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The exact ground-state exchange-correlation functional of Kohn-Sham density functional theory yields the exact transmission through an Anderson junction at zero bias and temperature. The exact impurity charge susceptibility is used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Zhenfei Liu , Justin P. Bergfield , Kieron Burke , Charles A. Stafford

Most density functionals have been developed by imposing the known exact constraints on the exchange-correlation energy, or by a fit to a set of properties of selected systems, or by both. However, accurate modeling of the conventional…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-24 Jianmin Tao , Yuxiang Mo

The exchange-correlation hole and potential of the homogeneous electron gas have been investigated within the random-phase approximation, employing the plasmon-pole approximation for the linear density response function. The angular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-12 K. Karlsson , F. Aryasetiawan

From a simplified version of the mathematical structure of the strong coupling limit of the exact exchange-correlation functional, we construct an approximation for the electronic repulsion energy at physical coupling strength, which is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Stefan Vuckovic , Paola Gori-Giorgi

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

A rigorous derivation of the density functional in the Hohenberg-Kohn theory is presented. With no assumption regarding the magnitude of the electric coupling constant $e^2$ (or correlation), this work provides a firm basis for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-20 Yi-Kuo Yu

We present and test a new approximation for the exchange-correlation (xc) energy of Kohn-Sham density functional theory. It combines exact exchange with a compatible non-local correlation functional. The functional is by construction free…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Tobias Schmidt , Eli Kraisler , Adi Makmal , Leeor Kronik , Stephan Kümmel

The construction of density-functional approximations is explored by modeling the adiabatic connection em locally, using energy densities defined in terms of the electrostatic potential of the exchange-correlation hole. These local models…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Stefan Vuckovic , Tom Irons , Andreas Savin , Andrew M. Teale , Paola Gori-Giorgi

Exchange-correlation potentials vxc and energy densities exc are derived for integer and fractional electron counts using an orbital-averaged Kohn-Sham inversion procedure. The reference densities for inversion come from full configuration…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Vaibhav Khanna , Bikash Kanungo , Jeffrey Hatch , Joshua Kammeraad , Paul M. Zimmerman

In this work we have studied a new functional for the correlation energy obtained from the exact-exchange (EXX) approximation within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). Correlation energies have been calculated for a number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Maria Hellgren , Ulf von Barth

The conventional approaches to the inverse density functional theory problem typically assume non-degeneracy of the Kohn-Sham (KS) eigenvalues, greatly hindering their use in open-shell systems. We present a generalization of the inverse…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Bikash Kanungo , Jeffrey Hatch , Paul M. Zimmerman , Vikram Gavini

Density functional approximations to the exchange-correlation energy of Kohn-Sham theory, such as the local density approximation and generalized gradient approximations, lack the well-known integer discontinuity, a feature that is critical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Martin A. Mosquera , Adam Wasserman

We consider electronic exchange and correlation effects in density-functional calculations of two-dimensional systems. Starting from wave function calculations of total energies and electron densities of inhomogeneous model systems, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-30 Ilja Makkonen , Mikko M. Ervasti , Ville Kauppila , Ari Harju

The dynamical, long-wavelength longitudinal and transverse exchange-correlation potentials for a homogeneous electron gas are evaluated in a microscopic model based on an approximate decoupling of the equation of motion for the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Conti , R. Nifosi' , M P Tosi

We analytically construct the wave function that, for a given initial state, produces a prescribed density for a quantum ring with two non-interacting particles in a singlet state. In this case the initial state is completely determined by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-23 M. Ruggenthaler , S. E. B. Nielsen , R. van Leeuwen

Using an end-to-end differentiable implementation of the Kohn-Sham self-consistent field equations, we obtain an accurate neural network-based exchange and correlation (XC) functional of the electronic density. The functional is optimized…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Sebastian Dick , Marivi Fernandez-Serra

The time-dependent exchange-correlation potential has an unusual task in directing fictitious non-interacting electrons to move with exactly the same probability density as true interacting electrons. This has intriguing implications for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Davood Dar , Lionel Lacombe , Neepa T. Maitra

A non-empirical exchange functional based on an interpolation between two limits of electron density: slowly varying limit and asymptotic limit, is proposed. In the slowly varying limit, we follow the study by Kleinman in 1984 which…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-04 Teepanis Chachiyo , Hathaithip Chachiyo

We generalize the exact strong-interaction limit of the exchange-correlation energy of Kohn-Sham density functional theory to open systems with fluctuating particle numbers. When used in the self-consistent Kohn-Sham procedure on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 André Mirtschink , Michael Seidl , Paola Gori-Giorgi

We use the exact strong-interaction limit of the Hohenberg-Kohn energy density functional to construct an approximation for the exchange-correlation term of the Kohn-Sham approach. The resulting exchange-correlation potential is able to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-05 Francesc Malet , André Mirtschink , Jonas C. Cremon , Stephanie M. Reimann , Paola Gori-Giorgi