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We study the accuracy of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) for warm- and hot-dense matter (WDM and HDM). Specifically, considering a wide range of systems, we perform accurate ab initio molecular dynamics simulations with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Phanish Suryanarayana , Arpit Bhardwaj , Xin Jing , Shashikant Kumar , John E. Pask

Hybrid functionals often improve considerably the accuracy of density-functional calculations, in particular of quantities resulting from the band structure. In plane-wave (PW) calculations this benefit comes at the cost of an increase in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-04 J. D. Gouveia , J. Coutinho

The calculation of the band-gap by density-functional theory (DFT) methods is examined by considering the behavior of the energy as a function of number of electrons. It is found that the incorrect band-gap prediction with most approximate…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Aron J. Cohen , Paula Mori-Sánchez , Weitao Yang

We present a density functional theory (DFT) for lattice models with local electron-electron (e-e) and electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions. Exchange-correlation potentials are derived via dynamical mean field theory for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 E. Viñas Boström , P. Helmer , P. Werner , C. Verdozzi

Classical density functional theory for finite temperatures is usually formulated in the grand-canonical ensemble where arbitrary variations of the local density are possible. However, in many cases the systems of interest are closed with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-06 James F. Lutsko

Density-functional theory with on-site $U$ and inter-site $V$ Hubbard corrections (DFT+$U$+$V$) is a powerful and accurate method for predicting various properties of transition-metal compounds. However, its accuracy depends critically on…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Wooil Yang , Iurii Timrov , Francesco Aquilante , Young-Woo Son

We consider interacting Fermi systems close to the unitary regime and compute the corrections to the energy density that are due to a large scattering length and a small effective range. Our approach exploits the universality of the density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-05 Anirban Bhattacharyya , T. Papenbrock

In order to obtain a reasonably accurate and easily implemented approach to many-electron calculations, we will develop a new Density Functional Theory (DFT). Specifically, we derive an approximation to electron density, the first term of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-23 Gregory C. Dente

In the exact Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT), the total energy versus the number of electrons is a series of linear segments between integer points. However, commonly used approximate density functionals produce total energies…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-03 Eli Kraisler , Leeor Kronik

Ensemble density functional theory (eDFT) is an exact time-independent alternative to time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) for the calculation of excitation energies. Despite its formal simplicity and advantages in contrast to TD-DFT (multiple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-19 Killian Deur , Laurent Mazouin , Emmanuel Fromager

Density functional theory (DFT) is one of the primary approaches to get a solution to the many-body Schrodinger equation. The essential part of the DFT theory is the exchange-correlation (XC) functional, which can not be obtained in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Alexander Ryabov , Petr Zhilyaev

We present a versatile density functional approach (DFT) for calculating the depletion potential in general fluid mixtures. In contrast to brute force DFT, our approach requires only the equilibrium density profile of the small particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Roth , R. Evans , S. Dietrich

We reexamine the recently introduced basis-set correction theory based on density-functional theory consisting in correcting the basis-set incompleteness error of wave-function methods using a density functional. We use a one-dimensional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Diata Traore , Emmanuel Giner , Julien Toulouse

Data-flow testing (DFT) aims to detect potential data interaction anomalies by focusing on the points at which variables receive values and the points at which these values are used. Such test objectives are referred as \emph{def-use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Ting Su , Chengyu Zhang , Yichen Yan , Lingling Fan , Geguang Pu , Yang Liu , Zhoulai Fu , Zhendong Su

It is known that ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations of liquid water, based on the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) to density functional theory (DFT), yield structural and diffusive properties in reasonable agreement…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Jue Wang , G. Roman-Perez , Jose M. Soler , Emilio Artacho , M. -V. Fernandez-Serra

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is used extensively in the computation of electronic properties of matter, with various applications. Approximating the exchange-correlation (XC) functional is the key to the Kohn-Sham DFT approach, the basis…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-17 Sameerah Helal , Zhe Tao , Cindy Rubio-González , Francois Gygi , Aditya V. Thakur

Dynamic density functional theory (DDFT) is a promising approach for predicting the structural evolution of a drying suspension containing one or more types of colloidal particles. The assumed free-energy functional is a key component of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-23 Mayukh Kundu , Michael P. Howard

Two (so-called left and right) variants of N-centered ensemble density-functional theory (DFT) [Senjean and Fromager, Phys. Rev. A 98, 022513 (2018)] are presented. Unlike the original formulation of the theory, these variants allow for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-25 Bruno Senjean , Emmanuel Fromager

As density functional theory conventionally assumes that the density of a chosen model system (e.g., the Kohn-Sham system) is the same as the exact one, one might expect that approximations to the exact density introduce supplementary…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-02-17 A. Savin

To explore the applicability of orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) in nuclear physics, we perform a systematic benchmark of 36 one-point kinetic energy density functionals, which are originally developed for electron systems in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 Tian Shuai Shang , Jian Li , Haozhao Liang , Xinhui Wu , Cheng Ma , Wenhui Mi , Xuecheng Shao , Yanchao Wang