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In the constrained minimization method of Gidopoulos and Lathiotakis (J. Chem. Phys. 136, 224109), the Hartree exchange and correlation Kohn-Sham potential of a finite $N$-electron system is replaced by the electrostatic potential of an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Tom Pitts , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos , Nektarios N. Lathiotakis

We present an accurate local density-functional for electronic-structure calculations within the density functional theory (DFT). The functional is derived by analyzing the structure of the standard perturbative expansion of the correlation…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-28 Mario Benites , Angel Rosado , Efstratios Manousakis

Time-dependent (current) density functional theory for many-electron systems strongly coupled to quantized electromagnetic modes of a microcavity is proposed. It is shown that the electron-photon wave function is a unique functional of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 I. V. Tokatly

We introduce a non-equilibrium density-functional theory of local temperature and associated local energy density that is suited for the study of thermoelectric phenomena. The theory rests on a local temperature field coupled to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-16 F. G. Eich , M. Di Ventra , G. Vignale

Standard density functional approximations often give questionable results for odd-electron radical complexes, with the error typically attributed to self-interaction. In density corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT), certain classes…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Min-Cheol Kim , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

One-electron self-interaction and an incorrect asymptotic behavior of the Kohn-Sham exchange-correlation potential are among the most prominent limitations of many present-day density functionals. However, a one-electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Tobias Schmidt , Eli Kraisler , Leeor Kronik , Stephan Kümmel

While ab initio many-body techniques have been able to successfully describe the properties of light and intermediate mass nuclei based on chiral effective field theory interactions, neutron-rich nuclei still remain out of reach for these…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 R. Navarro Pérez , N. Schunck

Polymer self-consistent field theory techniques are used to derive quantum density functional theory without the use of the theorems of density functional theory. Instead, a free energy is obtained from a partition function that is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Russell B. Thompson

According to the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density-functional theory (DFT), all observable quantities of systems of interacting electrons can be expressed as functionals of the ground-state density. This includes, in principle, the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 Carsten A. Ullrich

In the well-known Kohn-Sham theory in Density Functional Theory, a fictitious non-interacting system is introduced that has the same particle density as a system of $N$ electrons subjected to mutual Coulomb repulsion and an external…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 Andre Laestadius

A recently developed density functional method, within Hohenberg-Kohn-Sham framework, is used for faithful description of atoms, molecules in Cartesian coordinate grid, by using an LCAO-MO ansatz. Classical Coulomb potential is obtained by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 Amlan K. Roy

We propose a method to determine the magnetic exchange interaction and on-site anisotropy tensors of extended Heisenberg spin models from density functional theory including relativistic effects. The method is based on the…

A density functional theory is developed for fermions in one dimension, interacting via a delta-function. Such systems provide a natural testing ground for questions of principle, as the local density approximation should work well for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Magyar , K. Burke

This article is part-I of a review of density-functional theory (DFT) that is the most widely used method for calculating electronic structure of materials. The accuracy and ease of numerical implementation of DFT methods has resulted in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-25 Prashant Singh , Manoj K Harbola

Approximations to the many-fermion free energy density functional that include the Thomas-Fermi (TF) form for the non-interacting part lead to singular densities for singular external potentials (e.g. attractive Coulomb). This limitation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-21 James W. Dufty , S. B. Trickey

Mejia-Rodriguez and Trickey recently proposed a procedure for removing the explicit dependence of meta-GGA exchange-correlation energy functionals $E_{\rm xc}$ on the kinetic energy density $\tau$. We present a simple modification to this…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-22 Pietro Bonfà , Sangeeta Sharma , John Kay Dewhurst

There are several approximations to the exchange-correlation functional in density-functional theory that accurately predict total energy-related properties of many-electron systems, such as binding energies, bond lengths, and crystal…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Eli Kraisler , Tobias Schmidt , Stephan Kümmel , Leeor Kronik

We consider density functionals for exchange and correlation energies in two-dimensional systems. The functionals are constructed by making use of exact constraints for the angular averages of the corresponding exchange and correlation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-25 E. Rasanen , S. Pittalis

We identify peak and valley structures in the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density functional theory that are crucial for time-resolved electron scattering in a model one-dimensional system. These structures are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Yasumitsu Suzuki , Lionel Lacombe , Kazuyuki Watanabe , Neepa T. Maitra

The density functional theory is extended to account for self-bound systems. To this end the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem is formulated for the intrinsic density and a Kohn-Sham like procedure for an $N$--body system is derived using the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nir Barnea