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We present a theoretical framework based on an extension of dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) for describing the structure and dynamics of cells in living tissues and tumours. DDFT is a microscopic statistical mechanical theory for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-03 Hayder M. Al-Saedi , Andrew J. Archer , John Ward

Nuclear density functional theory (DFT) is one of the main theoretical tools used to study the properties of heavy and superheavy elements, or to describe the structure of nuclei far from stability. While on-going efforts seek to better…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-23 N. Schunck , J. D. McDonnell , D. Higdon , J. Sarich , S. M. Wild

We formulate a time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) in terms of the density matrix to study ultrafast phenomena in semiconductor structures. A system of equations for the density matrix components, which is equivalent to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Turkowski , C. A. Ullrich

Despite the variety of available computational approaches, state-of-the-art methods for calculating excitation energies such as time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), are computationally demanding and thus limited to moderate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Martina Stella , Kritam Thapa , Luigi Genovese , Laura E. Ratcliff

Recent progress has been made in capturing spectral features of electronic states of double-excitation character in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) through a frequency-dependent kernel. While it might appear that this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Dhyey Ray , Anna Baranova , Davood B. Dar , Neepa T. Maitra

A practical computational scheme based on time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and ultrasoft pseudopotential (USPP) is developed to study electron dynamics in real time. A modified Crank-Nicolson time-stepping algorithm is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaofeng Qian , Ju Li , Xi Lin , Sidney Yip

A microscopic description of nuclear fission represents one of the most challenging problems in nuclear theory. While phenomenological coordinates, such as multipole moments, have often been employed to describe fission, it is not obvious…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-19 N. Hizawa , K. Hagino

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

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is rapidly emerging as a premier method for solving dynamical many-body problems in physics and chemistry. The mathematical foundations of TDDFT are established through the formal existence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-22 J. D. Whitfield , M. -H. Yung , D. G. Tempel , S. Boixo , A. Aspuru-Guzik

We present a range-separated linear-response time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) which combines a density-functional approximation for the short-range response kernel and a frequency-dependent second-order Bethe-Salpeter…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Elisa Rebolini , Julien Toulouse

The Quantum-Electrodynamical Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (QED-TDDFT) equations are solved by time propagating the wave function on a tensor product of a Fock-space and real-space grid. Applications for molecules in cavities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Justin Malave , Alexander Ahrens , Daniel Pitagora , Cody Covington , Kálmán Varga

Charge transfer plays a crucial role in many processes of interest in physics, chemistry, and bio-chemistry. In many applications the size of the systems involved calls for time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to be used in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Neepa T. Maitra

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is a widely used method to investigate electron dynamics under various external perturbations such as laser fields. In this work, we present a novel approach to accelerate real time TDDFT…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-29 Karan Shah , Attila Cangi

We propose a first-principles time-dependent density functional theoretical (TDDFT) approach in momentum (P) space for quantitative study of electron transport in molecular devices under arbitrary biases. In this approach, the basic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-10 Zhongyuan Zhou , Shih-I Chu

Imaginary-time time-dependent Density functional theory (it-TDDFT) has been proposed as an alternative method for obtaining the ground state within density functional theory (DFT) which avoids some of the difficulties with convergence…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 John McFarland , Efstratios Manousakis

The primary computational challenge when simulating nonadiabatic ab initio molecular dynamics is the unfavorable compute costs of electronic structure calculations with molecular size. Simple electronic structure theories, like…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Justin J. Talbot , Martin Head-Gordon , Stephen J. Cotton

The saddle-to-scission dynamics of the induced fission process is explored using a microscopic finite-temperature model based on time-dependent nuclear density functional theory (TDDFT), that allows to follow the evolution of local…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-27 B. Li , D. Vretenar , Z. X. Ren , T. Nikšić , J. Zhao , P. W. Zhao , J. Meng

X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) constitutes an essential technique for diagnosing material properties under extreme conditions, such as high pressures and intense laser heating. Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is one of the…

We provide a new formulation of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) based on the geometric structure of the set of states constrained to have a fixed density. Orbital-free TDDFT is formulated using a hydrodynamics equation…

Linear-response time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) can describe excitonic features in the optical spectra of insulators and semiconductors, using exchange-correlation (xc) kernels behaving as $-1/k^{2}$ to leading order. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-18 Jiuyu Sun , Cheng-Wei Lee , Alina Kononov , André Schleife , Carsten A. Ullrich