well-established by now, we discuss here the theoretical framework necessary to generalize the theory of diffusion to dense suspensions of strongly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-12-18 H. Löwen , M. Heinen

In [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013001 (2022)] a novel ground state method was proposed. It has been suggested that this $i$-DMFT would be a method within one-particle reduced density matrix functional theory (DMFT), capable of describing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Lexin Ding , Julia Liebert , Christian Schilling

In this thesis we study the strongly-correlated-electron physics of the longstanding H-Tc-superconductivity problem using a non-perturbative method, the Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT), capable to go beyond standard perturbation-theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-16 Marcello Civelli

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

Building on the recently derived inhomogeneous mode-coupling theory, we extend the generalised mode-coupling theory of supercooled liquids to inhomogeneous environments. This provides a first-principles-based, systematic and rigorous way of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Corentin C. L. Laudicina , Chengjie Luo , Kunimasa Miyazaki , Liesbeth M. C. Janssen

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

Electronic correlated systems are often well described by dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). While DMFT studies have mainly focused hitherto on one-particle properties, valuable information is also enclosed into local two-particle Green's…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-25 Georg Rohringer , Angelo Valli , Alessandro Toschi

The design of better exchange-correlation functionals for Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a central challenge of modern electronic structure theory. However, current developments are limited by the mathematical form of the functional,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Kyle Bystrom , Boris Kozinsky

Density functional theory (DFT) is an essential building block for modern theoretical physics, chemistry, and engineering, especially those concerning electronic properties. Through decades of development, various program packages for…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-21 Yusuke Nomura , Ryosuke Akashi

The description of fluid mixtures molecular behavior is significant for various industry fields due to the complex composition of fluid found in nature. Statistical mechanics approaches use intermolecular interaction potential to predict…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Irina Nesterova , Yuriy Kanygin , Pavel Lomovitskiy , Aleksey Khlyupin

A density functional theory (DFT) framework is presented that links functional derivatives of free-energy functionals to non-linear static density response functions in quantum many-body systems. Within this framework, explicit expressions…

Typical density functional theory (DFT) and approximations thereto solve the many-electron ground state problem by working from a numerically efficient non-interacting Kohn-Sham reference system; and benefit from useful minimization…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Tim Gould

In this chapter, we describe three related studies of the universal physics of two-component unitary Fermi gases with resonant short-ranged interactions. First we discuss an ab initio auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo technique for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-21 Aurel Bulgac , Michael McNeil Forbes , Piotr Magierski

Dynamical heterogeneity, in which transitory local fluctuations occur in the conformation and dynamics of constituent particles, is widely hypothesized to be essential to evolution of supercooled liquids into the structural glass state. Yet…

In order to describe the nonisothermal dynamics of two-phase flows or binary mixtures such as colloidal suspensions consisting of colloidal particles and solvent on a microscopic level, we derive a new extended dynamical density functional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-06 Michael te Vrugt , Hartmut Löwen , Helmut R. Brand , Raphael Wittkowski

We present a three-dimensional molecular density functional theory (MDFT) of water derived from first-principles that relies on the particle's density and multipolar polarization density and includes the density-polarization coupling. This…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Nicolas Levy , Maximilien Levesque , Daniel Borgis

A unified formulation of the density functional theory is constructed on the foundations of entropic inference in both the classical and the quantum regimes. The theory is introduced as an application of entropic inference for inhomogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-20 Ahmad Yousefi

As a first step to meet the challenge to calculate the electronic structure and total energy of charged states of atoms and molecules adsorbed on ultrathin-insulating films supported by a metallic substrate using density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-01 Iván Scivetti , Mats Persson