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The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem plays a fundamental role in density functional theory, which has become a basic tool for the study of electronic structure of matter. In this article, we study the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem for a class of external…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 Aihui Zhou

The classical Density Functional Theory (DFT) is introduced as an application of entropic inference for inhomogeneous fluids at thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic inference reproduces the variational principle of DFT when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-14 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha

We use machine learning methods to approximate a classical density functional. As a study case, we choose the model problem of a Lennard Jones fluid in one dimension where there is no exact solution available and training data sets must be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-04 Shang-Chun Lin , Martin Oettel

Classical density functional theory for finite temperatures is usually formulated in the grand-canonical ensemble where arbitrary variations of the local density are possible. However, in many cases the systems of interest are closed with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-06 James F. Lutsko

We present a variational formulation of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory similar to the constrained-search variational formulation of ground-state density-function theory. The formulation is applied to justify the time-dependent…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-10-26 Jérôme Daligault

Nuclear density functional theory (DFT) is one of the main theoretical tools used to study the properties of heavy and superheavy elements, or to describe the structure of nuclei far from stability. While on-going efforts seek to better…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-23 N. Schunck , J. D. McDonnell , D. Higdon , J. Sarich , S. M. Wild

Previously, it has been shown that the direct correlation function for a Lennard-Jones fluid could be modeled by a sum of that for hard-spheres, a mean-field tail and a simple linear correction in the core region constructed so as to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-20 James F. Lutsko

The package "fhi96md" is an efficient code to perform density-functional theory total-energy calculations for materials ranging from insulators to transition metals. The package employs first-principles pseudopotentials, and a plane-wave…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Michel Bockstedte , Alexander Kley , Joerg Neugebauer , Matthias Scheffler

First principles methods can provide insight into materials that is otherwise impossible to acquire. Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been the first principles method of choice for numerous applications, but it falls short of predicting…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-24 Arpita Paul , Turan Birol

It is shown that the DFT exchange and correlation functionals satisfy an expression that couples exchange and correlation functionals and functional derivatives evaluated at three different densities and for two particle numbers. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Daniel P. Joubert

In this paper, we introduce the Levy density function as the limit of a generalized Mittag-Leffler density function. The fractional integral equation for the generalized Mittag-Leffler density function is also given. And the role of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-02-15 Jung Hun Han

Over the past decade machine learning has made significant advances in approximating density functionals, but whether this signals the end of human-designed functionals remains to be seen. Ryan Pederson, Bhupalee Kalita and Kieron Burke…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Ryan Pederson , Bhupalee Kalita , Kieron Burke

In principle, density functional theory yields the correct ground-state densities and energies of electronic systems under the action of a static external potential. However, traditional approximations fail to include Van der Waals energies…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Walter Kohn , Yigal Meir , Dmitrii E. Makarov

We study the behavior of very thin liquid films wetting homogeneous planar and spherical substrates. In order to describe a simple fluid at very small scales, we employ a classical density functional theory (DFT). Here, we model a fluid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-10 Andreas Nold

The response of an infinite, periodic, insulating, solid to an infinitesimally small electric field is investigated in the framework of Density Functional Theory. We find that the applied perturbing potential is not a unique functional of…

mtrl-th · Physics 2016-09-07 X. Gonze , Ph. Ghosez , R. W. Godby , .

In this article we study devlop some fundaments for a function theory in the 16-dimensional complexified octonions.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Rolf Sören Krausshar , Heikki Orelma

In this short paper, we consider the functional density on sets of uniformly bounded triangulations with fixed sets of vertices. We prove that if a functional attains its minimum on the Delaunay triangulation, for every finite set in the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Nikolay P. Dolbilin , Herbert Edelsbrunner , Oleg R. Musin

A system of soft ellipsoid molecules confined between two planar walls is studied using classical Density Functional Theory (DFT). Both the isotropic and nematic phases are considered. The excess free energy is evaluated using two different…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 David Cheung , Friederike Schmid

Dimensional analysis provides many simple and useful tools for various situations in science. The objective of this paper is to investigate its relations to functions, i.e., the dimensions for functions that yield physical quantities and…

General Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 Shinji Tanimoto

A unified formulation of the density functional theory is constructed on the foundations of entropic inference in both the classical and the quantum regimes. The theory is introduced as an application of entropic inference for inhomogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-20 Ahmad Yousefi