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Functionals that explicitly depend on occupied, unoccupied, or fractionally-occupied orbitals are rigorously formalized using Clifford algebras, and a variational principle is established that facilitates orbital (and occupation)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Neil Qiang Su

Spin-current density functional theory (SCDFT) is a formally exact framework designed to handle the treatment of interacting many-electron systems including spin-orbit coupling at the level of the Pauli equation. In practice, robust and…

A description of non-collinear magnetism in the framework of spin-density functional theory is presented for the exact exchange energy functional which depends explicitly on two-component spinor orbitals. The equations for the effective…

We introduce an efficient finite-element approach for large-scale real-space pseudopotential density functional theory (DFT) calculations incorporating noncollinear magnetism and spin-orbit coupling. The approach, implemented within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-11 Nikhil Kodali , Phani Motamarri

We present a rigorous formulation of generalized Kohn-Sham density-functional theory. This provides a straightforward Kohn-Sham description of many-body systems based not only on particle-density but also on any other observable. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Valiev , G. W. Fernando

We extend the density functional perturbation theory formalism to the case of non-collinear magnetism. The main problem comes with the exchange-correlation (XC) potential derivatives, which are the only ones that are affected by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Fabio Ricci , Sergei Prokhorenko , Marc Torrent , Matthieu J. Verstraete , Eric Bousquet

We generalize the recently developped "internal" Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Kohn-Sham scheme to multicomponent systems. We obtain a general formalism, applicable for the description of multicomponent self-bound systems (as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jeremie Messud

Kohn-Sham (KS) formalism of Density Functional Theory is modified to include the systems with strong non-dynamic electron correlation. Unlike in extended KS and broken symmetry unrestricted KS formalisms, cases of both singlet-triplet and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Artem Masunov

The suggested operator manifold formalism enables to develop an approach to the unification of the geometry and the field theory. We also elaborate the formalism of operator multimanifold yielding the multiworld geometry involving the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 G. T. Ter-Kazarian

We analyze the various approaches to construct exchange-correlation functionals which are able to describe states of definite spin multiplicity in the DFT realm and outline the characteristics of possible functionals consistent with the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-01-04 A. L. Tchougréeff , J. G. Ángyán

Density functional theory is currently the most widely applied method in electronic structure theory. The Kohn-Sham method, based on a fictitious system of non-interacting particles, is the work horse of the theory. The particular form of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Hubertus J J van Dam

An approach to generalize any kind of collinear functionals in density functional theory to non-collinear functionals is proposed. This approach, for the very first time, satisfies the correct collinear limit for any kind of functionals,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-26 Zhichen Pu , Hao Li , Qiming Sun , Ning Zhang , Yong Zhang , Sihong Shao , Hong Jiang , Yiqin Gao , Yunlong Xiao

We present a novel functional for spin density functional theory aiming at the description of non-collinear magnetic structures. The construction of the functional employs the spin-spiral-wave state of the uniform electron gas as reference…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-08 F. G. Eich , E. K. U. Gross

The method of stress-function in elasticity theory is a powerful analytical tool with applications to a wide range of physical systems, including defective crystals, fluctuating membranes, and more. A complex coordinates formulation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-10 Oran Szachter , Eytan Katzav , Mokhtar Adda-Bedia , Michael Moshe

We present an efficient real space formalism for hybrid exchange-correlation functionals in generalized Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). In particular, we develop an efficient representation for any function of the real space…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Xin Jing , Phanish Suryanarayana

We show that using complex, spin-restricted orbitals (cR) in Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) allows one to access a new class of densities that is not accessible by either spin-restricted (RKS) or spin-unrestricted (UKS)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Joonho Lee , Luke W. Bertels , Martin Head-Gordon

The practical success of density functional theory (DFT) is largely credited to the Kohn-Sham approach, which enables the exact calculation of the non-interacting electron kinetic energy via an auxiliary noninteracting system. Yet, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sangita Majumdar , Zekun Shi , Giovanni Vignale

We recently proposed a scheme to generalize collinear functionals to the noncollinear regime, termed the multicollinear approach. The resulting noncollinear functionals preserve spin symmetry while providing numerically stable higher-order…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Xiaoyu Zhang , Tai Wang , Yi Qin Gao , Yunlong Xiao

We present a new approach based on the static density functional theory (DFT) to describe paramagentic MnO, which is a representative paramagnetic Mott insulator. We appended the spin noncollinearity and the canonical ensemble to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-14 Sangmoon Yoon , Seoung-Hun Kang , Sangmin Lee , Kuntae Kim , Jeong-Pil Song , Miyoung Kim , Young-Kyun Kwon

Due to efficient scaling with electron number N, density functional theory (DFT) is widely used for studies of large molecules and solids. Restriction of an exact mean-field theory to local potential functions has recently been questioned.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Robert K. Nesbet
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