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The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density-functional theory (DFT) is broadly considered the conceptual basis for a full characterization of an electronic system in its ground state by just the one-body particle density. In this Part~II of a…

The central quantity of density functional theory is the so-called exchange-correlation functional. This quantity encompasses all non-trivial many-body effects of the ground-state and has to be approximated in any practical application of…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-29 Miguel A. L. Marques , Micael J. T. Oliveira , Tobias Burnus

Density functional theory is the workhorse of modern electronic structure calculations, with wide-ranging applications in chemistry, physics, materials science, and machine learning. At its heart lies the exchange-correlation functional, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Fabien Tran , Susi Lehtola , Stefano Pittalis , Miguel A. L. Marques

The density functional theory originally developed by Hohenberg, Kohn and Sham provides a rigorous conceptual framework for dealing with inhomogeneous interacting Fermi systems. We extend this approach to deal with inhomogeneous interacting…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Griffin

In approximate Kohn-Sham density-functional theory, self-interaction manifests itself as the dependence of the energy of an orbital on its fractional occupation. This unphysical behavior translates into qualitative and quantitative errors…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-28 Ismaila Dabo , Andrea Ferretti , Nicolas Poilvert , Yanli Li , Nicola Marzari , Matteo Cococcioni

We study Density Functional Theory models for systems which are translationally invariant in some directions, such as a homogeneous 2-d slab in the 3-d space. We show how the different terms of the energy are modified and we derive reduced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-24 David Gontier , Salma Lahbabi , Abdallah Maichine

Density-functional theory requires an extra variable besides the electron density in order to properly incorporate magnetic-field effects. In a time-dependent setting, the gauge-invariant, total current density takes that role. A peculiar…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Andre Laestadius , Markus Penz , Erik I. Tellgren

Based on exact limits and quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we obtain, at any density and spin polarization, an accurate estimate for the energy of a modified homogeneous electron gas where electrons repel each other only with a long-range…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Simone Paziani , Saverio Moroni , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Giovanni B. Bachelet

We describe how density-functional theory, well-known for its many uses in ab initio calculations of electronic structure, can be used to study the ground state of inhomogeneous model Hamiltonians. The basic ideas and concepts are discussed…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Valter L. Libero , Klaus Capelle

By combining the upper and lower bounds to the free energy as given by the Gibbs inequality for two systems with the same intermolecular interactions but with external fields differing from each other only in a finite region of space Gamma,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 John D. Weeks

We construct a density-functional formalism adapted to uniform external magnetic fields that is intermediate between conventional Density Functional Theory and Current-Density Functional Theory (CDFT). In the intermediate theory, which we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Erik I. Tellgren , Andre Laestadius , Trygve Helgaker , Simen Kvaal , Andrew M. Teale

We present a rigorous formulation of the time-dependent density functional theory for interacting lattice electrons strongly coupled to cavity photons. We start with an example of one particle on a Hubbard dimer coupled to a single photonic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Mehdi Farzanehpour , I. V. Tokatly

The relationship between the densities of ground-state wave functions (i.e., the minimizers of the Rayleigh--Ritz (RR) variation principle) and the ground-state densities in density-functional theory (i.e., the minimizers of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Simen Kvaal , Trygve Helgaker

The Lieb-Oxford bound, a nontrivial inequality for the indirect part of the many-body Coulomb repulsion in an electronic system, plays an important role in the construction of approximations in density functional theory. Using the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Michael Seidl , Stefan Vuckovic , Paola Gori-Giorgi

The universal functional of Hohenberg-Kohn is given as a coupling-constant integral over the density as a functional of the potential. Conditions are derived under which potential-functional approximations are variational. Construction via…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-06-13 Attila Cangi , Donghyung Lee , Peter Elliott , Kieron Burke , E. K. U. Gross

A novel method for deriving energy conditions in stable field theories is described. In a local classical theory with one spatial dimension, a local energy condition always exists. For a relativistic field theory, one obtains the dominant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-26 Aron C. Wall

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density-functional theory (DFT) is broadly considered the conceptual basis for a full characterization of an electronic system in its ground state by just the one-body particle density. Part I of this review…

We present some progress in the direction of determining the semiclassical limit of the Hoenberg-Kohn universal functional in Density Functional Theory for Coulomb systems. In particular we give a proof of the fact that for Bosonic systems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Ugo Bindini , Luigi De Pascale

We analyze a decomposition of the Coulomb electron-electron interaction into a long-range and a short-range part in the framework of density functional theory, deriving some scaling relations and the corresponding virial theorem. We study…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Julien Toulouse , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

The combination of density functional theory with other approaches to the many-electron problem through the separation of the electron-electron interaction into a short-range and a long-range contribution is a promising method, which is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin