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We introduce a novel energy functional for ground-state electronic-structure calculations. Its fundamental variables are the natural spin-orbitals of the implied singlet many-body wave function and their joint occupation probabilities. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Ralph Gebauer , Morrel H. Cohen , Roberto Car

This paper introduces significant advancements in fractional neural operators (FNOs) through the integration of adaptive hybrid kernels and stochastic multiscale analysis. We address several open problems in the existing literature by…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Romulo Damaselin Chaves dos Santos , Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales

We investigate fermionic quantum field theories using functional renormalisation. In the limit of many fermion flavours $N$, we demonstrate that theories have exact solutions for their quantum effective actions given by quasi-local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-10 Charlie Cresswell-Hogg , Daniel F. Litim

Neural Operators (NOs) are a leading method for surrogate modeling of partial differential equations. Unlike traditional neural networks, which approximate individual functions, NOs learn the mappings between function spaces. While NOs have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-01 Keith Poletti , Stella S. R. Offner , Rachel A. Ward

The concept of active spaces simplifies the description of interacting quantum many-body systems by restricting to a neighbourhood of active orbitals around the Fermi level. The respective wavefunction ansatzes which involve all possible…

We employ Non-equilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) to describe the real-time dynamics of an adsorbate-surface model system exposed to ultrafast laser pulses. For a finite number of electronic orbitals, the system is solved exactly and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 E. Boström , M. Hopjan , A. Kartsev , C. Verdozzi , C. -O. Almbladh

We survey approaches to nonrelativistic density functional theory (DFT) for nuclei using progress toward ab initio DFT for Coulomb systems as a guide. Ab initio DFT starts with a microscopic Hamiltonian and is naturally formulated using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 J. E. Drut , R. J. Furnstahl , L. Platter

We introduce the concept of natural super-orbitals for many-body operators, defined as the eigenvectors of the one-body super-density matrix associated with a vectorized operator. We relate these objects to measures of non-Gaussianity of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-06 Maxime Debertolis

Million-atom quantum simulations are in principle feasible with Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) because the algorithms only require simple functional minimizations with respect to the electron density function. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-17 Wenhui Mi , Michele Pavanello

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

The relative stability of the singlet, triplet, and quintet spin states of Iron(II) porphyrin (FeP) represents a challenging problem for electronic structure methods. While it is currently accepted that the ground state is a triplet,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Juan Felipe Huan Lew-Yee , Jorge M. del Campo , Mario Piris

The exchange-correlation energy in Kohn-Sham density functional theory is expressed as a functional of the electronic density and the Kohn-Sham orbitals. An alternative to Kohn-Sham theory is to express the energy as a functional of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Goedecker , C. Umrigar

Density functional theory (DFT) is an indispensable ab initio method in both quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics. Based on recent advancements in reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT), a variant of DFT that is believed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Chih-Chun Wang

Recursion formulae of the N-particle partition function, the occupation numbers and its fluctuations are given using the single-particle partition function. Exact results are presented for fermions and bosons in a common one-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 H. -J. Schmidt , J. Schnack

We introduce 1-RDMFT in the canonical ensemble and then proceed to approximate the interacting ensemble by a non-interacting ensemble that maximizes the entropy, independently of temperature. Bosonic and Fermionic Sinkhorn algorithms are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Derk P. Kooi

Local density approximation (LDA) to the density functional theory (DFT) has continuous derivative of total energy as a number of electrons function and continuous exchange-correlation potential, while in exact DFT both should be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-28 V. I. Anisimov , A. V. Kozhevnikov , M. A. Korotin , A. V. Lukoyanov , D. A. Khafizullin

We propose a simple iterative algorithm to construct the optimal multi-configuration approximation of an $N$-fermion wave function. That is, $M\geq N $ single-particle orbitals are sought iteratively so that the projection of the given wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-10 J. M. Zhang , Marcus Kollar

Orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) has been used when studying atoms, molecules and solids. In nuclear physics, there has been basically no application of OF-DFT so far, as the Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been widely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-03 Gianluca Colo' , Kouichi Hagino

One of the major computational bottlenecks in one-body reduced density matrix (1RDM) functional theory is the evaluation of approximate 1RDM functionals and their derivatives. The reason is that more advanced approximate functionals are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Klaas J. H. Giesbertz

In practical implementations of density-functional theory, the only term where an orbital description is needed is the kinetic one. Even this term in principle depends on the density only, but its explicit form is unknown. We provide a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 L. De Santis , R. Resta