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Common density-matrix functionals, the M\"uller and the power functional, have been benchmarked for the half-filled Hubbard dimer, which allows to model the bond dissociation problem and the transition from the weakly to the strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-09 Ebad Kamil , Robert Schade , Thomas Pruschke , Peter E. Blöchl

We showcase the advantages of orbital-free density-potential functional theory (DPFT), a more flexible variant of Hohenberg-Kohn density functional theory. DPFT resolves the usual trouble with the gradient-expanded kinetic energy functional…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-16 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , Jun Hao Hue , Berthold-Georg Englert

For translationally invariant one-band lattice models, we exploit the ab initio knowledge of the natural orbitals to simplify reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT). Striking underlying features are discovered: First, within each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 Christian Schilling , Rolf Schilling

Following a recent work [E. Fromager, J. Phys. Chem. A 2025, 129, 4, 1143-1155] on the ensemble density functional theory (DFT) of excited electronic energy levels, we derive in this paper the ensuing static linear response theory, thus…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Lucien Dupuy , Emmanuel Fromager

The Hubbard model is investigated in the framework of lattice density functional theory (LDFT). The single-particle density matrix $\gamma_{ij}$ with respect the lattice sites is considered as the basic variable of the many-body problem. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Lopez-Sandoval , G. M. Pastor

A recent work [arXiv:2401.04685] has merged $N$-centered ensembles of neutral and charged electronic ground states with ensembles of neutral ground and excited states, thus providing a general and in-principle exact (so-called extended…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-14 Filip Cernatic , Emmanuel Fromager

Density functional theory (DFT) is a widespread and effective tool in electronic structure calculations for ground-state electron systems. Its success has prompted exploration into the use of DFT for non-collective excited states. The delta…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Ethan Pollack , Rohan Maniar , John P. Perdew

While the variational principle for excited-state energies leads to a route to obtaining excited-state densities from time-dependent density functional theory, relatively little attention has been paid to the quality of the resulting…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Anna Baranova , Neepa T. Maitra

Gross-Oliveira-Kohn density-functional theory (GOK-DFT) for ensembles is the DFT analog of state-averaged wavefunction-based (SA-WF) methods. In GOK-DFT, the state-averaged (so-called ensemble) exchange-correlation (xc) energy is described…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Killian Deur , Emmanuel Fromager

We extend ground-state density-functional theory to excited states and provide the theoretical formulation for the widely used $\Delta SCF$ method for calculating excited-state energies and densities. As the electron density alone is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Weitao Yang , Paul W. Ayers

A density functional theory for many-body lattice models is considered in which the single-particle density matrix is the basic variable. Eigenvalue equations are derived for solving Levy's constrained search of the interaction energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Lopez-Sandoval , G. M. Pastor

Density functional theory can be extended to excited states by means of a unified variational approach for passive state ensembles. This extension overcomes the restriction of the typical density functional approach to ground states, and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Tim Gould , Stefano Pittalis

In this paper, we apply the recently developed ab initio renormalized excitonic method (REM) to the excitation energy calculations of various molecular aggregates, through the extension of REM to the time-dependent density functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-05-07 Yingjin Ma , Haibo Ma

We present a density-functional theory for the one dimensional harmonically trapped Bose-Fermi mixture with repulsive contact interactions. The ground state density distribution of each component is obtained by solving the Kohn-Sham…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-06 Hongmei Wang , Yajiang Hao , Yunbo Zhang

Density functional theory (DFT), the most widely adopted method in modern computational chemistry, fails to describe accurately the electronic structure of strongly correlated systems. Here we show that DFT can be formally and practically…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn , David A. Mazziotti

One-body reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT) provides an alternative to Density Functional Theory (DFT), able to treat static correlation while keeping a relatively low computation scaling. Its disadvantageous cost comes mainly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Nicolas G. Cartier , Klaas J. H. Giesbertz

The uniform electron gas (UEG) is a cornerstone of density-functional theory (DFT) and the foundation of the local-density approximation (LDA), one of the most successful approximations in DFT. In this work, we extend the concept of UEG by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Pierre-François Loos

Reduced density-matrix functional theory (RDMFT) provides a variational route to electronic correlations beyond conventional density-functional approximations, but explicit evaluations of density-matrix functionals still scale exponentially…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Konstantin Tamoev , Robert Schade , Thomas D. Kühne

A density functional theory (DFT) framework is presented that links functional derivatives of free-energy functionals to non-linear static density response functions in quantum many-body systems. Within this framework, explicit expressions…

We introduce 'single-particle-exact density functional theory' (1pEx-DFT), a novel density functional approach that represents all single-particle contributions to the energy with exact functionals. Here, we parameterize interaction energy…