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A system of soft ellipsoid molecules confined between two planar walls is studied using classical Density Functional Theory (DFT). Both the isotropic and nematic phases are considered. The excess free energy is evaluated using two different…

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Deep learning electronic structures from ab initio calculations holds great potential to revolutionize computational materials studies. While existing methods proved success in deep-learning density functional theory (DFT) Hamiltonian…

We present a scheme for investigating arbitrary thermal observables in spatially inhomogeneous equilibrium many-body systems. Extending the grand canonical ensemble yields any given observable as an explicit hyper-density functional.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-10 Florian Sammüller , Silas Robitschko , Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

Based on the Schrodinger equation, exact expressions for the non-relativistic particle energy in the local external field and the external field potential are derived as inhomogeneous density functionals. On this basis, it is shown that,…

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High throughput screening of materials for technologically relevant areas, like identification of better catalysts, electronic materials, ceramics for high temperature applications and drug discovery, is an emerging topic of research. To…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-04 Edgar Josué Landinez Borda , Amit Samanta

We derive an exact representation of the exchange-correlation energy within density functional theory (DFT) which spawns a class of approximations leading to correct long-range asymptotic behavior. In what amounts to be the simplest…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser

Development of the electronic kinetic-energy density functional is a subject of major interest in theoretical physics and chemistry. In this work, the nonlocal kinetic-energy functional is developed in terms of the response function for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Hideaki Takahashi

Density functional theory is one of the most efficient and widely used computational methods of quantum mechanics, especially in fields such as solid state physics and quantum chemistry. From the theoretical perspecive, its central object…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Mihály A. Csirik , Andre Laestadius , Mathias Oster

We use simulation-based supervised machine learning and classical density functional theory to investigate bulk and interfacial phenomena associated with phase coexistence in binary mixtures. For a prototypical symmetrical Lennard-Jones…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-23 Silas Robitschko , Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt , Robert Evans

One of the most powerful strategies to address properties of real many-body systems is to incorporate data obtained for models, for example, to use data of the homogeneous electron gas in order to build the Local Density Approximation for…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Muhammed Hüseyin Güneş , Ayoub Aouina , Vitaly Gorelov , Matteo Gatti , Lucia Reining

This paper presents a new method for learning dissipative Hamiltonian dynamics from a limited and noisy dataset. The method uses the Helmholtz decomposition to learn a vector field as the sum of a symplectic and a dissipative vector field.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Torbjørn Smith , Olav Egeland

In the present work, we employ exact diagonalization for model systems on a real-space lattice to explicitly construct the exact density-to-potential and for the first time the exact density-to-wavefunction map that underly the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Tanja Dimitrov , Heiko Appel , Johanna I. Fuks , Angel Rubio

The systematic underestimation of band gaps is one of the most fundamental challenges in semilocal density functional theory (DFT). In addition to hindering the application of DFT to predicting electronic properties, the band gap problem is…

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Improving the predictive capability of molecular properties in ab initio simulations is essential for advanced material discovery. Despite recent progress making use of machine learning, utilizing deep neural networks to improve quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Muhammad F. Kasim , Sam M. Vinko

Classical density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful framework to study inhomogeneous fluids. Its standard form is based on the knowledge of a generating free energy functional. If this is known exactly, then the results obtained by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-02 S. M. Tschopp , H. Vahid , A. Sharma , J. M. Brader

We propose a physics-informed neural network as the forward model for tomographic reconstructions of biological samples. We demonstrate that by training this network with the Helmholtz equation as a physical loss, we can predict the…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-29 Amirhossein Saba , Carlo Gigli , Ahmed B. Ayoub , Demetri Psaltis

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is one of the most widely used methods for "ab initio" calculations of the structure of atoms, molecules, crystals, surfaces, and their interactions. Unfortunately, the customary introduction to DFT is often…

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Faithful representations of atomic environments and general models for regression can be harnessed to learn electron densities that are close to the ground state. One of the applications of data-derived electron densities is to orbital-free…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-01 Andrew T. Fowler , Chris J. Pickard , James A. Elliott