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We introduce Wilson's, or Polchinski's, exact renormalization group, and review the Local Potential Approximation as applied to scalar field theory. Focusing on the Polchinski flow equation, standard methods are investigated, and by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris Harvey-Fros

The standard model of classical Density Functional Theory for pair potentials consists of a hard-sphere functional plus a mean-field term accounting for long ranged attraction. However, most implementations using sophisticated Fundamental…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 James F. Lutsko , Cédric Schoonen

The Sutherland approximation to the van der Waals forces is applied to the derivation of a self-consistent Vlasov-type field in a liquid filling a half space, bordering vacuum. The ensuing Vlasov equation is then derived, and solved to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-02 V. Molinari , B. D. Ganapol , D. Mostacci

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of the density functional theory is extended by modifying the Levy constrained-search formulation. The new theorem allows us to choose arbitrary physical quantities as the basic variables which determine the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Higuchi , K. Higuchi

Free energy functionals of Ginzburg-Landau type lie at the heart of a broad class of continuum dynamical models, such as the Cahn-Hilliard and Swift-Hohenberg equations. Despite the wide use of such models, the assumptions embodied in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-06 Andrew B. Li , Leonid Miroshnik , Brian D. Rummel , Ganesh Balakrishnan , Sang M. Han , Talid Sinno

We develop an effective field theory for dissipative fluids which governs the dynamics of long-lived gapless modes associated with conserved quantities. The resulting theory gives a path integral formulation of fluctuating hydrodynamics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-30 Michael Crossley , Paolo Glorioso , Hong Liu

We show that classical molecular density functional theory (MDFT), here in the homogeneous reference fluid approximation in which the functional is inferred from the properties of the bulk solvent, is a powerful new tool to study, at a…

This article generalizes the notion of the local density of a many-body system to introduce collective coordinates as explicit degrees of freedom. It is shown that the energy of the system can be expressed as a functional of this object.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 Thomas Lesinski

An alternative representation of an exact statistical field theory for simple fluids, based on the method of collective variables, is presented. The results obtained are examined from the point of another version of theory that was…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jean-Michel Caillol , Oksana Patsahan , Ihor Mryglod

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

Starting from a general classical model of many interacting particles we present a well defined step by step procedure to derive the continuum-mechanics equations of nonlinear elasticity theory with fluctuations which describe the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-02 Rudolf Haussmann

We derive an exact equation for density changes induced by a general external field that corrects the hydrostatic approximation where the local value of the field is adsorbed into a modified chemical potential. Using linear response theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kirill Katsov , John D. Weeks

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of the Helmholtz free energy of mixtures at small compressibility. We start from a general representation for the local free energy that is valid in stable subregions of the phase diagram. On…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Dieter Bothe , Wolfgang Dreyer , Pierre-Etienne Druet

The loss of particles due to highly inelastic reactions has previously been taken into account in effective field theories for low-energy particles by adding local anti-Hermitian terms to the effective Hamiltonian. An additional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-26 Eric Braaten , Hans-Werner Hammer , G. Peter Lepage

We present a real-space formulation and higher-order finite-difference implementation of periodic Orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT). Specifically, utilizing a local reformulation of the electrostatic and kernel terms, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Swarnava Ghosh , Phanish Suryanarayana

A general formalism for the treatment of density fluctuations in Coulomb plasmas is presented and applied to the treatment of temperature relaxation in multi-component quantum plasmas when the separate components (electrons and ions) relax…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Basil Crowley

The inclusion of nucleonic exchange energy has been a long-standing challenge for the relativistic density functional theory (RDFT) in nuclear physics. We propose an orbital-dependent relativistic Kohn-Sham density functional theory to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Qiang Zhao , Zhengxue Ren , Pengwei Zhao , Tae-Sun Park

Thermal-equilibrated finite classical lattices are considered as a minimal model of the systems showing an interplay between low energy collective fluctuations and single site degrees of freedom. Standard local field approach, as well as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-16 A. N. Rubtsov

Classical density functional theory (DFT) provides an exact variational framework for determining the equilibrium properties of inhomogeneous fluids. We report a generalization of DFT to treat the non-equilibrium dynamics of classical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-06 Matthias Schmidt , Joseph M. Brader

A fermion ground state energy functional is set up in terms of particle density, relative pair density, and kinetic energy tensor density. It satisfies a minimum principle if constrained by a complete set of compatibility conditions. A…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-17 Bin Liu , Jerome K. Percus