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Density functional theory offers a very accurate way of computing materials properties from first principles. However, it is too expensive for modelling large-scale molecular systems whose properties are, in contrast, computed using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-12-12 Alexander V. Shapeev

We report measurements of the spin susceptibility in dilute (rs up to 10) AlAs two-dimensional (2D) electrons occupying a single conduction-band valley with an anisotropic in-plane Fermi contour, characterized by longitudinal and transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Gokmen , Medini Padmanabhan , E. Tutuc , M. Shayegan , S. De Palo , S. Moroni , Gaetano Senatore

In electron density functional theory formal properties of density functionals play an important role in constructing and testing approximate functionals. In this paper it is shown that a set of density functionals satisfy an equation that…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-09 Daniel P. Joubert

This paper studies DFT models for homogeneous 1D materials in the 3D space. It follows our previous work about DFT models for homogeneous 2D materials in 3D. We show how to reduce the problem from a 3D energy functional to a 2D energy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Bouchra Bensiali , Salma Lahbabi , Abdallah Maichine , Othmane Mirinioui

Semilocal density functional theory is the most used computational method for electronic structure calculations in theoretical solid-state physics and quantum chemistry of large systems, providing good accuracy with a very attractive…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-31 L. A. Constantin , E. Fabiano , J. M. Pitarke , F. Della Sala

The exact interaction energy of a many-electron system is determined by the electron pair density, which is not well-approximated in standard Kohn-Sham density functional models. Here we study the (complicated but well-defined) exact…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-07 Huajie Chen , Gero Friesecke

We propose a systematic and constructive way to determine the exchange-correlation potentials of density-functional theories including vector potentials. The approach does not rely on energy or action functionals. Instead it is based on…

Potentially new, single-atom thick semiconducting 2D-graphene-like material, called Anisotropic-cyclicgraphene, have been generated by the two stage searching strategy linking molecular and ab initio approach. The candidate derived from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Marcin Maździarz , Adam Mrozek , Wacław Kuś , Tadeusz Burczyński

We investigate the space distribution of carrier density and the compressibility of two-dimensional (2D) electron systems by using the local density approximation. The strong correlation is simulated by the local exchange and correlation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Junren Shi , X. C. Xie

In this report we review the method of explicit calculations of interatomic exchange interactions of magnetic materials. This involves exchange mechanisms normally referred to as Heisenberg exchange, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and…

In this work, we study the electronic properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide materials subjected to aliovalent doping, using Nb-doped WS2 as an exemplar. Scanning transmission electron microscopy imaging of the as-grown…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-16 Siow Mean Loh , Xue Xia , Neil R. Wilson , Nicholas D. M. Hine

It is shown that the DFT exchange and correlation functionals satisfy an expression that couples exchange and correlation functionals and functional derivatives evaluated at three different densities and for two particle numbers. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Daniel P. Joubert

We introduce a density-functional formalism based on the Parsons-Lee and the generalized van der Waals theories in order to describe the thermodynamics of anisotropic particle systems with steric interactions. For ellipsoids of revolution,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-31 Eduardo dos S. Nascimento

Long range order and symmetry in heterogeneous materials architected on crystal lattices lead to elastic and inelastic anisotropies and thus limit mechanical functionalities in particular crystallographic directions. Here, we present a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-17 Jehoon Moon , Gisoo Lee , Jaehee Lee , Hansohl Cho

The derivative discontinuity is a key concept in electronic structure theory in general and density functional theory in particular. The electronic energy of a quantum system exhibits derivative discontinuities with respect to different…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Paula Mori-Sánchez , Aron J. Cohen

Motivated by the considerable importance of material properties in modern condensed matter physics research, and using techniques of the $N_{e}$ -electron systems in terms of the electron density $n_{\sigma e}\left( r\right) $ needed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-19 A. Belhaj , S. E. Ennadifi

The exchange-correlation hole density of the infinitely stretched (dissociated) hydrogen molecule can be cast into a closed analytical form by using its exact wave function. This permits to obtain an explicit exchange-correlation energy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Eduard Matito , David Casanova , Xabier Lopez , Jesus M. Ugalde

A free-energy functional that contains both the symmetry conserved and symmetry broken parts of the direct pair correlation function has been used to investigate the freezing of a system of hard spheres into crystalline and amorphous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-27 Swarn Lata Singh , Atul S. Bharadwaj , Yashwant Singh

The accuracy of applying density functional theory to noncovalent interactions is hindered by errors arising from low-density regions of interaction-induced change in the density gradient, error compensation between correlation and exchange…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Marcin Modrzejewski , Grzegorz Chałasiński , Małgorzata M. Szczęśniak

Generalizing recent work on isotropic tensor fields in isotropic and achiral condensed matter systems from two to arbitrary dimensions we address both mathematical aspects assuming perfectly isotropic systems and applications focusing on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-22 J. P. Wittmer