English
Related papers

Related papers: Ensemble Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

200 papers

The density functional theory (DFT) is a remarkably successful theory of electronic structure of matter. At the foundation of this theory lies the Kohn-Sham (KS) equation. In this paper, we describe the long-time behaviour of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Fabio Pusateri , Israel Michael Sigal

Gross-Oliveira-Kohn density-functional theory (GOK-DFT) is an extension of DFT to excited states where the basic variable is the ensemble density, i.e. the weighted sum of ground- and excited-state densities. The ensemble energy (i.e. the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-17 Killian Deur , Laurent Mazouin , Bruno Senjean , Emmanuel Fromager

Modern density functional theory (DFT) calculations employ the Kohn-Sham (KS) system of non-interacting electrons as a reference, with all complications buried in the exchange-correlation energy (Exc). The adiabatic connection formula gives…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-02 Zhenfei Liu , Kieron Burke

The number and properties of the neutrons and photons emitted in nuclear fission are directly related to the excitation energy of the fission fragments when they are formed at scission. Though not observable experimentally because of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-09 Antonio Bjelčić , Nicolas Schunck , Marc Verriere

Density functional theory (DFT) is an essential building block for modern theoretical physics, chemistry, and engineering, especially those concerning electronic properties. Through decades of development, various program packages for…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-21 Yusuke Nomura , Ryosuke Akashi

A rigorous formulation of time-dependent current density functional theory (TDCDFT) on a lattice is presented. The density-to-potential mapping and the ${\cal V}$-representability problems are reduced to a solution of a certain nonlinear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-19 I. V. Tokatly

Time-dependent density functional theory continues to draw a large number of users in a wide range of fields exploring myriad applications involving electronic spectra and dynamics. Although in principle exact, the predictivity of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Lionel Lacombe , Neepa T. Maitra

Energy transfer processes from a high-intensity ultrashort laser pulse to electrons in simple dielectrics, silicon, diamond, and $\alpha$-quartz are theoretically investigated by first-principles calculations based on time-dependent density…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-22 Atsushi Yamada , Kazuhiro Yabana

Density functional theory (DFT) has greatly expanded our ability to affordably compute and understand electronic ground states, by replacing intractable {\em ab initio} calculations by models based on paradigmatic physics from high- and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Tim Gould , Derk P. Kooi , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Stefano Pittalis

We evaluate the density matrix of an arbitrary quantum mechanical system in terms of the quantities pertinent to the solution of the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) problem. Our theory utilizes the adiabatic connection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Vladimir U. Nazarov

Orbital-optimized density functional theory (DFT) has emerged as an alternative to time-dependent (TD) DFT capable of describing difficult excited states with significant electron density redistribution, such as charge-transfer, Rydberg,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Hanh D. M. Pham , Rustam Z. Khaliullin

Localized molecular orbitals are often used for the analysis of chemical bonds, but they can also serve to efficiently and comprehensibly compute linear response properties. While conventional canonical molecular orbitals provide an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Souloke Sen , Bruno Senjean , Lucas Visscher

When running time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations for real-time simulations of non-equilibrium dynamics, the user has a choice of initial Kohn-Sham state, and typically a Slater determinant is used. We explore the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Johanna I. Fuks , Soeren E. B. Nielsen , Michael Ruggenthaler , Neepa T. Maitra

Photo-active systems are characterized by their capacity of absorbing light energy and transforming it. Usually, more than one chromophore is involved in the light absorption and excitation transport processes in complex systems.…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-21 Joaquim Jornet-Somoza , Irina Lebedeva

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

We develop a generalization of the Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) + Hubbard $U$ (DFT+$U$) method to the excited-state regime. This has the form of Hubbard $U$ corrected linear-response time-dependent DFT, or `TDDFT+$U$'.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-24 Okan K. Orhan , David D. O'Regan

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

Linear-response time-dependent Density Functional Theory (LR-TDDFT) is a widely used method for accurately predicting the excited-state properties of physical systems. Previous works have attempted to accelerate LR-TDDFT using heterogeneous…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Qingcai Jiang , Buxin Tu , Xiaoyu Hao , Junshi Chen , Hong An

We show that time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is applicable to coherent optical phonon generation by intense laser pulses in solids. The two mechanisms invoked in phenomenological theories, namely impulsively stimulated…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-06-22 Y. Shinohara , Y. Kawashita , K. Yabana , J. -I. Iwata , T. Obote , G. F. Bertsch

We present an implementation of time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) in the linear response formalism enabling the calculation of low energy optical absorption spectra for large molecules and nanostructures. The method avoids…