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We prove that the electron density function of a real physical system can be uniquely determined by its values on any finite subsystem. This establishes the existence of a rigorous density-functional theory for any open electronic system.…

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Density functional theory (DFT) is the de facto approach for predicting self-consistent-field electronic structures of ground-state configurations of complex atoms, molecules, and solids and providing their property data for materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-30 Zi-Kui Liu

We discover many new crystalline solid materials with fast single crystal Li ion conductivity at room temperature, discovered through density functional theory simulations guided by machine learning-based methods. The discovery of new solid…

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We consider electronic exchange and correlation effects in density-functional calculations of two-dimensional systems. Starting from wave function calculations of total energies and electron densities of inhomogeneous model systems, we…

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Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been a cornerstone in computational science, providing powerful insights into structure-property relationships for molecules and materials through first-principles quantum-mechanical (QM) calculations.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Yicheng Chen , Wenjie Yan , Zhanfeng Wang , Jianming Wu , Xin Xu

The phenomenon of electrowetting, i.e., the dependence of the macroscopic contact angle of a fluid on the electrostatic potential of the substrate, is analyzed in terms of the density functional theory of wetting. It is shown that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-07 Markus Bier , Ingrid Ibagon

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

The exact interaction energy of a many-electron system is determined by the electron pair density, which is not well-approximated in standard Kohn-Sham density functional models. Here we study the (complicated but well-defined) exact…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-07 Huajie Chen , Gero Friesecke

Machine learning (ML) accelerates the exploration of material properties and their links to the structure of the underlying molecules. In previous work [J. Shi, M. J. Quevillon, P. H. A. Valen\c{c}a, and J. K. Whitmer, \textit{ACS Appl.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-06 Jiale Shi , Fahed Albreiki , Yamil J. Colón , Samanvaya Srivastava , Jonathan K. Whitmer

Long-range corrected (LC) hybrid functionals and asymptotically corrected (AC) model potentials are two distinct density functional methods with correct asymptotic behavior. They are known to be accurate for properties that are sensitive to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Chen-Wei Tsai , Yu-Chuan Su , Guan-De Li , Jeng-Da Chai

It was recently shown [Y. Suzuki, L. Lacombe, K. Watanabe, and N. T. Maitra, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263401 (2017)] that peak and valley structures in the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density functional theory are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Lionel Lacombe , Yasumitsu Suzuki , Kazuyuki Watanabe , Neepa T. Maitra

We study a generalization performance of the machine learning (ML) model to predict the atomic forces within the density functional theory (DFT). The targets are the Si and Ge single component systems in the liquid state. To train the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Ryo Tamura , Jianbo Lin , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki

Reporting extensions of a recently developed approach to density functional theory with correct long-range be-havior (Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 043002 (2005)). The central quantities are a splitting functional gamma[n] and a complementary…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 Ester Livshits , Roi Baer

Model Hamiltonians with long-range interaction yield energies that are corrected taking into account the universal behavior of the electron-electron interaction at short range. Although the intention of the paper is to explore the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Andreas Savin

We introduce a local machine-learning method for predicting the electron densities of periodic systems. The framework is based on a numerical, atom-centred auxiliary basis, which enables an accurate expansion of the all-electron density in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Alan M. Lewis , Andrea Grisafi , Michele Ceriotti , Mariana Rossi

We propose a simple, but efficient and accurate machine learning (ML) model for developing high-dimensional potential energy surface. This so-called embedded atom neural network (EANN) approach is inspired by the well-known empirical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Yaolong Zhang , Ce Hu , Bin Jiang

Reduced density matrix functional theory for the case of solids is presented and a new exchange correlation functional based on a fractional power of the density matrix is introduced. We show that compared to other functionals, this…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Sharma , J. K. Dewhurst , N. N. Lathiotakis , E. K. U. Gross

We propose a new approach to approximate the exchange and correlation (XC) functional in density functional theory. The XC potential is considered as an electrostatic potential, generated by a fictitious XC density, which is in turn a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Xavier Andrade , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Improving the accuracy and thus broadening the applicability of electronic density functional theory (DFT) is crucial to many research areas, from material science, to theoretical chemistry, biophysics and biochemistry. In the last three…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Michael Seidl

In-situ Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) is an instrumental technique that has traditionally been used to understand how the choice of materials processing has the ability to change local structure and composition. However, more…