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We propose a first-principles time-dependent density functional theoretical (TDDFT) approach in momentum (P) space for quantitative study of electron transport in molecular devices under arbitrary biases. In this approach, the basic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-10 Zhongyuan Zhou , Shih-I Chu

First-order nonadiabatic coupling matrix elements (fo-NACMEs) are the basic quantities in theoretical descriptions of electronically nonadiabatic processes that are ubiquitous in molecular physics and chemistry. Given the large size of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Zikuan Wang , Chenyu Wu , Wenjian Liu

Over many years, computational simulations based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) have been used extensively to study many different materials at the atomic scale. However, its application is restricted by system size, leaving a number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Carlos Romero-Muñiz , Ayako Nakata , Pablo Pou , David R. Bowler , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki , Rubén Pérez

We show that the time dependent single electron, nuclear density matrix of an interacting electronic system coupled to nuclear degrees of freedom can be exactly reproduced by that of an electronic system with arbitrarily specified…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-07 Vinod Krishna

To explore the applicability of orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) in nuclear physics, we perform a systematic benchmark of 36 one-point kinetic energy density functionals, which are originally developed for electron systems in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 Tian Shuai Shang , Jian Li , Haozhao Liang , Xinhui Wu , Cheng Ma , Wenhui Mi , Xuecheng Shao , Yanchao Wang

Given the time-evolution of an electron charge density, the local potential in Kohn-Sham time-dependent density functional theory (KS-TDDFT) can be modeled as a sum of instantaneous and dynamic contributions by assuming a certain form of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 R. J. Magyar

Direct simulation of the von Neumann dynamics for a general (pure or mixed) quantum state can often be expensive. One prominent example is the real-time time-dependent density functional theory (rt-TDDFT), a widely used framework for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Dong An , Di Fang , Lin Lin

At present there are two vastly different ab initio approaches to the description of the the many-body dynamics: the Density Functional Theory (DFT) and the functional integral (path integral) approaches. On one hand, if implemented…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Aurel Bulgac

As a universal quantum mechanical approach to the dynamical many-body problem, the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) might be inadequate to describe crucial observables that rely on two-body evolution behavior, like the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Jiong-Hang Liang , Yunfeng Xiong

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 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

The performance of time-independent, orbital optimized calculations of excited states is assessed with respect to charge transfer excitations in organic molecules in comparison to the linear-response time-dependent density functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Elli Selenius , Alec Elías Sigurdarson , Yorick L. A. Schmerwitz , Gianluca Levi

Photo-active systems are characterized by their capacity of absorbing light energy and transforming it. Usually, more than one chromophore is involved in the light absorption and excitation transport processes in complex systems.…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-21 Joaquim Jornet-Somoza , Irina Lebedeva

An exact theoretical framework based on Time Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) is proposed in order to deal with the time-dependent quantum transport in fully interacting systems. We use a \textit{partition-free} approach by Cini…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gianluca Stefanucci , Carl-Olof Almbladh

Linear-response time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) can describe excitonic features in the optical spectra of insulators and semiconductors, using exchange-correlation (xc) kernels behaving as $-1/k^{2}$ to leading order. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-18 Jiuyu Sun , Cheng-Wei Lee , Alina Kononov , André Schleife , Carsten A. Ullrich

We give a fairly comprehensive review of wavelets and of their application to density-functional theory (DFT) and to our recent application of a wavelet-based version of linear-response time-dependent DFT (LR-TD-DFT). Our intended audience…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-24 Bhaarathi Natarajan , Mark E. Casida , Luigi Genovese , Thierry Deutsch

Knowing the rate at which particle radiation releases energy in a material, the stopping power, is key to designing nuclear reactors, medical treatments, semiconductor and quantum materials, and many other technologies. While the nuclear…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-13 Logan Ward , Ben Blaiszik , Cheng-Wei Lee , Troy Martin , Ian Foster , André Schleife

This review is based on lectures given by the author at the Enrico Fermi Summer School in Varenna. It presents the basics of Density Functional Theory (DFT) for Fermi superfluids, with particular emphasis on nuclear systems. Special…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-10 Piotr Magierski

In contrast to the original Kohn-Sham (KS) formalism, we propose a density functional theory (DFT) with fractional orbital occupations for the study of ground states of many-electron systems, wherein strong static correlation is shown to be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jeng-Da Chai

The description of realistic strongly correlated systems has recently advanced through the combination of density functional theory in the local density approximation (LDA) and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). This LDA+DMFT method is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Amadon , F. Lechermann , A. Georges , F. Jollet , T. O. Wehling , A. I. Lichtenstein