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Localized orbital-based quantum embedding, as originally formulated in the context of density matrix embedding theory (DMET), is revisited from the perspective of lattice density functional theory (DFT). An in-principle exact (in the sense…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-21 W. Makhlouf , B. Senjean , E. Fromager

Exchange interactions are a manifestation of the quantum mechanical nature of the electrons and play a key role in predicting the properties of materials from first principles. In density functional theory (DFT), a widely used approximation…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-27 Marco Bernardi

Recent experimental advances in strongly coupled light-matter systems has sparked the development of general ab-initio methods capable of describing interacting light-matter systems from first principles. One of these methods,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Johannes Flick

Quantum embedding methods enable the study of large, strongly correlated quantum systems by (usually self-consistent) decomposition into computationally manageable subproblems, in the spirit of divide-and-conquer methods. Among these,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-14 Alicia Negre , Fabian Faulstich , Raehyun Kim , Thomas Ayral , Lin Lin , Eric Cancès

We introduce real-time density matrix embedding theory (DMET), a dynamical quantum embedding theory for computing non-equilibrium electron dynamics in strongly correlated systems. As in the previously developed static DMET, real-time DMET…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Joshua S. Kretchmer , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Kohn-Sham density functional theory is the base of modern computational approaches to electronic structures. Their accuracy vitally relies on the exchange-correlation energy functional, which encapsulates electron-electron interaction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-04 Ryo Nagai , Ryosuke Akashi , Osamu Sugino

We present a perturbative approach within the scope of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). The method is based on the exact exchange-only optimized effective potential method, and correlation is included via perturbation expansion…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Sule

The recently proposed Householder transformed density-matrix functional embedding theory (Ht-DMFET) [Sekaran et al., Phys. Rev. B 104, 035121 (2021)], which is equivalent to (but formally simpler than) density matrix embedding theory (DMET)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-23 Sajanthan Sekaran , Matthieu Saubanère , Emmanuel Fromager

By partitioning the electron density into subsystem contributions, the Frozen Density Embedding (FDE) formulation of subsystem DFT has recently emerged as a powerful tool for reducing the computational scaling of Kohn--Sham DFT. To date,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Genova , Davide Ceresoli , Michele Pavanello

The accurate description of open-shell molecules, in particular of transition metal complexes and clusters, is still an important challenge for quantum chemistry. While density-functional theory (DFT) is widely applied in this area, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-10-26 Christoph R. Jacob , Markus Reiher

In this paper we establish a connection between density functional theory (DFT) for lattice models and common real-space DFT. We consider the lattice DFT description of a two-level model subject to generic interactions in Mermin's DFT…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-23 Nahual Sobrino , David Jacob , Stefan Kurth

Strongly correlated systems have long been a central and highly non-trivial topic in condensed matter physics. At the non-interacting level, strong correlation can be associated with powerful (near) degeneracies between occupied and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 Daniel D. Rivera , Gustavo M. Dalpian , John P. Perdew

Density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful theoretical tool widely used in such diverse fields as computational condensed matter physics, atomic physics, and quantum chemistry. DFT establishes that a system of $N$ interacting electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Giovanni Manfredi

The combination of deep learning and ab initio materials calculations is emerging as a trending frontier of materials science research, with deep-learning density functional theory (DFT) electronic structure being particularly promising. In…

We present an accurate, efficient and massively parallel finite-element code, DFT-FE, for large-scale ab-initio calculations (reaching $\sim 100,000$ electrons) using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). DFT-FE is based on a local…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Phani Motamarri , Sambit Das , Shiva Rudraraju , Krishnendu Ghosh , Denis Davydov , Vikram Gavini

We extend to strongly correlated molecular systems the recently introduced basis-set incompleteness correction based on density-functional theory (DFT) [E. Giner et al., J. Chem. Phys. 149, 194301 (2018)]. This basis-set correction relies…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Emmanuel Giner , Anthony Scemama , Pierre-François Loos , Julien Toulouse

Ground-state electronic structure calculations using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) offer an unprecedented balance between efficiency and accuracy, now paradigmatic to the fields of quantum chemistry and condensed matter…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Lucien Dupuy , Toni Chiti , Jérémy Morere , Emmanuel Fromager

As a new approach to efficiently describe correlation effects in the relativistic quantum world we propose to consider reduced density matrix functional theory, where the key quantity is the first-order reduced density matrix (1-RDM). In…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 M. Rodríguez-Mayorga , K. J. H. Giesbertz , L. Visscher

The widespread use of (generalized) Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) lies in the fact that hierarchical sets of approximations of the exchange-correlation (XC) energy functional can be designed, offering versatile choices to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-31 Igor Ying Zhang , Xinguo Ren

Nuclear Density Functional Theory (DFT) plays a prominent role in the understanding of nuclear structure, being the approach with the widest range of applications. Hohenberg and Kohn theorems warrant the existence of a nuclear Energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-03 G. Accorto , P. Brandolini , F. Marino , A. Porro , A. Scalesi , G. Colò , X. Roca-Maza , E. Vigezzi