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The density functional theory is extended to account for self-bound systems. To this end the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem is formulated for the intrinsic density and a Kohn-Sham like procedure for an $N$--body system is derived using the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nir Barnea

A model is developed, based on the density functional perturbation theory and the inverse Kohn-Sham method, that can be used to improve relativistic nuclear energy density functionals towards an exact but unknown Kohn-Sham…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Giacomo Accorto , Tomoya Naito , Haozhao Liang , Tamara Niksic , Dario Vretenar

We present an accurate and efficient formulation for the calculation of phonons in real-space Kohn-Sham density functional theory. Specifically, employing a local exchange-correlation functional, norm-conserving pseudopotential in the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-30 Abhiraj Sharma , Phanish Suryanarayana

Kohn-Sham (KS) formalism of Density Functional Theory is modified to include the systems with strong non-dynamic electron correlation. Unlike in extended KS and broken symmetry unrestricted KS formalisms, cases of both singlet-triplet and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Artem Masunov

We calculate the exact Kohn-Sham potential that describes, within time-dependent density-functional theory, the propagation of an electron quasiparticle wavepacket of non-zero crystal momentum added to a ground-state model semiconductor.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. D. Ramsden , R. W. Godby

The exchange-correlation energy in Kohn-Sham density functional theory is expressed as a functional of the electronic density and the Kohn-Sham orbitals. An alternative to Kohn-Sham theory is to express the energy as a functional of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Goedecker , C. Umrigar

Two electrons at the threshold of ionization represent a severe test case for electronic structure theory. A pseudospectral method yields a very accurate density of the two-electron ion with nuclear charge close to the critical value.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 Paul E. Grabowski , Kieron Burke

The Exact Factorization framework is extended and utilized to introduce the electronic-states of correlated electron-photon systems. The formal definitions of an exact scalar potential and an exact vector potential that account for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Ali Abedi , Elham Khosravi , Ilya Tokatly

This Review is devoted to the presentation of the exact factorization as a framework employed to study a variety of quantum-mechanical many-body problems. Since its original formulation in the 70s, the main applications of the exact…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Peter Schürger , Sara Giarrusso , Federica Agostini

It was recently shown that the exact factorization of the electron-nuclear wavefunction allows the construction of a Schr\"odinger equation for the electronic system, in which the potential contains exactly the effect of coupling to the…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2016-01-20 Elham Khosravi , Ali Abedi , Neepa T. Maitra

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

According to the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density-functional theory (DFT), all observable quantities of systems of interacting electrons can be expressed as functionals of the ground-state density. This includes, in principle, the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 Carsten A. Ullrich

We show that the energetics and lifetimes of resonances of finite systems under an external electric field can be captured by Kohn--Sham density functional theory (DFT) within the formalism of uniform complex scaling. Properties of…

Ground-state Kohn-Sham density functional theory provides, in principle, the exact ground-state energy and electronic spin-densities of real interacting electrons in a static external potential. In practice, the exact density functional for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-11 Aaron D. Kaplan , Mel Levy , John P. Perdew

Based on the Schrodinger equation, exact expressions for the non-relativistic particle energy in the local external field and the external field potential are derived as inhomogeneous density functionals. On this basis, it is shown that,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-24 V. B. Bobrov , S. A. Trigger

Quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory (QEDFT) provides a promising avenue for exploring complex light-matter interactions in optical cavities for real materials. Similar to conventional density-functional theory, the Kohn-Sham…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 I-Te Lu , Michael Ruggenthaler , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Simone Latini , Markus Penz , Angel Rubio

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

The practical success of density functional theory (DFT) is largely credited to the Kohn-Sham approach, which enables the exact calculation of the non-interacting electron kinetic energy via an auxiliary noninteracting system. Yet, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sangita Majumdar , Zekun Shi , Giovanni Vignale

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 self consistent version of the density functional theory is presented, which allows to calculate the ground state and dynamic properties of finite multi-electron systems. An exact functional equation for the effective interaction, from…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Ya. Amusia , A. Z. Msezane , V. R. Shaginyan