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Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is a useful tool to analyze models of strongly correlated fermions like the Hubbard model. In DMFT, the lattice of the model is replaced by a single impurity site embedded in an effective bath. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Stefan Wolf , Martin Eckstein , Michael J. Hartmann

We review the basic ideas of the dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) and some of the insights into the electronic structure of strongly correlated electrons obtained by this method in the context of model Hamiltonians. We then discuss the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Kotliar , S. Y. Savrasov

The current generation of covariant mean-field models has had many successes in calculations of bulk observables for medium to heavy nuclei, but there remain many open questions. New challenges are confronted when trying to systematically…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 R. J. Furnstahl

Standard methods used for computing the dynamics of a quantum many-body system are the mean-field (MF) approximations such as the time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) approach. Even though MF approaches are quite successful, they suffer some…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-13 Ibrahim Ulgen , Bulent Yilmaz , Denis Lacroix

The dynamical fluctuations in approaches such as dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) allow for the self-consistent optimization of a local fragment, hybridized with a true correlated environment. We show that these correlated environmental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-19 Edoardo Fertitta , George H. Booth

In the pursuit of accurate descriptions of strongly correlated quantum many-body systems, dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) has been an invaluable tool for elucidating the spectral properties and quantum phases of both phenomenological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-07 Carlos Mejuto-Zaera , Norm M. Tubman , K. Birgitta Whaley

In recent years, a method for computing spin dynamics at infinite temperature (spinDMFT) was developed. It utilizes the ideas of dynamical mean-field theory for fermions: single-site approximation and a self-consistency condition to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-24 Przemysław Bieniek , Timo Gräßer , Götz S. Uhrig

Subsystem Density-Functional Theory (DFT) is an emerging technique for calculating the electronic structure of complex molecular and condensed phase systems. In this topical review, we focus on some recent advances in this field related to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Alisa Krishtal , Debalina Sinha , Alessandro Genova , Michele Pavanello

We apply the Dynamical Mean Field (DMFT) approximation to the real, scalar phi^4 quantum field theory. By comparing to lattice Monte Carlo calculations, perturbation theory and standard mean field theory, we test the quality of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-12-16 Oscar Akerlund , Philippe de Forcrand , Antoine Georges , Philipp Werner

The dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) has become a standard technique for the study of strongly correlated models and materials overcoming some of the limitations of density functional approaches based on local approximations. An important…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-28 K. Hallberg , D. J. García , Pablo S. Cornaglia , Jorge I. Facio , Y. Núñez-Fernández

Open quantum many body systems describe a number of experimental platforms relevant for quantum simulations, ranging from arrays of superconducting circuits to ultracold atoms in optical lattices. Their theoretical understanding is hampered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-28 Orazio Scarlatella , Aashish A. Clerk , Rosario Fazio , Marco Schiró

Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is a cornerstone technique for studying strongly correlated electronic systems. However, each DMFT step is computationally demanding, and many iterations can be required to achieve convergence. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-26 E. M. Makaresz , O. Gingras , Tsung-Han Lee , Nicola Lanatà , B. J. Powell , Henry L. Nourse

Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is one of the most widely used theoretical methods for electronic structure calculations, providing self-consistent solutions even in low-temperature regimes, which are exact in the limit of infinite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-06 Johan Carlström

Density-functional theory (DFT) has revolutionized computer simulations in chemistry and material science. A faithful implementation of the theory requires self-consistent calculations. However, this effort involves repeatedly diagonalizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Taehee Ko , Xiantao Li , Chunhao Wang

Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is one of the most standard theoretical frameworks for addressing strongly correlated electron systems. Meanwhile, the concept of holography, developed in the field of quantum gravity, provides an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 Kouichi Okunishi , Akihisa Koga

We discuss the stochastic mean-field theory (SMFT) method which is a new approach for describing disordered Bose systems in the thermodynamic limit including localization and dimensional effects. We explicate the method in detail and apply…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-07-09 Ulf Bissbort , Ronny Thomale , Walter Hofstetter

We implement a multi-orbital cluster dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT), by improving a sample-update algorithm in the continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method based on the interaction expansion. The proposed sampling scheme for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-20 Yusuke Nomura , Shiro Sakai , Ryotaro Arita

Combining classical density functional theory (cDFT) with quantum mechanics (QM) methods offers a computationally efficient alternative to traditional QM/molecular mechanics (MM) approaches for modeling mixed quantum-classical systems at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-17 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maxime Labat , Emmanuel Giner

The concept of electronic correlations plays an important role in modern condensed matter physics. It refers to interaction effects which cannot be explained within a static mean-field picture as provided by Hartree-Fock theory. Electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-17 Dieter Vollhardt

Controlling the continuum limit and extracting effective gravitational physics are shared challenges for quantum gravity approaches based on quantum discrete structures. The description of quantum gravity in terms of tensorial group field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-07 Luca Marchetti , Daniele Oriti , Andreas G. A. Pithis , Johannes Thürigen