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We investigate the time an electronic excitation travels in a supermolecular setup using a measurement process in an open quantum-system framework. The approach is based on the stochastic Schr\"odinger equation and uses a Hamiltonian from…

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We formulate a time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) in terms of the density matrix to study ultrafast phenomena in semiconductor structures. A system of equations for the density matrix components, which is equivalent to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Turkowski , C. A. Ullrich

An approximate solution to the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) response equations for finite systems is developed, yielding corrections to the single-pole approximation. These explain why allowed Kohn-Sham transition…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Appel , E. K. U. Gross , K. Burke

An approximate method based on adiabatic time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presented, that allows for the description of the electron dynamics in nanoscale junctions under arbitrary time dependent external potentials. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Y. Wang , C. -Y. Yam , G. H. Chen , Th. Frauenheim , T. A. Niehaus

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is a widely used method to investigate electron dynamics under external time-dependent perturbations such as laser fields. In this work, we present a machine learning approach to accelerate…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-02 Karan Shah , Attila Cangi

A stochastic approach to time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is developed for computing the absorption cross section and the random phase approximation (RPA) correlation energy. The core idea of the approach involves…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 Yi Gao , Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer , Eran Rabani

Linear-response time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) can describe excitonic features in the optical spectra of insulators and semiconductors, using exchange-correlation (xc) kernels behaving as $-1/k^{2}$ to leading order. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-18 Jiuyu Sun , Cheng-Wei Lee , Alina Kononov , André Schleife , Carsten A. Ullrich

We present a range-separated linear-response time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) which combines a density-functional approximation for the short-range response kernel and a frequency-dependent second-order Bethe-Salpeter…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Elisa Rebolini , Julien Toulouse

The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is the leading computationally feasible theory to treat excitations by strong electromagnetic fields. Here the theory is applied to coherent optical phonon generation produced by intense…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Y. Shinohara , S. A. Sato , K. Yabana , J. -I. Iwata , T. Otobe , G. F. Bertsch

This paper develops a quantitatively accurate first-principles description for the frequency and the linewidth of collective electronic excitations in inhomogeneous weakly disordered systems. A finite linewidth in general has intrinsic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. A. Ullrich , G. Vignale

Recent progress has been made in capturing spectral features of electronic states of double-excitation character in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) through a frequency-dependent kernel. While it might appear that this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Dhyey Ray , Anna Baranova , Davood B. Dar , 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

We present a new methodology for the linear-response time-dependent density functional theory (LR-TDDFT) calculation of the dynamic density response function of warm dense matter in an adiabatic approximation that can be used with any…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Zhandos A. Moldabekov , Michele Pavanello , Maximilian P. Boehme , Jan Vorberger , Tobias Dornheim

Linear-response time-dependent (TD) density-functional theory (DFT) has been implemented in the pseudopotential wavelet-based electronic structure program BigDFT and results are compared against those obtained with the all-electron…

A real-space representation of the current response of many-electron systems with possible applications to x-ray nonlinear spectroscopy and magnetic susceptibilities is developed. Closed expressions for the linear, quadratic and third-order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Oleg Berman , Shaul Mukamel

The formalism of density functional theory (DFT) can be easily extended to the time dependent case (TDDFT). However, while in the static case the theory is well established and is expected to be, at least in principle, an exact approach for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandro Stringari

Excitation energies of light-emitting organic conjugated polymers have been investigated with time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) within the adiabatic approximation for the dynamical exchange-correlation potential. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-06 Jianmin Tao , Sergei Tretiak , Jian-Xin Zhu

This comprehensive study delves into the intricate interplay between protons and organic polymers, offering insights into proton therapy in cancer treatment. Focusing on the influence of the spatial electron density distribution on stopping…

We propose a nonadiabatic time-dependent spin-density functional theory (TDSDFT) approach for studying the single-electron excited states and the ultrafast response of systems with strong electron correlations. The correlations are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-27 Volodymyr Turkowski , Talat S. Rahman

In this comparative study we benchmark a recently developed non-adiabatic exchange-correlation potential within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) (Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett.\ {\bf 120}, 157701 (2018)) by (a) validating the transient…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-20 Niklas Dittmann , Nicole Helbig , Dante M. Kennes