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A representation of polymer self-consistent field theory equivalent to quantum density functional theory is given in terms of non-orthogonal basis sets. Molecular integrals and self-consistent equations for spherically symmetric systems…
Wichmann-Kroll corrections are calculated in both hydrogen-like electronic ions and muonic systems ($Z = \{36$--$92\}$) using two independent methods. The Gaussian finite basis set approach, enhanced with dual basis construction, analytical…
We present an alternative to the Kohn-Sham formulation of density functional theory for the ground-state properties of strongly interacting electronic systems. The idea is to start from the limit of zero kinetic energy and systematically…
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An ab initio approach formulated under an entropy-inspired repartitioning of the electronic Hamiltonian is presented. This ansatz produces orbital eigenvalues each shifted by entropic contributions expressed as subsets of scaled pair…
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Accurately treating strong electron correlation in quantum chemistry typically requires multireference wave-function methods with steep computational scaling. The recently proposed i-DMFT method promises near configuration-interaction…
Developing a reliable kinetic energy density functional within orbital-free density functional theory remains a long-standing challenge, particularly for atomic and molecular systems. A major difficulty lies in the absence of a systematic…
Diffuse atomic orbital basis sets have proven to be essential to obtain accurate interaction energies, especially in regard to non-covalent interactions. However, they also have a detrimental impact on the sparsity of the one-particle…
The calculation of quasi-particle spectra based on the GW approximation is extended to systems of hundreds of atoms, thus expanding the size range of current approaches by more than one order of magnitude. This is achieved through an…
The optimized-effective-potential (OEP) method is a special technique to construct local Kohn-Sham potentials from general orbital-dependent energy functionals. In a recent publication [M. Betzinger, C. Friedrich, S. Bl\"ugel, A. G\"orling,…
We derive an exact representation of the exchange-correlation energy within density functional theory (DFT) which spawns a class of approximations leading to correct long-range asymptotic behavior. In what amounts to be the simplest…
The ground-state many-body electron momentum density, which can be probed by x-ray Compton scattering, holds insights into the electronic structure of materials. Comparisons between the measured so-called Compton profiles and the…
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…
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Exploratory variational pseudopotential density functional calculations are performed for the electronic properties of many-electron systems in the 3D cartesian coordinate grid (CCG). The atom-centered localized gaussian basis set,…