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The Hellmann-Feynman (HF) theorem provides a way to compute forces directly from the electron density, enabling efficient force calculations for large systems through machine learning (ML) models for the electron density. The main issue…

We present an accurate and efficient real-space formulation of the Hellmann-Feynman stress tensor for $\mathcal{O}(N)$ Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). While applicable at any temperature, the formulation is most efficient at high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Abhiraj Sharma , Sebastien Hamel , Mandy Bethkenhagen , John E. Pask , Phanish Suryanarayana

Whilst surface-stress integration remains the standard approach for fluid force evaluation, control-volume integral methods provide deeper physical insights through functional relationships between the flow field and the resultant force. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 An-Kang Gao , Chenyue Xie , Xi-Yun Lu

Drawing on the theory of quantum mechanical stress, we introduce the stress density in density functional theory. In analogy with the Chetty-Martin energy density, the stress density provides a spatial resolution of the contributions to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Alessio Filippetti , Vincenzo Fiorentini

We present an accurate and efficient formulation of the stress tensor for real-space Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. Specifically, while employing a local formulation of the electrostatics, we derive a linear-scaling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Abhiraj Sharma , Phanish Suryanarayana

Accurate charge densities are essential for reliable electronic structure calculations because they significantly impact predictions of various chemical properties and in particular, according to the Hellmann-Feynman theorem, atomic forces.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Moritz Gubler , Moritz R. Schäfer , Jörg Behler , Stefan Goedecker

Linear scaling methods for density-functional theory (DFT) simulations are formulated in terms of localised orbitals in real-space, rather than the delocalised eigenstates of conventional approaches. In local-orbital methods, relative to…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-30 N. D. M. Hine , M. Robinson , P. D. Haynes , C. -K. Skylaris , M. C. Payne , A. A. Mostofi

Density functional theory (DFT) is an indispensable ab initio method in both quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics. Based on recent advancements in reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT), a variant of DFT that is believed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Chih-Chun Wang

Here we make use of the Hellmann-Feynman theorem, with the aim to calculate macroscopic quantum velocities instead of forces, and we show how it is possible to derive the expression of the work per unit time, per unit volume (power density)…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Simone Selenu

We reexamine results obtained with the recently proposed density functional theory framework based on forces (force-DFT) [Tschopp et al., Phys. Rev. E 106, 014115 (2022)]. We compare inhomogeneous density profiles for hard sphere fluids to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-28 Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

In this paper we calculate the Casimir-Polder force density (force per unit area acting on the elements of the surface) on a metallic plate placed in front of a neutral atom. To obtain the force density we use the quantum operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Messina , R. Passante

A new method ( PI-DFT ) which combines path integrals and density functional theory is proposed as a pathway to many fields of physics. Within path integral theory it is possible to construct particle densities without explicitly…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Borrmann

We have formulated and implemented a fully charge-self-consistent density functional theory plus dynamical mean field theory methodology which enables an efficient calculation of the total energy of realistic correlated electron systems.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Hyowon Park , Andrew J. Millis , Chris A. Marianetti

Recently, we have proposed the adaptive local basis set for electronic structure calculations based on Kohn-Sham density functional theory in a pseudopotential framework. The adaptive local basis set is efficient and systematically…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 Gaigong Zhang , Lin Lin , Wei Hu , Chao Yang , John E. Pask

The most general way to describe localized atomic-like electronic states in strongly correlated compounds is to utilize Wannier functions. In the present paper we continue the development of widely-spread DFT+U method onto Wannier function…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-02 D. Novoselov , Dm. M. Korotin , V. I. Anisimov

We show that classical molecular density functional theory (MDFT), here in the homogeneous reference fluid approximation in which the functional is inferred from the properties of the bulk solvent, is a powerful new tool to study, at a…

Many immersed boundary methods solve for surface stresses that impose the velocity boundary conditions on an immersed body. These surface stresses may contain spurious oscillations that make them ill-suited for representing the physical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-20 Andres Goza , Sebastian Liska , Benjamin Morley , Tim Colonius

A fluid constituted of hard spherocylinders is studied using a density functional theory for non-spherical hard particles, which can be written as a function of weighted densities. This is based on an extended deconvolution of the Mayer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 René Wittmann , Klaus Mecke

Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations using conventional diagonalization based methods become increasingly expensive as temperature increases due to the need to compute increasing numbers of partially occupied states. We present…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Qimen Xu , Xin Jing , Boqin Zhang , John E. Pask , Phanish Suryanarayana

In computational engineering, ensuring the integrity and safety of structures in fields such as aerospace and civil engineering relies on accurate stress prediction. However, analytical methods are limited to simple test cases, and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Fabian Key , Lukas Freinberger
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