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Ultrafast electronic dynamics in solids lies at the core of modern condensed matter and materials physics. To build up a practical ab initio method for studying solids under photoexcitation, we develop a momentum-resolved real-time time…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 Chao Lian , Shi-Qi Hu , Meng-Xue Guan , Sheng Meng

We discuss two problems which are particularly challenging for approximations in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to capture: momentum-distributions in ionization processes, and memory-dependence in real-time dynamics. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-22 Arun K. Rajam , Paul Hessler , Christian Gaun , Neepa T. Maitra

Reliable and robust convergence to the electronic ground state within density functional theory (DFT) Kohn-Sham (KS) calculations remains a thorny issue in many systems of interest. In such cases, charge sloshing can delay or completely…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Cedric Flamant , Grigory Kolesov , Efstratios Manousakis , Efthimios Kaxiras

The performance of time-independent, orbital optimized calculations of excited states is assessed with respect to charge transfer excitations in organic molecules in comparison to the linear-response time-dependent density functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Elli Selenius , Alec Elías Sigurdarson , Yorick L. A. Schmerwitz , Gianluca Levi

Systems whose underlying classical dynamics are chaotic exhibit signatures of the chaos in their quantum mechanics. We investigate the possibility of using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to study the case when chaos is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Adam Wasserman , Neepa T. Maitra , Eric J. Heller

We present a formulation of spin-conserving and spin-flip, hybrid time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), including the calculation of analytical forces, which allows for efficient calculations of excited state properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-05 Yu Jin , Victor Wen-zhe Yu , Marco Govoni , Andrew C Xu , Giulia Galli

The dynamics of a many-body system coupled to an external environment represents a fundamentally important problem. To this class of open quantum systems pertains the study of energy transport and dissipation, dephasing, quantum measurement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 R. D'Agosta , M. Di Ventra

We present a solution of the full TDDFT eigenvalue equation in the linear response formalism exhibiting a linear-scaling computational complexity with system size, without relying on the simplifying Tamm-Dancoff approximation (TDA). The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Tim J. Zuehlsdorff , Nicholas D. M. Hine , Mike C. Payne , Peter D. Haynes

Linear-response time-dependent Density Functional Theory (LR-TDDFT) is a widely used method for accurately predicting the excited-state properties of physical systems. Previous works have attempted to accelerate LR-TDDFT using heterogeneous…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Qingcai Jiang , Buxin Tu , Xiaoyu Hao , Junshi Chen , Hong An

Many application models in quantum physics and chemistry require to control multi-electron systems to achieve a desired target configuration. This challenging task appears possible in the framework of time-dependent density functional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Martin Sprengel , Gabriele Ciaramella , Alfio Borzì

We present a modification of the $\Delta$SCF method of calculating energies of excited states, in order to make it applicable to resonance calculations of molecules adsorbed on metal surfaces, where the molecular orbitals are highly…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-03-06 Jeppe Gavnholt , Thomas Olsen , Mads Engelund , Jakob Schiøtz

Effective field theory (EFT) methods are applied to density functional theory (DFT) as part of a program to systematically go beyond mean-field approaches to medium and heavy nuclei. A system of fermions with short-range, natural…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. J. Puglia , A. Bhattacharyya , R. J. Furnstahl

We present the basic concepts and recent developments in the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) for describing nuclear dynamics at low energy. The symmetry breaking is inherent in nuclear energy density functionals (EDFs),…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Takashi Nakatsukasa , Kenichi Matsuyanagi , Masayuki Matsuo , Kazuhiro Yabana

Two-component linear-response time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) provides a unified framework that encompasses noncollinear excitations in noncollinear reference states, as well as both spin-conserving and spin-flip…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Xiaoyu Zhang

Real-time, time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) has gained popularity as a first-principles approach to study a variety of excited-state phenomena such as optical excitations and electronic stopping. Within RT-TDDFT…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-23 Dillon C. Yost , Yi Yao , Yosuke Kanai

Calculating charge transfer (CT) excitation energies with high accuracy and low computational cost is a challenging task. Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT), due to its efficiency and accuracy, has achieved great success in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Yuncai Mei , Weitao Yang

We present the extension of Frozen Density Embedding (FDE) theory to real-time Time Dependent Density Functional Theory (rt-TDDFT). FDE a is DFT-in-DFT embedding method that allows to partition a larger Kohn-Sham system into a set of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Alisa Krishtal , Davide Ceresoli , Michele Pavanello

The dissipative dynamics of many-electron systems interacting with a thermal environment has remained a long-standing challenge within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). Recently, the formal foundations of open quantum…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 David G. Tempel , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

The general expectation that, in principle, time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) be an exact formulation of the time-evolution of an interacting N-electron system is critically reexamined. It is demonstrated that the previous…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-08-13 J. Schirmer , A. Dreuw

An approximate method based on adiabatic time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presented, that allows for the description of the electron dynamics in nanoscale junctions under arbitrary time dependent external potentials. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Y. Wang , C. -Y. Yam , G. H. Chen , Th. Frauenheim , T. A. Niehaus