English
Related papers

Related papers: The density-density response function in time-depe…

200 papers

It is shown that the density-potential mapping and the ${\cal V}$-representability problems in the time-dependent current density functional theory (TDCDFT) are reduced to the solution of a certain many-body nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-27 I. V. Tokatly

The response of an extended periodic system to a homogeneous field (of wave-vector $q=0$) cannot be obtained from a $q=0$ time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculation, because the Runge-Gross theorem does not apply.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Neepa T. Maitra , Ivo Souza , Kieron Burke

We provide a new formulation of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) based on the geometric structure of the set of states constrained to have a fixed density. Orbital-free TDDFT is formulated using a hydrodynamics equation…

Given the time-evolution of an electron charge density, the local potential in Kohn-Sham time-dependent density functional theory (KS-TDDFT) can be modeled as a sum of instantaneous and dynamic contributions by assuming a certain form of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 R. J. Magyar

Electronic response properties of high-energy density (HED) systems influence planetary structure, drive evolution of fusion targets, and underpin diagnostics in laboratory astrophysics. Real-time time-dependent density functional theory…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Alina Kononov , Minh Nguyen , Andrew D. Baczewski

The particle-hole interaction problem is longstanding within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and leads to extreme errors in the prediction of K-edge X-ray absorption spectra (XAS). We derive a linear-response formalism that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Kevin Carter-Fenk , Leonardo A. Cunha , Juan E. Arias-Martinez , Martin Head-Gordon

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is a standard approach for calculating optical excitations of molecules and solids, while ensemble DFT (EDFT) is a promising alternative under development. We introduce ensemble TDDFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Kimberly J. Daas , Steven Crisostomo , Kieron Burke

The widespread use of (generalized) Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) lies in the fact that hierarchical sets of approximations of the exchange-correlation (XC) energy functional can be designed, offering versatile choices to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-31 Igor Ying Zhang , Xinguo Ren

We introduced a new electron density n({\epsilon}) by projecting the spatial electron density n(r) onto the energy coordinate {\epsilon} defined with the external potential \upsion (r) of interest. Then, a density functional theory (DFT)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 Hideaki Takahashi

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) treats dynamical exchange and correlation (xc) via a single-particle potential, Vxc(r,t), defined as a nonlocal functional of the density n(r',t'). The popular adiabatic local-density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. A. Ullrich , I. V. Tokatly

Adiabatic approximations in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) will in general yield unphysical time-dependent shifts in the resonance positions of a system driven far from its ground-state. This spurious time-dependence is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Kai Luo , Johanna I. Fuks , Neepa T. Maitra

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is the standard method for first-principles calculations in computational chemistry and materials science. More accurate theories such as the random-phase approximation (RPA) are limited in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-25 Stefan Riemelmoser , Carla Verdi , Merzuk Kaltak , Georg Kresse

We demonstrate the capabilities of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) for strong-field, short wavelength (soft X-ray) physics, as compared to a formalism based on rate equations. We find that TDDFT provides a very good…

The random phase approximation (RPA) for the correlation energy functional of density functional theory has recently attracted renewed interest. Formulated in terms of the Kohn-Sham (KS) orbitals and eigenvalues, it promises to resolve some…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Hong Jiang , Eberhard Engel

The general expectation that, in principle, time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) be an exact formulation of the time-evolution of an interacting N-electron system is critically reexamined. It is demonstrated that the previous…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-08-13 J. Schirmer , A. Dreuw

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is deemed to be a formally rigorous way of dealing with the time-evolution of a many-electron system at the level of electron densities rather than the underlying wavefunctions, which in turn…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Jochen Schirmer

Real-time time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) can in principle access the whole absorption spectrum of a many-electron system exposed to a narrow pulse. However, this requires an accurate and efficient propagator for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Linfeng Ye , Hao Wang , Yong Zhang , Wenjian Liu

We present a new methodology for the linear-response time-dependent density functional theory (LR-TDDFT) calculation of the dynamic density response function of warm dense matter in an adiabatic approximation that can be used with any…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Zhandos A. Moldabekov , Michele Pavanello , Maximilian P. Boehme , Jan Vorberger , Tobias Dornheim

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is an extension of ground-state density-functional theory which allows the treatment of electronic excited states and a wide range of time-dependent phenomena in the linear and nonlinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-10 Carsten A. Ullrich

A decomposition of the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density functional theory into an interaction component and a kinetic component offers a new starting point for non- adiabatic approximations. The components are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Johanna I. Fuks , Lionel Lacombe , Soeren E. B. Nielsen , Neepa T. Maitra