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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

We demonstrate the capabilities of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) for strong-field, short wavelength (soft X-ray) physics, as compared to a formalism based on rate equations. We find that TDDFT provides a very good…

New energy-density functionals (EDFs) inspired by effective-field theories (EFTs) have been recently proposed. The present work focuses on three of such functionals which were developed to produce satisfactory equations of state for nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Jérémy Bonnard , Marcella Grasso , Denis Lacroix

Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) is a successful method to compute the electronic structure of strongly correlated materials, especially when it is combined with density functional theory (DFT). Here, we present an open-source…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-03 Vijay Singh , Uthpala Herath , Benny Wah , Xingyu Liao , Aldo H. Romero , Hyowon Park

Conditional probability density functional theory has recently been used to derive the temperature dependence of the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) generalized gradient approximation (GGA) for the exchange-correlation (XC) free energy. We…

Nowadays the state of the art Density Functional Theory (DFT) codes are based on local (LDA) or semilocal (GGA) energy functionals. Recently the theory of a truly nonlocal energy functional has been developed. It has been used mostly as a…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-15 P. Lazic , N. Atodiresei , M. Alaei , V. Caciuc , S. Blugel , R. Brako

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…

Physics Education · Physics 2010-12-07 Nathan Argaman , Guy Makov

We introduce surrogate functionals: machine-learned energy functionals for orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) which are defined not by universal fidelity to a physical reference, but merely by the requirement that density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Roman Remme , Fred A. Hamprecht

Time-dependent orbital-free DFT is an efficient method for calculating the dynamic properties of large scale quantum systems due to the low computational cost compared to standard time-dependent DFT. We formalize this method by mapping the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Kaili Jiang , Michele Pavanello

In silico materials design is hampered by the computational complexity of Kohn-Sham DFT, which scales cubically with the system size. Owing to the development of new-generation kinetic energy density functionals (KEDFs), orbital-free DFT…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Xuecheng Shao , Kaili Jiang , Wenhui Mi , Alessandro Genova , Michele Pavanello

In recent years, a method for computing spin dynamics at infinite temperature (spinDMFT) was developed. It utilizes the ideas of dynamical mean-field theory for fermions: single-site approximation and a self-consistency condition to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-24 Przemysław Bieniek , Timo Gräßer , Götz S. Uhrig

Molecular Density Functional Theory (MDFT) offers an efficient implicit- solvent method to estimate molecule solvation free-energies whereas conserving a fully molecular representation of the solvent. Even within a second order ap-…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-12 Volodymyr P. Sergiievskyi , Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maximilien Levesque , Daniel Borgis

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

Density functional theory (DFT) is one of the primary approaches to get a solution to the many-body Schrodinger equation. The essential part of the DFT theory is the exchange-correlation (XC) functional, which can not be obtained in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Alexander Ryabov , Petr Zhilyaev

Ensemble density functional theory (eDFT) is an exact time-independent alternative to time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) for the calculation of excitation energies. Despite its formal simplicity and advantages in contrast to TD-DFT (multiple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-19 Killian Deur , Laurent Mazouin , Emmanuel Fromager

Properties of hot and dense matter are calculated in the framework of quantum hadro-dynamics by including contributions from two-loop (TL) diagrams arising from the exchange of iso-scalar and iso-vector mesons between nucleons. Our…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-01 Xilin Zhang , Madappa Prakash

The theoretical description of sparse matter attracts much interest, in particular for those ground-state properties that can be described by density functional theory (DFT). One proposed approach, the van der Waals density functional…

Large biomolecular systems, whose function may involve thousands of atoms, cannot easily be addressed with parameter-free density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Until recently a central problem was that such systems possess an…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-29 Kristian Berland , Elisa Londero , Elsebeth Schroder , Per Hyldgaard

Density functional theory (DFT) underpins modern atomistic simulations of transition-metal surfaces. It can predict key properties linked to catalytic performance, such as adsorption energies and barrier heights, enabling new paradigms in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-23 Benjamin X. Shi , Timothy C. Berkelbach

Extending density functional theory (DFT) to an {\it ab initio} orbital functional theory (OFT) requires new methodology for nonlocal exchange and correlation potentials. This paper describes such modifications to a standard Dirac-Slater…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. K. Nesbet