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Spin-current density functional theory (SCDFT) is a formally exact framework designed to handle the treatment of interacting many-electron systems including spin-orbit coupling at the level of the Pauli equation. In practice, robust and…

We present a dynamic density functional theory (dDFT) which takes into accou nt the advection of the particles by a flowing solvent. For potential flows we can use the same closure as in the absence of solvent flow. The structure of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Markus Rauscher , Alvaro Dominguez , Matthias Krueger , Florencia Penna

Accurately treating strong electron correlation in quantum chemistry typically requires multireference wave-function methods with steep computational scaling. The recently proposed i-DMFT method promises near configuration-interaction…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Paul G. Graf , Florian Matz , Lexin Ding , Julia Liebert , Markus Penz , Christian Schilling

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

Stochastic and mixed stochastic-deterministic density functional theory (DFT) are promising new approaches for the calculation of the equation-of-state and transport properties in materials under extreme conditions. In the intermediate warm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Vidushi Sharma , Lee A. Collins , Alexander J. White

The Breit correction, the finite-light-speed correction for the Coulomb interaction of the electron-electron interaction in $ O \left( 1/ c^2 \right) $, is introduced to density functional theory (DFT) based on the non-relativistic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Tomoya Naito , Ryosuke Akashi , Haozhao Liang , Shinji Tsuneyuki

A new approach for calculating spectral density functions of strongly correlated electron systems is proposed within the exact diagonalization method of dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). This approach is based on the analytic continuation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-05 Song-Jin O , Hak-Chol Pak , Kwang-Il Ryom , Song-Jin Im

Various ways to analyze the dynamical response of clusters and molecules to electromagnetic perturbations exist. Particularly rich information can be obtained from measuring the properties of electrons emitted in the course of the…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2015-06-11 P. Wopperer , P. M. Dinh , P. -G. Reinhard , E. Suraud

Counterion adsorption on a flexible polyelectrolyte chain in a spherical cavity is considered by taking a "permuted" charge distribution on the chain so that the "adsorbed" counterions are allowed to move along the backbone. We compute the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-27 Rajeev Kumar , Arindam Kundagrami , M. Muthukumar

Employing recent advances in response theory and nonequilibrium ensemble reweighting, we study the dynamic and static correlations that give rise to an electric field-dependent ionic conductivity in electrolyte solutions. We consider…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-28 Dominika Lesnicki , Chloe Y. Gao , David T. Limmer , Benjamin Rotenberg

Diffusion is a dissipative transport phenomenon ubiquitously present in nature. Its details can now be analysed with modern effective field theory (EFT) techniques that use the closed-time-path (or Schwinger-Keldysh) formalism. We discuss…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-03 Sašo Grozdanov , Timotej Lemut , Jaka Pelaič , Alexander Soloviev

The superadiabatic dynamical density functional theory (superadiabatic-DDFT) is a promising new method for the study of colloidal systems out-of-equilibrium. Within this approach the viscous forces arising from interparticle interactions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-10 S. M. Tschopp , J. M. Brader

We compute electrical and thermal conductivities of hydrogen plasmas in the non-degenerate regime using Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (DFT) and an application of the Kubo-Greenwood response formula, and demonstrate that for thermal…

The electrostatic interaction between two non-identical, moderately charged colloids situated in close proximity of each other at a fluid interface is studied. By resorting to a well-justified model system, this problem is analytically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-30 Arghya Majee , Timo Schmetzer , Markus Bier

In all theoretical treatments of electron transport through single molecules between two metal electrodes, a clear distinction has to be made between a coherent transport regime with a strong coupling throughout the junction and a Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Robert Stadler , Jerome Cornil , Victor Geskin

The dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is a widely applicable approximation scheme for the investigation of correlated quantum many-particle systems on a lattice, e.g., electrons in solids and cold atoms in optical lattices. In particular,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-30 D. Vollhardt , K. Byczuk , M. Kollar

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

Density functional theory (DFT), one of the most widely utilized methods available to computational chemistry, fails to describe systems with statically correlated electrons. To address this shortcoming, in previous work we transformed DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn , David A. Mazziotti

Typical density functional theory (DFT) and approximations thereto solve the many-electron ground state problem by working from a numerically efficient non-interacting Kohn-Sham reference system; and benefit from useful minimization…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Tim Gould

Understanding the properties of warm dense hydrogen is of key importance for the modeling of compact astrophysical objects and to understand and further optimize inertial confinement fusion (ICF) applications. The work horse of warm dense…