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The $GW$ approximation is a well-established method for calculating ionization potentials and electron affinities in solids and molecules. For numerous years, obtaining self-consistent $GW$ total energies in solids has been a challenging…

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We showcase the advantages of orbital-free density-potential functional theory (DPFT), a more flexible variant of Hohenberg-Kohn density functional theory. DPFT resolves the usual trouble with the gradient-expanded kinetic energy functional…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-16 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , Jun Hao Hue , Berthold-Georg Englert

In the present work, we revisit the problem of the inhomogeneous electron gas under the influence of a weak external potential, which allows us to calculate the gradient corrections to the density functional within linear response, an…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Mario Benites , Angel Rosado , Efstratios Manousakis

Topological insulators (TIs) are materials that are insulating in the bulk but have zero band gap surface states with linear dispersion and are protected by time reversal symmetry. These unique characteristics could pave the way for many…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Thomas K. Reid , S. Pamir Alpay , Alexander V. Balatsky , Sanjeev K. Nayak

Using a linear combination of atomic orbitals approach, we report a systematic comparison of various Density Functional Theory (DFT) and hybrid exchange-correlation functionals for the prediction of the electronic and structural properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-05-07 D. I. Bilc , R. Orlando , R. Shaltaf , G. -M. Rignanese , Jorge Íñiguez , Ph. Ghosez

Finding accurate exchange-correlation (XC) functionals remains the defining challenge in density functional theory (DFT). Despite 40 years of active development, the desired chemical accuracy is still elusive with existing functionals. We…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Bikash Kanungo , Jeffrey Hatch , Paul M. Zimmerman , Vikram Gavini

In the last decades, dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) and its diagrammatic extensions have been successfully applied to describe local and nonlocal correlation effects in correlated electron systems. Unfortunately, except for the exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-02 Julian Stobbe , Georg Rohringer

We examine the leading order semiclassical gradient corrections to the non-interacting kinetic energy density functional of a two dimensional Fermi gas by applying the extended Thomas-Fermi theory at finite temperature. We find a non-zero…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-20 Brandon P. van Zyl , K. Berkane , K Bencheikh , A. Farrell

A density functional theory (DFT) framework is presented that links functional derivatives of free-energy functionals to non-linear static density response functions in quantum many-body systems. Within this framework, explicit expressions…

In this paper, we study the convergence properties of the Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) method for finding a stationary point of a given objective function $J(\cdot)$. The objective function is not required to be convex. Rather, our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-24 Rajeeva L. Karandikar , M. Vidyasagar

The modified Becke-Johnson meta-GGA potential of density functional theory has been shown to be the best exchange-correlation potential to determine band gaps of crystalline solids. However, it cannot be consistently used for the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-02 Tomáš Rauch , Miguel A. L. Marques , Silvana Botti

Realizing the potential for predictive density functional calculations of matter under extreme conditions depends crucially upon having an exchange-correlation (XC) free energy functional accurate over a wide range of state conditions.…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-21 Valentin V. Karasiev , James W. Dufty , S. B. Trickey

We present a family of \textit{Gaussian Mixture Approximation} (GMA) samplers for sampling unnormalised target densities, encompassing \textit{weights-only GMA} (W-GMA), \textit{Laplace Mixture Approximation} (LMA),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yongchao Huang

There is a number of explicit kinetic energy density functionals for non-interacting electron systems that are obtained in terms of the electron density and its derivatives. These semilocal functionals have been widely used in the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-12-22 David Garcia-Aldea , J. E. Alvarellos

The recent non-empirical semi-local exchange functional of Armiento and K\"ummel, the AK13 [PRL 111, 036402 (2013)] incorporates a number of features reproduced by higher-order theory. The AK13 potential behaves analogously with the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 A. Lindmaa , R. Armiento

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

Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics occur in a wide range of chemical reactions and femtochemistry experiments involving electronically excited states. These dynamics are hard to treat numerically as the system's complexity increases and it is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Haifeng Lang , Oriol Vendrell , Philipp Hauke

Developing a reliable kinetic energy density functional within orbital-free density functional theory remains a long-standing challenge, particularly for atomic and molecular systems. A major difficulty lies in the absence of a systematic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Priya Priya , Anuvab Panda , Saswata Basu , Mainak Sadhukhan

In previous works, the projected truncation approximation (PTA) was developed as a systematic and controlled method to truncate the equation of motion of Green's functions (GFs) for a given quantum or classical many-body Hamiltonian. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Kou-Han Ma , Yue-Hong Wu , Ning-Hua Tong