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We introduce surrogate functionals: machine-learned energy functionals for orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) which are defined not by universal fidelity to a physical reference, but merely by the requirement that density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Roman Remme , Fred A. Hamprecht

A system of electrons in a local or nonlocal external potential can be studied with 1-matrix functional theory (1MFT), which is similar to density functional theory (DFT) but takes the one-particle reduced density matrix (1-matrix) instead…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-07-23 Ryan Requist , Oleg Pankratov

Time-dependent orbital-free DFT is an efficient method for calculating the dynamic properties of large scale quantum systems due to the low computational cost compared to standard time-dependent DFT. We formalize this method by mapping the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Kaili Jiang , Michele Pavanello

Finite-temperature orbital-free density functional theory (FT-OFDFT) holds significant promise for simulating warm dense matter due to its favorable scaling with both system size and temperature. However, the lack of the numerically…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Cheng Ma , Min Chen , Yu Xie , Qiang Xu , Wenhui Mi , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

Presented here are calculations of the distortion of the density of an electron gas due to the electrostatic field of a proton. Several models based upon the local density approximation (LDA) of density functional theory [linear response…

chem-ph · Physics 2009-10-22 Gary G. Hoffman , Lawrence R. Pratt

One of the potential applications of a quantum computer is solving quantum chemical systems. It is known that one of the fastest ways to obtain somewhat accurate solutions classically is to use approximations of density functional theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Thomas E. Baker , David Poulin

We present an extension of reverse engineered Kohn-Sham potentials from a density matrix renormalization group calculation towards the construction of a density functional theory functional via deep learning. Instead of applying machine…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-05 Peter Schmitteckert

We present a computational scheme for orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) that simultaneously provides access to all-electron values and preserves the OFDFT linear scaling as a function of the system size. Using the projector…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 J. Lehtomäki , I. Makkonen , M. A. Caro , A. Harju , O. Lopez-Acevedo

This work continues a program to systematically generalize the Skyrme Hartree-Fock method for medium and heavy nuclei by applying effective field theory (EFT) methods to Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). When conventional Kohn-Sham…

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

We present an Augmented Lagrangian formulation and its real-space implementation for non-periodic orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) calculations. In particular, we rewrite the constrained minimization problem of OF-DFT as a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Phanish Suryanarayana , Deepa Phanish

In order to obtain a reasonably accurate and easily implemented approach to many-electron calculations, we will develop a new Density Functional Theory (DFT). Specifically, we derive an approximation to electron density, the first term of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-23 Gregory C. Dente

In this work, the dynamics of dephasing (without relaxation) in the presence of a chaotic oscillator is theoretically investigated. The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) framework was employed in tandem with the Lindblad…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 T. Ganesan

Large-scale density functional theory (DFT) calculations provide a powerful tool to investigate the atomic and electronic structure of materials with complex structures. This article reviews a large-scale DFT calculation method, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-31 Ayako Nakata , David R. Bowler , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki

Over many years, computational simulations based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) have been used extensively to study many different materials at the atomic scale. However, its application is restricted by system size, leaving a number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Carlos Romero-Muñiz , Ayako Nakata , Pablo Pou , David R. Bowler , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki , Rubén Pérez

For orbital-free {\it ab initio} molecular dynamics, especially on systems in extreme thermodynamic conditions, we provide the first pseudo-potential-adapted generalized gradient approximation (GGA) functional for the non-interacting free…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Kai Luo , Valentin V. Karasiev , S. B. Trickey

Due to efficient scaling with electron number N, density functional theory (DFT) is widely used for studies of large molecules and solids. Restriction of an exact mean-field theory to local potential functions has recently been questioned.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Robert K. Nesbet

We report the first wholly non-empirical generalized gradient approximation, non-interacting free energy functional for orbital-free density functional theory and use that new functional to provide forces for finite-temperature molecular…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-26 Valentin V. Karasiev , Debajit Chakraborty , Olga A. Shukruto , S. B. Trickey

Density functional theory (DFT) is a widespread and effective tool in electronic structure calculations for ground-state electron systems. Its success has prompted exploration into the use of DFT for non-collective excited states. The delta…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Ethan Pollack , Rohan Maniar , John P. Perdew

We formulate the Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) as a statistical theory in which the electron density is deter-mined from an average of correlated stochastic densities in a trace formula. The key idea is that it is sufficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser , Eran Rabani

This chapter provides a basic introduction to excited-state extensions of density functional theory (DFT), including time-dependent (TD-)DFT in both its linear-response and its explicitly time-dependent formulations. As applied to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 John M. Herbert