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Classical dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) is one of the cornerstones of modern statistical mechanics. It is an extension of the highly successful method of classical density functional theory (DFT) to nonequilibrium systems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-29 Michael te Vrugt , Hartmut Löwen , Raphael Wittkowski

In [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013001 (2022)] a novel ground state method was proposed. It has been suggested that this $i$-DMFT would be a method within one-particle reduced density matrix functional theory (DMFT), capable of describing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Lexin Ding , Julia Liebert , Christian Schilling

The density functional theory (DFT) is used in a study of point defects on both UN (001) surface and sub-surface layers. We compare results for slabs of different thicknesses (both perfect and containing nitrogen or uranium vacancies) with…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-27 Dmitry Bocharov , Denis Gryaznov , Yuri F. Zhukovskii , Eugene A. Kotomin

Recently a novel approach to find approximate exchange-correlation functionals in density-functional theory (DFT) was presented (U. Mordovina et. al., JCTC 15, 5209 (2019)), which relies on approximations to the interacting wave function…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Iris Theophilou , Teresa E. Reinhard , Angel Rubio , Michael Ruggenthaler

We introduce an orbital free electron density functional approximation based on alchemical perturbation theory. Given convergent perturbations of a suitable reference system, the accuracy of popular self-consistent Kohn-Sham density…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Guido Falk von Rudorff , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Orbital-optimized density functional theory (DFT) has emerged as an alternative to time-dependent (TD) DFT capable of describing difficult excited states with significant electron density redistribution, such as charge-transfer, Rydberg,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Hanh D. M. Pham , Rustam Z. Khaliullin

It is believed that the density functional theory (DFT) describes most elements with s, p and d orbitals very well, except some materials that having strongly localized and correlated valence electrons. In this work, we find that the widely…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-17 Y. X. Wang , Hua Y. Geng , Q. Wu , Xiang R. Chen

For more than three decades, nearly free electron elemental metals have been a topic of debate because the computed bandwidths are significantly wider in the local density approximation to density-functional theory (DFT) than indicated by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-02 Subhasish Mandal , Kristjan Haule , Karin M. Rabe , David Vanderbilt

We show that a lattice formulation of density-functional theory (DFT), guided by renormalization-group concepts, can be used to obtain numerical predictions of energy gaps, spin-density profiles, critical exponents, sound velocities,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Francisco C. Alcaraz , Klaus Capelle

Diabatic states and the couplings between them are important for quantifying, elucidating, and predicting the rates and mechanisms of many chemical and biochemical processes. Here, we propose and investigate approaches to accurately compute…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Yuezhi Mao , Andres Montoya-Castillo , Thomas E. Markland

The Global Natural Orbital Functional (GNOF) provides a straightforward approach to capture most electron correlation effects without needing perturbative corrections or limited active spaces selection. In this work, we evaluate both the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Ion Mitxelena , Juan Felipe Huan Lew-Yee , Mario Piris

A real-space formalism for density-functional perturbation theory (DFPT) is derived and applied for the computation of harmonic vibrational properties in molecules and solids. The practical implementation using numeric atom-centered…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 Honghui Shang , Christian Carbogno , Patrick Rinke , Matthias Scheffler

We present a charge and self-energy self-consistent computational scheme for correlated systems based on the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (KKR) multiple scattering theory with the many-body effects described by the means of dynamical mean field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-15 J. Minar , L. Chioncel , A. Perlov , H. Ebert , M. I. Katsnelson , A. I. Lichtenstein

Density-corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT) is enjoying substantial success in improving semilocal DFT calculations in a wide variety of chemical problems. This paper provides the formal theoretical framework and assumptions for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Stefan Vuckovic , Suhwan Song , John Kozlowski , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

We employ cluster extension of dynamical mean-field theory (CDMFT) to systematically investigate the impact of double counting corrections on the correlated electronic structure of ${\rm La_3Ni_2O_7}$ under ambient pressure. By adjusting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-10 Zhong-Yi Xie , Zhihui Luo , Wéi Wú , Dao-Xin Yao

The properties of electrons in matter are of fundamental importance. They give rise to virtually all molecular and material properties and determine the physics at play in objects ranging from semiconductor devices to the interior of giant…

Modern extensions of density functional theory such as the density functional theory plus U and the density functional theory plus dynamical mean-field theory require choices, including selection of variable (charge vs spin density) for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-04 Hyowon Park , Andrew J. Millis , Chris A. Marianetti

An approach is proposed for evaluating dipolar and multipolar inter-site interactions in strongly correlated materials. This approach is based on the single-site dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) in conjunction with the atomic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-13 L. V. Pourovskii

Subsystem Density-Functional Theory (DFT) is an emerging technique for calculating the electronic structure of complex molecular and condensed phase systems. In this topical review, we focus on some recent advances in this field related to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Alisa Krishtal , Debalina Sinha , Alessandro Genova , Michele Pavanello

Classical dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) has become one of the central modeling approaches in nonequilibrium soft matter physics. Recent years have seen the emergence of novel and interesting fields of application for DDFT. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-21 Michael te Vrugt , Raphael Wittkowski