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Nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is developed for the case of the charge-density-wave ordered phase. We consider the spinless Falicov-Kimball model which can be solved exactly. This strongly correlated system is then placed…

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We apply the macroscopic fluctuation theory (MFT) to study the large-scale dynamical properties of Brownian particles with arbitrary pairwise interaction. By combining it with standard results of equilibrium statistical mechanics for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Aurélien Grabsch , Davide Venturelli , Olivier Bénichou

This chapter provides a basic introduction to excited-state extensions of density functional theory (DFT), including time-dependent (TD-)DFT in both its linear-response and its explicitly time-dependent formulations. As applied to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 John M. Herbert

We study the dynamics of colloidal suspensions of hard spheres that are subject to Brownian motion in the overdamped limit. We obtain the time evolution of the self and distinct parts of the van Hove function by means of dynamical density…

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

In nuclear physics, Density Functional Theory (DFT) provides the basis for state-of-the art studies of ground-state properties of heavy nuclei. However, the direct relation of the density functional underlying these calculations and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Sandra Kemler , Martin Pospiech , Jens Braun

When can we map a classical density profile to an external potential? In equilibrium, without time dependence, the one-body density is known to specify the external potential that is applied to the many-body system. This mapping from a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Michael Andreas Klatt , Christian Bair , Hartmut Löwen , René Wittmann

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is an extension of ground-state density-functional theory which allows the treatment of electronic excited states and a wide range of time-dependent phenomena in the linear and nonlinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-10 Carsten A. Ullrich

Dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) has been successfully derived and applied to describe on the one hand passive colloidal suspensions, including hydrodynamic interactions between individual particles. On the other hand, active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-18 Andreas M. Menzel , Arnab Saha , Christian Hoell , Hartmut Löwen

Energy functionals serve as the basis for different models and methods in quantum and classical many-particle physics. Arguably, one of the most successful and widely used approaches in material science at both ambient and extreme…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Z. Moldabekov , J. Vorberger , T. Dornheim

A configuration-interaction time-dependent density functional theory (CI-TDDFT) for nuclear dynamics is developed. In this framework, the correlated nuclear many-body wave function is expanded in terms of time-dependent many-particle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-21 Y. P. Wang , B. Li , D. Vretenar , T. Nikšić , P. W. Zhao , J. Meng

The Dean-Kawasaki (DK) equation, which is at the basis of stochastic density functional theory (SDFT), was proposed in the mid-nineties to describe the evolution of the density of interacting Brownian particles, which can represent a large…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-13 Pierre Illien

The swift progression of machine learning (ML) has not gone unnoticed in the realm of statistical mechanics. ML techniques have attracted attention by the classical density-functional theory (DFT) community, as they enable discovery of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-15 Antonio Malpica-Morales , Peter Yatsyshin , Miguel A. Duran-Olivencia , Serafim Kalliadasis

The very good performance of modern density functional theory for molecular geometries and harmonic vibrational frequencies has been well established. We investigate the performance of density functional theory (DFT) for quartic force…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Daniel Boese , Wim Klopper , Jan M. L. Martin

This paper uses dynamical invariants to describe the evolution of collisionless systems subject to time-dependent gravitational forces without resorting to maximum-entropy probabilities. We show that collisionless relaxation can be viewed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Jorge Peñarrubia

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is widely used to describe electronic excitations in complex finite systems with large numbers of atoms, such as biomolecules and nanocrystals. The first part of this paper will give a simple…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-15 C. A. Ullrich , V. Turkowski

We present the basic concepts and recent developments in the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) for describing nuclear dynamics at low energy. The symmetry breaking is inherent in nuclear energy density functionals (EDFs),…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Takashi Nakatsukasa , Kenichi Matsuyanagi , Masayuki Matsuo , Kazuhiro Yabana

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a powerful and accurate tool exploited in Nuclear Physics to investigate the ground-state and some collective properties of nuclei along the whole nuclear chart. Models based on DFT are, however, not…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-10-26 X. Roca-Maza , Y. F. Niu , G. Colò , P. F. Bortignon

Density functional theory (DFT) exploits an independent-particle-system construction to replicate the densities and current of an interacting system. This construction is used here to access the exact effective potential and bias of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-30 Daniel Karlsson , Miroslav Hopjan , Claudio Verdozzi

Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is a non-perturbative technique for the investigation of correlated electron systems. Its combination with the local density approximation (LDA) has recently led to a material-specific computational scheme…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Vollhardt , K. Held , G. Keller , R. Bulla , Th. Pruschke , I. A. Nekrasov , V. I. Anisimov

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…