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In this paper density functionals for Coulomb systems subjected to electric and magnetic fields are developed. The density functionals depend on the particle density, $\rho$, and paramagnetic current density, $j^p$. This approach is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-26 Andre Laestadius

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

A new density functional theory (DFT) exchange-correlation functional for the exploration of reaction mechanisms is proposed. This new functional, denoted BMK (Boese-Martin for Kinetics), has an accuracy in the 2 kcal/mol range for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Daniel Boese , Jan M. L. Martin

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…

In this work we explore the potential of a new data-driven approach to the design of exchange-correlation (XC) functionals. The approach, inspired by convolutional filters in computer vision and surrogate functions from optimization,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Xiangyun Lei , Andrew J. Medford

We describe a method for calculating the exchange and correlation (XC) contributions to the total energy, effective potential, and stress tensor in the generalized gradient approximation. We avoid using the analytical expressions for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 L. C. Balbas , Jose Luis Martins , Jose M. Soler

The exact universal functional of integer charge leads to an extension to fractional charge asymptotically when it is applied to a system made of asymptotically separated densities. The extended functional is asymptotically local and is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Jing Kong

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is widely used for first-principles simulations in chemistry and materials science, but its computational cost remains a key limitation for large systems. Motivated by recent advances in ML-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-19 Rakshit Kumar Singh , Aryan Amit Barsainyan , Bharath Ramsundar

Here, we report orbital-free density-functional theory (OF DFT) molecular dynamics simulations of the displacement cascade in aluminum. The electronic effect is our main concern. The displacement threshold energies are calculated using OF…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-26 Ruizhi Qiu

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) treats dynamical exchange and correlation (xc) via a single-particle potential, Vxc(r,t), defined as a nonlocal functional of the density n(r',t'). The popular adiabatic local-density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. A. Ullrich , I. V. Tokatly

We study the spin-crossover molecule Fe(phen)$_2$(NCS)$_2$ using density functional theory (DFT) plus dynamical mean-field theory, which allows access to observables not attainable with traditional quantum chemical or electronic structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-30 Jia Chen , Andrew Millis , Chris Marianetti

Conical intersections are central to the description of photophysics and photochemistry. Nevertheless, in non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations, they are fundamentally challenging for single-reference electronic structure methods.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Federico Rossi , Tommaso Giovannini , Henrik Koch

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density functional theory (DFT) for the case of electrons interacting with an external magnetic field (that couples to spin only) is examined in more detail than previously. A unexpected generalization is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Eschrig , W. E. Pickett

It is well-known experimentally that the positively-charged muon and the muonium atom may bind to molecules and solids, and through muon$'$s magnetic interaction with unpaired electrons, valuable information on the local environment…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Mohammad Goli , Shant Shahbazian

Time-dependent current-density-functional theory (TDCDFT) provides an in principle exact scheme to calculate efficiently response functions for a very broad range of applications. However, the lack of approximations valid for a range of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Matteo Gatti

This is the second and the final part of the review on density functional theory (DFT), referred to as DFT-II. In the first review, DFT-I, we have discussed wavefunction-based methods, their complexity, and the basic of density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-25 Ashish Kumar , Prashant Singh , Manoj K. Harbola

We present a practical approach to treat static and dynamical correlation accurately in large multi-configurational systems. The static correlation is accounted for using the spin-flip approach which is well known for capturing static…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-08 Oinam Romesh Meitei , Nicholas J. Mayhall

A robust and efficient frequency dependent and non-local exchange-correlation $f_{xc}(r,r';\omega)$ is derived by imposing time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) to reproduce the many-body diagrammatic expansion of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Marini , R. Del Sole , A. Rubio

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a powerful tool to study the non-equilibrium dynamics of inhomogeneous interacting many-body systems. Here we show that the simple adiabatic local-spin-density approximation for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-11 Wei Li , Gao Xianlong , Corinna Kollath , Marco Polini

We report on {\it ab initio} time-dependent spin dynamics simulations for a two-center magnetic molecular complex based on time-dependent non-collinear spin density functional theory. In particular, we discuss how the dynamical behavior of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-16 Maria Stamenova , Stefano Sanvito