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In the current density functional theory of linear and nonlinear time-dependent phenomena, the treatment of exchange and correlation beyond the level of the adiabatic local density approximation is shown to lead to the appearance of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Vignale , C. A. Ullrich , S. Conti

We show that the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density-functional theory displays dynamical step structures that have a spatially non-local and time non-local dependence on the density. Using one-dimensional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Peter Elliott , Johanna I. Fuks , Angel Rubio , Neepa T. Maitra

We consider an analytically solvable model of two interacting electrons that allows for the calculation of the exact exchange-correlation kernel of time-dependent density functional theory. This kernel, as well as the corresponding density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-04 Luis Cort , Daniel Karlsson , Giovanna Lani , Robert van Leeuwen

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

Time-dependent density functional theory has emerged as a method of choice for calculations of spectra and response properties in physics, chemistry, and biology, with its system-size scaling enabling computations on systems much larger…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Neepa T. Maitra

The construction of density-functional approximations is explored by modeling the adiabatic connection em locally, using energy densities defined in terms of the electrostatic potential of the exchange-correlation hole. These local models…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Stefan Vuckovic , Tom Irons , Andreas Savin , Andrew M. Teale , Paola Gori-Giorgi

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

Density functional theory is the workhorse of modern electronic structure calculations, with wide-ranging applications in chemistry, physics, materials science, and machine learning. At its heart lies the exchange-correlation functional, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Fabien Tran , Susi Lehtola , Stefano Pittalis , Miguel A. L. Marques

We explore an asymmetric two-fermion Hubbard dimer to test the accuracy of the adiabatic approximation of time-dependent density functional theory in modelling time-resolved charge transfer. We show that the model shares essential features…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 Johanna I. Fuks , Neepa T. Maitra

The central quantity of density functional theory is the so-called exchange-correlation functional. This quantity encompasses all non-trivial many-body effects of the ground-state and has to be approximated in any practical application of…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-29 Miguel A. L. Marques , Micael J. T. Oliveira , Tobias Burnus

It was recently shown [Y. Suzuki, L. Lacombe, K. Watanabe, and N. T. Maitra, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263401 (2017)] that peak and valley structures in the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density functional theory are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Lionel Lacombe , Yasumitsu Suzuki , Kazuyuki Watanabe , Neepa T. Maitra

We show that the time dependent single electron, nuclear density matrix of an interacting electronic system coupled to nuclear degrees of freedom can be exactly reproduced by that of an electronic system with arbitrarily specified…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-07 Vinod Krishna

Approximate exchange-correlation functionals built by modeling in a non-linear way the adiabatic connection (AC) integrand of density functional theory have many attractive features, being virtually parameters-free and satisfying different…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-05-25 S. Vuckovic , P. Gori-Giorgi , F. Della Sala , E. Fabiano

We propose a nonadiabatic time-dependent spin-density functional theory (TDSDFT) approach for studying the single-electron excited states and the ultrafast response of systems with strong electron correlations. The correlations are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-27 Volodymyr Turkowski , Talat S. Rahman

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

We introduce a new class of exchange-correlation potentials for a static and time-dependent Density Functional Theory of strongly correlated systems in 3D. The potentials are obtained via Dynamical Mean Field Theory and, for strong enough…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 Daniel Karlsson , Antonio Privitera , Claudio Verdozzi

We present a graphical analysis of the adiabatic connections underlying double-hybrid density-functional methods that employ second-order perturbation theory. Approximate adiabatic connection formulae relevant to the construction of these…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 Yann Cornaton , Odile Franck , Andrew M. Teale , Emmanuel Fromager

We propose a systematic and constructive way to determine the exchange-correlation potentials of density-functional theories including vector potentials. The approach does not rely on energy or action functionals. Instead it is based on…

The incorporation of a strong interaction regime within the approximate, semilocal exchange-correlation functionals still remains a very challenging task for density functional theory. One of the promising attempts in this direction is the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-20 Subrata Jana , Szymon Smiga , Lucian A. Constantin , Prasanjit Samal

Using time-dependent current-density functional theory, we derive analytically the dynamical exchange-correlation correction to the DC conductance of nanoscale junctions. The correction pertains to the conductance calculated in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Na Sai , Michael Zwolak , Giovanni Vignale , Massimiliano Di Ventra