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This paper considers optimal control of fractional parabolic PDEs with both state and control constraints. The key challenge is how to handle the state constraints. Similarly, to the elliptic case, in this paper, we establish several new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Harbir Antil , Thomas S. Brown , Deepanshu Verma , Mahamadi Warma

The mapping, exact or approximate, of a many-body problem onto an effective single-body problem is one of the most widely used conceptual and computational tools of physics. Here, we propose and investigate the inverse map of effective…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. P. Coe , K. Capelle , I. D'Amico

The exchange-correlation energy in Kohn-Sham density functional theory can be expressed exactly in terms of the change in the expectation of the electron-electron repulsion operator when, in the many-electron hamiltonian, this same operator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-08-05 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Giovanni Vignale , Michael Seidl

We prove a novel inversion theorem for functionals given as power series in infinite-dimensional spaces and apply it to the inversion of the density-activity relation for inhomogeneous systems. This provides a rigorous framework to prove…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Sabine Jansen , Tobias Kuna , Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis

The practical success of density functional theory (DFT) is largely credited to the Kohn-Sham approach, which enables the exact calculation of the non-interacting electron kinetic energy via an auxiliary noninteracting system. Yet, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sangita Majumdar , Zekun Shi , Giovanni Vignale

A bivariate perspective on Kohn-Sham density functional theory is proposed, treating potential and density as simultaneous independent variables, and used to make fruitful connection between Lieb's rigorous foundational framework and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-07 Paul E. Lammert

Most of the density-to-potential inversion methods developed over the years follow a general algorithm $ v_{xc}^{i+1}(\textbf{r}) = v_{xc}^{i}(\textbf{r}) + \Delta v_{xc}(\textbf{r})$, where $\Delta v_{xc}(\textbf{r}) = \frac{\delta…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Ashish Kumar , Manoj K. Harbola

By extrapolating the energies of non-relativistic atoms and their ions with up to 3000 electrons within Kohn-Sham density functional theory, we find that the ionization potential remains finite and increases across a row, even as…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Lucian A. Constantin , John C. Snyder , John P. Perdew , Kieron Burke

We present a method to invert a given density and find the Kohn-Sham (KS) potential in Density Functional Theory (DFT) which shares that density. Our method employs the concept of screening density, which is naturally constrained by the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Timothy J. Callow , Nektarios N. Lathiotakis , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos

The inverse problem of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is often solved in an effort to benchmark and design approximate exchange-correlation potentials. The forward and inverse problems of DFT rely on the same equations but the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Daniel Jensen , Adam Wasserman

The multi-component density functional theory is faced with the challenge of capturing various types of inter- and intra-particle exchange-correlation effects beyond those introduced by the conventional electronic exchange-correlation…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2023-12-27 Nahid Sadat Riyahi , Mohammad Goli , Shant Shahbazian

Recently the authors have studied a state and control constrained optimal control problem with fractional elliptic PDE as constraints. The goal of this paper is to continue that program forward and introduce an algorithm to solve such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Harbir Antil , Thomas S. Brown , Deepanshu Verma

The functional renormalization group method is used to take into account the vacuum polarization around localized bound states generated by external potential. The application to Atomic Physics leads to improved Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Janos Polonyi

A model is developed, based on the density functional perturbation theory and the inverse Kohn-Sham method, that can be used to improve relativistic nuclear energy density functionals towards an exact but unknown Kohn-Sham…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Giacomo Accorto , Tomoya Naito , Haozhao Liang , Tamara Niksic , Dario Vretenar

In many applications, one deals with nonsmooth functions, e.g., in nonsmooth dynamical systems, nonsmooth mechanics, or nonsmooth optimization. In order to establish theoretical results, it is often beneficial to regularize the nonsmooth…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Aras Bacho

In the exact Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT), the total energy versus the number of electrons is a series of linear segments between integer points. However, commonly used approximate density functionals produce total energies…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-03 Eli Kraisler , Leeor Kronik

We present a rigorous formulation of generalized Kohn-Sham density-functional theory. This provides a straightforward Kohn-Sham description of many-body systems based not only on particle-density but also on any other observable. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Valiev , G. W. Fernando

The inverse Kohn-Sham (KS) problem seeks a local effective potential whose noninteracting ground state reproduces a prescribed electron density. Existing inversion formulations are often expressed in disparate languages, including reduced…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Nan Sheng

Deriving accurate energy density functional is one of the central problems in condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and quantum chemistry. We propose a novel method to deduce the energy density functional by combining the idea of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-01 Haozhao Liang , Yifei Niu , Tetsuo Hatsuda

The density-functional approach to quantum electrodynamics is extending traditional density-functional theory and opens the possibility to describe electron-photon interactions in terms of effective Kohn-Sham potentials. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Johannes Flick , Michael Ruggenthaler , Heiko Appel , Angel Rubio