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By introducing a set of auxiliary equations representing a many-body system, we have derived an extension of the Kohn-Sham scheme for the density functional theory. These equations consist of a Kohn-Sham-type equation determining…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Koichi Kusakabe

We propose exchanging the energy functionals in ground-state DFT with physically equivalent exact force expressions as a new promising route towards approximations to the exchange-correlation potential and energy. In analogy to the usual…

The dynamical, long-wavelength longitudinal and transverse exchange-correlation potentials for a homogeneous electron gas are evaluated in a microscopic model based on an approximate decoupling of the equation of motion for the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Conti , R. Nifosi' , M P Tosi

The density functional scheme for calculating the pair density is presented by means of the constrained-search technique. The resultant single-particle equation takes the form of the modified Hartree-Fock equation which contains the kinetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-25 Masahiko Higuchi , Katsuhiko Higuchi

For a three-electron system with finite-strength interactions confined to a one-dimensional harmonic trap, we solve the Schroedinger equation analytically to obtain the exact solutions, from which we construct explicitly the simultaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Taichi Kosugi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

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 generalize the exact strong-interaction limit of the exchange-correlation energy of Kohn-Sham density functional theory to open systems with fluctuating particle numbers. When used in the self-consistent Kohn-Sham procedure on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 André Mirtschink , Michael Seidl , Paola Gori-Giorgi

Knowledge of exact properties of the exchange-correlation (xc) functional is important for improving the approximations made within density functional theory. Features such as steps in the exact xc potential are known to be necessary for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-15 M. J. P. Hodgson , J. D. Ramsden , R. W. Godby

A rigorous derivation of the density functional via the effective action in the Hohenberg-Kohn theory is outlined. Using the auxiliary field method, in which the electric coupling constant $e^2$ need not be small, we show that the loop…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-22 Yi-Kuo Yu

The universal functional of Hohenberg-Kohn is given as a coupling-constant integral over the density as a functional of the potential. Conditions are derived under which potential-functional approximations are variational. Construction via…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-06-13 Attila Cangi , Donghyung Lee , Peter Elliott , Kieron Burke , E. K. U. Gross

The quantum hydrodynamic theory is a promising method for describing microscopic details of macroscopic systems. The hydrodynamic equation can be directly obtained from a single particle Kohn-Sham equation that includes the contribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Cristian Ciracì

The self consistent version of the density functional theory (DFT) is presented, which allows to calculate the ground state and dynamic properties of finite multi-electron systems such as atoms, molecules and clusters. The exact functional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ya. Amusia , V. R. Shaginyan

An interesting fundamental problem in density-functional theory of electronic structure of matter is to construct the exact Kohn-Sham (KS) potential for a given density. The exact potential can then be used to assess the accuracy of…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2019-05-22 Ashish Kumar , Rabeet Singh , Manoj K. Harbola

Exchange-correlation potentials vxc and energy densities exc are derived for integer and fractional electron counts using an orbital-averaged Kohn-Sham inversion procedure. The reference densities for inversion come from full configuration…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Vaibhav Khanna , Bikash Kanungo , Jeffrey Hatch , Joshua Kammeraad , Paul M. Zimmerman

We suggest to include the density of electron charge explicitly in the electron potential of density functional theory, rather than implicitly via exchange-correlation functionals. The advantages of the approach are conceptual and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Werner A. Hofer , Krisztian Palotas

The exchange-correlation hole density of the infinitely stretched (dissociated) hydrogen molecule can be cast into a closed analytical form by using its exact wave function. This permits to obtain an explicit exchange-correlation energy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Eduard Matito , David Casanova , Xabier Lopez , Jesus M. Ugalde

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

An effective action approach to Kohn-Sham density functional theory is used to illustrate how the exact Green's function can be calculated in terms of the Kohn-Sham Green's function. An example based on Skyrme energy functionals shows that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Anirban Bhattacharyya , R. J. Furnstahl

The reliability of density-functional calculations hinges on accurately approximating the unknown exchange-correlation (xc) potential. Common (semi-)local xc approximations lack the jump experienced by the exact xc potential as the number…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 M. J. P. Hodgson , E. Kraisler , E. K. U. Gross

A rigorous derivation of the density functional in the Hohenberg-Kohn theory is presented. With no assumption regarding the magnitude of the electric coupling constant $e^2$ (or correlation), this work provides a firm basis for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-20 Yi-Kuo Yu