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A functional $E_{xc}[\rho(\r,\epsilon)]$ is presented, in which the exchange and correlation energy of an electron gas depends on the local density of occupied states. A simple local parametrization scheme is proposed, entirely from first…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Jose M. Soler

In the current density functional theory of linear and nonlinear time-dependent phenomena, the treatment of exchange and correlation beyond the level of the adiabatic local density approximation is shown to lead to the appearance of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Vignale , C. A. Ullrich , S. Conti

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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Christof Holzer , Yannick J. Franzke

Ensemble density functional theory (eDFT) is an exact time-independent alternative to time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) for the calculation of excitation energies. Despite its formal simplicity and advantages in contrast to TD-DFT (multiple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-19 Killian Deur , Laurent Mazouin , Emmanuel Fromager

We consider density functionals for exchange and correlation energies in two-dimensional systems. The functionals are constructed by making use of exact constraints for the angular averages of the corresponding exchange and correlation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-25 E. Rasanen , S. Pittalis

We study non-linear adiabatic connection paths in density-functional theory using modified electron-electron interactions that perform a long-range/short-range separation of the Coulomb interaction. These adiabatic connections allows to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Julien Toulouse , Francois Colonna , Andreas Savin

We formulate a rigorous method for calculating a nonadiabatic (frequency-dependent) exchange-correlation (XC) kernel required for correct description of both equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties of strongly correlated systems within…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-13 Volodymyr Turkowski , Talat S. Rahman

While the exact total energy of a separated open system varies linearly as a function of average electron number between adjacent integers, the energy predicted by semi-local density functional approximations curves upward and the…

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

It was recently shown [Y. Suzuki, L. Lacombe, K. Watanabe, and N. T. Maitra, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263401 (2017)] that peak and valley structures in the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density functional theory are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Lionel Lacombe , Yasumitsu Suzuki , Kazuyuki Watanabe , Neepa T. Maitra

Although useful to extract excitation energies of states of double-excitation character in time-dependent density functional theory that are missing in the adiabatic approximation, the frequency-dependent kernel derived earlier [J. Chem.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Davood B. Dar , Neepa T. Maitra

We show that the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density-functional theory displays dynamical step structures that have a spatially non-local and time non-local dependence on the density. Using one-dimensional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Peter Elliott , Johanna I. Fuks , Angel Rubio , Neepa T. Maitra

Many recent applications of time-dependent density functional theory begin in an initially excited state, and propagate it using an adiabatic approximation for the exchange-correlation potential. This however inserts the excited-state…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-04-02 Peter Elliott , Neepa T. Maitra

We present a practical and accurate density functional for the exchange-correlation energy of electrons in two dimensions. The exchange part is based on a recent two-dimensional generalized-gradient approximation derived by considering the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-30 E. Rasanen , S. Pittalis , J. G. Vilhena , M. A. L. Marques

We derive a local approximation for the correlation energy in two-dimensional electronic systems. In the derivation we follow the scheme originally developed by Colle and Salvetti for three dimensions, and consider a Gaussian approximation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-21 S. Pittalis , E. Rasanen , M. Marques

It is shown that the DFT exchange and correlation functionals satisfy an expression that couples exchange and correlation functionals and functional derivatives evaluated at three different densities and for two particle numbers. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Daniel P. Joubert

Modern density functional theory (DFT) calculations employ the Kohn-Sham (KS) system of non-interacting electrons as a reference, with all complications buried in the exchange-correlation energy (Exc). The adiabatic connection formula gives…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-02 Zhenfei Liu , Kieron Burke

We propose approximations which go beyond the local density approximation for the short-range exchange and correlation density functionals appearing in a multi-determinantal extension of the Kohn-Sham scheme. A first approximation consists…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Toulouse , Francois Colonna , Andreas Savin

Exact density functionals for the exchange and correlation energies are approximated in practical calculations for the ground-state electronic structure of a many-electron system. An important exact constraint for the construction of…

The local density approximation (LDA) constructed through quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the homogeneous electron gas (HEG) is the most common approximation to the exchange-correlation functional in density functional theory. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-15 Mike Entwistle , Matthew Hodgson , Jack Wetherell , Bradley Longstaff , James Ramsden , Rex Godby