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An approximate method based on adiabatic time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presented, that allows for the description of the electron dynamics in nanoscale junctions under arbitrary time dependent external potentials. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Y. Wang , C. -Y. Yam , G. H. Chen , Th. Frauenheim , T. A. Niehaus

We investigate the time an electronic excitation travels in a supermolecular setup using a measurement process in an open quantum-system framework. The approach is based on the stochastic Schr\"odinger equation and uses a Hamiltonian from…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-09 Dirk Hofmann , Heiko Appel , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Stephan Kümmel

We revisit recent developments in the theoretical foundations of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). TDDFT is then applied to the calculation of total cross sections for ionization processes in the antiproton-Helium collision…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-03-28 N. Henkel , M. Keim , H. J. Lüdde , T. Kirchner

Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) has recently been extended to describe many-body open quantum systems (OQS) evolving under non-unitary dynamics according to a quantum master equation. In the master equation approach,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 David G. Tempel , Mark A. Watson , Roberto Olivares-Amaya , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Realizing the potential for predictive density functional calculations of matter under extreme conditions depends crucially upon having an exchange-correlation (XC) free energy functional accurate over a wide range of state conditions.…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-21 Valentin V. Karasiev , James W. Dufty , S. B. Trickey

The adiabatic approximation in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is known to give an incorrect pole structure in the quadratic response function, leading to unphysical divergences in excited state-to-state transition…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-01 Davood Dar , Saswata Roy , Neepa T. Maitra

The time-dependent exchange-correlation potential has an unusual task in directing fictitious non-interacting electrons to move with exactly the same probability density as true interacting electrons. This has intriguing implications for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Davood Dar , Lionel Lacombe , Neepa T. Maitra

We cure the lack of spin torque in semilocal exchange-correlation (XC) functionals by treating XC effects in the framework of spin-current-density-functional theory (SCDFT), and present the implementation of the first kind of this novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-09 Marie-Therese Huebsch , Fabien Tran , Martijn Marsman

We investigate the description of excitonic effects within time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT). The exchange-correlation kernel f_xc introduced in TDDFT allows a clear separation of quasiparticle and excitonic effects. Using a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Stubner , I. V. Tokatly , O. Pankratov

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

Lack of memory (locality in time) is a major limitation of almost all present time-dependent density functional approximations. By using semiclassical dynamics to compute correlation effects within a density-matrix functional approach, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. K. Rajam , I. Raczkowska , N. T. Maitra

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presently enjoying enormous popularity in quantum chemistry, as a useful tool for extracting electronic excited state energies. This article explains what TDDFT is, and how it differs from…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Elliott , Kieron Burke , Filipp Furche

The role of the exchange-correlation potential and the exchange-correlation kernel in the calculation of excitation energues from time-dependent density functional theory is studied. Excitation energies of the He and Be atoms are…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Petersilka , E. K. U. Gross , Kieron Burke

The derivative discontinuity in the exact exchange-correlation potential of ensemble Density Functional Theory (DFT) is investigated at the specific integer number that corresponds to the maximum number of bound electrons, $J_{max}$. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Daniel L. Whitenack , Yu Zhang , Adam Wasserman

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 introduce a new class of exchange-correlation potentials for a static and time-dependent Density Functional Theory of strongly correlated systems in 3D. The potentials are obtained via Dynamical Mean Field Theory and, for strong enough…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 Daniel Karlsson , Antonio Privitera , Claudio Verdozzi

We formulate a time-dependent density-matrix functional theory (TDDMFT) approach for higher-order correlation effects like biexcitons in optical processes in solids based on the reduced two-particle density-matrix formalism within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Volodymyr Turkowski , Carsten A. Ullrich , Talat S. Rahman , Michael N. Leuenberger

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

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presently enjoying enormous popularity in quantum chemistry, as a useful tool for extracting electronic excited state energies. This article discusses how TDDFT is much broader in scope,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kieron Burke , Jan Werschnik , E. K. U. Gross

Spin-currents and non-abelian gauge potentials in electronic systems can be treated by spin-current-density functional theory, whose main input is the exchange-correlation (xc) energy expressed as a functional of spin-currents. Constructing…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-30 Saeed H. Abedinpour , G. Vignale , I. V. Tokatly