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Density Functional Theory (DFT) is widely used for atomistic simulations. However, its reach stays limited due to several limitations such as lack of accurate exchange-correlation functional, requirement of costly O(N 3) diagonalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Namrata Manglani , Samrit Kumar Maity , Shashank Sharma , Soham Phulare , Sanjay Wandhekar

The combination of deep learning and ab initio materials calculations is emerging as a trending frontier of materials science research, with deep-learning density functional theory (DFT) electronic structure being particularly promising. In…

We outline a Kohn-Sham-Dirac density-functional-theory (DFT) scheme for graphene sheets that treats slowly-varying inhomogeneous external potentials and electron-electron interactions on an equal footing. The theory is able to account for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-23 Marco Polini , Andrea Tomadin , Reza Asgari , A. H. MacDonald

Two different theories are used to understand the liquid-vapor interfaces: the Van der Waals theory and the capillary waves theory. But comparing both come up a problem of interpretation of the interface density profiles obtained, for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-24 Ramiro Checa-Garcia

This work explores the use of joint density-functional theory, a new form of density-functional theory for the ab initio description of electronic systems in thermodynamic equilibrium with a liquid environment, to describe electrochemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Kendra Letchworth-Weaver , T. A. Arias

In core/shell quantum dots (QDs), the interface between semiconductors of different chemical character largely determines their optoelectronic properties. In III-V/II-VI systems, this boundary involves pronounced chemical and electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-18 Jordi Llusar , Abdessamad El Adel , Luca De Trizio , Liberato Manna , Zeger Hens , Ivan Infante

Two (so-called left and right) variants of N-centered ensemble density-functional theory (DFT) [Senjean and Fromager, Phys. Rev. A 98, 022513 (2018)] are presented. Unlike the original formulation of the theory, these variants allow for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-25 Bruno Senjean , Emmanuel Fromager

Linear scaling density functional theory approaches to electronic structure are often based on the tendency of electrons to localize even in large atomic and molecular systems. However, in many cases of actual interest, for example in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Marcel David Fabian , Ben Shpiro , Roi Baer

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…

Conical intersections are central to the description of photophysics and photochemistry. Nevertheless, in non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations, they are fundamentally challenging for single-reference electronic structure methods.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Federico Rossi , Tommaso Giovannini , Henrik Koch

The journey of theoretical study on semiconductors is reviewed in a non-conventional way. We have started with the basic introduction of Hartree-Fock method and introduce the fundamentals of Density Functional Theory (DFT). From the oldest…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-04 Sujoy Datta , Debnarayan Jana

Unlike covalent two-dimensional (2D) materials like graphene, 2D metals have non-layered structures due to their non-directional, metallic bonding. While experiments on 2D metals are still scarce and challenging, density-functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-06 Kameyab Raza Abidi , Pekka Koskinen

Density fitting is used throughout quantum chemistry to simplify the electron-electron interaction energy (EE). A fundamental property of quantum chemistry, and DFT in particular, is that a variational principle connects the EE to a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-08 Brett I Dunlap , Mark C Palenik

Density-corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT) is enjoying substantial success in improving semilocal DFT calculations in a wide variety of chemical problems. This paper provides the formal theoretical framework and assumptions for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Stefan Vuckovic , Suhwan Song , John Kozlowski , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

We derive a connection between the intrinsic tribological properties and the electronic properties of a solid interface. In particular, we show that the adhesion and frictional forces are dictated by the electronic charge redistribution…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-17 M. Wolloch , G. Levita , P. Restuccia , M. C. Righi

Predicting interfacial thermodynamics across molecular and continuum scales remains a central challenge in computational science. Classical density functional theory (cDFT) provides a first-principles route to connect microscopic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Edoardo Monti , Peter Yatsyshin , Konstantinos Gkagkas , Andrew B. Duncan

The rapid development of two-dimensional (2D) materials has reshaped modern nanoscience, offering properties that differ fundamentally from their bulk counterparts. As experimental discovery accelerates, the need for reliable computational…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-19 Ahsan Javed , Mahvish Shaheen , Muhammad Shahbaz , M. Sufyan Ramzan , Rafi Ullah , Wei Jiang

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

Hydrodynamic density functional theory (DFT) is applied to analyse dynamic contact angles of droplets in order to assess its predictive capability regarding wetting phenomena at the microscopic scale and to evaluate its feasibility for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-06 Benjamin Bursik , Rolf Stierle , Hamza Oukili , Martin Schneider , Gernot Bauer , Joachim Gross

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is widely used to describe electronic excitations in complex finite systems with large numbers of atoms, such as biomolecules and nanocrystals. The first part of this paper will give a simple…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-15 C. A. Ullrich , V. Turkowski