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We describe an ab initio method for calculating the electronic structure, electronic transport, and forces acting on the atoms, for atomic scale systems connected to semi-infinite electrodes and with an applied voltage bias. Our method is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Mads Brandbyge , Jose-Luis Mozos , Pablo Ordejon , Jeremy Taylor , Kurt Stokbro

We study the photoelectric effect on the example of a simplified model of an atom with a single bound state, coupled to the quantized electromagnetic field. For this model, we show that Einstein's prediction for the photoelectric effect is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Volker Bach , Frederic Klopp , Heribert Zenk

The key features of density-functional theory (DFT) within a minimalistic implementation of quantum electrodynamics are demonstrated, thus allowing to study elementary properties of quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory…

Atomic negative ions are fragile quantum systems in which correlation among the valence electrons plays a very important role. For doubly excited states correlation becomes dominant. Photodetachment is the process where a negative ion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Andreas E. Klinkmueller

We derive an exact representation of the exchange-correlation energy within density functional theory (DFT) which spawns a class of approximations leading to correct long-range asymptotic behavior. In what amounts to be the simplest…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser

A two-electron one-dimensional model of a heteroatomic molecule composed of two open-shell atoms is considered. Including only two electrons isolates and examines the effect that the highest occupied molecular orbital has on the Kohn-Sham…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-22 David G. Tempel , Todd J. Martinez , Neepa T. Maitra

Nuclear mean-field models are briefly reviewed to illustrate its foundation and necessity of state dependence in effective interactions. This state dependence is successfully taken into account by the density dependence, leading to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Takashi Nakatsukasa

We present an alternative to the Kohn-Sham formulation of density functional theory for the ground-state properties of strongly interacting electronic systems. The idea is to start from the limit of zero kinetic energy and systematically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Michael Seidl , G. Vignale

In order to obtain a reasonably accurate and easily implemented approach to many-electron calculations, we will develop a new Density Functional Theory (DFT). Specifically, we derive an approximation to electron density, the first term of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-23 Gregory C. Dente

Partition Density Functional Theory (P-DFT) is a density embedding method that partitions a molecule into fragments by minimizing the sum of fragment energies subject to a local density constraint and a global electron-number constraint. To…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Kui Zhang , Adam Wasserman

We present results of a photon-free exchange-correlation functional within the local density approximation (pxcLDA) for quantum electrodynamics density functional theory (QEDFT) that efficiently describes the electron density of…

It was recently shown [Y. Suzuki, L. Lacombe, K. Watanabe, and N. T. Maitra, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263401 (2017)] that peak and valley structures in the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density functional theory are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Lionel Lacombe , Yasumitsu Suzuki , Kazuyuki Watanabe , Neepa T. Maitra

As shown by Overhauser and others, accurate pair densities for the uniform electron gas may be found by solving a two-electron scattering problem with an effective screened electron-electron repulsion. In this work we explore the extension…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

The non-resonant two-photon one-electron ionization of neutral atoms is studied theoretically in the framework of relativistic second-order perturbation theory and independent particle approximation. In particular, the importance of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Jiri Hofbrucker , Andrey V. Volotka , Stephan Fritzsche

We develop an ensemble density functional theory for the fractional quantum Hall effect using a local density approximation. Model calculations for edge reconstructions of a spin-polarized quantum dot give results in good agreement with…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 O. Heinonen , M. I. Lubin , M. D. Johnson

We study the interconnection between the results of two qualitatively different approximate calculations of photoionization cross sections, $\sigma_{n\ell}$, for neutral atoms ($A$) or their cations ($A^+$), centrally confined inside a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 V. K. Dolmatov , L. V. Chernysheva , V. G. Yarzhemsky

The combination of density functional theory with other approaches to the many-electron problem through the separation of the electron-electron interaction into a short-range and a long-range contribution is a promising method, which is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

The self consistent version of the density functional theory is presented, which allows to calculate the ground state and dynamic properties of finite multi-electron systems. An exact functional equation for the effective interaction, from…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Ya. Amusia , A. Z. Msezane , V. R. Shaginyan

Density functional theory (DFT) is an exact alternative formulation of quantum mechanics, in which it is possible to calculate the total energy, the spin and the charge density of many-electron systems in the ground state. In practice, it…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Uri Argaman , Guy Makov , Eli Kraisler

The first theoretical investigation on the inner-shell single-photodetachment from the Si- negative ion is presented. The partial and total cross sections, the photoelectron phaseshifts, and the parameters of angular anisotropy are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Galina Schrange-Kashenock