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Perdew et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett 49, 1691 (1982)] discovered and proved two different properties of exact Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT): (i) The exact total energy versus particle number is a series of linear segments between…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-13 Tamar Stein , Jochen Autschbach , Niranjan Govind , Leeor Kronik , Roi Baer

We present a $\Delta$-machine learning model for obtaining Kohn-Sham accuracy from orbital-free density functional theory (DFT) calculations. In particular, we employ a machine learned force field (MLFF) scheme based on the kernel method to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Shashikant Kumar , Xin Jing , John E. Pask , Andrew J. Medford , Phanish Suryanarayana

Gas phase density-functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) calculations are reported for a data base of 98 ruthenium(II) polypyridine complexes. Comparison with X-ray crystal geometries and with experimental absorption…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Denis Magero , Mark E. Casida , George Amolo , Nicholas Makau , Lusweti Kituyi

The energy density functional (EDF) method is currently the only microscopic theoretical approach able to tackle the entire nuclear chart. Nevertheless, it suffers from limitations resulting from its empirical character and deteriorating…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-04 Kilian Fraboulet , Jean-Paul Ebran

A density functional theory (DFT) framework is presented that links functional derivatives of free-energy functionals to non-linear static density response functions in quantum many-body systems. Within this framework, explicit expressions…

Effective field theory (EFT) methods are applied to density functional theory (DFT) as part of a program to systematically go beyond mean-field approaches to medium and heavy nuclei. A system of fermions with short-range, natural…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. J. Puglia , A. Bhattacharyya , R. J. Furnstahl

The Hartree-Fock (HF) wave function, commonly used for approximating molecular ground states, becomes nonideal in open shell systems due to the inherent multi-configurational nature of the wave function, limiting accuracy in Quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Pawan Sharma Poudel , Kenji Sugisaki , Michal Hajdušek , Rodney Van Meter

Density functional theory (DFT) is routinely employed in material science and in quantum chemistry to simulate weakly correlated electronic systems. Recently, deep learning (DL) techniques have been adopted to develop promising functionals…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-02 Emanuele Costa , Rosario Fazio , Sebastiano Pilati

Significant effort in applied quantum computing has been devoted to the problem of ground state energy estimation for molecules and materials. Yet, for many applications of practical value, additional properties of the ground state must be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Ruizhe Zhang , Guoming Wang , Peter Johnson

By partitioning the electron density into subsystem contributions, the Frozen Density Embedding (FDE) formulation of subsystem DFT has recently emerged as a powerful tool for reducing the computational scaling of Kohn--Sham DFT. To date,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Genova , Davide Ceresoli , Michele Pavanello

Density functional theory (DFT) is a widespread and effective tool in electronic structure calculations for ground-state electron systems. Its success has prompted exploration into the use of DFT for non-collective excited states. The delta…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Ethan Pollack , Rohan Maniar , John P. Perdew

A system of electrons in a local or nonlocal external potential can be studied with 1-matrix functional theory (1MFT), which is similar to density functional theory (DFT) but takes the one-particle reduced density matrix (1-matrix) instead…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-07-23 Ryan Requist , Oleg Pankratov

We propose a novel scheme to bring reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT) into the realm of density functional theory (DFT) that preserves the accurate density functional description at equilibrium, while incorporating accurately…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 Nektarios N. Lathiotakis , Nicole Helbig , Angel Rubio , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos

We formulate and analyze in detail the ground state quantum electrodynamical density functional theory (QEDFT) for a generalized Dicke model describing a collection of $N$ tight-binding dimers minimally coupled to a cavity photon mode. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 A. Kudlis , D. Novokreschenov , I. Iorsh , I. V. Tokatly

Modeling many-body quantum systems with strong interactions is one of the core challenges of modern physics. A range of methods has been developed to approach this task, each with its own idiosyncrasies, approximations, and realm of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-21 Brett Larder , Dirk Gericke , Scott Richardson , Paul Mabey , Thomas White , Gianluca Gregori

First-principles simulations of electronic properties of hybrid inorganic/organic interfaces are challenging, as common density-functional theory (DFT) approximations target specific material classes like bulk semiconductors or gas-phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-13 Jannis Krumland , Caterina Cocchi

The liquid regime equation of state of silicon dioxide SiO$_2$ is calculated via quantum molecular dynamics in the density range 5 to 15 g/cc and with temperatures from 0.5 to 100 eV, including the $\alpha$-quartz and stishovite phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-30 Travis Sjostrom , Scott Crockett

The nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) method is a well-established approach for treating nuclei quantum mechanically in molecular systems beyond the usual Born-Oppenheimer approximation. In this work, we present a strategy to implement the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Jianhang Xu , Ruiyi Zhou , Zhen Tao , Christopher Malbon , Volker Blum , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer , Yosuke Kanai

Estimating ground-state energies is a cornerstone problem in Hamiltonian complexity, and in general requires exponential resources even on quantum computers. It is in this context we analyse the recently developed Imaginary-Time Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Gerard McCaul

We present an approach to the DFT+U method (Density Functional Theory + Hubbard model) within which the computational effort for calculation of ground state energies and forces scales linearly with system size. We employ a formulation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-14 David D. O'Regan , Nicholas D. M. Hine , Mike C. Payne , Arash A. Mostofi