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As part of a project to obtain better optical response functions for nano materials and other systems with strong excitonic effects we here calculate the exchange-correlation (XC) potential of density-functional theory (DFT) at a level of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Hellgren , U. von Barth

Accurate exchange-correlation (XC) potentials for 3-dimensional systems -- via solution of the \emph{inverse} density functional theory (DFT) problem -- are now available to test the quality of DFT approximations. Herein, the \emph{exact}…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Bikash Kanungo , Paul M. Zimmerman , Vikram Gavini

Density functional theory (DFT) is one of the most widely used tools to solve the many-body Schrodinger equation. The core uncertainty inside DFT theory is the exchange-correlation (XC) functional, the exact form of which is still unknown.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Alexander Ryabov , Iskander Akhatov , Petr Zhilyaev

In density functional theory, simpler exchange-correlation (XC) approximations such as the local density approximation (LDA) are favored for computational speed but rely on limited information, leading to a trade-off between accuracy and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Karim K. Alaa El-Din , Antonius v. Strachwitz , Ana Coutinho Dutra , Sam M. Vinko

The accuracy of density functional theory hinges on the approximation of non-local contributions to the exchange-correlation (XC) functional. To date, machine-learned and human-designed approximations suffer from insufficient accuracy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Nicholas Gao , Eike Eberhard , Stephan Günnemann

Density Functional Theory (DFT) underpins much of modern computational chemistry and materials science. Yet, the reliability of DFT-derived predictions of experimentally measurable properties remains fundamentally limited by the need to…

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

Density functional theory (DFT) remains the most widely used electronic structure method. Although exact in principle, in practice, it relies on approximations to the exchange-correlation (XC) functional, which is known to be a unique…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Vishal Subramanian , Bikash Kanungo , Vikram Gavini

Density Functional Theory (DFT) stands as a widely used and efficient approach for addressing the many-electron Schr\"odinger equation across various domains such as physics, chemistry, and biology. However, a core challenge that persists…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Sizhuo Jin , Shuo Chen , Jianjun Qian , Ying Tai , Jun Li

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

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is used extensively in the computation of electronic properties of matter, with various applications. Approximating the exchange-correlation (XC) functional is the key to the Kohn-Sham DFT approach, the basis…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-17 Sameerah Helal , Zhe Tao , Cindy Rubio-González , Francois Gygi , Aditya V. Thakur

In density functional theory (DFT), exact constraints, fundamental mathematical properties of the exchange-correlation (XC) energy and its underlying XC hole, along with paradigm systems such as the uniform electron gas and the hydrogen…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-13 Yan Oueis , Akilan Ramasamy , James W. Furness , Jamin Kidd , Timo Lebeda , Jianwei Sun

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is the workhorse of quantum chemistry, offering an attractive balance between accuracy and computational cost. Although exact in principle, DFT in practice relies on an approximation to the unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Karim K. Alaa El-Din , Antonius v. Strachwitz , Sam M. Vinko

In this work we have studied a new functional for the correlation energy obtained from the exact-exchange (EXX) approximation within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). Correlation energies have been calculated for a number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Maria Hellgren , Ulf von Barth

Improving the predictive capability of molecular properties in ab initio simulations is essential for advanced material discovery. Despite recent progress making use of machine learning, utilizing deep neural networks to improve quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Muhammad F. Kasim , Sam M. Vinko

Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) provides the exact ground state energy and electron density of a molecule, contingent on the as-yet-unknown universal exchange-correlation (XC) functional. Recent research has demonstrated that…

We study a simple but useful test for neural exchange-correlation (XC) functionals: can a neural model reproduce an established XC functional when it is used self-consistently? We call this test functional cloning. The model is trained at…

A complete understanding of a material requires both knowledge of the excited states as well as of the ground state. In particular, the low energy excitations are of utmost importance while studying the electronic, magnetic, dynamical, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-30 N. Singh , P. Elliott , T. Nautiyal , J. K. Dewhurst , S. Sharma

Standard approximations for the exchange-correlation (XC) functional in Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) typically lead to unacceptably large errors when applied to strongly-correlated electronic systems. Partition-DFT (PDFT) is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Yi Shi , Yuming Shi , Adam Wasserman

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is nowadays widely used for electronic structure theory simulations, and the accuracy and efficiency of DFT rely on approximations of the exchange-correlation functional. By inclusion of the kinetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-01 Renxi Liu , Daye Zheng , Xinyuan Liang , Xinguo Ren , Mohan Chen , Wenfei Li
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