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A density-functional theory is developed based on the Maxwell--Schr\"odinger equation with an internal magnetic field in addition to the external electromagnetic potentials. The basic variables of this theory are the electron density and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Erik Tellgren

In this paper, we investigate the energy minimization model of the ensemble Kohn-Sham density functional theory for metallic systems, in which a pseudo-eigenvalue matrix and a general smearing approach are involved. We study the invariance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Xiaoying Dai , Stefano de Gironcoli , Bin Yang , Aihui Zhou

We propose a deterministic particle method for a one-dimensional nonlocal equation with interactions through the repulsive Morse potential. We show that the particle method converges as the number of particles goes to infinity towards weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Marco Di Francesco , Valeria Iorio , Markus Schmidtchen

We present an accurate and efficient framework for real-space Hubbard-corrected density functional theory. In particular, we obtain expressions for the energy, atomic forces, and stress tensor suitable for real-space finite-difference…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Sayan Bhowmik , Andrew J. Medford , Phanish Suryanarayana

When expressed in Lagrangian variables, the equations of motion for compressible (barotropic) fluids have the structure of a classical Hamiltonian system in which the potential energy is given by the internal energy of the fluid. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Thomas Gallouët , Quentin Merigot , Andrea Natale

Chemical accuracy serves as an important metric for assessing the effectiveness of the numerical method in Kohn--Sham density functional theory. It is found that to achieve chemical accuracy, not only the Kohn--Sham wavefunctions but also…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Yang Kuang , Yedan Shen , Guanghui Hu

We examine the density-functional theory of macroscopic insulators, obtained in the large-cluster limit or under periodic boundary conditions. For polar crystals, we find that the two procedures are not equivalent. In a large-cluster case,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-28 X. Gonze , Ph. Ghosez , R. W. Godby

We show that chemically-accurate potential energy surfaces (PESs) can be generated from quantum computers by measuring only the density along an adiabatic transition between different molecular geometries. In lieu of using phase estimation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 James Brown

This paper presents a novel loss function referred to as hybrid ordinary-Welsch (HOW) and a new sparsity-inducing regularizer associated with HOW. We theoretically show that the regularizer is quasiconvex and that the corresponding Moreau…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Zhi-Yong Wang , Hing Cheung So , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

We proposed in Ref. [arXiv:1812.09285v2] a way to improve energy density functionals in the density functional theory based on the combination of the inverse Kohn-Sham method and the density functional perturbation theory. In this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Tomoya Naito , Daisuke Ohashi , Haozhao Liang

The density of states for a particle moving in a random potential with a Gaussian correlator is calculated exactly using the functional integral technique. It is achieved by expressing the functional degrees of freedom in terms of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 O. K. Vorov , A. V. Vagov

Ground-state Kohn-Sham density functional theory provides, in principle, the exact ground-state energy and electronic spin-densities of real interacting electrons in a static external potential. In practice, the exact density functional for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-11 Aaron D. Kaplan , Mel Levy , John P. Perdew

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem and Kohn-Sham procedure are extended to functionals of the localized intrinsic density of a self-bound system such as a nucleus. After defining the intrinsic-density functional, we modify the usual Kohn-Sham…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Engel

As a proof of principle, self-consistent Kohn--Sham calculations are performed with the exact exchange-correlation functional. Finding the exact functional for even one trial density requires solving the interacting Schr\"odinger equation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Lucas O. Wagner , Thomas E. Baker , E. M. Stoudenmire , Kieron Burke , Steven R. White

The exchange-correlation energy in Kohn-Sham density functional theory is expressed as a functional of the electronic density and the Kohn-Sham orbitals. An alternative to Kohn-Sham theory is to express the energy as a functional of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Goedecker , C. Umrigar

This work further develops the calculation of QED effects in a finite Gaussian basis. We focus on the non-linear ${\alpha}(Z{\alpha})^{n\ge 3}$ contribution to the vacuum polarization density, computing the energy shift of 1s$_{1/2}$ states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Ryan Benazzouk , Maen Salman , Trond Saue

We discuss the origin of pathological behaviors that have been recently identified in particle-number-restoration calculations performed within the nuclear energy density functional framework. A regularization method that removes the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 T. Duguet , M. Bender , K. Bennaceur , D. Lacroix , T. Lesinski

This research proposes to use the Moreau-Yosida envelope to stabilize the convergence behavior of bi-level Hyperparameter optimization solvers, and introduces the new algorithm called Moreau-Yosida regularized Hyperparameter Optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Sauptik Dhar , Unmesh Kurup , Mohak Shah

We use the exact strong-interaction limit of the Hohenberg-Kohn energy density functional to construct an approximation for the exchange-correlation term of the Kohn-Sham approach. The resulting exchange-correlation potential is able to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-05 Francesc Malet , André Mirtschink , Jonas C. Cremon , Stephanie M. Reimann , Paola Gori-Giorgi

In the recent work of S. Sharma \emph{et al.}, (arxiv.org: arxiv:0912.1118), a single-electron spectrum associated with the natural orbitals was defined as the derivative of the total energy with respect to the occupation numbers at half…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-03-07 E. N. Zarkadoula , S. Sharma , J. K. Dewhurst , E. K. U. Gross , N. N. Lathiotakis