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We explicitly build a generalized local-density approximation (GLDA) correlation functional based on one-dimensional (1D) uniform electron gases (UEGs). The fundamental parameters of the GLDA \textemdash a generalization of the widely-known…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Pierre-François Loos

A hybrid Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) and 1-electron Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory (1-RDMFT) has recently been developed to describe strongly correlated systems at mean-field computational cost. This approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn

The exact-exchange relativistic density functional theory (Ex-RDFT) of atomic nuclei has been solved in three-dimensional lattice space for the first time. The exchange energy is treated within the framework of the orbital-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-16 Qiang Zhao , Zhengxue Ren , Pengwei Zhao , Kenichi Yoshida

Neural operators are capable of capturing nonlinear mappings between infinite-dimensional functional spaces, offering a data-driven approach to modeling complex functional relationships in classical density functional theory (cDFT). In this…

The derivative discontinuity of the exchange-correlation (xc) energy at integer particle number is a property of the exact, unknown xc functional of density functional theory (DFT) which is absent in many popular local and semilocal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 Gao Xianlong , A-Hai Chen , I. V. Tokatly , S. Kurth

We benchmark the ground state energies and the density profiles of atomic repulsive Fermi gases in optical lattices computed via Density Functional Theory (DFT) against the results of diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) simulations. The main focus…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-06-12 S. Pilati , I. Zintchenko , M. Troyer , F. Ancilotto

We present and test a new approximation for the exchange-correlation (xc) energy of Kohn-Sham density functional theory. It combines exact exchange with a compatible non-local correlation functional. The functional is by construction free…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Tobias Schmidt , Eli Kraisler , Adi Makmal , Leeor Kronik , Stephan Kümmel

Using a linear combination of atomic orbitals approach, we report a systematic comparison of various Density Functional Theory (DFT) and hybrid exchange-correlation functionals for the prediction of the electronic and structural properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-05-07 D. I. Bilc , R. Orlando , R. Shaltaf , G. -M. Rignanese , Jorge Íñiguez , Ph. Ghosez

Machine learning has emerged as a powerful tool for predicting molecular properties in chemical reaction networks with reduced computational cost. However, accurately predicting energies of transition state (TS) structures remains a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Stefan Gugler , Markus Reiher

We establish a rigorous density functional theory (DFT) framework for core-level X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) by formulating a constrained search for core-excited states based on the Gunnarsson-Lundqvist theorem. Within this…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-25 Seokkyu An , Taisuke Ozaki

In the exact Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT), the total energy versus the number of electrons is a series of linear segments between integer points. However, commonly used approximate density functionals produce total energies…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-03 Eli Kraisler , Leeor Kronik

Deep-learning density functional theory (DFT) shows great promise to significantly accelerate material discovery and potentially revolutionize materials research. However, current research in this field primarily relies on data-driven…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Yang Li , Zechen Tang , Zezhou Chen , Minghui Sun , Boheng Zhao , He Li , Honggeng Tao , Zilong Yuan , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

A novel approach to electronic correlations and magnetism of crystals based on realistic electronic structure calculations is reviewed. In its simplest form it is a combination of the ``local density approximation'' (LDA) and the dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Lichtenstein , M. I. Katsnelson , G. Kotliar

In the framework of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), the exact exchange-correlation (xc) kernel $f_{xc}(n,q,\omega)$ determines the ground-state energy, excited-state energies, lifetimes, and the time-dependent linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-15 Niraj K. Nepal , Aaron D. Kaplan , J. M. Pitarke , Adrienn Ruzsinszky

We report an efficient technique to treat density functionals of the meta-generalized gradient approximation (mGGA) class in conjunction with density fitting of Coulomb terms (DF-J) and exchange-correlation terms (DF-X). While the kinetic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Alyssa V. Bienvenu , Gerald Knizia

While the variational principle for excited-state energies leads to a route to obtaining excited-state densities from time-dependent density functional theory, relatively little attention has been paid to the quality of the resulting…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Anna Baranova , Neepa T. Maitra

Local density approximation for the exchange energy is made for treatment of excited-states in density-functional theory. It is shown that taking care of the state-dependence of the LDA exchange energy functional leads to accurate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Manoj K. Harbola , Prasanjit Samal

Multicomponent density functional theory (DFT) enables the consistent quantum mechanical treatment of both electrons and protons. A major challenge has been the design of electron-proton correlation functionals that produce even…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Yang Yang , Kurt R. Brorsen , Tanner Culpitt , Michael V. Pak , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Exact-exchange energy density and energy density of a semilocal density functional approximation are two key ingredients for modeling the static correlation, a strongly nonlocal functional of the density, through a local hybrid functional.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Jianmin Tao , Viktor N. Staroverov , Gustavo E. Scuseria , John P. Perdew

We propose a machine learning based approach to develop the exchange-correlation potential of time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). The neural network projection from the time-varying electron densities to the corresponding…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Yasumitsu Suzuki , Ryo Nagai , Jun Haruyama