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We show that the Hartree-Fock (HF) results cannot be reproduced within the framework of Kohn-Sham (KS) theory because the single-particle densities of finite systems obtained within the HF calculations are not $v$-representable, i.e., do…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Ya. Amusia , A. Z. Msezane , V. R. Shaginyan , D. Sokolovski

A Kohn-Sham density-functional energy expression is derived for any (ground or excited) state within a given many-electron ensemble along with the stationarity condition it fulfills with respect to the ensemble density, thus giving access…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Emmanuel Fromager

Absolute binding energies of core electrons in molecules and bulk materials can be efficiently calculated by spin paired density-function theory employing a $\Delta$ Kohn-Sham ($\Delta$KS) scheme corrected by offsets that are highly…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-03 Michael Walter , Michael Moseler , Lars Pastewka

The optimized effective potential method is formulated as a convex minimization problem. This formulation does not require assumptions about $v$-representability nor functional differentiability. The formulation provides a natural framework…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 Erik I. Tellgren , Andre Laestadius , Markus Penz

The conventional approaches to the inverse density functional theory problem typically assume non-degeneracy of the Kohn-Sham (KS) eigenvalues, greatly hindering their use in open-shell systems. We present a generalization of the inverse…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Bikash Kanungo , Jeffrey Hatch , Paul M. Zimmerman , Vikram Gavini

We construct exact Kohn-Sham potentials for the ensemble density-functional theory (EDFT) from the ground and excited states of helium. The exchange-correlation (XC) potential is compared with the quasi-local-density approximation and both…

Exchange-correlation potentials vxc and energy densities exc are derived for integer and fractional electron counts using an orbital-averaged Kohn-Sham inversion procedure. The reference densities for inversion come from full configuration…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Vaibhav Khanna , Bikash Kanungo , Jeffrey Hatch , Joshua Kammeraad , Paul M. Zimmerman

Despite of its huge successes in vast amount of applications, the Kohn-Sham scheme of density functional theory (DFT-Kohn-Sham) has not been able to get reliable ionization potentials (IP) for semiconductors, due to self-interaction error…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-07 Lin-Hui Ye

The density-functional approach to quantum electrodynamics is extending traditional density-functional theory and opens the possibility to describe electron-photon interactions in terms of effective Kohn-Sham potentials. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Johannes Flick , Michael Ruggenthaler , Heiko Appel , Angel Rubio

This work presents an alternative, general, and in-principle exact extension of electronic Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) to the fully quantum-mechanical molecular problem. Unlike in existing multi-component or…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Emmanuel Fromager , Benjamin Lasorne

The question of how density functional theory (DFT) compares with Hartree-Fock (HF) for the computation of momentum-space properties is addressed in relation to systems for which (near) exact Kohn-Sham (KS) and HF one-electron matrices are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sebastien Ragot

We present a method to invert a given density and find the Kohn-Sham (KS) potential in Density Functional Theory (DFT) which shares that density. Our method employs the concept of screening density, which is naturally constrained by the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Timothy J. Callow , Nektarios N. Lathiotakis , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos

We present a purely numerical approach in Cartesian grid, for efficient computation of Hartree-Fock (HF) exchange contribution in the HF and density functional theory models. This takes inspiration from a recently developed algorithm [Liu…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 Abhisek Ghosal , Tanmay Mandal , Amlan K. Roy

Nuclear Density Functional Theory (DFT) plays a prominent role in the understanding of nuclear structure, being the approach with the widest range of applications. Hohenberg and Kohn theorems warrant the existence of a nuclear Energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-03 G. Accorto , P. Brandolini , F. Marino , A. Porro , A. Scalesi , G. Colò , X. Roca-Maza , E. Vigezzi

A direct orbital optimization method is presented for density functional calculations of excited electronic states using either a real space grid or a plane wave basis set. The method is variational, provides atomic forces in the excited…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Aleksei V. Ivanov , Gianluca Levi , Elvar Ö. Jónsson , Hannes Jónsson

Arguments showing that exchange-only optimized effective potential (xOEP) methods, with finite basis sets, cannot in general yield the Hartree-Fock (HF) ground state energy, but a higher one, are given. While the orbital products of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Goerling , Andreas Hesselmann , Martin Jones , Mel Levy

A new, very fast, implementation of the exact (Fock) exchange operator for electronic structure calculations within the plane-wave pseudopotential method is described in detail for both molecular and periodic systems, and carefully…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-12 Ivan Carnimeo , Stefano Baroni , Paolo Giannozzi

The inverse Kohn-Sham (KS) problem seeks a local effective potential whose noninteracting ground state reproduces a prescribed electron density. Existing inversion formulations are often expressed in disparate languages, including reduced…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Nan Sheng

We compare two different approaches to investigations of many-electron systems. The first is the Hartree-Fock (HF) method and the second is the Density Functional Theory (DFT). Overview of the main features and peculiar properties of the HF…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Ya. Amusia , A. Z. Msezane , V. R. Shaginyan

We propose a new generalised Kohn-Sham or constrained hybrid method, where the exchange potential is the (equally weighted) average of the nonlocal Fock exchange term and the self-interaction-corrected exchange potential, as obtained from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Thomas C. Pitts , Nektarios N. Lathiotakis , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos