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Large-scale density functional theory (DFT) calculations provide a powerful tool to investigate the atomic and electronic structure of materials with complex structures. This article reviews a large-scale DFT calculation method, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-31 Ayako Nakata , David R. Bowler , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki

In the last 50 years, equilibrium density functional theory (DFT) has been proven to be a powerful, versatile and predictive approach for the statics and structure of classical particles. This theory can be extended to the nonequilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-26 Hartmut Löwen

DFT calculations have become widespread in both chemistry and materials, because they usually provide useful accuracy at much lower computational cost than wavefunction-based methods. All practical DFT calculations require an approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Eunji Sim , Suhwan Song , Stefan Vuckovic , Kieron Burke

The advent of the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem in 1964, its extension to finite-T, Kohn-Sham theory, and relativistic extensions provide the well-established formalism of density-functional theory (DFT). This theory enables the calculation of all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-18 M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

We review some of the basic mathematical results about density functional theory.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Heinz Siedentop

Density functional theory (DFT) is shown to provide a novel conceptual and computational framework for entanglement in interacting many-body quantum systems. DFT can, in particular, shed light on the intriguing relationship between quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. -A. Wu , M. S. Sarandy , D. A. Lidar , L. J. Sham

The density functional theory (DFT) is a remarkably successful theory of electronic structure of matter. At the foundation of this theory lies the Kohn-Sham (KS) equation. In this paper, we describe the long-time behaviour of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Fabio Pusateri , Israel Michael Sigal

With the advent of new synthesis and large-scale production technologies, nanostructured gas-adsorbent materials (GAM) like carbon nanocomposites and metal-organic frameworks are becoming increasingly more influential in our everyday lives.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-01 Claudio Cazorla

The accurate description of open-shell molecules, in particular of transition metal complexes and clusters, is still an important challenge for quantum chemistry. While density-functional theory (DFT) is widely applied in this area, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-10-26 Christoph R. Jacob , Markus Reiher

While the theory of diffusion of a single Brownian particle in confined geometries is well-established by now, we discuss here the theoretical framework necessary to generalize the theory of diffusion to dense suspensions of strongly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-12-18 H. Löwen , M. Heinen

Density functional theory (DFT) primarily provides a good description of the electronic structure. Thus, DFT primarily deals with length scales as those of a chemical bond, i.e. 10^-10 meter, and with time scales of the order of atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Ruggerone , Alex Kley , Matthias Scheffler

Density functional theory (DFT) calculation has had huge success as a tool capable of predicting important physical and chemical properties of condensed matter systems. We calculate the electric dipole moment of a molecule by using the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Byeong June Min

We explore a variety of unsolved problems in density functional theory, where mathematicians might prove useful. We give the background and context of the different problems, and why progress toward resolving them would help those doing…

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

This paper is the outgrowth of lectures the author gave at the Physics Institute and the Chemistry Institute of the University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil, and at the VIII'th Summer School on Electronic Structure of the Brazilian…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Capelle

The extension of the density functional theory (DFT) to include pairing correlations without formal violation of the particle-number conservation condition is described. This version of the theory can be considered as a foundation of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Krewald , V. B. Soubbotin , V. I. Tselyaev , X. Vinas

Two types of approaches to modeling molecular systems have demonstrated high practical efficiency. Density functional theory (DFT), the most widely used quantum chemical method, is a physical approach predicting energies and electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Anton V. Sinitskiy , Vijay S. Pande

Standard density functional approximations often give questionable results for odd-electron radical complexes, with the error typically attributed to self-interaction. In density corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT), certain classes…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Min-Cheol Kim , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

A formulation of the density functional theory is constructed on the foundations of entropic inference. The theory is introduced as an application of maximum entropy for inhomogeneous fluids in thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-29 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha

Aspects of Density Functional Resonance Theory (DFRT) [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{107}, 163002 (2011)], a recently developed complex-scaled version of ground-state Density Functional Theory (DFT), are studied in detail. The asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniel L. Whitenack , Adam Wasserman