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A recently developed quasi two-dimensional exact-exchange formalism within the framework of Density Functional Theory has been applied to a strongly inhomogeneous interacting electron gas, and the results were compared with state-of-the-art…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Rigamonti , F. A. Reboredo , C. R. Proetto

Motivated by the considerable importance of material properties in modern condensed matter physics research, and using techniques of the $N_{e}$ -electron systems in terms of the electron density $n_{\sigma e}\left( r\right) $ needed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-19 A. Belhaj , S. E. Ennadifi

The numerical implementation of an exchange-correlation functional is not always an accurate reproduction of its theoretical specification. For example, density functionals for exchange and correlation can be defined by an exchange or…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-01 Jonathan E. Moussa , Peter A. Schultz

It has been known for some time that the exchange-correlation potential in time-dependent density functional theory is an intrinsically nonlocal functional of the density as soon as one goes beyond the adiabatic approximation. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Qian , A. Constantinescu , G. Vignale

We present calculations of the correlation energies of crystalline solids and isolated systems within the adiabatic-connection fluctuation-dissipation formulation of density-functional theory. We perform a quantitative comparison of a set…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-29 Christopher E. Patrick , Kristian S. Thygesen

To address the impact of electron correlations in the linear and non-linear response regimes of interacting many-electron systems exposed to time-dependent external fields, we study one-dimensional (1D) systems where the interacting problem…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-17 N. Helbig , J. I. Fuks , I. V. Tokatly , H. Appel , E. K. U. Gross , A. Rubio

Anions and radicals are important for many applications including environmental chemistry, semiconductors, and charge transfer, but are poorly described by the available approximate energy density functionals. Here we test an approximate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 André Mirtschink , C. J. Umrigar , John D. Morgan , Paola Gori-Giorgi

In this paper, an alternative method to range-separated linear-response time-dependent density-functional theory and perturbation theory is proposed to improve the estimation of the energies of a physical system from the energies of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Elisa Rebolini , Julien Toulouse , Andrew M. Teale , Trygve Helgaker , Andreas Savin

Warm dense matter is a highly energetic phase characterized by strong correlations, thermal effects, and quantum mechanical electrons. Thermal density functional theory is commonly used in simulations of this challenging phase, driving the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Brittany P. Harding , Zachary Mauri , Vera Xie , Aurora Pribram-Jones

We train a neural network as the universal exchange-correlation functional of density-functional theory that simultaneously reproduces both the exact exchange-correlation energy and potential. This functional is extremely non-local, but…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Jonathan Schmidt , Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Miguel A. L. Marques

We investigate the behavior of three-dimensional (3D) exchange-correlation energy functional approximations of density functional theory in anisotropic systems with two-dimensional (2D) character. Using two simple models, quasi-2D electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yong-Hoon Kim , In-Ho Lee , Satyadev Nagaraja , Jean-Pierre Leburton , Randolph Q. Hood , Richard M. Martin

We present a new class of non-adiabatic approximations in time-dependent density functional theory derived from an exact expression for the time-dependent exchange-correlation potential. The approximations reproduce dynamical step and peak…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-21 Lionel Lacombe , Neepa T. Maitra

Exact-exchange energy density and energy density of a semilocal density functional approximation are two key ingredients for modeling the static correlation, a strongly nonlocal functional of the density, through a local hybrid functional.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Jianmin Tao , Viktor N. Staroverov , Gustavo E. Scuseria , John P. Perdew

Commonly used semilocal density functional approximations for the exchange-correlation energy fail badly when the true two dimensional limit is approached. We show, using a quasi-two-dimensional uniform electron gas in the infinite barrier…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Lucian A. Constantin

An extremely easy method for accurately calculating the adiabatic connection of density functional theory is presented, and its accuracy tested on both Hooke's atom and the He atom. The method is easy because calculations are needed only…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Derek Frydel , William H. Terilla , Kieron Burke

Implicit and explicit density functionals for the exchange energy in finite two-dimensional systems are developed following the approach of Becke and Roussel [Phys. Rev. A 39, 3761 (1989)]. Excellent agreement for the exchange-hole…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-05-08 S. Pittalis , E. Rasanen , N. Helbig , E. K. U. Gross

We present an accurate local density-functional for electronic-structure calculations within the density functional theory (DFT). The functional is derived by analyzing the structure of the standard perturbative expansion of the correlation…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-28 Mario Benites , Angel Rosado , Efstratios Manousakis

An exchange energy functional is proposed and tested for obtaining a class of excited-state energies using density functional formalism. The functional is the excited-state counterpart of the local-density approximation functional for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Prasanjit Samal , Manoj K. Harbola

We construct the complementary short-range correlation relativistic local-density-approximation functional to be used in relativistic range-separated density-functional theory based on a Dirac-Coulomb Hamiltonian in the no-pair…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Julien Paquier , Julien Toulouse

Electronic correlation is a fundamental topic in many-electron systems. To characterize this correlation, one may introduce the concept of exchange-correlation hole. In this paper, we first briefly revisit its definition and relation to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 JingChun Wang , Yu Su , Haoyang Cheng , Yao Wang , Rui-Xue Xu