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The spin-dependent localized Hartree-Fock (SLHF) density-functional approach is extended to the treatment of the inner-shell excited-state calculation of open-shell atomic systems. In this approach, the electron spin-orbitals in an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhongyuan Zhou , Shih-I Chu

It is found that, in closed-$l$-subshell atoms, the exact local exchange potential of the density functional theory is very well represented, within the region of every atomic shell, by each of the suitably shifted potentials obtained with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-03-17 M. Cinal

Aiming to combine density functional theory (DFT) and wavefunction theory, we study a mapping from the many-body interacting system to an effectively-interacting Kohn-Sham system instead of a non-interacting Kohn-Sham system. Because a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Shunsuke A. Sato , Angel Rubio

In the density functional (DF) theory of Kohn and Sham, the kinetic energy of the ground state of a system of noninteracting electrons in a general external field is calculated using a set of orbitals. Orbital free methods attempt to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeng-Da Chai , John D Weeks

Following Hollins et al. [J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 29, 04LT01 (2017)], we invert the electronic ground state densities for various semiconducting and insulating solids calculated using several density functional approximations within the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Visagan Ravindran , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos , Stewart J. Clark

In electronic structure calculations the optimized effective potential (OEP) is a method that treats exchange interactions exactly using a local potential within density-functional theory (DFT). We present a method using density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-24 Tom W. Hollins , Stewart J. Clark , Keith Refson , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos

We present a computationally efficient approach to perform large-scale all-electron density functional theory calculations by enriching the classical finite element basis with compactly supported atom-centered numerical basis functions that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Bikash Kanungo , Vikram Gavini

Inverse Kohn-Sham (iKS) problems are needed to fully understand the one-to-one mapping between densities and potentials on which Density Functional Theory is based. They are also important to advance computational schemes that rely on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Yuming Shi , Adam Wasserman

As a proof of principle, self-consistent Kohn--Sham calculations are performed with the exact exchange-correlation functional. Finding the exact functional for even one trial density requires solving the interacting Schr\"odinger equation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Lucas O. Wagner , Thomas E. Baker , E. M. Stoudenmire , Kieron Burke , Steven R. White

The exact static and time-dependent Kohn-Sham (KS) exchange-correlation (xc) potential is extremely challenging to approximate as it is a local multiplicative potential that depends on the electron density everywhere in the system. The KS…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-15 M. J. P. Hodgson , J. Wetherell

The recently developed hypercomplex Kohn-Sham (HCKS) theory shows great potential to overcome the static/strong correlation issue in density functional theory (DFT), which highlights the necessity of further exploration of the HCKS theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Neil Qiang Su

We present a kinetic-energy density-functional theory and the corresponding kinetic-energy Kohn-Sham (keKS) scheme on a lattice and show that by including more observables explicitly in a density-functional approach already simple…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Iris Theophilou , Florian Buchholz , F. G. Eich , Michael Ruggenthaler , Angel Rubio

The evaluation of exact (Hartree--Fock, HF) exchange operator is a crucial ingredient for the accurate description of electronic structure in periodic systems through ab initio and hybrid density functional approaches. An efficient…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Xiao Wang , Cannada A. Lewis , Edward F. Valeev

In the constrained minimization method of Gidopoulos and Lathiotakis (J. Chem. Phys. 136, 224109), the Hartree exchange and correlation Kohn-Sham potential of a finite $N$-electron system is replaced by the electrostatic potential of an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Tom Pitts , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos , Nektarios N. Lathiotakis

The most widely-used density functionals for the exchange-correlation energy are inexact for one-electron systems. Their self-interaction errors can be severe in some applications. The problem is not only to correct the self-interaction…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stephan Kümmel , John P. Perdew

A bivariate perspective on Kohn-Sham density functional theory is proposed, treating potential and density as simultaneous independent variables, and used to make fruitful connection between Lieb's rigorous foundational framework and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-07 Paul E. Lammert

We have performed self-consistent calculations for first and second row atoms using a variant of density-functional theory, the optimized effective potential method, with an approximation due to Krieger, Li and Iafrate and a…

chem-ph · Physics 2009-10-28 Tobias Grabo , E. K. U. Gross

The optimized effective potential (OEP) method allows for calculation of the local, effective single particle potential of density functional theory for explicitly orbital-dependent approximations to the exchange-correlation energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 P. Sule , S. Kurth , V. Van Doren

A way to improve the accuracy of the spectral properties in density functional theory (DFT) is to impose constraints on the effective, Kohn-Sham (KS), local potential [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 136}, 224109 (2012)]. As illustrated, a convenient…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-22 Thomas C. Pitts , Sofia Bousiadi , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos , Nektarios N. Lathiotakis

We introduce a new functional for simulating ground-state and time-dependent electronic systems within density-functional theory. The functional combines an expression for the exact Kohn-Sham (KS) potential in the limit of complete electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 M. J. P. Hodgson , J. D. Ramsden , T. R. Durrant , R. W. Godby