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The performance of n-type amorphous oxide semiconductor thin-film transistors (TFTs) is largely controlled by the density of states (DoS) near the conduction band mobility edge. Here, the full subgap DoS of amorphous InGaZnO (a-IGZO) TFTs,…

Density functional theory (DFT) can run into serious difficulties with localized states in elements such as transition metals with occupied-d states and oxygen. In contrast, Hartree-Fock (HF) method can be a better approach for such…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-01 Hengxin Tan , Yuanchang Li , S. B. Zhang , Wenhui Duan

At low temperature, the concentration of quasiparticles observed in superconducting circuits far exceeds the predictions of microscopic BCS theory at equilibrium. As a source of dissipation, these excess quasiparticles degrade the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-18 Romy Morin , Denis M. Basko , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

We analyzed the localized charge dynamics in the system of $N$ interacting single-level quantum dots (QDs) coupled to the continuous spectrum states in the presence of Coulomb interaction between electrons within the dots. Different dots…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 Vladimir Mantsevich , Natalya Maslova , Petr Arseyev

Multi-terminal transport setups allow to realize more complex measurements and functionalities (e.g., transistors) of nanoscale systems than the simple two-terminal arrangement. Here the steady-state density functional formalism (i-DFT) for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stefan Kurth , David Jacob , Nahual Sobrino , Gianluca Stefanucci

Density-potential functional theory (DPFT) is an alternative formulation of orbital-free density functional theory that may be suitable for modeling the electronic structure of large systems. To date, DPFT has been applied mainly to quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-21 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , William C. Witt , Sergei Manzhos

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) has long struggled with the accurate description of strongly correlated and open shell systems and improvements have been minor even in the newest hybrid functionals. In this Letter we treat the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Danny Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn , David A. Mazziotti

Quantum mechanical methods based on the density functional theory (DFT) offer a realistic possibility of first-principles design of organic donor-acceptor systems and engineered band-gap materials. This promise is contingent upon the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Marcin Modrzejewski , Grzegorz Chałasiński , Małgorzata M. Szczęśniak

Density functional theory (DFT) has transformed our ability to investigate and understand electronic ground states. In its original formulation, however, DFT is not suited to addressing (e.g.) degenerate ground states, mixed states with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Tim Gould , Leeor Kronik , Stefano Pittalis

Transition metal doping is commonly used for altering the properties of solid-state materials to suit applications in science and technology. Partially filled $d$-shells of transition metal atoms lead to electronic states with diverse…

Density functional theory calculations are performed on phosphorene quantum dots having different shapes and edge terminations to investigate their structure stability, electronic properties, and gas sensing ability. All the selected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Hazem Abdelsalam , Vasil A. Saroka , Waleed O. Younis

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

The key features of density-functional theory (DFT) within a minimalistic implementation of quantum electrodynamics are demonstrated, thus allowing to study elementary properties of quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory…

Orbital-optimized density functional theory (DFT) has emerged as an alternative to time-dependent (TD) DFT capable of describing difficult excited states with significant electron density redistribution, such as charge-transfer, Rydberg,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Hanh D. M. Pham , Rustam Z. Khaliullin

Density functional theory (DFT) has greatly expanded our ability to affordably compute and understand electronic ground states, by replacing intractable {\em ab initio} calculations by models based on paradigmatic physics from high- and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Tim Gould , Derk P. Kooi , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Stefano Pittalis

We present a formulation of spin-conserving and spin-flip, hybrid time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), including the calculation of analytical forces, which allows for efficient calculations of excited state properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-05 Yu Jin , Victor Wen-zhe Yu , Marco Govoni , Andrew C Xu , Giulia Galli

Static electric response properties of atoms and molecules are reported within the real-space Cartesian grid implementation of pseudopotential Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT). A detailed systematic investigation is made for a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Tanmay Mandal , Abhisek Ghosal , Amlan K. Roy

This chapter presents the development of a density functional theory (DFT)-based method for accurate, reliable treatment of various resonances in atoms. Many of these are known to be notorious for their strong correlation, proximity to more…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Amlan K. Roy

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density functional theory (DFT) for the case of electrons interacting with an external magnetic field (that couples to spin only) is examined in more detail than previously. A unexpected generalization is…

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