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Electron-electron ($e$-$e$) and electron-phonon ($e$-ph) interactions are challenging to describe in correlated materials, where their joint effects govern unconventional transport, phase transitions, and superconductivity. Here we combine…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-05 David J. Abramovitch , Jin-Jian Zhou , Jernej Mravlje , Antoine Georges , Marco Bernardi

The time-dependent exchange-correlation potential has an unusual task in directing fictitious non-interacting electrons to move with exactly the same probability density as true interacting electrons. This has intriguing implications for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Davood Dar , Lionel Lacombe , Neepa T. Maitra

We present and discuss some ideas concerning an ``average-pair-density functional theory'', in which the ground-state energy of a many-electron system is rewritten as a functional of the spherically and system-averaged pair density. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

The construction of density-functional approximations is explored by modeling the adiabatic connection em locally, using energy densities defined in terms of the electrostatic potential of the exchange-correlation hole. These local models…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Stefan Vuckovic , Tom Irons , Andreas Savin , Andrew M. Teale , Paola Gori-Giorgi

Using an end-to-end differentiable implementation of the Kohn-Sham self-consistent field equations, we obtain an accurate neural network-based exchange and correlation (XC) functional of the electronic density. The functional is optimized…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Sebastian Dick , Marivi Fernandez-Serra

The State--Specific Kohn--Sham Density Functional Theory [arXiv:physics/0506037] is used to derive the Kohn-Sham exchange-correlation potential $\vxc$ and exchange-correlation energy $\Eco$ as explicit functionals of $v_s$ and $\phi_1$,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 James P. Finley

The exchange-correlation energy in Kohn-Sham density functional theory can be expressed exactly in terms of the change in the expectation of the electron-electron repulsion operator when, in the many-electron hamiltonian, this same operator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-08-05 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Giovanni Vignale , Michael Seidl

A new method to determine electron correlation energy is described. This method is based on a better representation of the potential due to interacting electrons that is obtained by specifying both the average and standard deviation. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 T. R. S. Prasanna

Motivated by recent suggestions --to split the electron-electron interaction into a short-range part, to be treated within the density functional theory, and a long-range part, to be handled by other techniques-- we compute, with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Lorenzo Zecca , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Saverio Moroni , Giovanni B. Bachelet

Improving the accuracy and thus broadening the applicability of electronic density functional theory (DFT) is crucial to many research areas, from material science, to theoretical chemistry, biophysics and biochemistry. In the last three…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Michael Seidl

The random phase approximation (RPA) for the electron correlation energy, combined with the exact-exchange energy, represents the state-of-the-art exchange-correlation functional within density-functional theory (DFT). However, the standard…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Xinguo Ren , Patrick Rinke , Alexandre Tkatchenko , Matthias Scheffler

We analyze a decomposition of the Coulomb electron-electron interaction into a long-range and a short-range part in the framework of density functional theory, deriving some scaling relations and the corresponding virial theorem. We study…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Julien Toulouse , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

The construction of meta generalized gradient approximations based on the density matrix expansion (DME) is considered as one of the most accurate technique to design semilocal exchange energy functionals in two-dimensional density…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-09 Abhilash Patra , Subrata Jana , Prasanjit Samal

It is shown here that the Exact Exchange (EE) formalism provides a natural and rigorous approach for a Density Functional Theory (DFT) of the Integer Quantum Hall Effect (IQHE). Application of a novel EE method to a quasi two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 D. Miravet , G. J. Ferreira , C. R. Proetto

We discuss an efficient scheme for obtaining spin-polarized quasi-particle excitation energies within the general framework of the density functional theory (DFT). Our approach is to correct the DFT eigenvalues via the electrostatic energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-11 B. Barbiellini , A. Bansil

Accurately treating strong electron correlation in quantum chemistry typically requires multireference wave-function methods with steep computational scaling. The recently proposed i-DMFT method promises near configuration-interaction…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Paul G. Graf , Florian Matz , Lexin Ding , Julia Liebert , Markus Penz , Christian Schilling

Quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory (QEDFT) provides a promising avenue for exploring complex light-matter interactions in optical cavities for real materials. Similar to conventional density-functional theory, the Kohn-Sham…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 I-Te Lu , Michael Ruggenthaler , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Simone Latini , Markus Penz , Angel Rubio

We present a practical and accurate density functional for the exchange-correlation energy of electrons in two dimensions. The exchange part is based on a recent two-dimensional generalized-gradient approximation derived by considering the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-30 E. Rasanen , S. Pittalis , J. G. Vilhena , M. A. L. Marques

Current-spin density functional theory (CSDFT) provides a framework to describe interacting many-electron systems in a magnetic field which couples to both spin- and orbital-degrees of freedom. Unlike in usual (spin-) density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Pittalis , S. Kurth , N. Helbig , E. K. U. Gross

The exchange and correlation $E_{xc}$ of strongly correlated electrons in 2D layers of finite width are studied as a function of the density parameter $r_s$, spin-polarization $\zeta$ and the temperature $T$. We explicitly treat…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 M. W. C. Dharma-wardana