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The logical structure and the basic theorems of time-dependent current density functional theory (TDCDFT) are analyzed and reconsidered from the point of view of recently proposed time-dependent deformation functional theory (TDDefFT). It…

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Using a hydrogen molecule as a test system we demonstrate how to compute the effective potential according to the formalism of the new density functional theory (DFT), in which the basic variable is the set of spherically averaged densities…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 K. Kokko , Á. Nagy , J. Huhtala , T. Björkman , L. Vitos

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Sebastian Dick , Marivi Fernandez-Serra

Drawing on the theory of quantum mechanical stress, we introduce the stress density in density functional theory. In analogy with the Chetty-Martin energy density, the stress density provides a spatial resolution of the contributions to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Alessio Filippetti , Vincenzo Fiorentini

Stochastic and mixed stochastic-deterministic density functional theory (DFT) are promising new approaches for the calculation of the equation-of-state and transport properties in materials under extreme conditions. In the intermediate warm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Vidushi Sharma , Lee A. Collins , Alexander J. White

I summarize Density Functional Theory (DFT) in a language familiar to quantum field theorists, and introduce several apparently novel ideas for constructing {\it systematic} approximations for the density functional. I also note that, at…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-11 T. Banks

The density functional theory (DFT) is the most versatile electronic structure method used in quantum chemical calculations, and is increasingly applied in astrochemical research. This mini-review provides an overview of the applications of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-24 Qingli Liao , Junzhi Wang , Peng Xie , Enwei Liang , Zhao Wang

Calculating perturbation response properties of materials from first principles provides a vital link between theory and experiment, but is bottlenecked by the high computational cost. Here a general framework is proposed to perform density…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 He Li , Zechen Tang , Jingheng Fu , Wen-Han Dong , Nianlong Zou , Xiaoxun Gong , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

Density Functional Theory relies on universal functionals characteristic of a given system. Those functionals in general are different for the electron gas and for jellium (electron gas with uniform background). However, jellium is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-23 James W. Dufty

The classic density-functional theory (DFT) formalism introduced by Hohenberg, Kohn, and Sham in the mid-1960s, is based upon the idea that the complicated N-electron wavefunction can be replaced with the mathematically simpler 1-electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. E. Casida , M. Huix-Rotllant

We present an accurate free-energy functional for liquid water written in terms of a set of effective potential fields in which fictitious noninteracting water molecules move. The functional contains an \emph{exact} expression of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-04-19 Johannes Lischner , T. A. Arias

The fractional quantum Hall effect remains a captivating area in condensed matter physics, characterized by strongly correlated topological order, which manifests as fractionalized excitations and anyonic statistics. Numerical simulations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-27 Yi Yang , Yayun Hu , Zi-Xiang Hu

Linear scaling density functional theory approaches to electronic structure are often based on the tendency of electrons to localize even in large atomic and molecular systems. However, in many cases of actual interest, for example in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Marcel David Fabian , Ben Shpiro , Roi Baer

For classical many-body systems subject to Brownian dynamics we develop a superadiabatic dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) for the description of inhomogeneous fluids out-of-equilibrium. By explicitly incorporating the dynamics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-20 S. M. Tschopp , J. M. Brader

We propose a method to evaluate the entropy density and entropy flux in a vacuum gap between two half-spaces that takes into account influence of near-field effects, i.e., interference, diffraction, and tunneling of waves. The method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-21 Arvind Narayanaswamy , Yi Zheng

We investigate a density-functional theory (DFT) approach for an unpolarized trapped dilute Fermi gas in the unitary limit . A reformulation of the recent work of T. Papenbrock [Phys. Rev. A, {\bf 72}, 041602(R) (2005)] in the language of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Brandon P. van Zyl , D. A. W. Hutchinson , Melodie Need

Density-functional theory (DFT) has revolutionized computer simulations in chemistry and material science. A faithful implementation of the theory requires self-consistent calculations. However, this effort involves repeatedly diagonalizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Taehee Ko , Xiantao Li , Chunhao Wang

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

Classical dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) has become one of the central modeling approaches in nonequilibrium soft matter physics. Recent years have seen the emergence of novel and interesting fields of application for DDFT. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-21 Michael te Vrugt , Raphael Wittkowski

The density functional theory (DFT) is based on the existence and uniqueness of a universal functional $E[\rho]$, which determines the dependence of the total energy on single-particle density distributions. However, DFT says nothing about…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Hana Gil , Panagiota Papakonstantinou , Chang Ho Hyun , Tae-Sun Park , Yongseok Oh