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Accurate description of deformed atomic nuclei by the orbital-free density functional theory has been a longstanding textbook challenge, due to the difficulty in accounting for the intricate quantum shell effects that are present in such…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 X. H. Wu , Z. X. Ren , P. W. Zhao

Orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) has been used when studying atoms, molecules and solids. In nuclear physics, there has been basically no application of OF-DFT so far, as the Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been widely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-03 Gianluca Colo' , Kouichi Hagino

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) runs at low computational cost that scales linearly with the number of simulated atoms, making it suitable for large-scale material simulations. It is generally considered that OF-DFT strictly…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-05 Qiang Xu , Cheng Ma , Wenhui Mi , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

The locality hypothesis in density-functional theory (DFT) states that the functional derivative of the Hohenberg-Kohn universal functional can be expressed as a local multiplicative potential function, and this is the basis of DFT and of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ingvar Lindgren , Sten Salomonson

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

The advent of the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem in 1964, its extension to finite-T, Kohn-Sham theory, and relativistic extensions provide the well-established formalism of density-functional theory (DFT). This theory enables the calculation of all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-18 M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

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 survey approaches to nonrelativistic density functional theory (DFT) for nuclei using progress toward ab initio DFT for Coulomb systems as a guide. Ab initio DFT starts with a microscopic Hamiltonian and is naturally formulated using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 J. E. Drut , R. J. Furnstahl , L. Platter

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

In the density functional (DF) theory of Kohn and Sham, the kinetic energy of the ground state of a system of noninteracting electrons in a general external field is calculated using a set of orbitals. Orbital free methods attempt to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeng-Da Chai , John D Weeks

We propose a novel scheme to bring reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT) into the realm of density functional theory (DFT) that preserves the accurate density functional description at equilibrium, while incorporating accurately…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 Nektarios N. Lathiotakis , Nicole Helbig , Angel Rubio , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos

Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been…

It is found that, in closed-$l$-shell atoms, the exact local exchange potential $v_{\text{x}}(\bf r)$ of the density functional theory (DFT) is very well represented, within the region of every atomic shell, by each of the suitably shifted…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Cinal

We present a $\Delta$-machine learning model for obtaining Kohn-Sham accuracy from orbital-free density functional theory (DFT) calculations. In particular, we employ a machine learned force field (MLFF) scheme based on the kernel method to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Shashikant Kumar , Xin Jing , John E. Pask , Andrew J. Medford , Phanish Suryanarayana

Nuclear Density Functional Theory (DFT) plays a prominent role in the understanding of nuclear structure, being the approach with the widest range of applications. Hohenberg and Kohn theorems warrant the existence of a nuclear Energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-03 G. Accorto , P. Brandolini , F. Marino , A. Porro , A. Scalesi , G. Colò , X. Roca-Maza , E. Vigezzi

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is one of the most widely used methods for "ab initio" calculations of the structure of atoms, molecules, crystals, surfaces, and their interactions. Unfortunately, the customary introduction to DFT is often…

Physics Education · Physics 2010-12-07 Nathan Argaman , Guy Makov

Spherical density functional theory (DFT) is a reformulation of the classic theorems of DFT, in which the role of the total density of a many-electron system is replaced by a set of sphericalized densities, constructed by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Sol Samuels , Chance M. Baxter , Susan R. Atlas

To explore the applicability of orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) in nuclear physics, we perform a systematic benchmark of 36 one-point kinetic energy density functionals, which are originally developed for electron systems in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 Tian Shuai Shang , Jian Li , Haozhao Liang , Xinhui Wu , Cheng Ma , Wenhui Mi , Xuecheng Shao , Yanchao Wang

The development of systematic effective field theories (EFTs) for nuclear forces and advances in solving the nuclear many-body problem have greatly improved our understanding of dense nuclear matter and the structure of finite nuclei. For…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 Brendan T. Reed , Matthias Heinz , Pierre Arthuis , Achim Schwenk , Ingo Tews

The accurate description of open-shell molecules, in particular of transition metal complexes and clusters, is still an important challenge for quantum chemistry. While density-functional theory (DFT) is widely applied in this area, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-10-26 Christoph R. Jacob , Markus Reiher
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