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We analyze the inverse problem of Density Functional Theory using a regularized variational method. First, we show that given $k$ and a target density $\rho$, there exist potentials having $k^{\text{th}}$ bound mixed states which densities…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Louis Garrigue

One of the most powerful strategies to address properties of real many-body systems is to incorporate data obtained for models, for example, to use data of the homogeneous electron gas in order to build the Local Density Approximation for…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Muhammed Hüseyin Güneş , Ayoub Aouina , Vitaly Gorelov , Matteo Gatti , Lucia Reining

At zero temperature, the Landauer formalism combined with static density functional theory is able to correctly reproduce the Kondo plateau in the conductance of the Anderson impurity model provided that an exchange-correlation potential is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Stefanucci , S. Kurth

The exact ground-state exchange-correlation functional of Kohn-Sham density functional theory yields the exact transmission through an Anderson junction at zero bias and temperature. The exact impurity charge susceptibility is used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Zhenfei Liu , Justin P. Bergfield , Kieron Burke , Charles A. Stafford

In this work, the existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions to the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations are investigated. The Kohn-Sham equations are a system of nonlinear coupled Schr\"odinger equations that describe multi-particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Martin Sprengel , Gabriele Ciaramella , Alfio Borzì

We formulate and implement Cyclic Density Functional Theory (Cyclic DFT) -- a self-consistent first principles simulation method for nanostructures with cyclic symmetries. Using arguments based on Group Representation Theory, we rigorously…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-16 Amartya S. Banerjee , Phanish Suryanarayana

It is shown here that Kohn-Sham equations cannot be derived from Hohenberg-Kohn theory without an additional postulate. Assuming that a functional derivative with respect to total electron density exists leads in general to a theory…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. K. Nesbet

Density functional theory is generalized to incorporate electron-phonon coupling. A Kohn-Sham equation yielding the electronic density $n_U(\mathbf{r})$, a conditional probability density depending parametrically on the phonon normal mode…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-25 Ryan Requist , C. R. Proetto , E. K. U. Gross

For properties of interacting electron systems, Kohn-Sham (KS) theory is often favored over many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) owing to its low computational cost. However, the exact KS potential can be challenging to approximate, for…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-15 Jack Wetherell , Matthew Hodgson , Leopold Talirz , Rex Godby

The most challenging scenario for Kohn-Sham density functional theory, that is when the electrons move relatively slowly trying to avoid each other as much as possible because of their repulsion (strong-interaction limit), is reformulated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-05 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Luigi De Pascale , Paola Gori-Giorgi

The treatment of degenerate states within Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) is a problem of longstanding interest. We propose a solution to this mapping from the interacting degenerate system to that of the noninteracting fermion…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Viraht Sahni , Xiao-Yin Pan

This article generalizes the notion of the local density of a many-body system to introduce collective coordinates as explicit degrees of freedom. It is shown that the energy of the system can be expressed as a functional of this object.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 Thomas Lesinski

We study the Kohn-Sham scheme for the calculation of the steady state linear response to a harmonic perturbation that is turned on adiabatically. Although in general the exact time dependent exchange-correlation potential cannot be…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Ryan Requist , Oleg Pankratov

The density functional theory (DFT) is a remarkably successful theory of electronic structure of matter. At the foundation of this theory lies the Kohn-Sham (KS) equation. In this paper, we describe the long-time behaviour of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Fabio Pusateri , Israel Michael Sigal

In approximate Kohn-Sham density-functional theory, self-interaction manifests itself as the dependence of the energy of an orbital on its fractional occupation. This unphysical behavior translates into qualitative and quantitative errors…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-28 Ismaila Dabo , Andrea Ferretti , Nicolas Poilvert , Yanli Li , Nicola Marzari , Matteo Cococcioni

A rigorous derivation of the density functional in the Hohenberg-Kohn theory is presented. With no assumption regarding the magnitude of the electric coupling constant $e^2$ (or correlation), this work provides a firm basis for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-20 Yi-Kuo Yu

Effective field theory (EFT) methods are applied to density functional theory (DFT) as part of a program to systematically go beyond mean-field approaches to medium and heavy nuclei. A system of fermions with short-range, natural…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. J. Puglia , A. Bhattacharyya , R. J. Furnstahl

This article is part-I of a review of density-functional theory (DFT) that is the most widely used method for calculating electronic structure of materials. The accuracy and ease of numerical implementation of DFT methods has resulted in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-25 Prashant Singh , Manoj K Harbola

Improving the accuracy and thus broadening the applicability of electronic density functional theory (DFT) is crucial to many research areas, from material science, to theoretical chemistry, biophysics and biochemistry. In the last three…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Michael Seidl

Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT) is a very efficient method for calculating various properties of solids as, for instance, the total energy, the electron density, or the electronic band structure. The KS-DFT method leads to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-20 Fabien Tran , Jan Doumont , Leila Kalantari , Ahmad W. Huran , Miguel A. L. Marques , Peter Blaha