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The exact ground-state exchange-correlation functional of Kohn-Sham density functional theory yields the exact transmission through an Anderson junction at zero bias and temperature. The exact impurity charge susceptibility is used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Zhenfei Liu , Justin P. Bergfield , Kieron Burke , Charles A. Stafford

For more than three decades, clear discrepancies have existed between spin densities in momentum space revealed by Magnetic Compton scattering experiments and theoretical calculations based on density functional theory (DFT). Here by making…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-02 A. D. N. James , E. I. Harris-Lee , S. B. Dugdale

A density functional theory (DFT) framework is presented that links functional derivatives of free-energy functionals to non-linear static density response functions in quantum many-body systems. Within this framework, explicit expressions…

We suggest to include the density of electron charge explicitly in the electron potential of density functional theory, rather than implicitly via exchange-correlation functionals. The advantages of the approach are conceptual and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Werner A. Hofer , Krisztian Palotas

While in principle exact, Kohn-Sham density functional theory -- the workhorse of computational chemistry -- must rely on approximations for the exchange-correlation functional. Despite staggering successes, present-day approximations still…

We present a comparative study of the spatial distribution of the spin density (SD) of the ground state of CuCl2 using Density Functional Theory (DFT), quantum Monte Carlo (QMC), and post-Hartree-Fock wavefunction theory (WFT). A number of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-07-25 Michel Caffarel , Emmanuel Giner , Anthony Scemama , Alejandro Ramírez-Solís

A new approach for calculating spectral density functions of strongly correlated electron systems is proposed within the exact diagonalization method of dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). This approach is based on the analytic continuation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-05 Song-Jin O , Hak-Chol Pak , Kwang-Il Ryom , Song-Jin Im

Reduced-density-matrix-functional theory is applied to open-shell systems. We introduce a spin-restricted formulation by appropriately expressing approximate correlation-energy functionals in terms of spin-dependent occupation numbers and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 N. N. Lathiotakis , N. Helbig , E. K. U. Gross

A system of electrons in a local or nonlocal external potential can be studied with 1-matrix functional theory (1MFT), which is similar to density functional theory (DFT) but takes the one-particle reduced density matrix (1-matrix) instead…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-07-23 Ryan Requist , Oleg Pankratov

A novel approach to electronic correlations and magnetism of crystals based on realistic electronic structure calculations is reviewed. In its simplest form it is a combination of the ``local density approximation'' (LDA) and the dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Lichtenstein , M. I. Katsnelson , G. Kotliar

We present a density-functional theory (DFT) approach to the study of the phase diagram of the maximum density droplet (MDD) in two-dimensional quantum dots in a magnetic field. Within the lowest Landau level (LLL) approximation, analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Ferconi , G. Vignale

The Skyrme nuclear energy density functional theory (DFT) is used to model neutron-induced fission in actinides. This paper focuses on the numerical implementation of the theory. In particular, it reports recent advances in DFT code…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 N. Schunck

HF-DFT, the practice of evaluating approximate density functionals on Hartree-Fock densities, has long been used in testing density functional approximations. Density-corrected DFT (DC-DFT) is a general theoretical framework for identifying…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 Suhwan Song , Stefan Vuckovic , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

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

The thermodynamic approach to density functional theory (DFT) is used to derive a versatile theoretical framework for the treatment of finite-temperature (and in the limit, zero temperature) Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). The simplest…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-20 Nathan Argaman , Y. B. Band

Multicomponent density functional theory (DFT) enables the consistent quantum mechanical treatment of both electrons and protons. A major challenge has been the design of electron-proton correlation functionals that produce even…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Yang Yang , Kurt R. Brorsen , Tanner Culpitt , Michael V. Pak , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

One of the central problems in quantum mechanics is to determine the ground state properties of a system of electrons interacting via the Coulomb potential. Since its introduction by Hohenberg, Kohn, and Sham, Density Functional Theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Norbert Schuch , Frank Verstraete

We study, using Density Functional theory and Monte Carlo simulations, aqueous electrolyte solutions between charged infinite planar surfaces, in a contact with a bulk salt reservoir. In agreement with recent experimental observations [Z.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-21 Thiago Colla , Matheus Girotto , Alexandre P. dos Santos , Yan Levin

We present a general approach for the construction of the exact local-energy-density functionals for a uniform N-dimensional electronic system in a magnetic field. For arbitrary dimension, we obtain explicit expressions for the matter,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. P. van Zyl

An in-principle exact working equation to compute electronic affinity and ionization Fukui functions is derived within the $N$-centered (Nc) ensemble extension of density functional theory (DFT). It circumvents the kernel derivative…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Lucien Dupuy , Emmanuel Fromager