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We present a DFT+U-type functional for strong correlation, derived from multiconfigurational wavefunction theory. The reference system experiences electron-electron interactions only in DFT+U-type atomic states, yielding a block-localized…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Benjamin G. Janesko

The systematic underestimation of band gaps is one of the most fundamental challenges in semilocal density functional theory (DFT). In addition to hindering the application of DFT to predicting electronic properties, the band gap problem is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Kyle Bystrom , Stefano Falletta , Boris Kozinsky

Multi-configurational wave functions are known to describe electronic structure across a Born-Oppenheimer surface qualitatively correct. However, for quantitative reaction energies, dynamical correlation originating from the many…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Christopher J. Stein , Markus Reiher

Based on recent progress on fermionic exchange symmetry we propose a way to develop new functionals for reduced density matrix functional theory. For some settings with an odd number of electrons, by assuming saturation of the inequalities…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-23 Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Miguel A. L. Marques

A novel approach to electronic correlations and magnetism of crystals based on realistic electronic structure calculations is reviewed. In its simplest form it is a combination of the ``local density approximation'' (LDA) and the dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Lichtenstein , M. I. Katsnelson , G. Kotliar

Energy functionals serve as the basis for different models and methods in quantum and classical many-particle physics. Arguably, one of the most successful and widely used approaches in material science at both ambient and extreme…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Z. Moldabekov , J. Vorberger , T. Dornheim

The ongoing scientific interest in the properties and structure of electric double layers (EDLs) stems from their pivotal role in (super)capacitive energy storage, energy harvesting, and water treatment technologies. Classical density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-28 Andreas Härtel , Sela Samin , Rene van Roij

By partitioning the electron density into subsystem contributions, the Frozen Density Embedding (FDE) formulation of subsystem DFT has recently emerged as a powerful tool for reducing the computational scaling of Kohn--Sham DFT. To date,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Genova , Davide Ceresoli , Michele Pavanello

Aspects of Density Functional Resonance Theory (DFRT) [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{107}, 163002 (2011)], a recently developed complex-scaled version of ground-state Density Functional Theory (DFT), are studied in detail. The asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniel L. Whitenack , Adam Wasserman

This chapter presents controlled approximations of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) that enable very large scale simulations. The work is motivated by the study of defects in crystalline solids, though the ideas can be used in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-14 Kaushik Bhattacharya , Vikram Gavini , Michael Ortiz , Mauricio Ponga , Phanish Suryanarayana

Density functional theory (DFT) is the de facto approach for predicting self-consistent-field electronic structures of ground-state configurations of complex atoms, molecules, and solids and providing their property data for materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-30 Zi-Kui Liu

During the last decade, density function theory (DFT) in its static and dynamic time dependent forms, has emerged as a powerful tool to describe the structure and dynamics of doped liquid helium and droplets. In this review, we summarize…

A self-consistent calculation scheme for correlated electron systems is created based on the density-functional theory (DFT). Our scheme is a multi-reference DFT (MR-DFT) calculation in which the electron charge density is reproduced by an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Koichi Kusakabe , Naoshi Suzuki , Shusuke Yamanaka , Kizashi Yamaguchi

A Neural-Networks-based approach is proposed to construct a new type of exchange-correlation functional for density functional theory. It is applied to improve B3LYP functional by taking into account of high-order contributions to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiao Zheng , LiHong Hu , XiuJun Wang , GuanHua Chen

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

Within the framework of ab initio time-dependent density-functional theory (TD-DFT), we propose a static approximation to the exchange-correlation kernel based on the jellium-with-gap model. This kernel accounts for electron-hole…

We generalize the recently developped "internal" Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Kohn-Sham scheme to multicomponent systems. We obtain a general formalism, applicable for the description of multicomponent self-bound systems (as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jeremie Messud

Charge transfer plays a crucial role in many processes of interest in physics, chemistry, and bio-chemistry. In many applications the size of the systems involved calls for time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to be used in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Neepa T. Maitra

Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been…

We present a three-dimensional molecular density functional theory (MDFT) of water derived from first-principles that relies on the particle's density and multipolar polarization density and includes the density-polarization coupling. This…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Nicolas Levy , Maximilien Levesque , Daniel Borgis