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The self consistent version of the density functional theory (DFT) is presented, which allows to calculate the ground state and dynamic properties of finite multi-electron systems such as atoms, molecules and clusters. The exact functional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ya. Amusia , V. R. Shaginyan

We study the mean-field phase diagram of the two-dimensional (2D) Hubbard model in the Lieb lattice allowing for spin and charge density waves. Previous studies of this diagram have shown that the mean-field magnetization surprisingly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-17 J. D. Gouveia , R. G. Dias

We address the problem of interacting electrons in an external potential by introducing the occupied spectral density $\rho(\mathbf{r},\omega)$ as fundamental variable. First, we formulate the problem using an embedding framework, and prove…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-26 Andrea Ferretti , Nicola Marzari

We report the bulk and surface properties of lithium computed within a full potential LCGTO formalism using both density functional theory and the Hartree-Fock approximation. We examine the convergence of computed properties with respect to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Doll , N. M. Harrison , V. R. Saunders

Density functional theory has become the workhorse of quantum physics, chemistry, and materials science. Within these fields, a broad range of applications needs to be covered. These applications range from solids to molecular systems, from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Christof Holzer , Yannick J. Franzke

We construct and apply an exchange-correlation functional for the one-dimensional Hubbard model. This functional has built into it the Luttinger-liquid and Mott-insulator correlations, present in the Hubbard model, in the same way in which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Capelle , N. A. Lima , M. F. Silva , L. N. Oliveira

We present a density functional theory (DFT) for lattice models with local electron-electron (e-e) and electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions. Exchange-correlation potentials are derived via dynamical mean field theory for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 E. Viñas Boström , P. Helmer , P. Werner , C. Verdozzi

The generalized constrained search formalism is used to address the issues concerning density-to-potential mapping for excited states in time-independent density-functional theory. The multiplicity of potentials for any given density and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-09 Prasanjit Samal , Subrata Jana , Sourabh S. Chauhan

The gauge invariant formulation of Maxwell's equations and the electromagnetic duality transformations are given in the light-front (LF) variables. The novel formulation of the LF canonical quantization, which is based on the kinematic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Jerzy A. Przeszowski

The formalism of Kohn and Sham uses a specific (model) hamiltonian which highly simplifies the many-electron problem to that of noninteracting fermions. The theorem of Hohenberg and Kohn tells us that, for a given ground state density, this…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-07-05 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Julien Toulouse , Andreas Savin

For a many-electron system, whether the particle density $\rho(\mathbf{r})$ and the total current density $\mathbf{j}(\mathbf{r})$ are sufficient to determine the one-body potential $V(\mathbf{r})$ and vector potential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 Andre Laestadius , Michael Benedicks

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem, a cornerstone of electronic density functional theory, concerns uniqueness of external potentials yielding given ground densities of an ${\mathcal N}$-body system. The problem is rigorously explored in a universe…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-12 Paul E. Lammert

The universal density functional $F$ of density-functional theory is a complicated and ill-behaved function of the density-in particular, $F$ is not differentiable, making many formal manipulations more complicated. Whilst $F$ has been well…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Simen Kvaal , Ulf Ekström , Andrew M. Teale , Trygve Helgaker

We introduced a new electron density n({\epsilon}) by projecting the spatial electron density n(r) onto the energy coordinate {\epsilon} defined with the external potential \upsion (r) of interest. Then, a density functional theory (DFT)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 Hideaki Takahashi

We reconsider the density functional theory of nonuniform classical fluids from the point of view of convex analysis. From the observation that the logarithm of the grand-partition function $\log \Xi [\phi]$ is a convex functional of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. -M. Caillol

We present a general multi-component density functional theory in which electrons and nuclei are treated completely quantum mechanically, without the use of a Born-Oppenheimer approximation. The two fundamental quantities in terms of which…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Kreibich , Robert van Leeuwen , E. K. U. Gross

The Kohn-Sham scheme of density functional theory is one of the most widely used methods to solve electronic structure problems for a vast variety of atomistic systems across different scientific fields. While the method is fast relative to…

We introduce a new form of density functional theory for the {\em ab initio} description of electronic systems in contact with a molecular liquid environment. This theory rigorously joins an electron density-functional for the electrons of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Sahak Petrosyan , Jean-Francois Briere , David Roundy , T. A. Arias

The many-body space fractional quantum system is studied using the density matrix method. We give the new results of the Thomas-Fermi model, and obtain the quantum pressure of the free electron gas. We also show the validity of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-27 Jianping Dong

Density-functional theory requires ever better exchange-correlation (xc) functionals for the ever more precise description of many-body effects on electronic structure. Universal constraints on the xc energy are important ingredients in the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mariana M. Odashima , K. Capelle