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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 possibility of finding multistability in the density and current of an interacting nanoscale junction coupled to semi-infinite leads is studied at various levels of approximation. The system is driven out of equilibrium by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Khosravi , A. -M. Uimonen , A. Stan , G. Stefanucci , S. Kurth , R. van Leeuwen , E. K. U. Gross

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 logical structure and the basic theorems of time-dependent current density functional theory (TDCDFT) are analyzed and reconsidered from the point of view of recently proposed time-dependent deformation functional theory (TDDefFT). It…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 I. V. Tokatly

Basic issues of the time-dependent density-functional theory are discussed, especially on the real-time calculation of the linear response functions. Some remarks on the derivation of the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations and on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-06 Takashi Nakatsukasa

Time dependent quantum systems are the subject of intense inquiry, in mathematics, science, and engineering, particularly at the atomic and molecular levels. In 1984, Runge and Gross introduced time dependent density functional theory…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Joseph W. Jerome

This chapter provides a basic introduction to excited-state extensions of density functional theory (DFT), including time-dependent (TD-)DFT in both its linear-response and its explicitly time-dependent formulations. As applied to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 John M. Herbert

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is widely used for understanding and predicting properties and behaviors of matter. As one of the fundamental theorems in TDDFT, van Leeuwen's theorem [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3863 (1999)]…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-08 Jiong-Hang Liang , Tian-Xing Hu , D. Wu , Zheng-Mao Sheng , J. Zhang

An extension of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), the generalized time-dependent generator coordinate method (TDGCM), is applied to a study of induced nuclear fission dynamics. In the generalized TDGCM, the correlated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-11 B. Li , D. Vretenar , T. Nikši\' c , P. W. Zhao , J. Meng

Adiabatic approximations in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) will in general yield unphysical time-dependent shifts in the resonance positions of a system driven far from its ground-state. This spurious time-dependence is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Kai Luo , Johanna I. Fuks , Neepa T. Maitra

The dynamics of strongly interacting trapped dilute Fermi gases (dilute in the sense that the range of interatomic potential is small compared with inter-particle spacing) is investigated in a single-equation approach to the time-dependent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-02-05 Yeong E. Kim , Alexander L. Zubarev

An approximate solution to the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) response equations for finite systems is developed, yielding corrections to the single-pole approximation. These explain why allowed Kohn-Sham transition…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Appel , E. K. U. Gross , K. Burke

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a central tool for studying the dynamical electronic structure of molecules and solids, yet aspects of its mathematical foundations remain insufficiently understood. In this work, we…

An approximate method based on adiabatic time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presented, that allows for the description of the electron dynamics in nanoscale junctions under arbitrary time dependent external potentials. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Y. Wang , C. -Y. Yam , G. H. Chen , Th. Frauenheim , T. A. Niehaus

The particle-hole interaction problem is longstanding within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and leads to extreme errors in the prediction of K-edge X-ray absorption spectra (XAS). We derive a linear-response formalism that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Kevin Carter-Fenk , Leonardo A. Cunha , Juan E. Arias-Martinez , Martin Head-Gordon

We present an extension of the density-functional theory (DFT) formalism for lattice gases to systems with internal degrees of freedom. In order to test approximations commonly used in DFT approaches, we investigate the statics and dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Heinrichs , W. Dieterich , P. Maass , H. L. Frisch

Inspired by the formulation of quantum-electrodynamical time-dependent density functional theory (QED-TDDFT) by Rubio and coworkers, we propose an implementation that uses dimensionless amplitudes for describing the photonic contributions…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-20 Junjie Yang , Qi Ou , Zheng Pei , Hua Wang , Binbin Weng , Kieran Mullen , Yihan Shao

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

We investigate the time an electronic excitation travels in a supermolecular setup using a measurement process in an open quantum-system framework. The approach is based on the stochastic Schr\"odinger equation and uses a Hamiltonian from…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-09 Dirk Hofmann , Heiko Appel , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Stephan Kümmel

The Kohn-Sham approach to time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) can be formulated, in principle exactly, by invoking the force-balance equation for the density, which leads to an explicit expression for the exchange-correlation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Walter Tarantino , Carsten A. Ullrich