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We explore the feasibility of using machine learning methods to obtain an analytic form of the classical free energy functional for two model fluids, hard rods and Lennard--Jones, in one dimension . The Equation Learning Network proposed in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-15 Shang-Chun Lin , Georg Martius , Martin Oettel

The excess free energy functional of classical density functional theory depends upon the type of fluid model, specifically on the choice of (pair) potential, is unknown in general, and is approximated reliably only in special cases. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-12 Stefanie M. Kampa , Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt , Robert Evans

In this chapter, we discuss recent advances and new opportunities through methods of machine learning for the field of classical density functional theory, dealing with the equilibrium properties of thermal nano- and micro-particle systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-12 Alessandro Simon , Martin Oettel

Based on recent advancements in using machine learning for classical density functional theory for systems with one-dimensional, planar inhomogeneities, we propose a machine learning model for application in two dimensions (2D) akin to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-22 Felix Glitsch , Jens Weimar , Martin Oettel

Density-functional theory is a formally exact description of a many-body quantum system in terms of its density; in practice, however, approximations to the universal density functional are required. In this work, a model based on deep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Jeffrey M. McMahon

Machine learning is used to approximate density functionals. For the model problem of the kinetic energy of non-interacting fermions in 1d, mean absolute errors below 1 kcal/mol on test densities similar to the training set are reached with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 John C. Snyder , Matthias Rupp , Katja Hansen , Klaus-Robert Müller , Kieron Burke

The formally exact framework of equilibrium Density Functional Theory (DFT) is capable of simultaneously and consistently describing thermodynamic and structural properties of interacting many-body systems in arbitrary external potentials.…

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

Classical density-functional theory provides an efficient alternative to molecular dynamics simulations for understanding the equilibrium properties of inhomogeneous fluids. However, application of density-functional theory to multi-site…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 Ravishankar Sundararaman , T. A. Arias

We present a brief review of the classical density functional theory of atomic and molecular fluids. We focus on the application of the theory to the determination of the solvation properties of arbitrary molecular solutes in arbitrary…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maximilien Levesque , Volodymyr Sergiievskyi , Daniel Borgis

Previously, it has been shown that the direct correlation function for a Lennard-Jones fluid could be modeled by a sum of that for hard-spheres, a mean-field tail and a simple linear correction in the core region constructed so as to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-20 James F. Lutsko

The solution of complex many-body lattice models can often be found by defining an energy functional of the relevant density of the problem. For instance, in the case of the Hubbard model the spin-resolved site occupation is enough to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 James Nelson , Rajarshi Tiwari , Stefano Sanvito

We investigate and exploit consequences of the recent neural metadensity functional theory [Kampa et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 107301 (2025), 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.107301] for describing the physics of inhomogeneous fluids. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-21 Stefanie M. Kampa , Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt

A classical density functional theory is applied to study solvation of solutes in water. An approx- imate form of the excess functional is proposed for water. This functional requires the knowledge of pure solvent direct correlation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-09-01 Guillaume Jeanmairet

The accuracy of density-functional theory (DFT) is determined by the quality of the approximate functionals, such as exchange-correlation in electronic DFT and the excess functional in the classical DFT formalism of fluids. The exact…

We present a hybrid scheme based on classical density functional theory and machine learning for determining the equilibrium structure and thermodynamics of inhomogeneous fluids. The exact functional map from the density profile to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-12 Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Daniel de las Heras , Matthias Schmidt

The rational function approximation method, density functional theory, and NVT Monte Carlo simulation are used to obtain the density profiles of multicomponent hard-sphere mixtures near a planar hard wall. Binary mixtures with a size ratio…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-06 Alexandr Malijevsky , Santos B. Yuste , Andres Santos , Mariano Lopez de Haro

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

Machine learning is a powerful tool to design accurate, highly non-local, exchange-correlation functionals for density functional theory. So far, most of those machine learned functionals are trained for systems with an integer number of…

Machine learning has now become an integral part of research and innovation. The field of machine learning density functional theory has continuously expanded over the years while making several noticeable advances. We briefly discuss the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Bhupalee Kalita , Kieron Burke
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