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We propose a density functional to find the ground state energy and density of interacting particles, where both the density and the pair density can adjust in the presence of an inhomogeneous potential. As a proof of principle we formulate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Lorenzana , Z. -J. Ying , V. Brosco

The formally exact framework of equilibrium Density Functional Theory (DFT) is capable of simultaneously and consistently describing thermodynamic and structural properties of interacting many-body systems in arbitrary external potentials.…

We introduce a new computationally efficient and accurate classical density-functional theory for water and apply it to hydration of hard spheres and inert gas atoms. We find good agreement with molecular dynamics simulations for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-16 Sahak A. Petrosyan , David Roundy , Jean-Francois Briere , Tomas A. Arias

In principle, machine learning (ML) can be used to obtain any electronic property of a many-body system from its electron density within density functional theory. However, some physical quantities are highly sensitive to small variations…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-19 L. Arnstein , J. Wetherell , R. Lawrence , P. J. Hasnip , M. J. P. Hodgson

The accuracy of the training data limits the accuracy of bulk properties from machine-learned potentials. For example, hybrid functionals or wave-function-based quantum chemical methods are readily available for cluster data but effectively…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Viktor Zaverkin , David Holzmüller , Robin Schuldt , Johannes Kästner

Faithful representations of atomic environments and general models for regression can be harnessed to learn electron densities that are close to the ground state. One of the applications of data-derived electron densities is to orbital-free…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-01 Andrew T. Fowler , Chris J. Pickard , James A. Elliott

Classical density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful framework to study inhomogeneous fluids. Its standard form is based on the knowledge of a generating free energy functional. If this is known exactly, then the results obtained by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-02 S. M. Tschopp , H. Vahid , A. Sharma , J. M. Brader

We present the exact adiabatic theory for the dynamics of the inhomogeneous density distribution of a classical fluid. Erroneous particle number fluctuations of dynamical density functional theory are absent, both for canonical and grand…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-25 Daniel de las Heras , Joseph M. Brader , Andrea Fortini , Matthias Schmidt

We present an accurate free-energy functional for liquid water written in terms of a set of effective potential fields in which fictitious noninteracting water molecules move. The functional contains an \emph{exact} expression of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-04-19 Johannes Lischner , T. A. Arias

We use supervised machine learning together with the concepts of classical density functional theory to investigate the effects of interparticle attraction on the pair structure, thermodynamics, bulk liquid-gas coexistence, and associated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-29 Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt , Robert Evans

One of the potential applications of a quantum computer is solving quantum chemical systems. It is known that one of the fastest ways to obtain somewhat accurate solutions classically is to use approximations of density functional theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Thomas E. Baker , David Poulin

Calculating perturbation response properties of materials from first principles provides a vital link between theory and experiment, but is bottlenecked by the high computational cost. Here a general framework is proposed to perform density…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 He Li , Zechen Tang , Jingheng Fu , Wen-Han Dong , Nianlong Zou , Xiaoxun Gong , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

Glass transitions are widely observed in various types of soft matter systems. However, the physical mechanism of these transitions remains {elusive}, despite years of ambitious research. In particular, an important unanswered question is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-20 Norihiro Oyama , Shihori Koyama , Takeshi Kawasaki

A system of soft ellipsoid molecules confined between two planar walls is studied using classical Density Functional Theory (DFT). Both the isotropic and nematic phases are considered. The excess free energy is evaluated using two different…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 David Cheung , Friederike Schmid

We revisit the machine-learning (ML) approach to the universal density functional $F[\mathbf{n}]$ of the one-dimensional Hubbard model with a site-dependent random potential $\mathbf{v}=\{v_{i}\}$. We generate exact ground-state data via…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-03 Octavio D. R. Salmon , Minos A. Neto , J. Roberto Viana , Griffith Mendonça

Machine learning has made important headway in helping to improve the treatment of quantum many-body systems. A domain of particular relevance are correlated inhomogeneous systems. What has been missing so far is a general, scalable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Alex Blania , Sandro Herbig , Fabian Dechent , Evert van Nieuwenburg , Florian Marquardt

I describe the foundation of a Density Functional Theory approach to include pairing correlations, which was applied to a variety of systems ranging from dilute fermions, to neutron stars and finite nuclei. Ground state properties as well…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Aurel Bulgac

Machine learning is used to approximate density functionals. For the model problem of the kinetic energy of non-interacting fermions in 1d, mean absolute errors below 1 kcal/mol on test densities similar to the training set are reached with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 John C. Snyder , Matthias Rupp , Katja Hansen , Klaus-Robert Müller , Kieron Burke

Objectives: Functional connectivity triggered by naturalistic stimulus (e.g., movies) and machine learning techniques provide a great insight in exploring the brain functions such as fluid intelligence. However, functional connectivity are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Xiaobo Liu , Su Yang

The classical Density Functional Theory (DFT) is introduced as an application of entropic inference for inhomogeneous fluids at thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic inference reproduces the variational principle of DFT when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-14 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha