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Practical density functional theory (DFT) owes its success to the groundbreaking work of Kohn and Sham that introduced the exact calculation of the non-interacting kinetic energy of the electrons using an auxiliary mean-field system.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-17 P. del Mazo-Sevillano , J. Hermann

Recent spatially resolved measurements of the electrostatic-potential variation across a Hall bar in strong magnetic fields, which revealed a clear correlation between current-carrying strips and incompressible strips expected near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kaan Guven , Rolf R. Gerhardts

By introducing a phase field and solving the eigen-functional equation of particles, we obtain the exact expressions of the ground state energy as a functional of the particle density for interacting electron/boson systems, and a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu-Liang Liu

Quantum polarization effects associated with the conformal anomaly in a static magnetic field background may generate a transverse electric current in the vacuum. The current may be produced either in an unbounded curved spacetime or in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-09 M. N. Chernodub , V. A. Goy , A. V. Molochkov

A Kohn-Sham density-functional energy expression is derived for any (ground or excited) state within a given many-electron ensemble along with the stationarity condition it fulfills with respect to the ensemble density, thus giving access…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Emmanuel Fromager

Aspects of Density Functional Resonance Theory (DFRT) [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{107}, 163002 (2011)], a recently developed complex-scaled version of ground-state Density Functional Theory (DFT), are studied in detail. The asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniel L. Whitenack , Adam Wasserman

We propose a revised formulation of General Relativity for cosmological settings, in which the Einstein constant varies with the energy density of the Universe. We demonstrate that this modification has only phenomenological impact of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Giovanni Montani , Giulia Maniccia , Elisa Fazzari , Alessandro Melchiorri

In Maxwell's equations, the electric field can be expressed as the sum of the Coulombic field associated with the electric charge and the induced field associated with the time variation of the magnetic field from Faraday's law. The same…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Toshio Hyodo

The equilibrium state of a system consisting of a large number of strongly interacting electrons can be characterized by its density operator. This gives a direct access to the ground-state energy or, at finite temperatures, to the free…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-23 Michael Potthoff

We present the self-consistent implementation of current-dependent (hybrid) meta generalized gradient approximation (mGGA) density functionals using London atomic orbitals. A previously proposed generalized kinetic energy density is…

We present and discuss some ideas concerning an ``average-pair-density functional theory'', in which the ground-state energy of a many-electron system is rewritten as a functional of the spherically and system-averaged pair density. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

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

To go beyond Gaussian approximation to the Hohenberg-Kohn free energy playing the key role in the density functional theory (DFT), the density functional \textit{integral} representation would be relevant, because field theoretical approach…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Frusawa , R. Hayakawa

The rich and diverse dynamics of particle-based systems ultimately originates from the coupling of their degrees of freedom via internal interactions. To arrive at a tractable approximation of such many-body problems, coarse-graining is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-31 Matthias Schmidt

The formalism developed in the first paper of the series [arXiv:0901.1060] is applied to two thermodynamic systems: (i) of three global observables (the energy, the total electron number and the spin number), (ii) of one global observable…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-10-28 Robert Balawender , Andrzej Holas

This paper establishes the applicability of density functional theory methods to quantum computing systems. We show that ground-state and time-dependent density functional theory can be applied to quantum computing systems by proving the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Frank Gaitan , Franco Nori

An overview of several recent developments in density functional theory for classical inhomogeneous liquids is given. We show how Levy's constrained search method can be used to derive the variational principle that underlies density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-01 M. Schmidt , M. Burgis , W. S. B. Dwandaru , G. Leithall , P. Hopkins

The applied voltage along a wire leads to a constant current density and, in turn, the azimuthal magnetic field. The absence of the radial current in a sample bulk requires nonzero radial(Hall) electric field to be present. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 M. V. Cheremisin

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

In this chapter we first review the Levy-Lieb functional, which gives the lowest kinetic and interaction energy that can be reached with all possible quantum states having a given density. We discuss two possible convex generalizations of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Mathieu Lewin , Elliott H. Lieb , Robert Seiringer