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This chapter provides a basic introduction to excited-state extensions of density functional theory (DFT), including time-dependent (TD-)DFT in both its linear-response and its explicitly time-dependent formulations. As applied to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 John M. Herbert

Two of the most widely used electronic structure theory methods, namely Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham density functional theory, both requires the iterative solution of a set of Schr\"odinger-like equations. The speed of convergence of such…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 S. Hazra , U. Patil , S. Sanvito

One of the most powerful strategies to address properties of real many-body systems is to incorporate data obtained for models, for example, to use data of the homogeneous electron gas in order to build the Local Density Approximation for…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Muhammed Hüseyin Güneş , Ayoub Aouina , Vitaly Gorelov , Matteo Gatti , Lucia Reining

Density functional theory is the workhorse of modern electronic structure calculations, with wide-ranging applications in chemistry, physics, materials science, and machine learning. At its heart lies the exchange-correlation functional, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Fabien Tran , Susi Lehtola , Stefano Pittalis , Miguel A. L. Marques

Recently, a new connection between density functional theory and kinetic theory has been proposed. In particular, it was shown that the Kohn-Sham (KS) equations can be reformulated as a macroscopic limit of the steady-state solution of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 M. Mendoza , H. J. Herrmann , S. Succi

A Kohn-Sham (KS) inversion determines a KS potential and orbitals corresponding to a given electron density, a procedure that has applications in developing and evaluating functionals used in density functional theory. Despite the utility…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Seungsoo Nam , Ryan J. McCarty , Hansol Park , Eunji Sim

Density Functional Theory's Kohn-Sham (KS) potential emerges as the minimizing effective potential in an unconstrained variational scheme that does not involve fixing the unknown single-electron density. The physical content behind the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 N. I. Gidopoulos

Two forms of relativistic density functional are derived from Dirac equation. Based on their structure analysis model of split electron is proposed. In this model electric charge and mass of electron behave like two point-like particles. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-29 Kirill Koshelev

We re-adapt a spectral renormalization method, introduced in nonlinear optics, to solve the Kohn-Sham (KS) equations of density functional theory (DFT), with a focus on functionals based on the strictly-correlated electrons (SCE) regime,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-23 Juri Grossi , Ziad H. Musslimani , Michael Seidl , Paola Gori-Giorgi

We report high-resolution Compton profiles (CP's) of Al along the three principal symmetry directions at a photon energy of 59.38 keV, together with corresponding highly accurate theoretical profiles obtained within the local-density…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Ohata , M. Itou , I. Matsumoto , Y. Sakurai , H. Kawata , N. Shiotani , S. Kaprzyk , P. E. Mijnarends , A. Bansil

The known and usable truly nonlocal functionals for exchange-correlation energy of the inhomogeneous electron gas are the ADA (average density approximation) and the WDA (weighted density approximation). ADA, by design, yields the correct…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 I. I. Mazin , D. J. Singh

Density functional theory is currently the most widely applied method in electronic structure theory. The Kohn-Sham method, based on a fictitious system of non-interacting particles, is the work horse of the theory. The particular form of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Hubertus J J van Dam

Excitonic effects in the optical absorption spectra of solids can be described with time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) in the linear-response regime, using a simple class of approximate, long-range corrected (LRC)…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-10 Jared R. Williams , Carsten A. Ullrich

Some theorems on derivatives of the Coulomb density functional with respect to the coupling constant $\lambda$ are given. Consider an electron density $n_{GS}({\bf r})$ given by a ground state. A model Fermion system with the reduced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Koichi Kusakabe , Isao Maruyama

We have developed and implemented a new quantum molecular dynamics approximation that allows fast and accurate simulations of dense plasmas from cold to hot conditions. The method is based on a carefully designed orbital-free implementation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Travis Sjostrom , Jerome Daligault

The flux quanta attachment to the electrons creates composite fermions (CFs). The mass, the size and the density of the CF are inconsistent with real material. The sequence of fractional charges which suggest formation of CF agrees with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Keshav N. Shrivastava

Hohenberg and Kohn have proven that the electronic energy and the one-particle electron density can, in principle, be obtained by minimizing an energy functional with respect to the density. While decades of theoretical work have produced…

Analytic mathematical models for the static spin ($G_-$) and density ($G_+$) local field factors for the uniform electron gas (UEG) as functions of wavevector and density are presented. These models closely fit recent quantum Monte Carlo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-14 Aaron D. Kaplan , Carl A. Kukkonen

Following Hollins et al. [J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 29, 04LT01 (2017)], we invert the electronic ground state densities for various semiconducting and insulating solids calculated using several density functional approximations within the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Visagan Ravindran , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos , Stewart J. Clark

A previously proposed non-canonical coupled-perturbed Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT)/Hartree-Fock (HF) treatment for spin-orbit coupling is here generalized to infinite periodic systems. The scalar-relativistic periodic…