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Within density-functional theory, Moreau-Yosida regularization enables both a reformulation of the theory and a mathematically well-defined definition of the Kohn-Sham approach. It is further employed in density-potential inversion schemes…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-20 Markus Penz , Michael F. Herbst , Trygve Helgaker , Andre Laestadius

The Kohn-Sham iteration of generalized density-functional theory on Banach spaces with Moreau-Yosida regularized universal Lieb functional and an adaptive damping step is shown to converge to the correct ground-state density. This result…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Markus Penz , Andre Laestadius

Recent work has established Moreau-Yosida regularization as a mathematical tool to achieve rigorous functional differentiability in density-functional theory. In this article, we extend this tool to paramagnetic current-density-functional…

A detailed convex analysis-based formulation of density-functional theory for periodic systems in arbitrary dimensions is presented. The electron-electron interaction is taken to be of Yukawa type, harmonising with underlying function…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Oliver M. Bohle , Maryam Lotfigolian , Andre Laestadius , Erik I. Tellgren

We use an exact Moreau-Yosida regularized formulation to obtain the exchange-correlation potential for periodic systems. We reveal a profound connection between rigorous mathematical principles and efficient numerical implementation, which…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Michael F. Herbst , Vebjørn H. Bakkestuen , Andre Laestadius

A Kohn-Sham (KS) inversion determines a KS potential and orbitals corresponding to a given electron density, a procedure that has applications in developing and evaluating functionals used in density functional theory. Despite the utility…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Seungsoo Nam , Ryan J. McCarty , Hansol Park , Eunji Sim

Moreau-Yosida regularization is introduced into the framework of exact DFT. Moreau-Yosida regularization is a lossless operation on lower semicontinuous proper convex functions over separable Hilbert spaces, and when applied to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Simen Kvaal

We analyze the inverse problem of Density Functional Theory using a regularized variational method. First, we show that given $k$ and a target density $\rho$, there exist potentials having $k^{\text{th}}$ bound mixed states which densities…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Louis Garrigue

The exact Kohn-Sham iteration of generalized density-functional theory in finite dimensions witha Moreau-Yosida regularized universal Lieb functional and an adaptive damping step is shown toconverge to the correct ground-state density.

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-01 Markus Penz , Andre Laestadius , Erik I. Tellgren , Michael Ruggenthaler

Here we present a density matrix based KS inversion method formulated entirely within a Gaussian basis representation to optimize a KS potential matrix that reproduces a target electron density. Inverse Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Ziwei Chai , Sandra Luber

This article generalizes the notion of the local density of a many-body system to introduce collective coordinates as explicit degrees of freedom. It is shown that the energy of the system can be expressed as a functional of this object.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 Thomas Lesinski

We study a generalization of Moreau-Yosida regularization that is adapted to the geometry of Banach spaces where the dual space is uniformly convex with modulus of convexity of power type. Important properties for regularized convex…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Markus Penz , Andre Laestadius

External potentials play a crucial role in modelling quantum systems, since, for a given inter- particle interaction, they define the system Hamiltonian. We use the metric space approach to quantum mechanics to derive, from the energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 P. M. Sharp , I. D'Amico

The universal density functional $F$ of density-functional theory is a complicated and ill-behaved function of the density-in particular, $F$ is not differentiable, making many formal manipulations more complicated. Whilst $F$ has been well…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Simen Kvaal , Ulf Ekström , Andrew M. Teale , Trygve Helgaker

A complete solution to the inverse problem of Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory is proposed. Our method consists of two steps. First, the effective KS potential is determined from the ground state density of a given system. Then, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 A. Liardi , F. Marino , G. Colò , X. Roca-Maza , E. Vigezzi

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem and the Kohn-Sham equations, which are at the basis of the Density Functional Theory, are reformulated in terms of a particular many-body density, which is translational invariant and therefore is relevant for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 A. Kievsky , G. Orlandini , M. Gattobigio

Inverse Kohn-Sham (iKS) problems are needed to fully understand the one-to-one mapping between densities and potentials on which Density Functional Theory is based. They are also important to advance computational schemes that rely on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Yuming Shi , Adam Wasserman

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 this work we give a comprehensive derivation of an exact and numerically feasible method to perform ab-initio calculations of quantum particles interacting with a quantized electromagnetic field. We present a hierachy of…

This paper presents a regularization technique for the high order efficient numerical evaluation of nearly singular, principal-value, and finite-part Cauchy-type integral operators. By relying on the Cauchy formula, the Cauchy-Goursat…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Vicente Gómez , Carlos Pérez-Arancibia
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