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Density functional approximations are known to significantly overestimate the polarizabilities of long chain-like molecules. We study the static electric dipole polarizabilities and the vertical ionization potentials of polyacenes from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Sharmin Akter , Yoh Yamamoto , Rajendra R. Zope , Tunna Baruah

The response of a one-dimensional fermion system is investigated using Density Functional Theory (DFT) within the Local Density Approximation (LDA), and compared with exact results. It is shown that DFT-LDA reproduces surprisingly well some…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-10-30 Stefan Schenk , Michael Dzierzawa , Peter Schwab , Ulrich Eckern

Density-potential functional theory (DPFT) is an alternative formulation of orbital-free density functional theory that may be suitable for modeling the electronic structure of large systems. To date, DPFT has been applied mainly to quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-21 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , William C. Witt , Sergei Manzhos

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) constitutes a computationally highly effective tool for modeling electronic structures of systems ranging from room-temperature materials to warm dense matter. Its accuracy critically depends…

Density functional theory (DFT) embedding provides a formally exact framework for interfacing correlated wave-function theory (WFT) methods with lower-level descriptions of electronic structure. Here, we report techniques to improve the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jason D. Goodpaster , Taylor A. Barnes , Frederick R. Manby , Thomas F. Miller

We investigate a density-functional theory (DFT) approach for an unpolarized trapped dilute Fermi gas in the unitary limit . A reformulation of the recent work of T. Papenbrock [Phys. Rev. A, {\bf 72}, 041602(R) (2005)] in the language of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Brandon P. van Zyl , D. A. W. Hutchinson , Melodie Need

We review the role of self-consistency in density functional theory. We apply a recent analysis to both Kohn-Sham and orbital-free DFT, as well as to Partition-DFT, which generalizes all aspects of standard DFT. In each case, the analysis…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Adam Wasserman , Jonathan Nafziger , Kaili Jiang , Min-Cheol Kim , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

The very good performance of modern density functional theory for molecular geometries and harmonic vibrational frequencies has been well established. We investigate the performance of density functional theory (DFT) for quartic force…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Daniel Boese , Wim Klopper , Jan M. L. Martin

Due to efficient scaling with electron number N, density functional theory (DFT) is widely used for studies of large molecules and solids. Restriction of an exact mean-field theory to local potential functions has recently been questioned.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Robert K. Nesbet

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) for real-space systems has historically depended on Lagrange optimization techniques, primarily due to the inability of previously proposed electron density approaches to ensure the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Alexandre de Camargo , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Rodrigo A. Vargas-Hernández

A direct orbital optimization method is presented for density functional calculations of excited electronic states using either a real space grid or a plane wave basis set. The method is variational, provides atomic forces in the excited…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Aleksei V. Ivanov , Gianluca Levi , Elvar Ö. Jónsson , Hannes Jónsson

The importance of the Lieb-Simon proof of the relative exactness of Thomas-Fermi theory in the large-Z limit to modern density functional theory (DFT) is explored. The principle, that there is a specific semiclassical limit in which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Kieron Burke

The performance of time-independent, orbital optimized calculations of excited states is assessed with respect to charge transfer excitations in organic molecules in comparison to the linear-response time-dependent density functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Elli Selenius , Alec Elías Sigurdarson , Yorick L. A. Schmerwitz , Gianluca Levi

Late transition-metal oxides with small charge-transfer energy $\Delta$ raise issues for state-of-the-art correlated electronic structure schemes such as the combination of density functional theory (DFT) with dynamical mean-field theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-17 Frank Lechermann , Wolfgang Körner , Daniel F. Urban , Christian Elsässer

We present a real-space formulation and higher-order finite-difference implementation of periodic Orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT). Specifically, utilizing a local reformulation of the electrostatic and kernel terms, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Swarnava Ghosh , Phanish Suryanarayana

DFT calculations have become widespread in both chemistry and materials, because they usually provide useful accuracy at much lower computational cost than wavefunction-based methods. All practical DFT calculations require an approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Eunji Sim , Suhwan Song , Stefan Vuckovic , Kieron Burke

Qualitatively incorrect results are obtained for the Mn dimer in density functional theory calculations using the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) and similar results are obtained from local density and meta-GGA functionals. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Aleksei V. Ivanov , Tushar K. Ghosh , Elvar Ö. Jónsson , Hannes Jónsson

Density functional theory (DFT) based modeling of electronic excited states is of importance for investigation of the photophysical/photochemical properties and spectroscopic characterization of large systems. The widely used linear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Diptarka Hait , Martin Head-Gordon

Linear scaling methods for density-functional theory (DFT) simulations are formulated in terms of localised orbitals in real-space, rather than the delocalised eigenstates of conventional approaches. In local-orbital methods, relative to…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-30 N. D. M. Hine , M. Robinson , P. D. Haynes , C. -K. Skylaris , M. C. Payne , A. A. Mostofi

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