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The electron density $n(\rb,t)$, which is the central tool of time-dependent density functional theory, is presently considered to be derivable from a one-body time-dependent potential $V(\rb,t)$, via one-electron wave functions satisfying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Thomas A. Niehaus , Norman H. March

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.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao Zheng , Fan Wang , GuanHua Chen

We propose a practical approximation to the exchange-correlation functional of (time-dependent) density functional theory for many-electron systems coupled to photons. The (time non-local) optimized effective potential (OEP) equation for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Camilla Pellegrini , Johannes Flick , Ilya V. Tokatly , Heiko Appel , Angel Rubio

We present the theory, implementation, and benchmarking of a real-time time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) module within the RMG code, designed to simulate the electronic response of molecular systems to external…

We propose a theoretical and computational approach to investigate temporal behavior of a nonlinear polarization in perturbative regime induced by an intense and ultrashort pulsed electric field. First-principles time-dependent density…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Mitsuharu Uemoto , Yuki Kuwabara , Shunsuke A. Sato , Kazuhiro Yabana

Quantum Optimal Control Theory (QOCT) provides the necessary tools to theoretically design driving fields capable of controlling a quantum system towards a given state or along a prescribed path in Hilbert space. This theory must be…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2013-05-30 Alberto Castro , Jan Werschnik , Eberhard K. U. Gross

Distributions of electron waiting times have been measured in several recent experiments and have been shown to provide complementary information compared to what can be learned from the electric current fluctuations. Existing theories,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 Philipp Stegmann , Björn Sothmann , Jürgen König , Christian Flindt

Various ways to analyze the dynamical response of clusters and molecules to electromagnetic perturbations exist. Particularly rich information can be obtained from measuring the properties of electrons emitted in the course of the…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2015-06-11 P. Wopperer , P. M. Dinh , P. -G. Reinhard , E. Suraud

While the vast majority of calculations reported on molecular conductance have been based on the static non-equilibrium Green's function formalism combined with density functional theory, in recent years a few time-depedent approaches to…

Most applications of time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) use the adiabatic local-density approximation (ALDA) for the dynamical exchange-correlation potential Vxc(r,t). An exact (i.e., nonadiabatic) extension of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 C. A. Ullrich

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 propose a method using reduced size of Hilbert space to describe an electron dynamics in molecule and aggregate based on our previous theoretical scheme [ T. Yonehara and T. Nakajima, J. Chem. Phys. \textbf{147}, 074110 (2017) ]. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Takehiro Yonehara , Takahito Nakajima

Faithful representations of atomic environments and general models for regression can be harnessed to learn electron densities that are close to the ground state. One of the applications of data-derived electron densities is to orbital-free…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-01 Andrew T. Fowler , Chris J. Pickard , James A. Elliott

Time-dependent density functional theory continues to draw a large number of users in a wide range of fields exploring myriad applications involving electronic spectra and dynamics. Although in principle exact, the predictivity of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Lionel Lacombe , Neepa T. Maitra

Time-dependent electronic structure methods provide an efficient, accurate, and robust alternative to traditional time dependent methods for computing both linear and non-linear optical properties. With this in mind, we have developed the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Thomas Knoll , Benjamin G. Levine

In this thesis we present a new formalism to study linear and non-linear response in extended systems. Our approach is based on real-time solution of an effective Schr\"odinger equation. The coupling between electrons and external field is…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-24 Claudio Attaccalite

Charge transfer plays a crucial role in many processes of interest in physics, chemistry, and bio-chemistry. In many applications the size of the systems involved calls for time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to be used in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Neepa T. Maitra

Quantum optimal control theory is a powerful tool for engineering quantum systems subject to external fields such as the ones created by intense lasers. The formulation relies on a suitable definition for a target functional, that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 David Kammerlander , Alberto Castro , Miguel A. L. Marques

Methods based on propagation of the one-body reduced density-matrix hold much promise for the simulation of correlated many-electron dynamics far from equilibrium, but difficulties with finding good approximations for the interaction term…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-02-12 Peter Elliott , Neepa T. Maitra

The accuracy of the noninteracting electron approximation is examined for a model of vibrationally coupled electron transport in single molecule junction. In the absence of electronic-vibrational coupling, steady state transport in this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Haobin Wang , Michael Thoss