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The frequency-dependent exchange-correlation potential, which appears in the usual Kohn-Sham formulation of a time-dependent linear response problem, is a strongly nonlocal functional of the density, so that a consistent local density…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Vignale , Walter Kohn

We introduce a new functional for simulating ground-state and time-dependent electronic systems within density-functional theory. The functional combines an expression for the exact Kohn-Sham (KS) potential in the limit of complete electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 M. J. P. Hodgson , J. D. Ramsden , T. R. Durrant , R. W. Godby

The Kohn-Sham (KS) system is an auxiliary system whose effective potential is unknown in most cases. It is in principle determined by the ground state density, and it has been found numerically for some low-dimensional systems by inverting…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Ayoub Aouina , Matteo Gatti , Siyuan Chen , Shiwei Zhang , Lucia Reining

Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT) is a very efficient method for calculating various properties of solids as, for instance, the total energy, the electron density, or the electronic band structure. The KS-DFT method leads to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-20 Fabien Tran , Jan Doumont , Leila Kalantari , Ahmad W. Huran , Miguel A. L. Marques , Peter Blaha

Using the Kohn-Sham (KS) inversion method of Hollins et al. [J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 29, 04LT01 (2017)], we invert densities from variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations to obtain benchmark QMC-KS potentials for a…

An interesting fundamental problem in density-functional theory of electronic structure of matter is to construct the exact Kohn-Sham (KS) potential for a given density. The exact potential can then be used to assess the accuracy of…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2019-05-22 Ashish Kumar , Rabeet Singh , Manoj K. Harbola

Accurately describing excited states within Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT), particularly those which induce ionization and charge transfer, remains a great challenge. Common exchange-correlation (xc) approximations are…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-09 Eli Kraisler , M. J. P. Hodgson , E. K. U. Gross

For properties of interacting electron systems, Kohn-Sham (KS) theory is often favored over many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) owing to its low computational cost. However, the exact KS potential can be challenging to approximate, for…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-15 Jack Wetherell , Matthew Hodgson , Leopold Talirz , Rex Godby

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

We obtain the exact Kohn-Sham potentials $V_{\mathrm{KS}}$ of time-dependent density-functional theory for 1D Hubbard chains, driven by a d.c.\ external field, using the time-dependent electron density and current density obtained from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 L. Mancini , J. D. Ramsden , M. J. P. Hodgson , R. W. Godby

We construct exact Kohn-Sham potentials for the ensemble density-functional theory (EDFT) from the ground and excited states of helium. The exchange-correlation (XC) potential is compared with the quasi-local-density approximation and both…

We model the Hartree-exchange-correlation potential of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory adopting a novel strategy inspired by the strictly-correlated-electrons limit and relying on the exact decomposition of the potential based on the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Sara Giarrusso , Federica Agostini

We show that the Hartree-Fock (HF) results cannot be reproduced within the framework of Kohn-Sham (KS) theory because the single-particle densities of finite systems obtained within the HF calculations are not $v$-representable, i.e., do…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Ya. Amusia , A. Z. Msezane , V. R. Shaginyan , D. Sokolovski

Following Hollins et al. [J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 29, 04LT01 (2017)], we invert the electronic ground state densities for various semiconducting and insulating solids calculated using several density functional approximations within the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Visagan Ravindran , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos , Stewart J. Clark

Density Functional Theory's Kohn-Sham (KS) potential emerges as the minimizing effective potential in an unconstrained variational scheme that does not involve fixing the unknown single-electron density. The physical content behind the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 N. I. Gidopoulos

We review and expand on our work to impose constraints on the effective Kohn Sham (KS) potential of local and semi-local density functional approximations. In this work, we relax a previously imposed positivity constraint, which increased…

Given the time-evolution of an electron charge density, the local potential in Kohn-Sham time-dependent density functional theory (KS-TDDFT) can be modeled as a sum of instantaneous and dynamic contributions by assuming a certain form of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 R. J. Magyar

Knowledge of exact properties of the exchange-correlation (xc) functional is important for improving the approximations made within density functional theory. Features such as steps in the exact xc potential are known to be necessary for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-15 M. J. P. Hodgson , J. D. Ramsden , R. W. Godby

We calculate the exact Kohn-Sham (KS) scalar and vector potentials that reproduce, within current-density functional theory, the steady-state density and current density corresponding to an electron quasiparticle added to the ground state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. D. Ramsden , R. W. Godby

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
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