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We use simulation-based supervised machine learning and classical density functional theory to investigate bulk and interfacial phenomena associated with phase coexistence in binary mixtures. For a prototypical symmetrical Lennard-Jones…

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In classical density functional theory (DFT) the part of the Helmholtz free energy functional arising from attractive inter-particle interactions is often treated in a mean-field or van der Waals approximation. On the face of it, this is a…

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The rational function approximation method, density functional theory, and NVT Monte Carlo simulation are used to obtain the density profiles of multicomponent hard-sphere mixtures near a planar hard wall. Binary mixtures with a size ratio…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-06 Alexandr Malijevsky , Santos B. Yuste , Andres Santos , Mariano Lopez de Haro

The marriage of density functional theory (DFT) and deep learning methods has the potential to revolutionize modern computational materials science. Here we develop a deep neural network approach to represent DFT Hamiltonian (DeepH) of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-02 He Li , Zun Wang , Nianlong Zou , Meng Ye , Runzhang Xu , Xiaoxun Gong , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

We propose a density functional to find the ground state energy and density of interacting particles, where both the density and the pair density can adjust in the presence of an inhomogeneous potential. As a proof of principle we formulate…

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We study both static and transport properties of model quantum dots, employing density functional theory as well as (numerically) exact methods. For the lattice model under consideration the accuracy of the local-density approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-11 S. Schenk , P. Schwab , M. Dzierzawa , U. Eckern

Density-functional theory is a formally exact description of a many-body quantum system in terms of its density; in practice, however, approximations to the universal density functional are required. In this work, a model based on deep…

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Density functional theory has become the workhorse of quantum physics, chemistry, and materials science. Within these fields, a broad range of applications needs to be covered. These applications range from solids to molecular systems, from…

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By combining methods of kinetic and density functional theory, we present a description of molecular fluids which accounts for their microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties as well as for the hydrodynamic behavior. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

A geometry-based density functional theory is presented for mixtures of hard spheres, hard needles and hard platelets; both the needles and the platelets are taken to be of vanishing thickness. Geometrical weight functions that are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Ansgar Esztermann , Hendrik Reich , Matthias Schmidt

We present a theory for the construction of renormalized kinetic equations to describe the dynamics of classical systems of particles in or out of equilibrium. A closed, self-consistent set of evolution equations is derived for the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-06-09 Jerome Daligault

The rich and diverse dynamics of particle-based systems ultimately originates from the coupling of their degrees of freedom via internal interactions. To arrive at a tractable approximation of such many-body problems, coarse-graining is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-31 Matthias Schmidt

The Barker-Henderson perturbation theory is a bedrock of liquid-state physics, providing quantitative predictions for the bulk thermodynamic properties of realistic model systems. However, this successful method has not been exploited for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-03 S. M. Tschopp , H. D. Vuijk , A. Sharma , J. M. Brader

Classical density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful framework to study inhomogeneous fluids. Its standard form is based on the knowledge of a generating free energy functional. If this is known exactly, then the results obtained by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-02 S. M. Tschopp , H. Vahid , A. Sharma , J. M. Brader

We present numerical studies of complete, first-order and critical wedge filling transitions, at a right angle corner, using a microscopic fundamental measure density functional theory. We consider systems with short-ranged, cut-off…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Alexandr Malijevsky , Andrew O Parry

A renormalization group flow of Hamiltonians for two-dimensional classical partition functions is constructed using tensor networks. Similar to tensor network renormalization ([G. Evenbly and G. Vidal, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 180405 (2015)],…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-29 Matthias Bal , Michaël Mariën , Jutho Haegeman , Frank Verstraete

The formally exact framework of equilibrium Density Functional Theory (DFT) is capable of simultaneously and consistently describing thermodynamic and structural properties of interacting many-body systems in arbitrary external potentials.…

We derive a dynamic Ornstein-Zernike equation for classical fluids undergoing overdamped Brownian motion and driven out of equilibrium. Inhomogeneous two-time correlation functions are obtained from functional differentiation of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-31 Joseph M. Brader , Matthias Schmidt

The structural properties of fluids whose molecules interact via potentials with a hard core plus two piece-wise constant sections of different widths and heights are presented. These follow from the more general development previously…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-27 Andrés Santos , Santos B. Yuste , Mariano López de Haro , Mariana Bárcenas , Pedro Orea

Density functional theory is the standard theory for computing the electronic structure of materials, which is based on a functional that maps the electron density to the energy. However, a rigorous form of the functional is not known and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-02 Ryo Nagai , Ryosuke Akashi , Osamu Sugino