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Accurate modeling of spin-orbit coupling and noncollinear magnetism requires noncollinear density functionals within the two-component generalized Kohn-Sham (GKS) framework, yet constructing and implementing noncollinear functionals remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-26 Xiaoyu Zhang , Taoni Bao

The accurate description of open-shell molecules, in particular of transition metal complexes and clusters, is still an important challenge for quantum chemistry. While density-functional theory (DFT) is widely applied in this area, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-10-26 Christoph R. Jacob , Markus Reiher

The role of the exchange-correlation potential and the exchange-correlation kernel in the calculation of excitation energues from time-dependent density functional theory is studied. Excitation energies of the He and Be atoms are…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Petersilka , E. K. U. Gross , Kieron Burke

We discuss by analytic means the theory of the high-density limit of the unpolarized two-dimensional electron liquid in the presence of Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. A generalization of the ring-diagram expansion is performed.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stefano Chesi , Gabriele F. Giuliani

We apply local orbital basis density functional theory (using SIESTA) coupled with a mapping to the Anderson impurity model to estimate the Coulomb assisted or correlated hybridization between transition metal d-orbitals and ligand…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Huebsch , J. C. Lin , J. Pan , D. L. Cox

Density-functional theory requires ever better exchange-correlation (xc) functionals for the ever more precise description of many-body effects on electronic structure. Universal constraints on the xc energy are important ingredients in the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mariana M. Odashima , K. Capelle

A density-functional theory is established for inhomogeneous superfluids at finite temperature, subject to time-dependent external fields in isothermal conditions. After outlining parallelisms between a neutral superfluid and a charged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. L. Chiofalo , M. P. Tosi

In this work, we extend the source-free (SF) exchange correlation (XC) functional developed by Sangeeta Sharma and co-workers to plane-wave density functional theory (DFT) based on the projector augmented wave (PAW) method. This constraint…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-28 Guy C. Moore , Matthew K. Horton , Aaron D. Kaplan , Sinéad M. Griffin , Kristin A. Persson

The optimized effective potential (OEP) method allows for calculation of the local, effective single particle potential of density functional theory for explicitly orbital-dependent approximations to the exchange-correlation energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 P. Sule , S. Kurth , V. Van Doren

Based on the extended optical model approach in which the polarization potential is decomposed into direct reaction (DR) and fusion parts, simultaneous $\chi^{2}$ analyses are performed for elastic scattering and fusion cross section data…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 W. Y. So , T. Udagawa , K. S. Kim , S. W. Hong , B. T. Kim

In spin-polarized itinerant electron systems, collective spin-wave modes arise from dynamical exchange and correlation (xc) effects. We here consider spin waves in doped paramagnetic graphene with adjustable Zeeman-type band splitting. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Matthew J. Anderson , Florent Perez , Carsten A. Ullrich

The formal link between the linear combination of atomic orbitals approach to density functional theory and two-center Slater-Koster tight-binding models is used to derive an orthogonal $d$-band tight-binding model for iron with only two…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-19 Georg K. H. Madsen , Eunan J. McEniry , Ralf Drautz

A detailed convex analysis-based formulation of density-functional theory for periodic systems in arbitrary dimensions is presented. The electron-electron interaction is taken to be of Yukawa type, harmonising with underlying function…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Oliver M. Bohle , Maryam Lotfigolian , Andre Laestadius , Erik I. Tellgren

Kohn-Sham (KS) formalism of Density Functional Theory is modified to include the systems with strong non-dynamic electron correlation. Unlike in extended KS and broken symmetry unrestricted KS formalisms, cases of both singlet-triplet and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Artem Masunov

In first-principles calculations, hybrid functional is often used to improve accuracy from local exchange correlation functionals. A drawback is that evaluating the hybrid functional needs significantly more computing effort. When…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-05 Maoyuan Wang , Gui-Bin Liu , Hong Guo , Yugui Yao

Based on recent progress on fermionic exchange symmetry we propose a way to develop new functionals for reduced density matrix functional theory. For some settings with an odd number of electrons, by assuming saturation of the inequalities…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-23 Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Miguel A. L. Marques

A simple and completely general representation of the exact exchange-correlation functional of density-functional theory is derived from the universal Lieb-Oxford bound, which holds for any Coulomb-interacting system. This representation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Mariana M. Odashima , K. Capelle

We train a neural network as the universal exchange-correlation functional of density-functional theory that simultaneously reproduces both the exact exchange-correlation energy and potential. This functional is extremely non-local, but…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Jonathan Schmidt , Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Miguel A. L. Marques

We formulate a low-energy theory for the magnetic interactions between electrons in the multi-band Hubbard model under non-equilibrium conditions determined by an external time-dependent electric field which simulates laser-induced spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-11 Andrea Secchi , Sergei Brener , Alexander I. Lichtenstein , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

A recently developed viewpoint on the fundamentals of density-functional theory for finite interacting spin-lattice systems that centers around the notion of degeneracy regions is presented. It allows for an entirely geometrical description…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-22 Markus Penz , Robert van Leeuwen