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We calculate the short-range exchange-correlation energy of the uniform electron gas with two modified electron-electron interactions. While the short-range exchange functionals are calculated analytically, Coupled-Cluster and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-16 Julien Toulouse , Andreas Savin , Heinz-Jürgen Flad

Density functional theory at finite temperatures often relies on the zero-temperature approximation, which uses a ground-state exchange-correlation functional with thermalized densities. This approach, however, neglects the explicit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-26 Brianna Aguilar-Solis , Brittany P. Harding , Aurora Pribram-Jones

Methods for estimating the correlation energy of molecules and other electronic systems are discussed based on the assumption that the correlation energy can be partitioned between atomic regions. In one method, the electron density is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-16 Jerry L. Whitten

The correlation energy of the homogeneous three-dimensional interacting electron gas is calculated using the variational and fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo methods, with trial functions that include backflow and three-body correlations.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yongkyung Kwon , D. M. Ceperley , Richard M. Martin

Equilibrium quantum statistical methods are used to study the pair correlation function for a magnetized free-electron gas in the presence of a hard wall that is parallel to the field. With the help of a path-integral technique and a Green…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. M. Kettenis , L. G. Suttorp

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

A quantum field-theoretical model, which describes spatially non-homogeneous repulsive Bose gas in an external harmonic potential is considered. Two-point thermal correlation functions of the Bose gas are calculated in the framework of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Malyshev , N. M. Bogoliubov

An exchange correlation energy functional involving fractional power of the one-body reduced density matrix [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 78}, 201103 (2008)] is applied to finite systems and to the homogeneous electron gas. The performance of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 N. N. Lathiotakis , S. Sharma , J. K. Dewhurst , F. Eich , M. A. L. Marques , E. K. U. Gross

The self-consistent random phase approximation (RPA) based on a correlated realistic nucleon-nucleon interaction is used to evaluate correlation energies in closed-shell nuclei beyond the Hartree-Fock level. The relevance of contributions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Barbieri , N. Paar , R. Roth , P. Papakonstantinou

We develop the first order gradient correction to the exchange-correlation free energy of the homogeneous electron gas for use in finite temperature density functional calculations. Based on this we propose and implement a simple…

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

The subject of this study is the exchange-correlation-energy functional of reduced density matrix functional theory. Approximations of this functional are tested by applying them to the homogeneous electron gas. We find that two…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-01-14 N. N. Lathiotakis , N. Helbig , E. K. U. Gross

A quantum field-theoretical model which describes spatially non-homogeneous one-dimensional non-relativistic repulsive Bose gas in an external harmonic potential is considered. We calculate the two-point thermal correlation function of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-19 N. M. Bogoliubov , C. Malyshev

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

The dynamical, long-wavelength longitudinal and transverse exchange-correlation potentials for a homogeneous electron gas are evaluated in a microscopic model based on an approximate decoupling of the equation of motion for the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Conti , R. Nifosi' , M P Tosi

We consider electronic exchange and correlation effects in density-functional calculations of two-dimensional systems. Starting from wave function calculations of total energies and electron densities of inhomogeneous model systems, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-30 Ilja Makkonen , Mikko M. Ervasti , Ville Kauppila , Ari Harju

A widely used approximation to the exchange-correlation functional in density functional theory is the local density approximation (LDA), typically derived from the properties of the homogeneous electron gas (HEG). We previously introduced…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-27 Mike Entwistle , Michele Casula , Rex Godby

We present the results of a variational Monte Carlo calculation of the exchange-correlation energy for a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas in a perpendicular magnetic field. These energies are a necessary input to the recently…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Rodney Price , S. Das Sarma

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

A recently developed quasi two-dimensional exact-exchange formalism within the framework of Density Functional Theory has been applied to a strongly inhomogeneous interacting electron gas, and the results were compared with state-of-the-art…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Rigamonti , F. A. Reboredo , C. R. Proetto

The correlation energy of the homogeneous electron gas is evaluated by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) beyond the Tamm-Dancoff approximation for the electronic polarisation propagator. The BSE is expected to improve upon the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-15 Emanuele Maggio , Georg Kresse