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A density-matrix formalism is developed based on the one-particle density-matrix of a single-determinantal reference-state. The v-representable problem does not appear in the proposed method, nor the need to introduce functionals defined by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 James P. Finley

We study Density Functional Theory models for systems which are translationally invariant in some directions, such as a homogeneous 2-d slab in the 3-d space. We show how the different terms of the energy are modified and we derive reduced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-24 David Gontier , Salma Lahbabi , Abdallah Maichine

Building on the discussion in PRA 93, 042510 (2016), we present a systematic derivation of gradient corrections to the kinetic-energy functional and the one-particle density, in particular for two-dimensional systems. We derive the leading…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-08 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , Yink Loong Len , Hui Khoon Ng , Berthold-Georg Englert

We formulate a density functional theory that describes the phase behavior of hard rods and depleting polymers, as realized in recent experiments on suspensions of \emph{fd} virus and non-adsorbing polymer. The theory predicts the relative…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 Yasheng Yang , Michael F. Hagan

We formulate a self-consistent procedure for calculation of thermodynamic and structural properties of polymer solutions based on the Gaussian equivalent representation method (GER) for functional integrals calculation beyond the mean-field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-31 Yu. A. Budkov , E. A. Nogovitsin , A. L. Kolesnikov

A generalization of the Density Functional Theory is proposed. The theory developed leads to single-particle equations of motion with a quasi-local mean-field operator, which contains a quasi-particle position-dependent effective mass and a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 V. B. Soubbotin , V. I. Tselyaev , X. Vinas

The hybrid particle-field molecular dynamics method is an efficient alternative to standard particle-based coarse grained approaches. In this work, we propose an automated protocol for optimisation of the effective parameters that define…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-02 Morten Ledum , Sigbjørn Løland Bore , Michele Cascella

Forty-five years after the point de d\'epart [1] of density functional theory, its applications in chemistry and the study of electronic structures keep steadily growing. However, the precise form of the energy functional in terms of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Philippe Blanchard , José M. Gracia-Bondía , Joseph C. Várilly

A new method ( PI-DFT ) which combines path integrals and density functional theory is proposed as a pathway to many fields of physics. Within path integral theory it is possible to construct particle densities without explicitly…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Borrmann

The $\vartheta$-MGGA class of density functionals is formally reformulated as Hessian-level meta-generalized gradient approximations (HL-MGGAs). In contrast to standard meta-GGAs that rely on the orbital-dependent kinetic-energy density or…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Pooria Dabbaghi , Juan Maria García Lastra , Piotr de Silva

We apply the computational methodology of phase retrieval to the problem of folding heteropolymers. The ground state fold of the polymer is defined by the intersection of two sets in the configuration space of its constituent monomers: a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-05-29 Veit Elser , Ivan Rankenburg

Dynamic density functionals (DDFs) are popular tools for studying the dynamical evolution of inhomogeneous polymer systems. Here, we present a systematic evaluation of a set of diffusive DDF theories by comparing their predictions with data…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-07 Shuanhu Qi , Friederike Schmid

We compute the energy functional of a three-level Lipkin model via a Legrendre transform and compare exact numerical results with analytical solutions obtained from the random phase approximation (RPA). Except for the region of the phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-12-24 Michael G. Bertolli , Thomas Papenbrock

The Holtsmark distribution has applications in plasma physics, for the electric-microfield distribution involved in spectral line shapes for instance, as well as in astrophysics for the distribution of gravitating bodies. It is one of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Jean-Christophe Pain

The notion of probability density for a random function is not as straightforward as in finite-dimensional cases. While a probability density function generally does not exist for functional data, we show that it is possible to develop the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-01 Aurore Delaigle , Peter Hall

The one dimensional direct polymer in random media model is investigated using a variational approach in the replica space. We demonstrate numerically that the stable point is a maximum and the corresponding statistical properties for the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Pagnani

By using the quantum Ising chain as a test bed and treating the spin polarization along the external transverse field as the "generalized density", we examine the performance of different levels of density functional approximations parallel…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Jiahao Mao , Haifeng Tang , Wenhui Duan , Zheng Liu

The Dynamic Density Functional (DDF) theory and standard Brownian dynamics simulations (BDS) are used to study the drifting effects of a colloidal particle in a polymer solution, both for ideal and interacting polymers. The structure of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Penna , J. Dzubiella , P. Tarazona

We consider a particular class of n-dimensional homogeneous diffusions all of which have an identity diffusion matrix and a drift function that is piecewise constant and scale invariant. Abstract stochastic calculus immediately gives us…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-03-02 Sourav Chatterjee , Soumik Pal