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The exchange-correlation (XC) functional in density functional theory is used to approximate multi-electron interactions. A plethora of different functionals is available, but nearly all are based on the hierarchy of inputs commonly…

While the exact total energy of a separated open system varies linearly as a function of average electron number between adjacent integers, the energy predicted by semi-local density functional approximations curves upward and the…

Motivated by recent high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments in the quantum Hall regime both on massive two-dimensional electron gas and on graphene, we consider theoretically the disorder averaged nonlocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-04 T. Champel , S. Florens , M. E. Raikh

Despite of its huge successes in vast amount of applications, the Kohn-Sham scheme of density functional theory (DFT-Kohn-Sham) has not been able to get reliable ionization potentials (IP) for semiconductors, due to self-interaction error…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-07 Lin-Hui Ye

Accurate prediction for the electronic structure properties of halide perovskites plays a significant role in the design of highly efficient and stable solar cells. While density functional theory (DFT) within the generalized gradient…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Qi Ou , Ping Tuo , Wenfei Li , Xiaoxu Wang , Yixiao Chen , Linfeng Zhang

A functional $E_{xc}[\rho(\r,\epsilon)]$ is presented, in which the exchange and correlation energy of an electron gas depends on the local density of occupied states. A simple local parametrization scheme is proposed, entirely from first…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Jose M. Soler

We apply density functional theory, in the local density approximation, to a quasi-one-dimensional electron gas in order to quantify the effect of Coulomb and correlation effects in modulating, and therefore patterning, the charge density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 E. T. Owen , C. H. W. Barnes

The recent non-empirical semi-local exchange functional of Armiento and K\"ummel, the AK13 [PRL 111, 036402 (2013)] incorporates a number of features reproduced by higher-order theory. The AK13 potential behaves analogously with the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 A. Lindmaa , R. Armiento

We train a neural network as the universal exchange-correlation functional of density-functional theory that simultaneously reproduces both the exact exchange-correlation energy and potential. This functional is extremely non-local, but…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Jonathan Schmidt , Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Miguel A. L. Marques

We formulate a spin-polarized van Leeuwen and Baerends (vLB) correction to the local density approximation (LDA) exchange potential [Phys. Rev. A 49, 2421 (1994)] that enforces the ionization potential (IP) theorem following Stein et al.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-09 Prashant Singh , Manoj K. Harbola , M. Hemanadhan , Abhijit Mookerjee , D. D. Johnson

Exchange hole is the principle constituent in density functional theory, which can be used to accurately design exchange energy functional and range separated hybrid functionals coupled with some appropriate correlation. Recently, density…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-14 Bikash Patra , Subrata Jana , Prasanjit Samal

Antiferromagnetic and charge ordered Hartree-Fock solutions of the one-band Hubbard model with on-site and nearest-neighbor Coulomb repulsions are exactly mapped onto an auxiliary local Kohn-Sham (KS) problem within a density-functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Solovyev

We propose a new generalised Kohn-Sham or constrained hybrid method, where the exchange potential is the (equally weighted) average of the nonlocal Fock exchange term and the self-interaction-corrected exchange potential, as obtained from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Thomas C. Pitts , Nektarios N. Lathiotakis , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos

Multi-center transition metal complexes (MCTMs) with magnetically interacting ions have been proposed as components for information processing devices and storage units. For any practical application of MCTMs as magnetic units, it is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Henry C. Fitzhugh , James W. Furness , Mark R. Pederson , Juan E. Peralta , Jianwei Sun

We have developed and implemented a self-consistent density functional method using standard norm-conserving pseudopotentials and a flexible, numerical LCAO basis set, which includes multiple-zeta and polarization orbitals. Exchange and…

Density functional theory (DFT) can run into serious difficulties with localized states in elements such as transition metals with occupied-d states and oxygen. In contrast, Hartree-Fock (HF) method can be a better approach for such…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-01 Hengxin Tan , Yuanchang Li , S. B. Zhang , Wenhui Duan

The positive definite Kohn-Sham kinetic energy(KS-KE) density plays crucial role in designing semilocal meta generalized gradient approximations(meta-GGAs) for low dimensional quantum systems. It has been rigorously shown that near nucleus…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-17 Subrata Jana , Prasanjit Samal

The asymptotic structure of the Kohn-Sham exchange potential $v_x ({\bf r})$ in the classically forbidden region of a metal surface is investigated, together with that of the Slater exchange potential $V_x^S ({\bf r})$ and those of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-01 Zhixin Qian

We study the relationship between the local density of states (LDOS) and the conductance variation $\Delta G$ in scanning-gate-microscopy experiments on mesoscopic structures as a charged tip scans above the sample surface. We present an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-13 M. G. Pala , B. Hackens , F. Martins , H. Sellier , V. Bayot , S. Huant , T. Ouisse

Most density functionals have been developed by imposing the known exact constraints on the exchange-correlation energy, or by a fit to a set of properties of selected systems, or by both. However, accurate modeling of the conventional…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-24 Jianmin Tao , Yuxiang Mo