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Classical molecular dynamics simulations have recently become a standard tool for the study of electrochemical systems. State-of-the-art approaches represent the electrodes as perfect conductors, modelling their responses to the charge…

In traditional finite-temperature Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KSDFT), the well-known orbitals wall restricts the use of first-principles molecular dynamics methods at extremely high temperatures. However, stochastic density…

Orbital-optimized density functional theory (DFT) has emerged as an alternative to time-dependent (TD) DFT capable of describing difficult excited states with significant electron density redistribution, such as charge-transfer, Rydberg,…

To explore the applicability of orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) in nuclear physics, we perform a systematic benchmark of 36 one-point kinetic energy density functionals, which are originally developed for electron systems in…

We present a plane-wave basis set implementation of charge constrained density functional molecular dynamics (CDFT-MD) for simulation of electron transfer reactions in condensed phase systems. Following earlier work of Wu et al. Phys. Rev.…

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We present a Gaussian-basis implementation of orbital-free density-functional theory (OF-DFT) in which the trust-region image method (TRIM) is used for optimization. This second-order optimization scheme has been constructed to provide…

Orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) offers a true realization of the Hohenberg-Kohn theorems, enabling full quantum-mechanical studies of electronic systems based solely on electron densities. However, OFDFT remains limited by…

Nucleation is very common physical phenomena that occur at the microscopic scale. However, due to the presence of nucleation barriers, the time scale of nucleation is usually much longer than that of microscopic particle dynamics. These…

We propose a first-principles time-dependent density functional theoretical (TDDFT) approach in momentum (P) space for quantitative study of electron transport in molecular devices under arbitrary biases. In this approach, the basic…

We propose a new molecular simulation framework that combines the transferability, robustness and chemical flexibility of an ab initio method with the accuracy and efficiency of a machine learned force field. The key to achieve this mix is…

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) holds the promise to compute ground state molecular properties at minimal cost. However, it has been held back by our inability to compute the kinetic energy as a functional of the electron…

Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory (OFDFT) has re-emerged as a viable alternative to Kohn-Sham DFT, driven by recent advances in kinetic energy density functionals (KEDFs). Nonlocal (NL) KEDFs have significantly extended OFDFT's…

We propose a novel scheme to bring reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT) into the realm of density functional theory (DFT) that preserves the accurate density functional description at equilibrium, while incorporating accurately…

This work presents a new class of hybrid density functional theory (DFT) approximations, incorporating nonlocal exact exchange in predefined states such as core atomic orbitals (AOs). These projected hybrid density functionals are a…

Current-spin density functional theory (CSDFT) provides a framework to describe interacting many-electron systems in a magnetic field which couples to both spin- and orbital-degrees of freedom. Unlike in usual (spin-) density functional…

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Quantum embedding approaches involve the self-consistent optimization of a local fragment of a strongly correlated system, entangled with the wider environment. The `energy-weighted' density matrix embedding theory (EwDMET) was established…