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Classical density functional theory (cDFT) provides a systematic approach to predict the structure and thermodynamic properties of chemical systems through the single-molecule density profiles. Whereas the statistical-mechanical framework…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Jinni Yang , Runtong Pan , Jikai Sun , Jianzhong Wu

Classical density functional theory (DFT) of fluids is a valuable tool to analyze inhomogeneous fluids. However, few numerical solution algorithms for three-dimensional systems exist. Here we present an efficient numerical scheme for fluids…

This paper studies DFT models for homogeneous 2D materials in 3D space, under a constant perpendicular magnetic field. We show how to reduce the three--dimensional energy functional to a one--dimensional one, similarly as in our previous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 David Gontier , Salma Lahbabi , Abdallah Maichine

The screening of novel materials is an important topic in the field of materials science. Although traditional computational modeling, especially first-principles approaches, is a very useful and accurate tool to predict the properties of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Marco Fronzi , Mutaz Abu Ghazaleh , Olexandr Isayev , David A. Winkler , Joe Shapter , Michael J. Ford

Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a wide range of electronic properties that make them promising candidates for next-generation nanoelectronic devices. Accurate prediction of their quantum transport behavior is therefore of both…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-22 Jijie Zou , Zhanghao Zhouyin , Qiangqiang Gu , Shishir Kumar Pandey

This paper gives a summary of basic concepts of density-functional theory (DFT) and its use in state-of-the-art computations of complex processes in condensed matter physics and materials science. In particular we discuss how microscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-03 C. Ratsch , P. Ruggerone , M. Scheffler

Classical density functional theory (DFT) is a statistical mechanical theory for calculating the density profiles of the molecules in a liquid. It is widely used, for example. to calculate the density distribution of the molecules in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-08 Adam P. Hughes , Uwe Thiele , Andrew J. Archer

One of the fundamental problems in machine learning is the estimation of a probability distribution from data. Many techniques have been proposed to study the structure of data, most often building around the assumption that observations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-22 Oren Rippel , Ryan Prescott Adams

Machine-learned regression models represent a promising tool to implement accurate and computationally affordable energy-density functionals to solve quantum many-body problems via density functional theory. However, while they can easily…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Emanuele Costa , Giuseppe Scriva , Rosario Fazio , Sebastiano Pilati

Datasets such as images, text, or movies are embedded in high-dimensional spaces. However, in important cases such as images of objects, the statistical structure in the data constrains samples to a manifold of dramatically lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Stefano Recanatesi , Matthew Farrell , Madhu Advani , Timothy Moore , Guillaume Lajoie , Eric Shea-Brown

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is widely used for atomistic simulations. However, its reach stays limited due to several limitations such as lack of accurate exchange-correlation functional, requirement of costly O(N 3) diagonalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Namrata Manglani , Samrit Kumar Maity , Shashank Sharma , Soham Phulare , Sanjay Wandhekar

In this chapter, we discuss recent advances and new opportunities through methods of machine learning for the field of classical density functional theory, dealing with the equilibrium properties of thermal nano- and micro-particle systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-12 Alessandro Simon , Martin Oettel

The intrinsic Helmholtz free-energy functional, the centerpiece of classical density functional theory, is at best only known approximately for 3D systems. Here we introduce a method for learning a neuralnetwork approximation of this…

Large scale Density Functional Theory (DFT) based electronic structure calculations are highly time consuming and scale poorly with system size. While semi-empirical approximations to DFT result in a reduction in computational time versus…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-21 Ganesh Hegde , R. Chris Bowen

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

Deep learning electronic structures from ab initio calculations holds great potential to revolutionize computational materials studies. While existing methods proved success in deep-learning density functional theory (DFT) Hamiltonian…

Predicting interfacial thermodynamics across molecular and continuum scales remains a central challenge in computational science. Classical density functional theory (cDFT) provides a first-principles route to connect microscopic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Edoardo Monti , Peter Yatsyshin , Konstantinos Gkagkas , Andrew B. Duncan

Two-dimensional mixtures of dipolar colloidal particles with different dipole moments exhibit extremely rich self-assembly behaviour and are relevant to a wide range of experimental systems, including charged and super-paramagnetic colloids…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-16 W. R. C. Somerville , J. L. Stokes , A. M. Adawi , T. S. Horozov , A. J. Archer , D. M. A. Buzza

Density matrix embedding theory (DMET) is a quantum embedding theory for strongly correlated systems. From a computational perspective, one bottleneck in DMET is the optimization of the correlation potential to achieve self-consistency,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Xiaojie Wu , Zhi-Hao Cui , Yu Tong , Michael Lindsey , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan , Lin Lin

Artificial Neuronal Networks are models widely used for many scientific tasks. One of the well-known field of application is the approximation of high-dimensional problems via Deep Learning. In the present paper we investigate the Deep…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-06 F. Calabrò , S. Cuomo , F. Giampaolo , S. Izzo , C. Nitsch , F. Piccialli , C. Trombetti