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An overview of several recent developments in density functional theory for classical inhomogeneous liquids is given. We show how Levy's constrained search method can be used to derive the variational principle that underlies density…

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Electronic structure methods offer in principle accurate predictions of molecular properties, however, their applicability is limited by computational costs. Empirical methods are cheaper, but come with inherent approximations and are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Moritz Thürlemann , Sereina Riniker

In molecular simulations, machine-learning force fields can achieve ab initio accuracy at a lower cost but remain limited in the explicit modeling of electrons. In this work, we develop an electron-aware machine-learning force field, in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Ruiqi Gao , Pinchen Xie , Roberto Car

With increasing penetration of distributed energy resources installed behind the meter, there is a growing need for adequate modelling of composite loads to enable accurate power system simulation analysis. Existing measurement based load…

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Accurate and efficient theoretical techniques for describing ionic fluids are highly desirable for many applications across the physical, biological and materials sciences. With a rigorous statistical mechanical foundation, classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-14 Anna T. Bui , Stephen J. Cox

Classical density functional theory (cDFT) provides a systematic approach to predict the structure and thermodynamic properties of chemical systems through the single-molecule density profiles. Whereas the statistical-mechanical framework…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Jinni Yang , Runtong Pan , Jikai Sun , Jianzhong Wu

In principle, many-electron correlation energy can be precisely computed from a reduced Wigner distribution function ($\mathcal{W}$) thanks to a universal functional transformation ($\mathcal{F}$), whose formal existence is akin to that of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Rutvij Vihang Bhavsar , Raghunathan Ramakrishnan

We developed a deep generative model-based variational free energy approach to the equations of state of dense hydrogen. We employ a normalizing flow network to model the proton Boltzmann distribution and a fermionic neural network to model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-26 Hao Xie , Zi-Hang Li , Han Wang , Linfeng Zhang , Lei Wang

The standard model of classical Density Functional Theory for pair potentials consists of a hard-sphere functional plus a mean-field term accounting for long ranged attraction. However, most implementations using sophisticated Fundamental…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 James F. Lutsko , Cédric Schoonen

In the present work, a machine learning based constitutive model for electro-mechanically coupled material behavior at finite deformations is proposed. Using different sets of invariants as inputs, an internal energy density is formulated…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Dominik K. Klein , Rogelio Ortigosa , Jesús Martínez-Frutos , Oliver Weeger

Despite the modern level of development of computational chemistry methods and techno-logical progress, fast and accurate determination of solvation free energy remains a huge problem for physical chemists. In this paper, we describe two…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 N. N. Kalikin , Y. A. Budkov , A. L. Kolesnikov , D. V. Ivlev , M. A. Krestyaninov , M. G. Kiselev

We present a brief review of the classical density functional theory of atomic and molecular fluids. We focus on the application of the theory to the determination of the solvation properties of arbitrary molecular solutes in arbitrary…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maximilien Levesque , Volodymyr Sergiievskyi , Daniel Borgis

Development of the electronic kinetic-energy density functional is a subject of major interest in theoretical physics and chemistry. In this work, the nonlocal kinetic-energy functional is developed in terms of the response function for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Hideaki Takahashi

We use a mapping of the quasi-2D electron liquid to a classical fluid and use the hypernetted-chain equation inclusive of bridge corrections, i.e., CHNC, to calculate the electron pair-distribution functions and exchange-correlation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

The relationship between the exact kinetic energy density in a quantum system in the frame of Density Functional Theory and the semiclassical functional expression for the same quantity is investigated. The analysis is performed with Monte…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2014-12-15 D. I. Palade

Kernel ridge regression is used to approximate the kinetic energy of non-interacting fermions in a one-dimensional box as a functional of their density. The properties of different kernels and methods of cross-validation are explored, and…

We introduce a new form of density functional theory for the {\em ab initio} description of electronic systems in contact with a molecular liquid environment. This theory rigorously joins an electron density-functional for the electrons of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Sahak Petrosyan , Jean-Francois Briere , David Roundy , T. A. Arias

We present a scheme for investigating arbitrary thermal observables in spatially inhomogeneous equilibrium many-body systems. Extending the grand canonical ensemble yields any given observable as an explicit hyper-density functional.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-10 Florian Sammüller , Silas Robitschko , Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

Machine learning is employed to build an energy density functional for self-bound nuclear systems for the first time. By learning the kinetic energy as a functional of the nucleon density alone, a robust and accurate orbital-free density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-21 X. H. Wu , Z. X. Ren , P. W. Zhao

Low accuracy of the Solvation Free Energy (SFE) calculation is a known problem of the numerical methods of the Integral Equation Theory of Liquids and the Classical Density Functional Theory (Classical DFT). Although functionals with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-07 Volodymyr Sergiievskyi , Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maximilien Levesque , Daniel Borgis