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In this paper we present a new approach how to extract polarization-dependent exchange-correlation energy densities for two-dimensional systems from reference densities and energies of quantum dots provided by exact diagonalization.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andreas Wensauer , Ulrich Rössler

A novel approach to the description of superconductors in thermal equilibrium is developed within a formally exact density-functional framework. The theory is formulated in terms of three ``densities'': the ordinary electron density, the…

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

Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been…

One of the central problems in quantum mechanics is to determine the ground state properties of a system of electrons interacting via the Coulomb potential. Since its introduction by Hohenberg, Kohn, and Sham, Density Functional Theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Norbert Schuch , Frank Verstraete

We try to improve the Thomas-Fermi model for the total energy and electron density of atoms and molecules by directly modifying the Euler equation for the electron density, which we argue is less affected by nonlocal corrections. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeng-Da Chai , John D. Weeks

Density fitting is used throughout quantum chemistry to simplify the electron-electron interaction energy (EE). A fundamental property of quantum chemistry, and DFT in particular, is that a variational principle connects the EE to a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-08 Brett I Dunlap , Mark C Palenik

This chapter presents the development of a density functional theory (DFT)-based method for accurate, reliable treatment of various resonances in atoms. Many of these are known to be notorious for their strong correlation, proximity to more…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Amlan K. Roy

The advent of the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem in 1964, its extension to finite-T, Kohn-Sham theory, and relativistic extensions provide the well-established formalism of density-functional theory (DFT). This theory enables the calculation of all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-18 M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

Microscopic theory of the nonradiative energy transfer in a system of III-V semiconductor quantum dots is elaborated in our work. The energy transfer both due to direct Coulomb and due to exchange interactions between two quantum dots…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 O. P. Chikalova-Luzina , D. M. Samosvat , V. M. Vyatkin , G. G. Zegrya

With the development of low order scaling methods for performing Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory, it is now possible to perform fully quantum mechanical calculations of systems containing tens of thousands of atoms. However, with an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 William Dawson , Stephan Mohr , Laura E. Ratcliff , Takahito Nakajima , Luigi Genovese

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

Here we present a many-body theory based on a solution of the $N$-representability problem in which the ground-state two-particle reduced density matrix (2-RDM) is determined directly without the many-particle wave function. We derive an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 David A. Mazziotti

The energy minimization involved in density functional calculations of electronic systems can be carried out using an exponential transformation that preserves the orthonormality of the orbitals. The energy of the system is then represented…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Aleksei V. Ivanov , Elvar Ö. Jónsson , Tejs Vegge , Hannes Jónsson

Density functional theory (DFT) has emerged as one of the most versatile and lucrative approaches in electronic structure calculations of many-electron systems in past four decades. Here we give an account of the development of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Abhisek Ghosal , Amlan K. Roy

The electron self-energy for long-range Coulomb interactions plays a crucial role in understanding the many-body physics of interacting electron systems (e.g. in metals and semiconductors), and has been studied extensively for decades. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-25 Yunxiang Liao , Donovan Buterakos , Mike Schecter , Sankar Das Sarma

Density-functional theory (DFT) has revolutionized computer simulations in chemistry and material science. A faithful implementation of the theory requires self-consistent calculations. However, this effort involves repeatedly diagonalizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Taehee Ko , Xiantao Li , Chunhao Wang

Semi-local density functionals for the exchange-correlation energy of electrons are extensively used as it produce realistic and accurate results for finite and extended systems. The choice of techniques play crucial role in constructing…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-01 Subrata Jana , Prasanjit Samal

By introducing a set of auxiliary equations representing a many-body system, we have derived an extension of the Kohn-Sham scheme for the density functional theory. These equations consist of a Kohn-Sham-type equation determining…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Koichi Kusakabe

Quantum algorithms for molecular electronic structure have been developed with lower computational scaling than their classical counterparts, but emerging quantum hardware is far from being capable of the coherence,connectivity and gate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-17 Scott E. Smart , David A. Mazziotti