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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

The dissociation of molecules, even the most simple hydrogen molecule, cannot be described accurately within density functional theory because none of the currently available functionals accounts for strong on-site correlation. This problem…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-01-14 N. Helbig , I. V. Tokatly , A. Rubio

We present a new theory for partitioning simulations of periodic and solid-state systems into physically sound atomic contributions at the level of Kohn-Sham density functional theory. Our theory is based on spatially localized linear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Luna Zamok , Janus J. Eriksen

The equations determining the energy density $\rho$ of a gas of photons in thermodynamic equilibrium with a spherical mass $M$ at a non-zero temperature $T_s>0$ is derived from Einstein's equations. It is found that for large $r$, $\rho…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Achilles D. Speliotopoulos

We calculate ground-state energies and densities of a helium atom confined in an impenetrable spherical box within density functional theory. These calculations are performed by variationally solving Kohn-Sham equation with the ground-state…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-06-24 Subhajit Waugh , Avijit Chowdhury , Arup Banerjee

Some formulae are presented for finding two-integral distribution functions (DFs) which depends only on the two classical integrals of the energy and the magnitude of the angular momentum with respect to the axis of symmetry for stellar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Zhenglu Jiang , Leonid Ossipkov

This is a brief description of how to derive the local ``atomic'' potentials from the Self-Consistent Atomic Deformation (SCAD) model density function. Particular attention is paid to the spherically averaged case.

mtrl-th · Physics 2008-02-03 M. J. Mehl , L. L. Boyer , H. T. Stokes

Using a central limit theorem for arrays of interacting quantum systems, we give analytical expressions for the density of states and the partition function at finite temperature of such a system, which are valid in the limit of infinite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Hartmann , Guenter Mahler , Ortwin Hess

We reformulate the strong-interaction limit of electronic density functional theory in terms of a classical problem with a degenerate minimum. This allows us to clarify many aspects of this limit, and to write a general solution, which is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Seidl , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

Recent results of the Fayans energy density functional (EDF) for spherical nuclei are reviewed. A comparison is made with predictions of several Skyrme EDFs. The charge radii and characteristics of the first 2^+ excitations in semi-magic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-01 E. E. Saperstein , S. V. Tolokonnikov

Variations in distinct restricted spaces of wave functions generate distinct density functionals. In particular, angular momentum projected Slater determinants define a new density functional, compatible simultaneously with angular momentum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Giraud

In this paper, we study the global existence, uniqueness and large-time behavior of spherically symmetric solution of a viscous radiative and reactive gas in an unbounded domain exterior to the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ for $n\geq 2$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Yongkai Liao , Tao Wang , Huijiang Zhao

A family of potential--density pairs has been found for spherical halos and bulges of galaxies in the Newtonian limit of scalar--tensor theories of gravity. The scalar field is described by a Klein--Gordon equation with a source that is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. Rodriguez-Meza , Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota

Approximate molecular calculations via standard Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory are exactly reproduced by performing self-consistent calculations on isolated fragments via Partition Density Functional Theory [Phys. Rev. A 82, 024501…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-25 Jonathan Nafziger , Qin Wu , Adam Wasserman

We derive new relationships expressing solid spherical harmonics as series of toroidal harmonics and vice versa. The expansions include regular and irregular spherical harmonics, ring and axial toroidal harmonics of even and odd parity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-12-23 Matt Majic , Eric C. Le Ru

The Sutherland approximation to the van der Waals forces is applied to the derivation of a self-consistent Vlasov-type field in a liquid filling a half space, bordering vacuum. The ensuing Vlasov equation is then derived, and solved to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-02 V. Molinari , B. D. Ganapol , D. Mostacci

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

The purpose of this review it to present a renewed perspective of the problem of self-gravitating elastic bodies under spherical symmetry. It is also a companion to the papers [Phys. Rev. D105, 044025 (2022)], [Phys. Rev. D106, L041502…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-05 Artur Alho , José Natário , Paolo Pani , Guilherme Raposo

We demonstrate how the separation of the total energy of a self-bound system into a functional of the internal one-body Fermionic density and a function of an arbitrary wave vector describing the center-of-mass kinetic energy can be used to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-14 J. Messud , M. Bender , E. Suraud

We present a brief review of the classical density functional theory of atomic and molecular fluids. We focus on the application of the theory to the determination of the solvation properties of arbitrary molecular solutes in arbitrary…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maximilien Levesque , Volodymyr Sergiievskyi , Daniel Borgis