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In the density functional (DF) theory of Kohn and Sham, the kinetic energy of the ground state of a system of noninteracting electrons in a general external field is calculated using a set of orbitals. Orbital free methods attempt to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeng-Da Chai , John D Weeks

This letter aims to derive the exact relativistic orbital-free kinetic energy density functional for one-particle nuclear systems in one-dimensional case. The kinetic energy is expressed as a functional of both vector and scalar densities.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-25 X. H. Wu , Z. X. Ren , H. Z. Liang , P. W. Zhao

Within ``orbital-free'' density functional theory, it is essential to develop general kinetic energy density (KED), denoted as $t(\mathbf{r})$. This is usually done by empirical corrections and enhancements, gradient expansions, machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Abdulaziz H. Al-Aswad , Fahhad H. Alharbi

Orbital-free density functional theory promises to deliver linear-scaling electronic structure calculations. This requires the knowledge of the non-interacting kinetic-energy density functional (KEDF), which should be accurate and must…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-12 Michael A. J. Mitchell , Teresa Del Aguila Ferrandis , Stefano Sanvito

Despite a large number of nonlocal kinetic energy density functionals (KEDFs) available for large-scale calculations, most of those nonlocal KEDFs designed for the extended systems cannot be directly applied to isolated systems. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-29 Qiang Xu , Jian Lv , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

The Wang-Teter-like nonlocal kinetic energy density functional (KEDF) in the framework of orbital-free density functional theory, while successful in some bulk systems, exhibits a critical Blanc-Cances instability [J. Chem. Phys. 122,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 Liang Sun , Mohan Chen

We present a substantial extension of our constraint-based approach for development of orbital-free (OF) kinetic-energy (KE) density functionals intended for the calculation of quantum-mechanical forces in multi-scale molecular dynamics…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 V. V. Karasiev , R. S. Jones , S. B. Trickey , Frank E. Harris

An axiomatic approach is herein used to determine the physically acceptable forms for general $D$-dimensional kinetic energy density functionals (KEDF). The resulted expansion captures most of the known forms of one-point KEDFs. By…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-06-08 Sabre Kais , Fahhad H Alharbi

In orbital-free density functional theory the kinetic potential (KP), the functional derivative of the kinetic energy density functional, appears in the Euler equation for the electron density and may be more amenable to simple…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Jeng-Da Chai , Vincent L. Ligneres , Gregory Ho , Emily A. Carter , John D. Weeks

Adopting an accurate kinetic energy density functional (KEDF) to characterize the noninteracting kinetic energy within the framework of orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) is challenging. We propose a new form of the non-local…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Liang Sun , Yuanbo Li , Mohan Chen

Nonlocal kinetic energy density functionals (KEDFs) with density-dependent kernels are currently the most accurate functionals available for orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) calculations. However, despite advances in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-05 Yongshuo Chen , Cheng Ma , Boning Cui , Tian Cui , Wenhui Mi , Qiang Xu , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

We study the dependence of kinetic energy densities (KED) on density-dependent variables that have been suggested in previous works on kinetic energy functionals (KEF) for orbital-free DFT (OF-DFT). We focus on the role of data distribution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-27 Sergei Manzhos , Pavlo Golub

It is shown here that Kohn-Sham equations cannot be derived from Hohenberg-Kohn theory without an additional postulate. Assuming that a functional derivative with respect to total electron density exists leads in general to a theory…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. K. Nesbet

Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory (OFDFT) has re-emerged as a viable alternative to Kohn-Sham DFT, driven by recent advances in kinetic energy density functionals (KEDFs). Nonlocal (NL) KEDFs have significantly extended OFDFT's…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-24 Abhishek Bhattacharjee , Hemanadhan Myneni , Manoj K. Harbola , Prasanjit Samal

Self-interaction is a fundamental flaw of practical Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS DFT) approximations responsible for numerous qualitative and even catastrophic shortcomings. Whereas self-interaction is easy to characterize in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Samuel A. Slattery , Edward F. Valeev

The kinetic energy (KE) kernel, which is defined as the second order functional derivative of the KE functional with respect to density, is the key ingredient to the construction of KE models for orbital free density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-15 Zhandos A. Moldabekov , Xuecheng Shao , Michele Pavanello , Jan Vorberger , Tobias Dornheim

In approximate Kohn-Sham density-functional theory, self-interaction manifests itself as the dependence of the energy of an orbital on its fractional occupation. This unphysical behavior translates into qualitative and quantitative errors…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-28 Ismaila Dabo , Andrea Ferretti , Nicolas Poilvert , Yanli Li , Nicola Marzari , Matteo Cococcioni

We study in this article the mathematical properties of a class of orbital-free kinetic energy functionals. We prove that these models are linearly stable but nonlinearly unstable, in the sense that the corresponding kinetic energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 X. Blanc , E. Cances

We present a kinetic-energy density-functional theory and the corresponding kinetic-energy Kohn-Sham (keKS) scheme on a lattice and show that by including more observables explicitly in a density-functional approach already simple…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Iris Theophilou , Florian Buchholz , F. G. Eich , Michael Ruggenthaler , Angel Rubio

Two equations are constructed which reflect, for fermions moving independently in a spherical harmonic potential, a differential virial theorem and a relation between the turning points of kinetic energy and particle densities. These…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Minguzzi , N. H. March , M. P. Tosi
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