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Density functional theory (DFT) has become the most popular approach to electronic structure across disciplines, especially in material and chemical sciences. Last year, at least 30,000 papers used DFT to make useful predictions or give…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Justin C. Smith , Francisca Sagredo , Kieron Burke

Frozen Density Embedding Theory (FDET) [Wesolowski {\it Phys. Rev. A} {\bf 77}, 012504 (2008)] provides the interpretation of the eigenvalue equations for an embedded $N'$-electron wavefunction, in which the embedding operator is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Tomasz Adam Wesolowski

Classical Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a statistical-mechanical framework to analyze fluids, which accounts for nanoscale fluid inhomogeneities and non-local intermolecular interactions. DFT can be applied to a wide range of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Andreas Nold , Benjamin D. Goddard , Peter Yatsyshin , Nikos Savva , Serafim Kalliadasis

The physical regions (domains or basins) within the molecular structure are open systems that exchange charge between them and consequently house a fractional number of electrons (net charge). The natural framework describing the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Roberto Bochicchio , Boris Maulén

Quantitative simulation of electronic structure of solids requires treating local and non-local electron correlations on an equal footing. We present a new ab initio formulation of Green's function embedding which, unlike dynamical…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-01 Jiachen Li , Tianyu Zhu

The estimation of the density matrix of a $k$-level quantum system is studied when the parametrization is given by the real and imaginary part of the entries and they are estimated by independent measurements. It is established that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Petz , K. M. Hangos , A. Magyar

We demonstrate the existence of different density-density functionals designed to retain selected properties of the many-body ground state in a non-interacting solution starting from the standard density functional theory ground state. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 F. A. Reboredo , P. R. C. Kent

Quantum embedding theories are playing an increasingly important role in bridging different levels of approximation to the many body Schr\"odinger equation in physics, chemistry and materials science. In this paper, we present a linear…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Lin Lin , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

An explicit parameterization is given for the density matrices for $n$-state systems. The geometry of the space of pure and mixed states and the entropy of the $n$-state system is discussed. Geometric phases can arise in only specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luis J. Boya , Mark Byrd , Mark Mims , E. C. G. Sudarshan

We study both static and transport properties of model quantum dots, employing density functional theory as well as (numerically) exact methods. For the lattice model under consideration the accuracy of the local-density approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-11 S. Schenk , P. Schwab , M. Dzierzawa , U. Eckern

Given the algebra of observables of a quantum system subject to selection rules, a state can be represented by different density matrices. As a result, different von Neumann entropies can be associated with the same state. Motivated by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Paolo Facchi , Giovanni Gramegna , Arturo Konderak

Due to efficient scaling with electron number N, density functional theory (DFT) is widely used for studies of large molecules and solids. Restriction of an exact mean-field theory to local potential functions has recently been questioned.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Robert K. Nesbet

Boundaries constitute a rich playground for quantum many-body systems because they can lead to novel degrees of freedom such as protected boundary states in topological phases. Here, we study the groundstate of integer quantum Hall systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-21 Pierre-Gabriel Rozon , Pierre-Alexandre Bolteau , William Witczak-Krempa

By partitioning the electron density into subsystem contributions, the Frozen Density Embedding (FDE) formulation of subsystem DFT has recently emerged as a powerful tool for reducing the computational scaling of Kohn--Sham DFT. To date,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Genova , Davide Ceresoli , Michele Pavanello

Quantum field theory (QFT) describes nature using continuous fields, but physical properties of QFT are usually revealed in terms of measurements of observables at a finite resolution. We describe a multiscale representation of a free…

A novel approach to electronic correlations and magnetism of crystals based on realistic electronic structure calculations is reviewed. In its simplest form it is a combination of the ``local density approximation'' (LDA) and the dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Lichtenstein , M. I. Katsnelson , G. Kotliar

When developing and assessing density functional theory methods, a finite basis set is usually employed. In most cases, however, the issue of basis set dependency is neglected. Here, we assess several basis sets and functionals. In…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Daniel Boese , Jan M. L. Martin , Nicholas C. Handy

The basic idea of Frozen-Density Embedding Theory (FDET) is the constrained minimisation of the Hohenberg-Kohn density functional $E^{HK}[\rho]$ performed using the auxiliary functional $E_{v_{AB}}^{FDET}[\Psi_A,\rho_B]$, where $\Psi_A$ is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-22 Niccolò Ricardi , Michelle Ernst , Piero Macchi , Tomasz A. Wesolowski

We investigate the cluster size convergence of the energy and observables using two forms of density matrix embedding theory (DMET): the original cluster form (CDMET) and a new formulation motivated by the dynamical cluster approximation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-11 Bo-Xiao Zheng , Joshua S. Kretchmer , Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Recent advances in continuum embedding models have enabled the incorporation of solvent and electrolyte effects into density functional theory (DFT) simulations of material surfaces, significantly benefiting electrochemistry, catalysis, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jakob Filser , Edan Bainglass , Karsten Reuter , Oliviero Andreussi