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Implicit electron-density solvation models based on joint density-functional theory offer a computationally efficient solution to the problem of calculating thermodynamic quantities of solvated systems from firstprinciples quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-02-12 Deniz Gunceler , T. A. Arias

We use density functional theory to describe the phase behaviors of rigid molecules. The construction of kernel function G(x, P, x, P) is discussed. Excluded-volume potential is calculated for two types of molecules with C_{2v} symmetry.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Jie Xu , Pingwen Zhang

The density of an atom in a state of well-defined angular momentum has a specific finite spherical harmonic content, without and with interactions. Approximate single-particle schemes, such as the Hartree, Hartree-Fock, and Local Density…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-05 H. A. Fertig , W. Kohn

The molecular density functional theory of fluids provides an exact theory for computing solvation free energies in implicit solvents. One of the reasons it has not received nearly as much attention as quantum density functional theory for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-04 David M. Rogers

Molecular Density Functional Theory (MDFT) offers an efficient implicit- solvent method to estimate molecule solvation free-energies whereas conserving a fully molecular representation of the solvent. Even within a second order ap-…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-12 Volodymyr P. Sergiievskyi , Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maximilien Levesque , Daniel Borgis

Fluids made of two-dimensional hard particles with polygonal shapes may stabilize symmetries which do not result directly from the particle shape. This is due to the formation of clusters in the fluid. Entropy alone can drive these effects,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-05 Yuri Martinez-Raton , Enrique Velasco

Series representations consisting of spherical harmonics are obtained for characteristic exponents and probability density functions of multivariate stable distributions under various conditions. A esult potentially applicable in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-18 Zhiyi Chi

A hard sphere fluid confined by hard, structureless, and parallel walls is investigated using a certain version of weighted density functional theory. The density profile, the excess coverage, the finite size contribution to the free…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 B. Gotzelmann , S. Dietrich

The Squared-Gradient approximation to the Modified-Core Van der Waals density functional theory model is developed. A simple, explicit expression for the SGA coefficient involving only the bulk equation of state and the interaction…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-05-03 James F. Lutsko

Density functional theory has become the workhorse of quantum physics, chemistry, and materials science. Within these fields, a broad range of applications needs to be covered. These applications range from solids to molecular systems, from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Christof Holzer , Yannick J. Franzke

Density functional theory is used to describe electrolyte solutions in contact with electrodes of planar or spherical shape. For the electrolyte solutions we consider the so-called civilized model, in which all species present are treated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-24 Andreas Reindl , Markus Bier , S. Dietrich

We are concerned with the global existence theory for spherically symmetric solutions of the multidimensional compressible Euler equations with large initial data of positive far-field density. The central feature of the solutions is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Yong Wang

The Gordian knot of density-functional theories for classical molecular liquids remains finding an accurate free-energy functional in terms of the densities of the atomic sites of the molecules. Following Kohn and Sham, we show how to solve…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-02-10 Johannes Lischner , T. A. Arias

We analyze the density distribution and the adsorption of solvent hard spheres in an annular slit formed by two large solute spheres or a large solute and a wall at close distances by means of fundamental measure density functional theory,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-06 V. Botan , F. Pesth , T. Schilling , M. Oettel

A coarse grained model for flexible polymers end-grafted to repulsive spherical nanoparticles is studied for various chain lengths and grafting densities under good solvent conditions, by Molecular Dynamics methods and density functional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 Federica Lo Verso , Sergei A. Egorov , Andrey Milchev , Kurt Binder

We present solution of self-consistent equations for the N3LO nuclear energy density functional. We derive general expressions for the mean fields expressed as differential operators depending on densities and for the densities expressed in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-07-21 B. G. Carlsson , J. Dobaczewski , J. Toivanen , P. Vesely

Stochastic density functional theory is applied to analyze the conductivity of strong two species electrolytes at arbitrary field strengths. The corresponding stochastic equations for the density of the electrolyte species are solved by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 Vincent Démery , David S Dean

The atomization energies of molecules from first-principles density functional approximations improve from the local spin-density approximation (LSDA) to the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE)) generalized gradient approximation (GGA) to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Shah Tanvir ur Rahman Chowdhury , John P. Perdew

Density functional theory, when applied to systems with $T\neq 0$, is based on the grand canonical extension of the Hohenberg-Kohn-Sham theorem due to Mermin (HKSM theorem). While a straightforward canonical ensemble generalization fails,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Hernando , L. Blum

We present Newtonian and fully general-relativistic solutions for the evolution of a spherical region of uniform interior density \rho_i(t), embedded in a background of uniform exterior density \rho_e(t). In both regions, the fluid is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Roshina Nandra , Anthony Lasenby , Michael Hobson