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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

We represent the free energy functional by a diagrammatic series with tensorial coefficients indexed by powers of length scale. For hard cores, we obtain Percus' exact functional in one dimension and the Kierlik-Rosinberg form of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-27 Gavin Leithall , Matthias Schmidt

The onset of condensation of hard spheres in a gravitational field is studied using density functional theory. In particular, we find that the local density approximation yields results identical to those obtained previously using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joseph A. Both , Daniel C. Hong

We propose a new type of effective densities via the potential distribution theorem. These densities are for the sake of enabling the mapping of the free energy of a uniform fluid onto that of a nonuniform fluid. The potential distribution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-21 L. L. Lee , G. Pellicane

The structural properties of single component fluids of hard hyperspheres in odd space dimensionalities $d$ are studied with an analytical approximation method that generalizes the Rational Function Approximation earlier introduced in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-10 Rene D. Rohrmann , Andres Santos

Using the virial theorem it is shown that the hypothesis of the existence of the universal density functional is invalid.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 V. B. Bobrov , S. A. Trigger

In this paper we prove an inverse function theorem in derived differential geometry. More concretely, we show that a morphism of curved $L_\infty$ spaces which is a quasi-isomorphism at a point has a local homotopy inverse. This theorem…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Lino Amorim , Junwu Tu

Classical density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful framework to study inhomogeneous fluids. Its standard form is based on the knowledge of a generating free energy functional. If this is known exactly, then the results obtained by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-02 S. M. Tschopp , H. Vahid , A. Sharma , J. M. Brader

In the framework of density functional theory, scaling and the virial theorem are essential tools for deriving exact properties of density functionals. Preexisting mathematical difficulties in deriving the virial theorem via scaling for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-18 H. Mirhosseini , A. Cangi , T. Baldsiefen , A. Sanna , C. R. Proetto , E. K. U. Gross

A complete solution to the inverse problem of Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory is proposed. Our method consists of two steps. First, the effective KS potential is determined from the ground state density of a given system. Then, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 A. Liardi , F. Marino , G. Colò , X. Roca-Maza , E. Vigezzi

We formulate a straightforward scheme of statistical mechanics for inhomogeneous systems that includes the virial series in powers of the activity for the grand free energy and density distributions. There, cluster integrals formulated for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-25 Ignacio Urrutia , Iván Paganini

We introduce a density functional formalism to study the ground-state properties of strongly-correlated dipolar and ionic ultracold bosonic and fermionic gases, based on the self-consistent combination of the weak and the strong coupling…

Density functional theory, when applied to systems with $T\neq 0$, is based on the grand canonical extension of the Hohenberg-Kohn-Sham theorem due to Mermin (HKSM theorem). While a straightforward canonical ensemble generalization fails,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Hernando , L. Blum

We present a general framework for reconstructing effective Hamiltonians from known gravitational energy density profiles in curved spacetime. Starting from local thermal equilibrium and Liouville dynamics, we establish an inverse procedure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Davood Momeni

We present the solution to an inverse problem arising in the context of finding a distribution function for a specific collisionless plasma equilibrium. The inverse problem involves the solution of two integral equations, each having the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 O. Allanson , T. Neukirch , S. Troscheit , F. Wilson

In weighted Orlicz type spaces ${\mathcal S}_{_{\scriptstyle \mathbf p,\,\mu}}$ with a variable summation exponent, the direct and inverse approximation theorems are proved in terms of best approximations of functions and moduli of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Fahreddin G. Abdullayev , Stanislav O. Chaichenko , Meerim Imash kyzy , Andrii L. Shidlich

A new version of the Hadwiger theorem on convex functions is established and an explicit representation of functional intrinsic volumes is found using new functional Cauchy-Kubota formulas. In addition, connections between functional…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Andrea Colesanti , Monika Ludwig , Fabian Mussnig

We reconsider the density functional theory of nonuniform classical fluids from the point of view of convex analysis. From the observation that the logarithm of the grand-partition function $\log \Xi [\phi]$ is a convex functional of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. -M. Caillol

The general solution of the inverse Frobenius-Perron problem considering the construction of a fully chaotic dynamical system with given invariant density is obtained within the class of one-dimensional unimodal maps. Some interesting…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Pingel , P. Schmelcher , F. K. Diakonos

We obtain a fundamental measure density functional for mixtures of parallel hard cylinders. To this purpose we first generalize to multicomponent mixtures the fundamental measure functional proposed by Tarazona and Rosenfeld for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuri Martinez-Raton , Jose A. Capitan , Jose A. Cuesta