English
Related papers

Related papers: A density functional theory for general hard-core …

200 papers

We present a brief review of the classical density functional theory of atomic and molecular fluids. We focus on the application of the theory to the determination of the solvation properties of arbitrary molecular solutes in arbitrary…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maximilien Levesque , Volodymyr Sergiievskyi , Daniel Borgis

We obtain a fast diffusion equation (FDE) as scaling limit of a sequence of zero-range process with symmetric unit rate. Fast diffusion effect comes from the fact that the diffusion coefficient goes to infinity as the density goes to zero.…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Freddy Hernández , Milton Jara , Fábio J. Valentim

Reduced density matrix functional theory for the case of solids is presented and a new exchange correlation functional based on a fractional power of the density matrix is introduced. We show that compared to other functionals, this…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Sharma , J. K. Dewhurst , N. N. Lathiotakis , E. K. U. Gross

Three-dimensional lattices are fundamental to solid-state physics. The description of a lattice with an atomic basis constitutes the necessary information to predict solid phase properties and evolution. Here, we present a new algorithm for…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-17 David Mrdjenovich , Kristin Persson

The Hubbard model is investigated in the framework of lattice density functional theory (LDFT). The single-particle density matrix $\gamma_{ij}$ with respect the lattice sites is considered as the basic variable of the many-body problem. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Lopez-Sandoval , G. M. Pastor

The density-density correlations of the non-interacting finite temperature electron gas are discussed in detail. Starting from the ideal linear density response function and utilizing general relations from linear response theory, known and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Panagiotis Tolias , Tobias Dornheim , Jan Vorberger

This article reviews the current status of lattice-dynamical calculations in crystals, using density-functional perturbation theory, with emphasis on the plane-wave pseudo-potential method. Several specialized topics are treated, including…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Baroni , S. de Gironcoli , A. Dal Corso , P. Giannozzi

We introduce a generalization (gLDA) of the traditional Local Density Approximation (LDA) within density functional theory. The gLDA uses both the one-electron Seitz radius $\rs$ and a two-electron hole curvature parameter $\eta$ at each…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Pierre-François Loos , Caleb J. Ball , Peter M. W. Gill

We study effects of fluctuations on the mesoscopic length-scale on systems with mesoscopic inhomogeneities. Equations for the correlation function and for the average volume fraction are derived in the self-consistent Gaussian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-25 A. Ciach , W. T. Gozdz

We introduce a spectral density functional theory which can be used to compute energetics and spectra of real strongly--correlated materials using methods, algorithms and computer programs of the electronic structure theory of solids. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Y. Savrasov , G. Kotliar

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 persistent current in a lattice model of a one-dimensional interacting electron system is systematically studied using a complex version of the density matrix renormalization group algorithm and the functional renormalization group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Meden , U. Schollwoeck

The derivative discontinuity of the exchange-correlation (xc) energy at integer particle number is a property of the exact, unknown xc functional of density functional theory (DFT) which is absent in many popular local and semilocal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 Gao Xianlong , A-Hai Chen , I. V. Tokatly , S. Kurth

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

A density functional theory (DFT) framework is presented that links functional derivatives of free-energy functionals to non-linear static density response functions in quantum many-body systems. Within this framework, explicit expressions…

A lattice-gas model with heterogeneity is developed for the description of fluid condensation in finite sized one-dimensional pores of arbitrary shape. An exact solution of the model is presented for zero-temperature that reproduces the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-09 Thomas P. Handford , Francisco J. Perez-Reche , Sergei N. Taraskin

We generalize the hydrodynamic lattice gas model to include arbitrary numbers of particles moving in each lattice direction. For this generalization we derive the equilibrium distribution function and the hydrodynamic equations, including…

We study the linear response to an external electric field of a system of fermions in a lattice at zero temperature. This allows to measure numerically the Euclidean conductivity which turns out to be compatible with an analytical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. L. Alonso , L. A. Fernandez , V. Martin-Mayor

In this note, we show that the Local Molecular Field theory of Weeks et. al. can be re-derived as an extremum problem for an approximate Helmholtz free energy. Using the resulting free energy as a classical, fluid density functional yields…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-15 David M. Rogers

Effective field theories provide a formalism for categorizing low-energy effects of a high-energy fundamental theory in terms of the low-energy degrees of freedom. This process has been well established in mapping the fundamental theory of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-03-17 Michael I. Buchoff