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By introducing a set of auxiliary equations representing a many-body system, we have derived an extension of the Kohn-Sham scheme for the density functional theory. These equations consist of a Kohn-Sham-type equation determining…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Koichi Kusakabe

A new scheme for constructing approximate effective electron potentials within density-functional theory is proposed. The scheme consists of calculating the effective potential for a series of reference systems, and then using these…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-14 K. Stokbro , N. Chetty , K. W. Jacobsen , J. K. Nørskov

In this work we describe a model for the exchange interaction of electrons, as it follows from the Pauli exclusion principle. Starting from Hartree-Fock theory and making use of the free electron-gas model we propose a simple scheme to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-11 G. Schiwietz , P. L. Grande

Recently a procedure by generalized density matrix (GDM) is proposed for calculating a collective/bosonic Hamiltonian microscopically from the shell-model Hamiltonian. In this work we examine the validity of the method by comparing the GDM…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 L. Y. Jia , V. G. Zelevinsky

Employing a local formula for the electron-electron interaction energy, we derive a self-consistent approximation for the total energy of a general $N$-electron system. Our scheme works as a local variant of the Thomas-Fermi approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 E. Rasanen , A. Odriazola , I. Makkonen , A. Harju

The practical success of density functional theory (DFT) is largely credited to the Kohn-Sham approach, which enables the exact calculation of the non-interacting electron kinetic energy via an auxiliary noninteracting system. Yet, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sangita Majumdar , Zekun Shi , Giovanni Vignale

The standard way to calculate the Kohn-Sham orbitals utilizes an approximation of the potential. The approximation consists in a projection of the potential into a finite subspace of basis functions. The orbitals, calculated with the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-19 Rudolf Zeller

Calculations in Kohn-Sham density functional theory crucially rely on high-quality approximations for the exchange-correlation (xc) functional. Standard local and semi-local approximations fail to predict the ionization potential (IP) and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-03 Sharon Lavie , Yuli Goshen , Eli Kraisler

Exchange-correlation potentials vxc and energy densities exc are derived for integer and fractional electron counts using an orbital-averaged Kohn-Sham inversion procedure. The reference densities for inversion come from full configuration…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Vaibhav Khanna , Bikash Kanungo , Jeffrey Hatch , Joshua Kammeraad , Paul M. Zimmerman

A relativistic density-functional theory based on a Fock-space effective quantum-electrodynamics (QED) Hamiltonian using the Coulomb or Coulomb-Breit two-particle interaction is developed. This effective QED theory properly includes the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Julien Toulouse

Based on the numerical method proposed in [G. Hu, X. Xie, F. Xu, J. Comput. Phys., 355 (2018), 436-449.] for Kohn-Sham equation, further improvement on the efficiency is obtained in this paper by i). designing a numerical method with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Guanghui Hu , Hehu Xie , Fei Xu

We developed a method for calculating solid-state ground-state properties and fundamental band-gaps using a generalized Kohn-Sham approach combining a local density approximation (LDA) functional with a long-range explicit exchange orbital…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-27 Helen R. Eisenberg , Roi Baer

Conditional-probability density functional theory (CP-DFT) is a formally exact method for finding correlation energies from Kohn-Sham DFT without evaluating an explicit energy functional. We present details on how to generate accurate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Dennis Perchak , Ryan J. McCarty , Kieron Burke

We show that the pressure acting on atoms and molecular systems within the compression cavity of the eXtreme-Pressure Polarizable Continuum method can be expressed in terms of the electron density of the systems and of the Pauli-repulsion…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-05-31 Roberto Cammi , Bo Chen , Martin Rahm

Using a hydrogen molecule as a test system we demonstrate how to compute the effective potential according to the formalism of the new density functional theory (DFT), in which the basic variable is the set of spherically averaged densities…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 K. Kokko , Á. Nagy , J. Huhtala , T. Björkman , L. Vitos

The exchange-correlation energy in Kohn-Sham density functional theory is expressed as a functional of the electronic density and the Kohn-Sham orbitals. An alternative to Kohn-Sham theory is to express the energy as a functional of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Goedecker , C. Umrigar

In a recent Letter, Baer et al. present a stochastic method for Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations. Their convergence criterion is the self-averaging total energy per electron, which requires a number of statistical samples…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-15 Jonathan E. Moussa , Andrew D. Baczewski

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem and Kohn-Sham procedure are extended to functionals of the localized intrinsic density of a self-bound system such as a nucleus. After defining the intrinsic-density functional, we modify the usual Kohn-Sham…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Engel

The grand canonical density functional theory for inhomogeneous systems of interacting bosons is developed in the effective action approach. The Legendre transform of the generating functional for Green's functions is used to define the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-03 Anna Okopińska

A systematic strategy for the calculation of density functionals (DFs) consists in coding informations about the density and the energy into polynomials of the degrees of freedom of wave functions. DFs and Kohn-Sham potentials (KSPs) are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-25 B. G. Giraud , S. Karataglidis