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We argue in favour of developing a comprehensive dynamical theory for rationalizing, predicting, designing, and machine learning nonequilibrium phenomena that occur in soft matter. To give guidance for navigating the theoretical and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-28 Daniel de las Heras , Toni Zimmermann , Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

The self consistent version of the density functional theory (DFT) is presented, which allows to calculate the ground state and dynamic properties of finite multi-electron systems such as atoms, molecules and clusters. The exact functional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ya. Amusia , V. R. Shaginyan

We study structural relaxation of colloidal hard spheres undergoing Brownian motion using dynamical density functional theory. Contrary to the partial linearization route [Stopper {\em et al.}, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 92}, 022151 (2015)] which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-16 Daniel Stopper , Roland Roth , Hendrik Hansen-Goos

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

Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) has opened new perspectives for the investigation of strongly correlated electron systems and greatly improved our understanding of correlation effects in models and materials. In contrast to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-16 Dieter Vollhardt

We use analytic (current) density-potential maps of time-dependent (current) density functional theory (TD(C)DFT) to inverse engineer analytically solvable time-dependent quantum problems. In this approach the driving potential (the control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Mehdi Farzanehpour , I. V. Tokatly

The standard model of classical Density Functional Theory for pair potentials consists of a hard-sphere functional plus a mean-field term accounting for long ranged attraction. However, most implementations using sophisticated Fundamental…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 James F. Lutsko , Cédric Schoonen

The classical Density Functional Theory (DFT) is introduced as an application of entropic inference for inhomogeneous fluids at thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic inference reproduces the variational principle of DFT when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-14 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha

Aspects of Density Functional Resonance Theory (DFRT) [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{107}, 163002 (2011)], a recently developed complex-scaled version of ground-state Density Functional Theory (DFT), are studied in detail. The asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniel L. Whitenack , Adam Wasserman

Droplets of a pure fluid, such as water, in an open container surrounded by gas, are thermodynamically unstable and evaporate quickly. In a recent paper [Archer et al. J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 159}, 194403 (2023)] we employed lattice density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-17 Melih Gül , Andrew J Archer , Benjamin D Goddard , Roland Roth

Understanding the properties of warm dense hydrogen is of key importance for the modeling of compact astrophysical objects and to understand and further optimize inertial confinement fusion (ICF) applications. The work horse of warm dense…

Density functional theory (DFT) became a universal approach to compute ground-state and excited configurations of many-electron systems held together by an external one-body potential in condensed-matter, atomic, and molecular physics. At…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-30 J. Dobaczewski

Though calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) are used remarkably widely in chemistry, physics, materials science, and biomolecular research and though the modern form of DFT has been studied for almost 60 years, some…

We provide a new formulation of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) based on the geometric structure of the set of states constrained to have a fixed density. Orbital-free TDDFT is formulated using a hydrodynamics equation…

This chapter introduces thermal density functional theory, starting from the ground-state theory and assuming a background in quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. We review the foundations of density functional theory (DFT) by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-06-02 Aurora Pribram-Jones , Stefano Pittalis , E. K. U. Gross , Kieron Burke

An approximate method based on adiabatic time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presented, that allows for the description of the electron dynamics in nanoscale junctions under arbitrary time dependent external potentials. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Y. Wang , C. -Y. Yam , G. H. Chen , Th. Frauenheim , T. A. Niehaus

During the last decade, density function theory (DFT) in its static and dynamic time dependent forms, has emerged as a powerful tool to describe the structure and dynamics of doped liquid helium and droplets. In this review, we summarize…

Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been…

Predicting interfacial thermodynamics across molecular and continuum scales remains a central challenge in computational science. Classical density functional theory (cDFT) provides a first-principles route to connect microscopic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Edoardo Monti , Peter Yatsyshin , Konstantinos Gkagkas , Andrew B. Duncan

Using methods of kinetic theory and liquid state theory we propose a description of the non-equilibrium behavior of molecular fluids which takes into account their microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties. The present work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-24 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna
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