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Mixed-reference spin-flip time-dependent density functional theory (MRSF-TDDFT) has recently emerged as an attractive electronic-structure method for studying photochemical processes, given that it bridges the computational efficiency of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Jiří Janoš , Andrew J. Orr-Ewing , Basile F. E. Curchod , Petr Slavíček

Linear-response TDDFT is widely used for excited states but suffers from spin contamination in spin-conserving and spin-flip channels. Spin-adapted RPA was developed using tensor equation-of-motion and applying the Wigner-Eckart theorem…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Xiaoyu Zhang , Tai Wang

Near-degenerate electronic structures remain a major challenge for conventional single-reference density functional theory (DFT). To address this problem, we propose time-dependent $\Delta$SCF (TD$\Delta$SCF), a novel linear-response scheme…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Shuto Shibasaki , Fumiya Mohri , Takashi Tsuchimochi

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-09 Dirk Hofmann , Heiko Appel , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Stephan Kümmel

The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) has been broadly used to investigate the excited-state properties of various molecular systems. However, the current TDDFT heavily relies on outcomes from the corresponding ground-state…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Shu-Hao Yeh , Aaditya Manjanath , Yuan-Chung Cheng , Jeng-Da Chai , Chao-Ping Hsu

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is an extension of ground-state density-functional theory which allows the treatment of electronic excited states and a wide range of time-dependent phenomena in the linear and nonlinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-10 Carsten A. Ullrich

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a formally exact approach to the time-dependent electronic many-body problem which is widely used for calculating excitation energies. We present a survey of the fundamental framework,…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-29 Carsten A. Ullrich , Zeng-hui Yang

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is a theory that describes the time evolution of quantum mechanical many-electron systems under the influence of external time-dependent electric and magnetic fields. INQ is a specially…

A simple approximate solution to the linear response equations of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is given. This extends the single-pole approximation (SPA) to two strongly-coupled poles. The analysis provides both an…

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

Reduced-density-matrix-functional theory is applied to open-shell systems. We introduce a spin-restricted formulation by appropriately expressing approximate correlation-energy functionals in terms of spin-dependent occupation numbers and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 N. N. Lathiotakis , N. Helbig , E. K. U. Gross

X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) constitutes an essential technique for diagnosing material properties under extreme conditions, such as high pressures and intense laser heating. Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is one of the…

Real-time time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is widely considered to be the most accurate available method for calculating electronic stopping powers from first principles, but there have been relatively few assessments of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Alina Kononov , Alexander J. White , Katarina A. Nichols , S. X. Hu , Andrew D. Baczewski

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

To investigate inelastic electron scattering, which is ubiquitous in various fields of study, we carry out ab initio study of the real-time dynamics of a one-dimensional electron wave packet scattered by a hydrogen atom using different…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Yeonghun Lee , Xiaolong Yao , Massimo V. Fischetti , Kyeongjae Cho

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

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presently enjoying enormous popularity in quantum chemistry, as a useful tool for extracting electronic excited state energies. This article explains what TDDFT is, and how it differs from…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Elliott , Kieron Burke , Filipp Furche

We show that a lattice formulation of density-functional theory (DFT), guided by renormalization-group concepts, can be used to obtain numerical predictions of energy gaps, spin-density profiles, critical exponents, sound velocities,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Francisco C. Alcaraz , Klaus Capelle

Density functional theory (DFT) provides a theoretical framework for efficient and fairly accurate calculations of the electronic structure of molecules and crystals. The main features of density functional theory are described and DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 Hauke Paulsen , Alfred Xaver Trautwein

Spectroscopies that probe electronic excitations from core levels into unoccupied orbitals, such as X-ray absorption spectroscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy, are widely used to gain insight into the electronic and chemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-12 Marcus Annegarn , Juhan Matthias Kahk , Johannes Lischner

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…