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Density Functional Theory (DFT) is one of the most widely used methods for "ab initio" calculations of the structure of atoms, molecules, crystals, surfaces, and their interactions. Unfortunately, the customary introduction to DFT is often…

Physics Education · Physics 2010-12-07 Nathan Argaman , Guy Makov

Machine learning techniques have received growing attention as an alternative strategy for developing general-purpose density functional approximations, augmenting the historically successful approach of human designed functionals derived…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Kanun Pokharel , James W. Furness , Yi Yao , Volker Blum , Tom J. P. Irons , Andrew M. Teale , Jianwei Sun

Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) provides the exact ground state energy and electron density of a molecule, contingent on the as-yet-unknown universal exchange-correlation (XC) functional. Recent research has demonstrated that…

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is the workhorse of quantum chemistry, offering an attractive balance between accuracy and computational cost. Although exact in principle, DFT in practice relies on an approximation to the unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Karim K. Alaa El-Din , Antonius v. Strachwitz , Sam M. Vinko

Density functional theory is currently the most widely applied method in electronic structure theory. The Kohn-Sham method, based on a fictitious system of non-interacting particles, is the work horse of the theory. The particular form of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Hubertus J J van Dam

Density functional theory is the standard theory for computing the electronic structure of materials, which is based on a functional that maps the electron density to the energy. However, a rigorous form of the functional is not known and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-02 Ryo Nagai , Ryosuke Akashi , Osamu Sugino

We use the exact strong-interaction limit of the Hohenberg-Kohn energy density functional to construct an approximation for the exchange-correlation term of the Kohn-Sham approach. The resulting exchange-correlation potential is able to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-05 Francesc Malet , André Mirtschink , Jonas C. Cremon , Stephanie M. Reimann , Paola Gori-Giorgi

We introduce a non-equilibrium density-functional theory of local temperature and associated local energy density that is suited for the study of thermoelectric phenomena. The theory rests on a local temperature field coupled to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-16 F. G. Eich , M. Di Ventra , G. Vignale

Calculating perturbation response properties of materials from first principles provides a vital link between theory and experiment, but is bottlenecked by the high computational cost. Here a general framework is proposed to perform density…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 He Li , Zechen Tang , Jingheng Fu , Wen-Han Dong , Nianlong Zou , Xiaoxun Gong , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

Machine-learned regression models represent a promising tool to implement accurate and computationally affordable energy-density functionals to solve quantum many-body problems via density functional theory. However, while they can easily…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Emanuele Costa , Giuseppe Scriva , Rosario Fazio , Sebastiano Pilati

Using a Deep Neuronal Network model (DNN) trained on the large ANI-1 data set of small organic molecules, we propose a transferable density-free many-body dispersion model (DNN-MBD). The DNN strategy bypasses the explicit Hirshfeld…

We present an alternative to the Kohn-Sham formulation of density functional theory for the ground-state properties of strongly interacting electronic systems. The idea is to start from the limit of zero kinetic energy and systematically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Michael Seidl , G. Vignale

A deep neural network (DNN) has been developed to generate the distributions of nuclear charge density, utilizing the training data from the relativistic density functional theory and incorporating available experimental charge radii of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-09 Tian Shuai Shang , Hui Hui Xie , Jian Li , Haozhao Liang

Within exact electron density-functional theory, we investigate Kohn-Sham (KS) potentials, orbital energies, and non-interacting kinetic energies of the fractional ions of Li, C and F. We use quantum Monte Carlo densities as input, which…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Tim Gould , Julien Toulouse

The design of better exchange-correlation functionals for Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a central challenge of modern electronic structure theory. However, current developments are limited by the mathematical form of the functional,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Kyle Bystrom , Boris Kozinsky

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

The exact universal functional of integer charge leads to an extension to fractional charge asymptotically when it is applied to a system made of asymptotically separated densities. The extended functional is asymptotically local and is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Jing Kong

As a proof of principle, self-consistent Kohn--Sham calculations are performed with the exact exchange-correlation functional. Finding the exact functional for even one trial density requires solving the interacting Schr\"odinger equation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Lucas O. Wagner , Thomas E. Baker , E. M. Stoudenmire , Kieron Burke , Steven R. White

The exact interaction energy of a many-electron system is determined by the electron pair density, which is not well-approximated in standard Kohn-Sham density functional models. Here we study the (complicated but well-defined) exact…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-07 Huajie Chen , Gero Friesecke

A generalization of the Kohn--Sham approach is derived where the correlation-energy functional depends on the one-particle density matrix of noninteracting states and on the external potential from the interacting target-state. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 James P. Finley