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We show that a lattice formulation of density-functional theory (DFT), guided by renormalization-group concepts, can be used to obtain numerical predictions of energy gaps, spin-density profiles, critical exponents, sound velocities,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Francisco C. Alcaraz , Klaus Capelle

Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) has been traditionally solved by the Self-Consistent Field (SCF) method. Behind the SCF loop is the physics intuition of solving a system of non-interactive single-electron wave functions under…

In this paper, we study a few theoretical issues in the discretized Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT). The equivalence between either a local or global minimizer of the KS total energy minimization problem and the solution to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-21 Xin Liu , Zaiwen Wen , Xiao Wang , Michael Ulbrich , Yaxiang Yuan

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

We present an efficient and systematically convergent approach to all-electron real-time time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations using a mixed basis, termed as enriched finite element (EFE) basis. The EFE basis…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 Bikash Kanungo , Nelson D. Rufus , Vikram Gavini

This letter aims to derive the exact relativistic orbital-free kinetic energy density functional for one-particle nuclear systems in one-dimensional case. The kinetic energy is expressed as a functional of both vector and scalar densities.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-25 X. H. Wu , Z. X. Ren , H. Z. Liang , P. W. Zhao

We compare two different approaches to investigations of many-electron systems. The first is the Hartree-Fock (HF) method and the second is the Density Functional Theory (DFT). Overview of the main features and peculiar properties of the HF…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Ya. Amusia , A. Z. Msezane , V. R. Shaginyan

In a recent series of papers, Gebremariam, Bogner, and Duguet derived a microscopically based nuclear energy density functional by applying the Density Matrix Expansion (DME) to the Hartree-Fock energy obtained from chiral effective field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-02 M. Stoitsov , M. Kortelainen , S. K. Bogner , T. Duguet , R. J. Furnstahl , B. Gebremariam , N. Schunck

A new density functional theory (DFT) exchange-correlation functional for the exploration of reaction mechanisms is proposed. This new functional, denoted BMK (Boese-Martin for Kinetics), has an accuracy in the 2 kcal/mol range for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Daniel Boese , Jan M. L. Martin

In orbital-free density functional theory the kinetic potential (KP), the functional derivative of the kinetic energy density functional, appears in the Euler equation for the electron density and may be more amenable to simple…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Jeng-Da Chai , Vincent L. Ligneres , Gregory Ho , Emily A. Carter , John D. Weeks

For the theoretical understanding of the reactivity of complex chemical systems accurate relative energies between intermediates and transition states are required. Despite its popularity, density functional theory (DFT) often fails to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-23 Gregor N. Simm , Markus Reiher

While quantum computers have shown significant promise for electronic structure calculations, their potential to accelerate density functional theory (DFT) calculations remains unclear. In this work, we present a qubit-efficient encoding…

The Hohenberg-Kohn (HK) theorem -- the bedrock of density functional theory (DFT) -- establishes a universal map from the external potential to the energy. It also relates the electron density and atomic forces to the variation of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Sambit Das , Bikash Kanungo , Arghadwip Paul , Vikram Gavini

We report a direct scheme calculation of kinetic energy functional derivative using Machine Learning. Support Vector Regression and Kernel Ridge Regression techniques were independently employed to estimate the kinetic energy functional and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 H. Saidaoui , S. Kais , S. Rashkeev , FH. Alharbi

Within ``orbital-free'' density functional theory, it is essential to develop general kinetic energy density (KED), denoted as $t(\mathbf{r})$. This is usually done by empirical corrections and enhancements, gradient expansions, machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Abdulaziz H. Al-Aswad , Fahhad H. Alharbi

This paper presents a novel Riemannian conjugate gradient method for the Kohn-Sham energy minimization problem in density functional theory (DFT), with a focus on non-metallic crystal systems. We introduce an energy-adaptive metric that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Daniel Peterseim , Jonas Püschel , Tatjana Stykel

The ELYO functional proposed in [M. Grasso, D. Lacroix, and C. J. Yang, Phys. Rev. C \textbf{95}, 054327 (2017)] belongs to the family of energy-density functionals (EDFs) inspired by effective-field theories (EFTs) and constrained by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-22 Jeremy Bonnard , Marcella Grasso , Denis Lacroix

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

Density Functional Resonance Theory (DFRT) is a complex-scaled version of ground-state Density Functional Theory (DFT) that allows one to calculate the resonance energies and lifetimes of metastable anions. In this formalism, the exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Daniel L. Whitenack , Adam Wasserman

A new method is proposed for constructing energy density functionals, which include a nonlocal dependence on the density gradients. This method is used to construct functionals for kinetic energy, which is a nonlocal generalization of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-08 I. I. Mazin
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