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We report the analytical nuclear gradient theory for complete active space second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2) with imaginary shift, which is commonly used to avoid divergence of the perturbation expression. Our formulation is based…

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Ab initio calculations of nuclei face the challenge of simultaneously describing strong short-range internucleon correlations and the long-range properties of weakly-bound halo nucleons. Natural orbitals, which diagonalize the one-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-07 Ch. Constantinou , M. A. Caprio , J. P. Vary , P. Maris

For orbital-free {\it ab initio} molecular dynamics, especially on systems in extreme thermodynamic conditions, we provide the first pseudo-potential-adapted generalized gradient approximation (GGA) functional for the non-interacting free…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Kai Luo , Valentin V. Karasiev , S. B. Trickey

The precise description of quantum nuclear fluctuations in atomistic modelling is possible by employing path integral techniques, which involve a considerable computational overhead due to the need of simulating multiple replicas of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Venkat Kapil , Jörg Behler , Michele Ceriotti

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

To go beyond Gaussian approximation to the Hohenberg-Kohn free energy playing the key role in the density functional theory (DFT), the density functional \textit{integral} representation would be relevant, because field theoretical approach…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Frusawa , R. Hayakawa

The average energy curvature as a function of the particle number is a molecule-specific quantity, which measures the deviation of a given functional from the exact conditions of density functional theory (DFT). Related to the lack of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Alberto Fabrizio , Benjamin Meyer , Clemence Corminboeuf

We propose to relax geometries throughout chemical compound space (CCS) using alchemical perturbation density functional theory (APDFT). APDFT refers to perturbation theory involving changes in nuclear charges within approximate solutions…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Giorgio Domenichini , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Noether's calculus of invariant variations yields exact identities from functional symmetries. The standard application to an action integral allows to identify conservation laws. Here we rather consider generating functionals, such as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-16 Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

This work focuses on providing closed form analytical expressions to define frozen orbits under the effects of the zonal harmonics of an Earth-like planet. Particularly, the perturbation effects from the terms J2, J3, J4, J5, J6, and J7 are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-23 David Arnas

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

Determination of atomic structures is a key challenge in the fields of computational physics and materials science, as a large variety of mechanical, chemical, electronic, and optical properties depend sensitively on structure. Here, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Sami Kaappa , Estefanía Garijo del Río , Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

We present an Augmented Lagrangian formulation and its real-space implementation for non-periodic orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) calculations. In particular, we rewrite the constrained minimization problem of OF-DFT as a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Phanish Suryanarayana , Deepa Phanish

Force fields are usually formulated directly in nuclear configuration space, whereas density functional theory is naturally formulated in terms of external potentials, densities, and variational duality. We show that exact force fields are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Nan Sheng

Complete orthonormal sets of exponential-type orbitals with non-integer principal quantum numbers are discussed as basis functions in non-relativistic Hartree-Fock-Roothaan electronic structure calculations of atoms. A method is proposed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Ali Bagci , Philip E. Hoggan

Orbital motion of a body can be found from Newtonian equation of motion. However, it is useful to express the motion through time derivatives of Keplerian orbital elements, mainly if the motion is perturbed by small perturbing force. The…

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Because the distant retrograde orbits dynamics inherently depends on special functions, approximate analytical solutions in the literature are commonly constrained to providing rough approximations of the qualitative behavior. We rely on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Martin Lara

Using generalizations of natural orbitals, spin-averaged natural orbitals, and two-particle charge correlators for solids, we investigate electronic structure of antiferromagnetic transition-metal oxides with a fully self-consistent,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-07 Pavel Pokhilko , Dominika Zgid

Analytical gradients of the total energy are provided for local density and generalized-gradient hybrid approximations to generalized Kohn-Sham spin-current density functional theory (SCDFT). It is shown that gradients may be determined…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-21 Jacques K. Desmarais , Alessandro Erba , Jean-Pierre Flament