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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…

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Classical density-functional theory provides an efficient alternative to molecular dynamics simulations for understanding the equilibrium properties of inhomogeneous fluids. However, application of density-functional theory to multi-site…

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Classical dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) has become one of the central modeling approaches in nonequilibrium soft matter physics. Recent years have seen the emergence of novel and interesting fields of application for DDFT. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-21 Michael te Vrugt , Raphael Wittkowski

We present dynamic density functional theory (DDFT) incorporating general inhomogeneous, incompressible, time dependent background flows and inertia, describing externally driven passive colloidal systems out of equilibrium. We start by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-11 Rory D. Mills-Williams , Benjamin D. Goddard , Andrew J. Archer

Spin-density-functional theory (SDFT) is the most widely implemented and applied formulation of density-functional theory. However, it is still finding novel applications, and occasionally encounters unexpected problems. In this paper we…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 K. Capelle , Valter L. Libero

Density functional theory (DFT) is an indispensable ab initio method in both quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics. Based on recent advancements in reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT), a variant of DFT that is believed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Chih-Chun Wang

Density functional theory (DFT) is an efficient instrument for describing a wide range of nanoscale phenomena: wetting transition, capillary condensation, adsorption, etc. In this paper, we suggest a method for obtaining the equilibrium…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Yuriy Kanygin , Irina Nesterova , Pavel Lomovitskiy , Aleksey Khlyupin

Density functional theory (DFT), the most widely adopted method in modern computational chemistry, fails to describe accurately the electronic structure of strongly correlated systems. Here we show that DFT can be formally and practically…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn , David A. Mazziotti

Density functional theory (DFT) has been actively used and developed recently. DFT is an efficient instrument for describing a wide range of nanoscale phenomena: wetting transition, capillary condensation, adsorption, and others. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Yuriy Kanygin

Density functional theory (DFT) became a universal approach to compute ground-state and excited configurations of many-electron systems held together by an external one-body potential in condensed-matter, atomic, and molecular physics. At…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-30 J. Dobaczewski

We show that a lattice formulation of density-functional theory (DFT), guided by renormalization-group concepts, can be used to obtain numerical predictions of energy gaps, spin-density profiles, critical exponents, sound velocities,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Francisco C. Alcaraz , Klaus Capelle

Understanding the nanoscale effects controlling the dynamics of a contact line -- defined as the line formed at the junction of two fluid phases and a solid -- has been a longstanding problem in fluid mechanics pushing experimental and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-06 Andreas Nold , Benjamin D. Goddard , David N. Sibley , Serafim Kalliadasis

Density-corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT) is enjoying substantial success in improving semilocal DFT calculations in a wide variety of chemical problems. This paper provides the formal theoretical framework and assumptions for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Stefan Vuckovic , Suhwan Song , John Kozlowski , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

To understand sparse systems we must account for both strong local atom bonds and weak nonlocal van der Waals forces between atoms separated by empty space. A fully nonlocal functional form [H. Rydberg, B.I. Lundqvist, D.C. Langreth, and M.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Rydberg , M. Dion , N. Jacobson , E. Schroder , P. Hyldgaard , S. I. Simak , D. C. Langreth , B. I. Lundqvist

Over the last few decades, classical density-functional theory (DFT) and its dynamic extensions (DDFTs) have become powerful tools in the study of colloidal fluids. Recently, previous DDFTs for spherically-symmetric particles have been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-02 Miguel A. Durán-Olivencia , Benjamin D. Goddard , Serafim Kalliadasis

Density functional theory (DFT) is an incredible success story. The low computational cost, combined with useful (but not yet chemical) accuracy, has made DFT a standard technique in most branches of chemistry and materials science.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Kieron Burke

We test the applicability of density functional theory (DFT) to spectral perturbations taking an example of a Cs atom surrounded by superfluid helium. The atomic DFT of helium is used to obtain the distribution of helium atoms around the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Takashi Nakatsukasa , Kazuhiro Yabana , George F. Bertsch

Though calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) are used remarkably widely in chemistry, physics, materials science, and biomolecular research and though the modern form of DFT has been studied for almost 60 years, some…

Hydrodynamic density functional theory (DFT) is applied to analyse dynamic contact angles of droplets in order to assess its predictive capability regarding wetting phenomena at the microscopic scale and to evaluate its feasibility for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-06 Benjamin Bursik , Rolf Stierle , Hamza Oukili , Martin Schneider , Gernot Bauer , Joachim Gross

Density functional theory (DFT) has emerged as one of the most versatile and lucrative approaches in electronic structure calculations of many-electron systems in past four decades. Here we give an account of the development of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Abhisek Ghosal , Amlan K. Roy