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We propose a nonadiabatic time-dependent spin-density functional theory (TDSDFT) approach for studying the single-electron excited states and the ultrafast response of systems with strong electron correlations. The correlations are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-27 Volodymyr Turkowski , Talat S. Rahman

A diagrammatic expansion for the dynamic exchange-correlation kernel f_xc of time dependent density functional theory is formulated. It is shown that f_xc has no singularities at Kohn-Sham transition energies in every order of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 I. V. Tokatly , R. Stubner , O. Pankratov

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a computationally efficient first-principles approach for calculating optical spectra in insulators and semiconductors, including excitonic effects. We show how exciton wave functions can…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-29 Jared R. Williams , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Carsten A. Ullrich

We present a detailed study of the exact-exchange (EXX) kernel of time-dependent density functional theory with an emphasis on its discontinuity at integer particle numbers. It was recently found that this exact property leads to sharp…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Hellgren , E. K. U. Gross

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

Time-dependent current-density-functional theory (TDCDFT) provides an in principle exact scheme to calculate efficiently response functions for a very broad range of applications. However, the lack of approximations valid for a range of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Matteo Gatti

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) treats dynamical exchange and correlation (xc) via a single-particle potential, Vxc(r,t), defined as a nonlocal functional of the density n(r',t'). The popular adiabatic local-density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. A. Ullrich , I. V. Tokatly

In this work we have calculated excitation energies and photoionization cross sections of Be and Ne in the exact-exchange (EXX) approximation of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). The main focus has been on the frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Maria Hellgren , Ulf von Barth

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is widely used to describe electronic excitations in complex finite systems with large numbers of atoms, such as biomolecules and nanocrystals. The first part of this paper will give a simple…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-15 C. A. Ullrich , V. Turkowski

The charge-density response of extended materials is usually dominated by the collective oscillation of electrons, the plasmons. Beyond this feature, however, intriguing many-body effects are observed. They cannot be described by one of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-20 Martin Panholzer , Matteo Gatti , Lucia Reining

In the description of the interaction between electrons beyond the classical Hartree picture, bare exchange often yields a leading contribution. Here we discuss its effect on optical spectra of solids, comparing three different frameworks:…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Fabien Bruneval , Francesco Sottile , Valerio Olevano , Lucia Reining

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

An approximate solution to the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) response equations for finite systems is developed, yielding corrections to the single-pole approximation. These explain why allowed Kohn-Sham transition…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Appel , E. K. U. Gross , K. Burke

We assess a variant of linear-response range-separated time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT), combining a long-range Hartree-Fock (HF) exchange kernel with a short-range adiabatic exchange-correlation kernel in the local-density…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-05-22 Julien Toulouse , Elisa Rebolini , Tim Gould , John F. Dobson , Prasenjit Seal , János G. Angyán

The exact exchange-correlation (XC) potential in time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is known to develop steps and discontinuities upon change of the particle number in spatially confined regions or isolated subsystems. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Daniel Vieira , K. Capelle , C. A. Ullrich

We address and quantify the role of non-adiabaticity ("memory effects") in the exchange-correlation (xc) functional of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) for describing non-linear dynamics of many-body systems. Time-dependent…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 Johanna I. Fuks , Mehdi Farzanehpour , Ilya V. Tokatly , Heiko Appel , Stefan Kurth , Angel Rubio

Applying the novel exact-exchange (EXX) Kohn-Sham method within time-dependent density-functional theory, we obtained the optical absorption spectrum of bulk silicon in good agreement with experiments including excitonic features. Analysis…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-01 Yong-Hoon Kim , Andreas Goerling

We evaluate the density matrix of an arbitrary quantum mechanical system in terms of the quantities pertinent to the solution of the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) problem. Our theory utilizes the adiabatic connection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Vladimir U. Nazarov

Time-dependent density functional theory is widely used to describe excitations of many-fermion systems. In its many applications, 3D coordinate-space representation is used, and infinite-domain calculations are limited to a finite volume…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-11 B. Schuetrumpf , W. Nazarewicz , P. -G. Reinhard

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) has been applied to the calculation of absorption spectra for two-dimensional atomic layer materials. We reveal that the character of the first bright exciton state of bi-layer hexagonal…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-08 Yasumitsu Suzuki , Kazuyuki Watanabe