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Density functional theory has been an essential analysis tool for both theoretical and experimental chemists since accurate hybrid functionals were developed. Here we propose a local hybrid method derived from the optimized effective…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-24 Jaewook Kim , Kwangwoo Hong , Sang-Yeon Hwang , Seongok Ryu , Sunghwan Choi , Woo Youn Kim

We propose a multiconfigurational hybrid density-functional theory which rigorously combines a multiconfiguration self-consistent-field calculation with a density-functional approximation based on a linear decomposition of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-08-20 Kamal Sharkas , Andreas Savin , Hans Jørgen Aa. Jensen , Julien Toulouse

Local density approximation for the exchange energy is made for treatment of excited-states in density-functional theory. It is shown that taking care of the state-dependence of the LDA exchange energy functional leads to accurate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Manoj K. Harbola , Prasanjit Samal

An exchange energy functional is proposed and tested for obtaining a class of excited-state energies using density functional formalism. The functional is the excited-state counterpart of the local-density approximation functional for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Prasanjit Samal , Manoj K. Harbola

Frequency dependent exchange correlation kernels for time-dependent density functional theory can be used to construct approximate exchange-correlation potentials. The resulting potentials are usually not translationally covariant nor do…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Yair Kurzweil , Roi Baer

We investigate the construction of approximated exchange-correlation functionals by interpolating locally along the adiabatic connection between the weak- and the strong-coupling regimes, focussing on the effect of using approximate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Stefan Vuckovic , Lucas O. Wagner , Andrew M. Teale , Paola Gori-Giorgi

We present a detailed study of the exact-exchange (EXX) kernel of time-dependent density functional theory with an emphasis on its discontinuity at integer particle numbers. It was recently found that this exact property leads to sharp…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Hellgren , E. K. U. Gross

A new parameter-free approximation for the exchange-correlation kernel $f_{\rm xc}$ of time-dependent density functional theory is proposed. This kernel is expressed as an algorithm in which the exact Dyson equation for the response as well…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Sharma , J. K. Dewhurst , A. Sanna , E. K. U. Gross

The adiabatic approximation in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is known to give an incorrect pole structure in the quadratic response function, leading to unphysical divergences in excited state-to-state transition…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-01 Davood Dar , Saswata Roy , Neepa T. Maitra

Density-functional theory simplifies many-electron calculations by approximating the exchange and correlation interactions with a one-electron operator that is a functional of the density. Hybrid functionals incorporate some amount of exact…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-03 John Vinson

We have calculated the correlation energy of the homogeneous electron gas (HEG) and the dissociation energy curves of molecules with covalent bonds from a novel implementation of the adiabatic connection fluctuation dissipation (ACFD)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Nicola Colonna , Maria Hellgren , Stefano de Gironcoli

We discuss energy densities in the strong-interaction limit of density functional theory, deriving an exact expression within the definition (gauge) of the electrostatic potential of the exchange-correlation hole. Exact results for small…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-11-14 André Mirtschink , Michael Seidl , Paola Gori-Giorgi

Most present applications of time-dependent density functional theory use adiabatic functionals, i.e. the effective potential at time t is determined solely by the density at the same time. This paper discusses a method that aims to go…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Yair Kurzweil , Roi Baer

We derive an exact representation of the exchange-correlation energy within density functional theory (DFT) which spawns a class of approximations leading to correct long-range asymptotic behavior. In what amounts to be the simplest…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser

In this work we have calculated excitation energies and photoionization cross sections of Be and Ne in the exact-exchange (EXX) approximation of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). The main focus has been on the frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Maria Hellgren , Ulf von Barth

It has been known for some time that the exchange-correlation potential in time-dependent density functional theory is an intrinsically nonlocal functional of the density as soon as one goes beyond the adiabatic approximation. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Qian , A. Constantinescu , G. Vignale

We investigate a number of formal properties of the adiabatic strictly-correlated electrons (SCE) functional, relevant for time-dependent potentials and for kernels in linear response time-dependent density functional theory. Among the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-24 Giovanna Lani , Simone di Marino , Augusto Gerolin , Robert van Leeuwen , Paola Gori-Giorgi

An exchange-correlation energy functional $ E_{\mathrm xc} $ and the resultant exchange-correlation potential $ v_{\mathrm xc}({\bf r}) $ in density-functional theory are proposed using orbital-dependent coupling-constant-averaged pair…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroshi Yasuhara , Masahiko Higuchi , Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

Excitation energies of light-emitting organic conjugated polymers have been investigated with time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) within the adiabatic approximation for the dynamical exchange-correlation potential. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-06 Jianmin Tao , Sergei Tretiak , Jian-Xin Zhu

We propose global hybrid approximations of the exchange-correlation (XC) energy functional which reproduce well the modified fourth-order gradient expansion of the exchange energy in the semiclassical limit of many-electron neutral atoms…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 E. Fabiano , L. A. Constantin , P. Cortona , F. Della Sala