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We review different computational methods for the calculation of photoelectron spectra and angular distributions of atoms and molecules when excited by laser pulses using time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) that are suitable…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-28 Philipp Wopperer , Umberto De Giovannini , Angel Rubio

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…

Quantum effects of plasmonic phenomena have been explored through ab-initio studies, but only for exceedingly small metallic nanostructures, leaving most experimentally relevant structures too large to handle. We propose instead an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-24 Wei Yan , Martijn Wubs , N. Asger Mortensen

Many application models in quantum physics and chemistry require to control multi-electron systems to achieve a desired target configuration. This challenging task appears possible in the framework of time-dependent density functional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Martin Sprengel , Gabriele Ciaramella , Alfio Borzì

The charge-density response of extended materials is usually dominated by the collective oscillation of electrons, the plasmons. Beyond this feature, however, intriguing many-body effects are observed. They cannot be described by one of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-20 Martin Panholzer , Matteo Gatti , Lucia Reining

Linear-response time-dependent density functional theory (LR-TDDFT) simulations of disordered extended systems require averaging over different snapshots of ion configurations to minimize finite size effects due to the snapshot--dependence…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Zhandos A. Moldabekov , Jan Vorberger , Mani Lokamani , Tobias Dornheim

The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is the leading computationally feasible theory to treat excitations by strong electromagnetic fields. Here the theory is applied to coherent optical phonon generation produced by intense…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Y. Shinohara , S. A. Sato , K. Yabana , J. -I. Iwata , T. Otobe , G. F. Bertsch

The dissipative dynamics of many-electron systems interacting with a thermal environment has remained a long-standing challenge within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). Recently, the formal foundations of open quantum…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 David G. Tempel , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

When running time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations for real-time simulations of non-equilibrium dynamics, the user has a choice of initial Kohn-Sham state, and typically a Slater determinant is used. We explore the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Johanna I. Fuks , Soeren E. B. Nielsen , Michael Ruggenthaler , Neepa T. Maitra

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is an extension of ground-state density-functional theory which allows the treatment of electronic excited states and a wide range of time-dependent phenomena in the linear and nonlinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-10 Carsten A. Ullrich

Single-particle methods based on Kohn-Sham unoccupied states to describe near-edge X-ray absorption (XAS) spectra are routinely applied for the description of K-edge spectra, as there is no complication due to spin-orbit (SO) coupling. L-…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-26 Esther A. B. Johnsen , Naoki Horiuchi , Toma Susi , Michael Walter

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

The density functional theory (DFT) is a remarkably successful theory of electronic structure of matter. At the foundation of this theory lies the Kohn-Sham (KS) equation. In this paper, we describe the long-time behaviour of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Fabio Pusateri , Israel Michael Sigal

This paper introduces a spectral analysis of time-seires data derived from real-time time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) using Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA). TDDFT is a robust method for obtaining molecular excited states…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Naoki Tani , Satoru S. Kano , Yasunari Zempo

The general expectation that, in principle, time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) be an exact formulation of the time-evolution of an interacting N-electron system is critically reexamined. It is demonstrated that the previous…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-08-13 J. Schirmer , A. Dreuw

Real-time time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is widely considered to be the most accurate available method for calculating electronic stopping powers from first principles, but there have been relatively few assessments of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Alina Kononov , Alexander J. White , Katarina A. Nichols , S. X. Hu , Andrew D. Baczewski

The development of analytic-gradient methodology for excited states within conventional time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) would seem to offer a relatively inexpensive alternative to better established quantum-chemical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-08-11 Felipe Cordova , L. Joubert Doriol , Andrei Ipatov , Mark E. Casida , Claudia Filippi , Alberto Vela

Plasmonic nanocavities are a promising platform for strong light-matter coupling and enhanced spectroscopies at the single-molecule level. These nanoscale environments are challenging to model due to their strongly multimodal character and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Jonathan H. Fetherolf , Tao E. Li , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Spectroscopies that probe electronic excitations from core levels into unoccupied orbitals, such as X-ray absorption spectroscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy, are widely used to gain insight into the electronic and chemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-12 Marcus Annegarn , Juhan Matthias Kahk , Johannes Lischner

We study the accuracy of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) for warm- and hot-dense matter (WDM and HDM). Specifically, considering a wide range of systems, we perform accurate ab initio molecular dynamics simulations with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Phanish Suryanarayana , Arpit Bhardwaj , Xin Jing , Shashikant Kumar , John E. Pask