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Fromager and Lasorne [Electron. Struct. 6 025002 (2024)] have recently derived an in-principle exact Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) of electrons and nuclei, where the nuclear density and the (so-called conditional) electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Lucien Dupuy , Benjamin Lasorne , Emmanuel Fromager

We present systematic quantitative description of the magnetoconductance of the split-gate quantum wires. Accounting for the exchange and correlation interactions within the spin density function theory (DFT) leads to the lifting of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-26 I. V. Zozoulenko , S. Ihnatsenko

Spherical density functional theory (DFT) is a reformulation of the classic theorems of DFT, in which the role of the total density of a many-electron system is replaced by a set of sphericalized densities, constructed by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Sol Samuels , Chance M. Baxter , Susan R. Atlas

For electronic systems with multi-reference (MR) character, Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) with the conventional exchange-correlation (xc) energy functionals can lead to incorrect spin densities and related properties. For…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Yu-Yang Wang , Jeng-Da Chai

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

We present a density functional theory (DFT) for lattice models with local electron-electron (e-e) and electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions. Exchange-correlation potentials are derived via dynamical mean field theory for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 E. Viñas Boström , P. Helmer , P. Werner , C. Verdozzi

An accurate description of the two-electron density, crucial for magnetic coupling in spin systems, provides in general a major challenge for density functional theory calculations. It affects, e.g., the calculated zero-field splitting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Timur Biktagirov , Wolf Gero Schmidt , Uwe Gerstmann

We discuss an efficient scheme for obtaining spin-polarized quasi-particle excitation energies within the general framework of the density functional theory (DFT). Our approach is to correct the DFT eigenvalues via the electrostatic energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-11 B. Barbiellini , A. Bansil

It has long been postulated that within density-functional theory (DFT) the total energy of a finite electronic system is convex with respect to electron count, so that 2 E_v[N_0] <= E_v[N_0 - 1] + E_v[N_0 + 1]. Using the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Andrew C. Burgess , Edward Linscott , David D. O'Regan

An approximate analytical scheme of the dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) is developed for the description of the electron (ion) lattice systems with Hubbard correlations within the asymmetric Hubbard model where the chemical potentials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Ihor V. Stasyuk , Orest B. Hera

Transition-metal compounds (TMCs) with open-shell d-electrons are characterized by a complex interplay of lattice, charge, orbital, and spin degrees of freedom, giving rise to a diverse range of fascinating applications. Often exhibiting…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-19 Yubo Zhang , Akilan Ramasamy , Kanun Pokharel , James W. Furness , Jinliang Ning , Ruiqi Zhang , Jianwei Sun

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

This is a comprehensive review of the strong-interaction limit of density functional theory. It covers the derivation of the limiting strictly correlated electrons (SCE) functional from exact Hohenberg-Kohn DFT, basic aspects of SCE physics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Gero Friesecke , Augusto Gerolin , Paola Gori-Giorgi

Orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) has been used when studying atoms, molecules and solids. In nuclear physics, there has been basically no application of OF-DFT so far, as the Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been widely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-03 Gianluca Colo' , Kouichi Hagino

The formalism developed in the first paper of the series [arXiv:0901.1060] is applied to two thermodynamic systems: (i) of three global observables (the energy, the total electron number and the spin number), (ii) of one global observable…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-10-28 Robert Balawender , Andrzej Holas

Current-spin density functional theory (CSDFT) provides a framework to describe interacting many-electron systems in a magnetic field which couples to both spin- and orbital-degrees of freedom. Unlike in usual (spin-) density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Pittalis , S. Kurth , N. Helbig , E. K. U. Gross

Density functional theory (DFT) has become the most popular approach to electronic structure across disciplines, especially in material and chemical sciences. Last year, at least 30,000 papers used DFT to make useful predictions or give…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Justin C. Smith , Francisca Sagredo , Kieron Burke

One of the central problems in quantum mechanics is to determine the ground state properties of a system of electrons interacting via the Coulomb potential. Since its introduction by Hohenberg, Kohn, and Sham, Density Functional Theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Norbert Schuch , Frank Verstraete

Nanoscale optoelectronics and molecular-electronics systems operate with current injection and nonequilibrium tunneling, phenomena that challenge consistent descriptions of the steady-state transport. The current affects the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Per Hyldgaard

Understanding the properties of warm dense hydrogen is of key importance for the modeling of compact astrophysical objects and to understand and further optimize inertial confinement fusion (ICF) applications. The work horse of warm dense…