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The exchange-correlation potentials stemming from the local-density approximation and several generalized-gradient approximations are known to have incorrect asymptotic decay. This failure is independent of the dimensionality, but so far…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-09-01 S. Pittalis , E. Rasanen

We use variational quantum Monte Carlo to calculate the density-functional exchange-correlation hole n_{xc}, the exchange-correlation energy density e_{xc}, and the total exchange-correlation energy E_{xc}, of several electron gas systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Maziar Nekovee , W. M. C. Foulkes , R. J. Needs

We derive an approximate local density functional for the exchange-correlation energy to be used in density-functional calculations of two-dimensional systems. In the derivation we employ the Colle-Salvetti wave function within the scheme…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-12 S. Sakiroglu , E. Rasanen

Exchange-correlation potentials vxc and energy densities exc are derived for integer and fractional electron counts using an orbital-averaged Kohn-Sham inversion procedure. The reference densities for inversion come from full configuration…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Vaibhav Khanna , Bikash Kanungo , Jeffrey Hatch , Joshua Kammeraad , Paul M. Zimmerman

We derive a generalized gradient approximation to the exchange energy to be used in density functional theory calculations of two-dimensional systems. This class of approximations has a long and successful history, but it has not yet been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-01-07 S. Pittalis , E. Rasanen , J. G. Vilhena , M. A. L. Marques

Most approximate exchange-correlation functionals used within density functional theory are constructed as the sum of two distinct contributions for exchange and correlation. Separating the exchange component from the entire functional is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Claudia Filippi , C. J. Umrigar , Xavier Gonze

The frequency-dependent exchange-correlation potential, which appears in the usual Kohn-Sham formulation of a time-dependent linear response problem, is a strongly nonlocal functional of the density, so that a consistent local density…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Vignale , Walter Kohn

Implicit and explicit density functionals for the exchange energy in finite two-dimensional systems are developed following the approach of Becke and Roussel [Phys. Rev. A 39, 3761 (1989)]. Excellent agreement for the exchange-hole…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-05-08 S. Pittalis , E. Rasanen , N. Helbig , E. K. U. Gross

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

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

We report simple expressions for the exchange coupling in double quantum dots calculated within the Heitler-London and the Hund-Mulliken approximations using four different confining potentials. At large interdot distances and at large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-18 Jesper G. Pedersen , Christian Flindt , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Niels Asger Mortensen

In this work we calculate the four-point correlation function of vector quark currents of QCD via holographic QCD model. Computing the correlator we take into account the exchange of vector and axial vector bosons and dilaton in the bulk.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Alexander Krikun

The effect of the exchange-correlation potential in ab initio electron transport calculations is investigated by constructing optimized effective potentials (OEP) using different energy functionals or the electron density from second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-23 San-Huang Ke , Harold U. Baranger , Weitao Yang

Popular density functionals for the exchange-correlation energy typically fail to reproduce the degeneracy of different ground states of open-shell atoms. As a remedy, functionals which explicitly depend on the current density have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-07-31 S. Pittalis , S. Kurth , S. Sharma , E. K. U. Gross

We study a two dimensional electron system in a parabolic confining potential and constant magnetic field for the case of harmonic electron-electron interaction. We present analytic results for the electrochemical potential versus magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Antimo Angelucci , Arturo Tagliacozzo

Electronic structures are fully determined by the exchange-correlation (XC) potential. In this work, we develop a new method to construct reliable XC potentials by properly mixing the exact exchange and the local density approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Chen Huang

The variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo methods are used to calculate the correlation energy of the paramagnetic three-dimensional homogeneous electron gas at intermediate to high density. Ground state energies in finite cells are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-29 Sam Azadi , N. D. Drummond , S. M. Vinko

Motivated by the considerable importance of material properties in modern condensed matter physics research, and using techniques of the $N_{e}$ -electron systems in terms of the electron density $n_{\sigma e}\left( r\right) $ needed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-19 A. Belhaj , S. E. Ennadifi

Electronic structure calculations are routinely carried out within the framework of density-functional theory, often with great success. For electrons in reduced dimensions, however, there is still a need for better approximations to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-22 S. Pittalis , E. Rasanen , E. K. U. Gross

Quantum dots are artificial atoms used for a multitude of purposes. Charge defects are commonly present and can significantly perturb the designed energy spectrum and purpose of the dots. Voltage controlled exchange energy in silicon double…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 Rajib Rahman , Erik Nielsen , Richard P. Muller , Malcolm S. Carroll