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The classical Density Functional Theory (DFT) is introduced as an application of entropic inference for inhomogeneous fluids at thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic inference reproduces the variational principle of DFT when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-14 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha

This chapter presents the development of a density functional theory (DFT)-based method for accurate, reliable treatment of various resonances in atoms. Many of these are known to be notorious for their strong correlation, proximity to more…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Amlan K. Roy

We propose an analytical model based on diffusion-reaction equation approach for electrochemical electron transfer reaction, where the rate is limited by the electron transfer process. The electron transfer from an ion in solution to the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-29 Aniruddha Chakraborty

We present a new quantum molecular dynamics (MD) method where the electronic structure and atomic forces are solved by a real-space dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). Contrary to most quantum MD methods that are based on effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-19 Zhijie Fan , Gia-Wei Chern

With the rapid development of nanophotonics and cavity quantum electrodynamics, there has been growing interest in how confined electromagnetic fields modify fundamental molecular processes such as electron transfer. In this paper, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Wenxiang Ying , Abraham Nitzan

We apply density functional theory to study the freezing of superfluid {$^{4}\rm{He}$}, charged bosons and charged fermions at zero temperature. We employ accurate Quantum Monte Carlo data for the linear response function in the uniform…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. N. Likos , Saverio Moroni , Gaetano Senatore

It was recently shown [Y. Suzuki, L. Lacombe, K. Watanabe, and N. T. Maitra, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263401 (2017)] that peak and valley structures in the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density functional theory are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Lionel Lacombe , Yasumitsu Suzuki , Kazuyuki Watanabe , Neepa T. Maitra

With the growth of computational resources, the scope of electronic structure simulations has increased greatly. Artificial intelligence and robust data analysis hold the promise to accelerate large-scale simulations and their analysis to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-27 Lenz Fiedler , Karan Shah , Michael Bussmann , Attila Cangi

We propose an in-silico experiment to introduce classical density functional theory (cDFT). Den- sity functional theories, whether quantum or classical, rely on abstract concepts that are non- intuitive. However, they are at the heart of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Nicolas Levy , Maximilien Levesque , Daniel Borgis

Predicting interfacial thermodynamics across molecular and continuum scales remains a central challenge in computational science. Classical density functional theory (cDFT) provides a first-principles route to connect microscopic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Edoardo Monti , Peter Yatsyshin , Konstantinos Gkagkas , Andrew B. Duncan

Reaction-diffusion processes play an important role in a variety of physical, chemical, and biological systems. Conventionally, the kinetics of these processes are described by the law of mass action. However, there are various cases where…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Roman V. Li , Oleg A. Igoshin , Evgeny B. Krissinel , Pavel A. Frantsuzov

As a first step to meet the challenge to calculate the electronic structure and total energy of charged states of atoms and molecules adsorbed on ultrathin-insulating films supported by a metallic substrate using density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-01 Iván Scivetti , Mats Persson

In a previous paper [Phys.Rev.E 83, 051911] we have shown that the results of a quantum-mechanical calculation of electronic energy transfer (EET) over aggregates of coupled monomers can be described also by a model of interacting classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-18 A. Eisfeld , J. S. Briggs

Classical density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful framework to study inhomogeneous fluids. Its standard form is based on the knowledge of a generating free energy functional. If this is known exactly, then the results obtained by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-02 S. M. Tschopp , H. Vahid , A. Sharma , J. M. Brader

Electron transfer with changing occupation in the 4f subshell poses a considerable challenge for quantitative predictions in quantum chemistry. Using the example of cerium oxide, we identify the main deficiencies of common…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Tobias Schäfer , Nathan Daelman , Núria López

Using methods of kinetic theory and liquid state theory we propose a description of the non-equilibrium behavior of molecular fluids which takes into account their microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties. The present work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-24 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

We introduce a simple method for characterizing reactive pathways in quantum systems. Flux auto- correlation and cross-correlation functions are employed to develop a quantitative measure of dynamical coupling in quantum transition events,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-17 Nandini Ananth , Thomas F. Miller

Adiabatic mixed quantum/classical molecular dynamics simulations were used to generate snapshots of the hydrated electron (e-) in liquid water at 300 K. Water cluster anions that include two complete solvation shells centered on the e- were…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-09-28 Ilya A. Shkrob , William J. Glover , Ross E. Larsen , Benjamin J. Schwartz

It is well-known experimentally that the positively-charged muon and the muonium atom may bind to molecules and solids, and through muon$'$s magnetic interaction with unpaired electrons, valuable information on the local environment…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Mohammad Goli , Shant Shahbazian

In principle, we should not need the time-dependent extension of density-functional theory (TDDFT) for excitations, and in particular not for Molecular Dynamics (MD) studies: the theorem by Hohenberg and Kohn teaches us that for any…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 J. L. Alonso , Alberto Castro , Pablo Echenique , Angel Rubio