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For reliable and efficient inclusion of electron-electron correlation effects in nanosystems we propose a combined density-functional-theory/nonhomogeneous dynamical-mean-field-theory (DFT + DMFT) approach which employs an approximate…

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Hydrodynamic density functional theory (DFT) is applied to analyse dynamic contact angles of droplets in order to assess its predictive capability regarding wetting phenomena at the microscopic scale and to evaluate its feasibility for…

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Multicomponent density functional theory (DFT) enables the consistent quantum mechanical treatment of both electrons and protons. A major challenge has been the design of electron-proton correlation functionals that produce even…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Yang Yang , Kurt R. Brorsen , Tanner Culpitt , Michael V. Pak , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a cornerstone of materials science, yet executing DFT in practice requires coordinating a complex, multi-step workflow. Existing tools and LLM-based solutions automate parts of the steps, but lack support…

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

In order to describe the nonisothermal dynamics of two-phase flows or binary mixtures such as colloidal suspensions consisting of colloidal particles and solvent on a microscopic level, we derive a new extended dynamical density functional…

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Density functional theory(DFT) and Hartree-Fock(HF) calculations are reported for the family of transition metal fluorides $\mbox{ScF}_3$, $\mbox{TiF}_4$, $\mbox{VF}_5$, and $\mbox{CrF}_6$. Both HF and the local-density-aproximation (LDA)…

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Understanding many processes, e.g. fusion experiments, planetary interiors and dwarf stars, depends strongly on microscopic physics modeling of warm dense matter (WDM) and hot dense plasma. This complex state of matter consists of a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Alexander J. White , Lee A. Collins

This chapter presents the development of a density functional theory (DFT)-based method for accurate, reliable treatment of various resonances in atoms. Many of these are known to be notorious for their strong correlation, proximity to more…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Amlan K. Roy

Recent advances in X-ray free-electron laser diagnostics have enabled direct probing of the electronic structure under extreme pressures and temperatures, such as those encountered in stellar interiors and inertial confinement fusion…

Magnetic 2D materials have achieved significantly consideration owing to their encouraging applications. A variation of these 2D materials by occurrence of defects, by the transition-metal doping or adsorption or by the surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-27 Zarah Khan , Saleem Ayaz Khan , Ayesha Zaheer , Syed Rizwan

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

The high critical superconducting temperatures ($T_c$s) of metal hydride phases with clathrate-like hydrogen networks have generated great interest. Herein, we employ the Density Functional Theory-Chemical Pressure (DFT-CP) method to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-25 Katerina P. Hilleke , Eva Zurek

Understanding molecular adsorption on surfaces underpins many problems in chemistry and materials science. Accurately and efficiently describing the adsorption has been a challenging task for first-principles methods as the process can…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-14 Manish Kothakonda , Ruiqi Zhang , Jinliang Ning , James Furness , Abhirup Patra , Qing Zhao , Jianwei Sun

Density-functional theory (DFT) has revolutionized computer simulations in chemistry and material science. A faithful implementation of the theory requires self-consistent calculations. However, this effort involves repeatedly diagonalizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Taehee Ko , Xiantao Li , Chunhao Wang

We propose a new method for accurately calculating electrical transport properties of a lightly-doped thermoelectric material from density functional theory (DFT) calculations, based on experimental data and density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-14 Alireza Faghaninia , Cynthia S. Lo

In traditional finite-temperature Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KSDFT), the well-known orbitals wall restricts the use of first-principles molecular dynamics methods at extremely high temperatures. However, stochastic density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Tao Chen , Qianrui Liu , Yu Liu , Liang Sun , Mohan Chen

Density functional theory (DFT) has been a cornerstone in computational chemistry, physics, and materials science for decades, benefiting from advancements in computational power and theoretical methods. This paper introduces a novel,…

Classical density functional theory (DFT) provides an exact variational framework for determining the equilibrium properties of inhomogeneous fluids. We report a generalization of DFT to treat the non-equilibrium dynamics of classical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-06 Matthias Schmidt , Joseph M. Brader

Functional oxide perovskites are the pillar of cutting-edge technological applications. Density functional theory (DFT) simulations are the theoretical methods of choice to understand and design perovskite materials. However, tests on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-11 Kiel T. Williams , Lucas K. Wagner , Claudio Cazorla , Tim Gould