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In spite of decades of work it has remained unclear whether or not superradiant quantum phases, referred to here as photon condensates, can occur in equilibrium. In this Letter, we first show that when a non-relativistic quantum many-body…

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Quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory (QEDFT) provides a first-principles framework for describing materials coupled to quantized electromagnetic fields. While QEDFT has successfully captured cavity-induced modifications of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-26 Benshu Fan , I-Te Lu , Michael Ruggenthaler , Angel Rubio

A quantum electrodynamical time-dependent density functional theory framework is applied to describe strongly coupled light--matter interactions in cavity environments. The formalism utilizes a tensor product approach, coupling real-space…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Yetmgeta Aklilu , Matthew Shepherd , Cody L. Covington , Kalman Varga

We discuss two problems which are particularly challenging for approximations in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to capture: momentum-distributions in ionization processes, and memory-dependence in real-time dynamics. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-22 Arun K. Rajam , Paul Hessler , Christian Gaun , Neepa T. Maitra

By inverting the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equation for a numerically exact dynamics of the helium atom, we show that the dynamical step and peak features of the exact correlation potential found previously in one-dimensional models persist…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 Davood Dar , Lionel Lacombe , Johannes Feist , Neepa Maitra

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is deemed to be a formally rigorous way of dealing with the time-evolution of a many-electron system at the level of electron densities rather than the underlying wavefunctions, which in turn…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Jochen Schirmer

We propose a first-principles time-dependent density functional theoretical (TDDFT) approach in momentum (P) space for quantitative study of electron transport in molecular devices under arbitrary biases. In this approach, the basic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-10 Zhongyuan Zhou , Shih-I Chu

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

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

In cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED), photons leaving the cavity can be irreversibly lost or reused as a power source. This dichotomy is reflected in two different thermodynamic bookkeepings of the light field, both corresponding to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Marcelo Janovitch , Sander Stammbach , Matteo Brunelli , Patrick P. Potts

The calculation of electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling from first principles is a topic of great interest in materials science, offering a robust, non-empirical framework to understand and predict a wide range of physical phenomena. While…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-17 Savio Laricchia , Casey Eichstaedt , Dimitar Pashov , Mark van Schilfgaarde

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presently enjoying enormous popularity in quantum chemistry, as a useful tool for extracting electronic excited state energies. This article discusses how TDDFT is much broader in scope,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kieron Burke , Jan Werschnik , E. K. U. Gross

To obtain the basis for combining various many-body techniques to QED in a consistent manner, we investigate the theory of quantum electrodynamical self-consistent fields. The reserch interest was born mainly of the electronic structure…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tadafumi Ohsaku

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a formally exact approach to the time-dependent electronic many-body problem which is widely used for calculating excitation energies. We present a survey of the fundamental framework,…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-29 Carsten A. Ullrich , Zeng-hui Yang

For studying the group theoretical classification of the solutions of the density functional theory in relativistic framework, we propose quantum electrodynamical density-matrix functional theory (QED-DMFT). QED-DMFT gives the energy as a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tadafumi Ohsaku , Shusuke Yamanaka , Daisuke Yamaki , Kizashi Yamaguchi

An exact theoretical framework based on Time Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) is proposed in order to deal with the time-dependent quantum transport in fully interacting systems. We use a \textit{partition-free} approach by Cini…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gianluca Stefanucci , Carl-Olof Almbladh

The formalism of density functional theory (DFT) can be easily extended to the time dependent case (TDDFT). However, while in the static case the theory is well established and is expected to be, at least in principle, an exact approach for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandro Stringari

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is rapidly emerging as a premier method for solving dynamical many-body problems in physics and chemistry. The mathematical foundations of TDDFT are established through the formal existence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-22 J. D. Whitfield , M. -H. Yung , D. G. Tempel , S. Boixo , A. Aspuru-Guzik

In the framework of quantum thermodynamics, we propose a method to quantitatively describe thermodynamic quantities for out-of-equilibrium interacting many-body systems. The method is articulated in various approximation protocols which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-22 Marcela Herrera , Roberto M. Serra , Irene D'Amico

We find the analytical solution to the time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) problem for the quasi-low-dimensional (2D and 1D) electron gas (QLDEG) with only one band filled in the direction perpendicular to the system extent.…

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