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Ultrafast electronic dynamics in solids lies at the core of modern condensed matter and materials physics. To build up a practical ab initio method for studying solids under photoexcitation, we develop a momentum-resolved real-time time…

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We present results for calculating fusion cross-sections using a new microscopic approach based on a time-dependent density-constrained DFT calculations. The theory is implemented by using densities and other information obtained from TDDFT…

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Background: Time-dependent techniques in nuclear theory often rely on mean-field or Hartree-Fock descriptions. Beyond mean-field dynamical calculations within the time-dependent density matrix (TDDM) theory have often invoked symmetry…

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We present an overview of beyond mean field theories (BMFT) based on the generator coordinate method (GCM) and the recovery of symmetries used in nuclear physics with effective forces. After a reminder of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-15 J. Luis Egido

A density functional theory (DFT) framework is presented that links functional derivatives of free-energy functionals to non-linear static density response functions in quantum many-body systems. Within this framework, explicit expressions…

We present the first calculations of the inelastic part of the dynamical structure factor (DSF) for warm dense matter (WDM) using Time-Dependent Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory (TD-OF-DFT) and Mixed-Stochastic-Deterministic (mixed)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Alexander J. White

Nowdays, modern microscopic approaches for fission are generally based on the framework of nuclear density functional theory (DFT), which has enabled a self-consistent treatment of both static and dynamic aspects of fission. The key issue…

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The leading order terms in a curvature expansion of the surface tension, the Tolman length (first order), and rigidities (second order) have been shown to play an important role in the description of nucleation processes. This work presents…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-29 Philipp Rehner , Ailo Aasen , Øivind Wilhelmsen

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is rapidly emerging as a premier method for solving dynamical many-body problems in physics and chemistry. The mathematical foundations of TDDFT are established through the formal existence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-22 J. D. Whitfield , M. -H. Yung , D. G. Tempel , S. Boixo , A. Aspuru-Guzik

In this contribution, we extend our framework for analyzing and visualizing correlated many-electron dynamics to non-variational, highly scalable electronic structure method. Specifically, an explicitly time-dependent electronic wave packet…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 Gunter Hermann , Vincent Pohl , Jean Christophe Tremblay

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

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is one of the most used ab initio theoretical frameworks in materials science. It derives the ground state properties of a multi-atomic ensemble directly from the computation of its one-particle density \nr…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Edoardo Di Napoli , Stefan Blügel , Paolo Bientinesi

The equilibration of macroscopic degrees of freedom during the fusion of heavy nuclei, like the charge and the shape, are studied in the Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock theory. The pre-equilibrium Giant Dipole Resonance (GDR) is used to probe…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Cédric Simenel , Philippe Chomaz , Gilles De France

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is widely used for understanding and predicting properties and behaviors of matter. As one of the fundamental theorems in TDDFT, van Leeuwen's theorem [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3863 (1999)]…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-08 Jiong-Hang Liang , Tian-Xing Hu , D. Wu , Zheng-Mao Sheng , J. Zhang

An approximate method based on adiabatic time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presented, that allows for the description of the electron dynamics in nanoscale junctions under arbitrary time dependent external potentials. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Y. Wang , C. -Y. Yam , G. H. Chen , Th. Frauenheim , T. A. Niehaus

Density functional theory (DFT) provides convenient electronic structure methods for the study of molecular systems and materials. Regular Kohn-Sham DFT calculations rely on unitary transformations to determine the ground-state electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 Greta Jacobson , Juan M. Marmolejo-Tejada , Martín A. Mosquera

Time-dependent coupled-cluster method with time-varying orbital functions, called time-dependent optimized coupled- cluster (TD-OCC) method, is formulated for multielectron dynamics in an intense laser field. We have successfully derived…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Takeshi Sato , Himadri Pathak , Yuki Orimo , Kenichi L. Ishikawa

Despite the variety of available computational approaches, state-of-the-art methods for calculating excitation energies such as time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), are computationally demanding and thus limited to moderate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Martina Stella , Kritam Thapa , Luigi Genovese , Laura E. Ratcliff

The cornerstone of time-dependent (TD) density functional theory (DFT), the Runge-Gross theorem, proves a one-to-one correspondence between TD potentials and TD densities of continuum Hamiltonians. In all practical implementations, however,…

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