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Power systems are undergoing unprecedented transformations with the incorporation of larger amounts of renewable energy sources, distributed generation and demand response. All these changes, while potentially making power grids more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-06 Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Steven Low , Michael Chertkov

The standard model of classical Density Functional Theory for pair potentials consists of a hard-sphere functional plus a mean-field term accounting for long ranged attraction. However, most implementations using sophisticated Fundamental…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 James F. Lutsko , Cédric Schoonen

We consider the problem of determining the beta-functions for any reduced effective field theory. Even though not all the Green's functions of a reduced effective field theory are renormalizable, unlike the full effective field theory,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 Martin B. Einhorn , Jose Wudka

A recently developed formalism in which Kohn-Sham calculations are combined with an ``average pair density functional theory'' is reviewed, and some new properties of the effective electron-electron interaction entering in this formalism…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

Density functional theory is usually formulated in terms of the density in configuration space. Functionals of the momentum-space density have also been studied, and yet other densities could be considered. We offer a unified view from a…

The derivation of the state of the art tensorial versions of Fundamental Measure Theory (a form of classical Density Functional Theory for hard spheres) are re-examined in the light of the recently introduced concept of global stability of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-04 James F. Lutsko

The time-dependent energy density functional with pairing allows to describe a large variety of phenomena from small to large amplitude collective motion. Here, we briefly summarize the recent progresses made in the field using the TD-BCS…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-01 Denis Lacroix , Yusuke Tanimura , Guillaume Scamps

This paper introduces an innovative end-to-end model-based deep learning approach for efficient electromagnetic analysis of high-dimensional frequency selective surfaces (FSS). Unlike traditional data-driven methods that require large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Cheima Hammami , Lucas Polo-López , Luc Le Magoarou

We report a systematic and accurate approach for deriving the bulk free energy surface (FES), a function of temperature, polarization, and strain, from the first-principles density functional theory (DFT) of proper ferroelectrics. The core…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-10 Pinchen Xie , Yixiao Chen , Xinyu Xu , Zhi Yao , Weinan E , Roberto Car

We present a simple introduction to the techniques of effective field theory (EFT) and their application to QCD. For problems with more than one energy scale, the EFT approach is a useful alternative to more traditional model-building…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 U. van Kolck , L. J. Abu-Raddad , D. M. Cardamone

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) for real-space systems has historically depended on Lagrange optimization techniques, primarily due to the inability of previously proposed electron density approaches to ensure the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Alexandre de Camargo , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Rodrigo A. Vargas-Hernández

Exceedance refers to instances where a dynamic process surpasses given thresholds, e.g., the occurrence of a heat wave. We propose a novel exceedance framework for functional data, where each observed random trajectory is transformed into…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-04 Poorbita Kundu , Hang Zhou , Hans-Georg Müller

Modern applications of Covariant Density Functional Theory (CDFT) are discussed. First we show a systematic investigation of fission barriers in actinide nuclei within constraint relativistic mean field theory allowing for triaxial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-20 P. Ring , H. Abusara , A. V. Afanasjev , G. A. Lalazissis , T. Niksic , D. Vretenar

Heterogeneous interfaces are central to many energy-related applications in the nanoscale. From the first-principles electronic structure perspective, one of the outstanding problems is accurately and efficiently calculating how the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-29 Zhen-Fei Liu

We apply a range of density-functional-theory-based methods capable of describing van der Waals interactions to weakly bonded layered solids in order to investigate their accuracy for extended systems. The methods under investigation are…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-05 T. Björkman , A. Gulans , A. V. Krasheninnikov , R. M. Nieminen

In this paper, we study the fundamental statistical efficiency of Reinforcement Learning in Mean-Field Control (MFC) and Mean-Field Game (MFG) with general model-based function approximation. We introduce a new concept called Mean-Field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jiawei Huang , Batuhan Yardim , Niao He

The exchange part of energy density of the linear Dirac--Hartree--Fock (DHF) model in symmetric nuclear matter is evaluated in a parameter--free closed form and expressed as density functional. After the rearranging terms the relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-27 S. Gmuca , K. Petrik , J. Leja

We explore a variety of unsolved problems in density functional theory, where mathematicians might prove useful. We give the background and context of the different problems, and why progress toward resolving them would help those doing…

Common density-matrix functionals, the M\"uller and the power functional, have been benchmarked for the half-filled Hubbard dimer, which allows to model the bond dissociation problem and the transition from the weakly to the strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-09 Ebad Kamil , Robert Schade , Thomas Pruschke , Peter E. Blöchl

The logical structure and the basic theorems of time-dependent current density functional theory (TDCDFT) are analyzed and reconsidered from the point of view of recently proposed time-dependent deformation functional theory (TDDefFT). It…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 I. V. Tokatly