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Nuclear density functional theory (DFT) is the only microscopic, global approach to the structure of atomic nuclei. It is used in numerous applications, from determining the limits of stability to gaining a deep understanding of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-06 Nicolas Schunck , Jordan D. McDonnell , Jason Sarich , Stefan M. Wild , Dave Higdon

Density-corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT) is enjoying substantial success in improving semilocal DFT calculations in a wide variety of chemical problems. This paper provides the formal theoretical framework and assumptions for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Stefan Vuckovic , Suhwan Song , John Kozlowski , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

A fundamental assumption of the dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) of colloidal systems is that a grand-canonical free energy functional may be employed to generate the thermodynamic driving forces. Using one-dimensional hard-rods…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-04 Johannes Reinhardt , Joseph Michael Brader

Density functional theory (DFT) provides a theoretical framework for efficient and fairly accurate calculations of the electronic structure of molecules and crystals. The main features of density functional theory are described and DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 Hauke Paulsen , Alfred Xaver Trautwein

This paper gives a summary of basic concepts of density-functional theory (DFT) and its use in state-of-the-art computations of complex processes in condensed matter physics and materials science. In particular we discuss how microscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-03 C. Ratsch , P. Ruggerone , M. Scheffler

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presently enjoying enormous popularity in quantum chemistry, as a useful tool for extracting electronic excited state energies. This article explains what TDDFT is, and how it differs from…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Elliott , Kieron Burke , Filipp Furche

Density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful theoretical tool widely used in such diverse fields as computational condensed matter physics, atomic physics, and quantum chemistry. DFT establishes that a system of $N$ interacting electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Giovanni Manfredi

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is widely used for atomistic simulations. However, its reach stays limited due to several limitations such as lack of accurate exchange-correlation functional, requirement of costly O(N 3) diagonalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Namrata Manglani , Samrit Kumar Maity , Shashank Sharma , Soham Phulare , Sanjay Wandhekar

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

Dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) has been successfully derived and applied to describe on the one hand passive colloidal suspensions, including hydrodynamic interactions between individual particles. On the other hand, active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-18 Andreas M. Menzel , Arnab Saha , Christian Hoell , Hartmut Löwen

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

Density functional theory has become the world's favorite electronic structure method, and is routinely applied to both materials and molecules. Here, we review recent attempts to use modern machine-learning to improve density functional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Ryosuke Akashi , Mihira Sogal , Kieron Burke

We propose an in-silico experiment to introduce classical density functional theory (cDFT). Den- sity functional theories, whether quantum or classical, rely on abstract concepts that are non- intuitive. However, they are at the heart of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Nicolas Levy , Maximilien Levesque , Daniel Borgis

We develop a lattice gas model for the drying of droplets of a nanoparticle suspension on a planar surface, using dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) to describe the time evolution of the solvent and nanoparticle density profiles.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-03 C. Chalmers , R. Smith , A. J. Archer

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a formally exact approach to the time-dependent electronic many-body problem which is widely used for calculating excitation energies. We present a survey of the fundamental framework,…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-29 Carsten A. Ullrich , Zeng-hui Yang

We develop a classical density functional theory (DFT) for two site associating fluids in spatially uniform external fields which exhibit orientational inhomogeneities. The Helmholtz free energy functional is obtain using Wertheim's…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 B. D. Marshall , W. G. Chapman , M. M. Telo da Gama

When can we map a classical density profile to an external potential? In equilibrium, without time dependence, the one-body density is known to specify the external potential that is applied to the many-body system. This mapping from a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Michael Andreas Klatt , Christian Bair , Hartmut Löwen , René Wittmann

Density functional theory (DFT) has transformed our ability to investigate and understand electronic ground states. In its original formulation, however, DFT is not suited to addressing (e.g.) degenerate ground states, mixed states with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Tim Gould , Leeor Kronik , Stefano Pittalis

Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) has established itself as a reliable and well-controlled approximation to study correlation effects in bulk solids and also two-dimensional systems. In combination with standard density-functional theory…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2015-05-30 V. Turkowski , A. Kabir , N. Nayyar , Talat S. Rahman