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We present conditional probability (CP) density functional theory (DFT) as a formally exact theory. In essence, CP-DFT determines the ground-state energy of a system by finding the CP density from a series of independent Kohn-Sham (KS) DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Ryan Pederson , Jielun Chen , Steven R. White , Kieron Burke

Density functional approximations (DFAs) suffer from delocalization error, which limits their accuracy in predicting electron affinities (EAs), ionization potentials (IPs), and quasiparticle energies. In this work, we present a theoretical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Zipeng An , Xiaolong Yang , Xiao Zheng , Weitao Yang

Linear-scaling techniques for Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) are essential to describe the ground state properties of extended systems. Still, these techniques often rely on the locality of the density matrix or on accurate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Ming Chen , Roi Baer , Eran Rabani

We introduce a practical hybrid approach that combines orbital-free density functional theory (DFT) with Kohn-Sham DFT for speeding up first-principles molecular dynamics simulations. Equilibrated ionic configurations are generated using…

In the present work, we introduce a Self-Consistent Density-Functional Embedding technique, which leaves the realm of standard energy-functional approaches in Density Functional Theory and targets directly the density-to-potential mapping…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Uliana Mordovina , Teresa E. Reinhard , Iris Theophilou , Heiko Appel , Angel Rubio

We show that the energetics and lifetimes of resonances of finite systems under an external electric field can be captured by Kohn--Sham density functional theory (DFT) within the formalism of uniform complex scaling. Properties of…

One of the most important open challenges in modern Kohn-Sham (KS) density-functional theory (DFT) is the correct treatment of fractional electron charges and spins. Approximate exchange-correlation (XC) functionals struggle to do this in a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-12-24 Jonathan Nafziger , Adam Wasserman

It is shown here that Kohn-Sham equations cannot be derived from Hohenberg-Kohn theory without an additional postulate. Assuming that a functional derivative with respect to total electron density exists leads in general to a theory…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. K. Nesbet

We explore a new formalism to study the nonlinear electronic density response based on Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) at partially and strongly quantum degenerate regimes. It is demonstrated that the KS-DFT calculations are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Zhandos Moldabekov , Jan Vorberger , Tobias Dornheim

We construct exact Kohn-Sham potentials for the ensemble density-functional theory (EDFT) from the ground and excited states of helium. The exchange-correlation (XC) potential is compared with the quasi-local-density approximation and both…

We compare two different approaches to investigations of many-electron systems. The first is the Hartree-Fock (HF) method and the second is the Density Functional Theory (DFT). Overview of the main features and peculiar properties of the HF…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Ya. Amusia , A. Z. Msezane , V. R. Shaginyan

A way to improve the accuracy of the spectral properties in density functional theory (DFT) is to impose constraints on the effective, Kohn-Sham (KS), local potential [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 136}, 224109 (2012)]. As illustrated, a convenient…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-22 Thomas C. Pitts , Sofia Bousiadi , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos , Nektarios N. Lathiotakis

Real time, density matrix based, time dependent density functional theory proceeds through the propagation of the density matrix, as opposed to the Kohn-Sham orbitals. It is possible to reduce the computational workload by imposing spatial…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Conn O'Rourke , David R. Bowler

We validate the application of our recent orbital-free density functional theory (DFT) approach, [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 155006 (2014)], for the calculation of ionic and electronic transport properties of dense plasmas. To this end, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Travis Sjostrom , Jérôme Daligault

A method is presented, which employs the density matrix renormalization group technique in order to construct exact ground state exchange correlation functionals for models of correlated electron systems coupled to external reservoirs. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter Schmitteckert , Ferdinand Evers

According to the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density-functional theory (DFT), all observable quantities of systems of interacting electrons can be expressed as functionals of the ground-state density. This includes, in principle, the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 Carsten A. Ullrich

We describe a massively parallel implementation of the recently developed discontinuous Galerkin density functional theory (DGDFT) [J. Comput. Phys. 2012, 231, 2140] method, for efficient large-scale Kohn-Sham DFT based electronic structure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Wei Hu , Lin Lin , Chao Yang

We propose a general machine learning-based framework for building an accurate and widely-applicable energy functional within the framework of generalized Kohn-Sham density functional theory. To this end, we develop a way of training…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 Yixiao Chen , Linfeng Zhang , Han Wang , E Weinan

Reliable and robust convergence to the electronic ground state within density functional theory (DFT) Kohn-Sham (KS) calculations remains a thorny issue in many systems of interest. In such cases, charge sloshing can delay or completely…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Cedric Flamant , Grigory Kolesov , Efstratios Manousakis , Efthimios Kaxiras

Spin-density-functional theory (SDFT) is the most widely implemented and applied formulation of density-functional theory. However, it is still finding novel applications, and occasionally encounters unexpected problems. In this paper we…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 K. Capelle , Valter L. Libero