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We present a computational scheme for extracting the energy level alignment of a metal/molecule interface, based on constrained density functional theory and local exchange and correlation functionals. The method, applied here to benzene on…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 A. M. Souza , I. Rungger , C. D. Pemmaraju , U. Schwingenschloegl , S. Sanvito

Exchange interactions are a manifestation of the quantum mechanical nature of the electrons and play a key role in predicting the properties of materials from first principles. In density functional theory (DFT), a widely used approximation…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-27 Marco Bernardi

It was recently shown [Y. Suzuki, L. Lacombe, K. Watanabe, and N. T. Maitra, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263401 (2017)] that peak and valley structures in the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density functional theory are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Lionel Lacombe , Yasumitsu Suzuki , Kazuyuki Watanabe , Neepa T. Maitra

Unlike the local density approximation (LDA) and the generalized gradient approximation (GGA), calculations with meta-generalized gradient approximations (meta-GGA) are usually done according to the generalized Kohn-Sham (gKS) formalism.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-01 Zeng-hui Yang , Haowei Peng , Jianwei Sun , John P. Perdew

A simple exact-exchange density-functional method for a quasi-two-dimensional electron gas with variable density is presented. An analytical expression for the exact-exchange potential with only one occupied subband is provided, without…

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

We derive and analyze a hierarchy of approximations to the strongly correlated limit of the Hohenberg-Kohn functional. These "density representability approximations" are obtained by first noting that in the strongly correlated limit,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Gero Friesecke , Christian B. Mendl , Brendan Pass , Codina Cotar , Claudia Klüppelberg

The Coulomb exchange and correlation energy density functionals for electron systems are applied to nuclear systems. It is found that the exchange functionals in the generalized gradient approximation provide agreements with the exact-Fock…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-09 Tomoya Naito , Ryosuke Akashi , Gianluca Colò , Haozhao Liang , Xavier Roca-Maza

A hybrid Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) and 1-electron Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory (1-RDMFT) has recently been developed to describe strongly correlated systems at mean-field computational cost. This approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn

We propose a novel approach to the problem of polarizabilities and dissociation in electric fields from the static limit of the Vignale-Kohn (VK) functional. We consider the response to the purely scalar part of the VK response…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Neepa T. Maitra , Meta van Faassen

We present a general numerical approach to construct local Kohn-Sham potentials from orbital-dependent functionals within the all-electron full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (FLAPW) method, in which core and valence electrons…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-06 Markus Betzinger , Christoph Friedrich , Stefan Blügel , Andreas Görling

The Hubbard model provides a test bed to investigate the complex behaviour arising from electron-electron interaction in strongly-correlated systems and naturally emerges as the foundation model for lattice density functional theory (DFT).…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-29 Eoghan Cronin , Rajarshi Tiwari , Stefano Sanvito

We report on a methodology for the treatment of the Coulomb energy and potential in Kohn-Sham density functional theory that is free from self-interaction effects. Specifically, we determine the Coulomb potential given as the functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-29 M. Däne , A. Gonis , D. M. Nicholson , G. M. Stocks

It is shown here that the Exact Exchange (EE) formalism provides a natural and rigorous approach for a Density Functional Theory (DFT) of the Integer Quantum Hall Effect (IQHE). Application of a novel EE method to a quasi two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 D. Miravet , G. J. Ferreira , C. R. Proetto

Standard density functional approximations greatly over-estimate the static polarizability of longchain polymers, but Hartree-Fock or exact exchange calculations do not. Simple self-interaction corrected (SIC) approximations can be even…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2007-08-22 C. D. Pemmaraju , S. Sanvito , K. Burke

Density Functional Theory (DFT) underpins much of modern computational chemistry and materials science. Yet, the reliability of DFT-derived predictions of experimentally measurable properties remains fundamentally limited by the need to…

The optimized effective potential (OEP) method presents an unambiguous way to construct the Kohn-Sham potential corresponding to a given diagrammatic approximation for the exchange-correlation functional. The OEP from the random-phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-18 Stefan Riemelmoser , Merzuk Kaltak , Georg Kresse

Kohn-Sham density functional theory is the base of modern computational approaches to electronic structures. Their accuracy vitally relies on the exchange-correlation energy functional, which encapsulates electron-electron interaction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-04 Ryo Nagai , Ryosuke Akashi , Osamu Sugino

We incorporate in the Kohn-Sham self consistent equation a trained neural-network projection from the charge density distribution to the Hartree-exchange-correlation potential $n \rightarrow V_{\rm Hxc}$ for possible numerical approach to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Ryo Nagai , Ryosuke Akashi , Shu Sasaki , Shinji Tsuneyuki

The exchange-correlation energy in Kohn-Sham density functional theory is expressed as a functional of the electronic density and the Kohn-Sham orbitals. An alternative to Kohn-Sham theory is to express the energy as a functional of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Goedecker , C. Umrigar

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