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The study of matter at extreme densities and temperatures as they occur in astrophysical objects and state-of-the art experiments with high-intensity lasers is of high current interest for many applications. While no overarching theory for…

The electronic structure of noble-gas solids is calculated within density functional theory's exact-exchange method (EXX) and compared with the results from the local-density approximation (LDA). It is shown that the EXX method does not…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Magyar , A. Fleszar , E. K. U. Gross

We employ density functional theory calculations to examine the effect of various exchangecorrelation (XC) functionals, including the Perdew Burke Ernzerhof generalized gradient approximation (PBE), the modified Perdew Burke Ernzerhof…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Jamal Abou Haibeh , Samuel Huberman

We propose a simple and accurate model for the electron static structure factors (and corresponding pair-correlation functions) of the 3D unpolarized homogeneous electron gas. Our spin-resolved pair-correlation function is built up with a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Francesco Sacchetti , Giovanni B. Bachelet

Accurate approximation of the exchange-correlation (XC) energy in density functional theory (DFT) calculations is essential for reliably modelling electronic systems. Many such approximations are developed from models of the XC hole;…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Lin Hou , Tom J. P. Irons , Yanyong Wang , James W. Furness , Andrew M. Wibowo-Teale , Jianwei Sun

A semi-relativistic density-functional theory that includes spin-orbit couplings and Zeeman fields on equal footing with the electromagnetic potentials, is an appealing framework to develop a unified first-principles computational approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 S. Pittalis , G. Vignale , F. G. Eich

The correlation properties of the cold system consisting of the electron-hole plasma interacting with the exciton gas are analyzed. It is shown that the homogeneous state of the system is unstable and in the stationary state the densities…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-10 V. S. Babichenko

Motivated by the resurgence of electronic and optical property design in ordered fluoride and oxyfluoride compounds, we present a density functional theory (DFT) study on 19 materials with structures, ranging from simple to complex, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-23 Nenian Charles , James M. Rondinelli

The performance of several common approximations for the exchange-correlation kernel within time-dependent density-functional theory is tested for elementary excitations in the homogeneous electron gas. Although the adiabatic local-density…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Krzysztof Tatarczyk , Arno Schindlmayr , Matthias Scheffler

We present a finite-temperature extension of the retarded cumulant Green's function for calculations of exited-state and thermodynamic properties of electronic systems. The method incorporates a cumulant to leading order in the screened…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-01 J. J. Kas , J. J. Rehr

There is growing interest in warm dense matter (WDM) -- an exotic state on the border between condensed matter and plasmas. Due to the simultaneous importance of quantum and correlation effects WDM is complicated to treat theoretically. A…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Paul Hamann , Tobias Dornheim , Jan Vorberger , Zhandos A. Moldabekov , Michael Bonitz

We carry out extensive direct path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of the uniform electron gas (UEG) at finite temperature for different values of the spin-polarization $\xi$. This allows us to unambiguously quantify the impact of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Tobias Dornheim , Jan Vorberger , Burkhard Militzer , Zhandos A. Moldabekov

In spin-density-functional theory for noncollinear magnetic materials, the Kohn-Sham system features exchange-correlation (xc) scalar potentials and magnetic fields. The significance of the xc magnetic fields is not very well explored; in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-25 Edward A. Pluhar , Carsten A. Ullrich

We show an application of the functional-renormalization-group aided density functional theory to the homogeneous electron gas with arbitrary spin polarization, which gives the energy density functional in the local spin density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-12 Takeru Yokota , Tomoya Naito

A simple exact-exchange density-functional method for a quasi-two-dimensional electron gas with variable density is presented. An analytical expression for the exact-exchange potential with only one occupied subband is provided, without…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 F. A. Reboredo , C. R. Proetto

The dynamical, long-wavelength longitudinal and transverse exchange-correlation potentials for a homogeneous electron gas are evaluated in a microscopic model based on an approximate decoupling of the equation of motion for the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Conti , R. Nifosi' , M P Tosi

An exchange correlation energy functional involving fractional power of the one-body reduced density matrix [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 78}, 201103 (2008)] is applied to finite systems and to the homogeneous electron gas. The performance of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 N. N. Lathiotakis , S. Sharma , J. K. Dewhurst , F. Eich , M. A. L. Marques , E. K. U. Gross

We report an analytical representation of the correlation energy ec(rs, zeta) for a uniform electron gas (UEG), where rs is the Seitz radius or density parameter and zeta is the relative spin polarization. The new functional, called W20, is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Qing-Xing Xie , Jiashun Wu , Yan Zhao

The charge and spin response of a spin--polarized electron gas is investigated including terms beyond the random phase approximation. We evaluate the charge response, the longitudinal and transverse spin response, and the mixed spin--charge…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Kyung-Soo Yi , J. J. Quinn

In a recent Letter, Dornheim et al. [PRL 125, 085001 (2020)] have investigated the nonlinear density response of the uniform electron gas in the warm dense matter regime. More specifically, they have studied the cubic response function at…