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Starting from Newton's equations of motion, we derive a dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) applicable to atomic liquids. The theory has the feature that it requires as input the Helmholtz free energy functional from equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Archer

Real-time time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) can in principle access the whole absorption spectrum of a many-electron system exposed to a narrow pulse. However, this requires an accurate and efficient propagator for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Linfeng Ye , Hao Wang , Yong Zhang , Wenjian Liu

Density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful theoretical tool widely used in such diverse fields as computational condensed matter physics, atomic physics, and quantum chemistry. DFT establishes that a system of $N$ interacting electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Giovanni Manfredi

We present dynamic density functional theory (DDFT) incorporating general inhomogeneous, incompressible, time dependent background flows and inertia, describing externally driven passive colloidal systems out of equilibrium. We start by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-11 Rory D. Mills-Williams , Benjamin D. Goddard , Andrew J. Archer

We revisit recent developments in the theoretical foundations of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). TDDFT is then applied to the calculation of total cross sections for ionization processes in the antiproton-Helium collision…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-03-28 N. Henkel , M. Keim , H. J. Lüdde , T. Kirchner

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

We introduced a new electron density n({\epsilon}) by projecting the spatial electron density n(r) onto the energy coordinate {\epsilon} defined with the external potential \upsion (r) of interest. Then, a density functional theory (DFT)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 Hideaki Takahashi

A density-functional theory is established for inhomogeneous superfluids at finite temperature, subject to time-dependent external fields in isothermal conditions. After outlining parallelisms between a neutral superfluid and a charged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. L. Chiofalo , M. P. Tosi

We develop a method in which the electronic densities of small fragments determined by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) are embedded using stochastic DFT to form the exact density of the full system. The new method preserves the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer , Eran Rabani

Basic issues of the time-dependent density-functional theory are discussed, especially on the real-time calculation of the linear response functions. Some remarks on the derivation of the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations and on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-06 Takashi Nakatsukasa

A practical computational scheme based on time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and ultrasoft pseudopotential (USPP) is developed to study electron dynamics in real time. A modified Crank-Nicolson time-stepping algorithm is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaofeng Qian , Ju Li , Xi Lin , Sidney Yip

Dynamic density functional theory (DDFT) is a promising approach for predicting the structural evolution of a drying suspension containing one or more types of colloidal particles. The assumed free-energy functional is a key component of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-23 Mayukh Kundu , Michael P. Howard

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

The primary computational challenge when simulating nonadiabatic ab initio molecular dynamics is the unfavorable compute costs of electronic structure calculations with molecular size. Simple electronic structure theories, like…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Justin J. Talbot , Martin Head-Gordon , Stephen J. Cotton

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of the density functional theory is extended by modifying the Levy constrained-search formulation. The new theorem allows us to choose arbitrary physical quantities as the basic variables which determine the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Higuchi , K. Higuchi

In recent years, a number of dynamical density functional theories (DDFTs) have been developed for describing the dynamics of the one-body density of both colloidal and atomic fluids. In the colloidal case, the particles are assumed to have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-08-10 A. J. Archer

Real-time time-dependent density functional theory (rt-TDDFT) with hybrid exchange-correlation functional has wide-ranging applications in chemistry and material science simulations. However, it can be thousands of times more expensive than…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Weile Jia , Lin-Wang Wang , Lin Lin

A single-term density functional model for nondynamic and strong correlation is presented, based on single-determinant Kohn-Sham density functional theory. It is derived from modeling the adiabatic connection and contains only two nonlinear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-12-21 Jing Kong , Emil Proynov

Theoretical studies of photochemical processes require a description of the energy surfaces of excited electronic states, especially near degeneracies, where transitions between states are most likely. Systems relevant to photochemical…

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