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Accurate description of deformed atomic nuclei by the orbital-free density functional theory has been a longstanding textbook challenge, due to the difficulty in accounting for the intricate quantum shell effects that are present in such…

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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

We introduce a new form of density functional theory for the {\em ab initio} description of electronic systems in contact with a molecular liquid environment. This theory rigorously joins an electron density-functional for the electrons of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Sahak Petrosyan , Jean-Francois Briere , David Roundy , T. A. Arias

Reduced density-matrix functional theory (RDMFT) is a promising alternative approach to the problem of electron correlation. Like standard density functional theory, it contains an unknown exchange-correlation functional, for which several…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 N. N. Lathiotakis , Miguel A. L. Marques

Many chemical systems cannot be described by quantum chemistry methods based on a singlereference wave function. Accurate predictions of energetic and spectroscopic properties require a delicate balance between describing the most important…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Erik Donovan Hedegård , Julien Toulouse , Hans Jørgen Aagaard Jensen

Quantum critical chains are well described and understood by virtue of conformal field theory. Still the meaning of the real space entanglement spectrum -- the eigenvalues of the reduced density matrix -- of such systems remains in general…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 Nicolas Laflorencie , Stephan Rachel

We present a theoretical study of the impact of an electric field combined with a magnetic field on the rotational dynamics of open shell diatomic molecules. Within the rigid rotor approximation, we solve the time-independent Schr\"odinger…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Martin Gärttner , Juan J. Omiste , Peter Schmelcher , Rosario González-Férez

We present a novel method for calculating the fundamental gap. To this end, reduced-density-matrix-functional theory is generalized to fractional particle number. For each fixed particle number, $M$, the total energy is minimized with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Helbig , N. N. Lathiotakis , M. Albrecht , E. K. U. Gross

The rotating nuclei represent one of most interesting subjects for theoretical and experimental studies. They open a new dimension of nuclear landscape, namely, spin direction. Contrary to the majority of nuclear systems, their properties…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-27 A. V. Afanasjev

We reformulate the strong-interaction limit of electronic density functional theory in terms of a classical problem with a degenerate minimum. This allows us to clarify many aspects of this limit, and to write a general solution, which is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Seidl , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

The exact reduced density-matrix functional is derived from the Luttinger-Ward functional of the single-particle Green's function. Thereby, a formal link is provided between diagrammatic many-body approaches using Green's functions on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-11 Peter E. Blöchl , Thomas Pruschke , Michael Potthoff

The non-collinear spin-spiral density wave of the uniform electron gas is studied in the framework of Reduced-Density-Matrix-Functional Theory. For the Hartree-Fock approximation, which can be obtained as a limiting case of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-08 F. G. Eich , S. Kurth , C. R. Proetto , S. Sharma , E. K. U. Gross

Kohn-Sham spin-density functional theory provides an efficient and accurate model to study electron-electron interaction effects in quantum dots, but its application to large systems is a challenge. An efficient algorithm for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Jiang , Harold U. Baranger , Weitao Yang

Effective field theory (EFT) methods are applied to density functional theory (DFT) as part of a program to systematically go beyond mean-field approaches to medium and heavy nuclei. A system of fermions with short-range, natural…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. J. Puglia , A. Bhattacharyya , R. J. Furnstahl

We investigate the structure of the one-body Reduced Density Matrix (1RDM) of three electron systems, i.e. doublet and quadruplet spin configurations, corresponding to the smallest interacting system with an open-shell ground state. To this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Iris Theophilou , Nektarios Lathiotakis , Nicole Helbig

The extension of the highly-optimized local natural orbital (LNO) CCSD(T) method is presented for high-spin open-shell molecules. The techniques enabling the outstanding efficiency of the closed-shell LNO-CCSD(T) variant are adopted,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-17 P. Bernát Szabó , József Csóka , Mihály Kállay , Péter R. Nagy

An accurate expression of the kinetic energy density of an electronic distribution in terms of the single particle reduced density matrix for atomic and molecular systems is a long-standing problem in electron structure theory. Existing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Priya , Mainak Sadhukhan

Spin fluctuations have a substantial influence on the electron and lattice behaviors in magnetic materials, which, however, is difficult to be tracked properly by prevalent first-principles methods. We propose a versatile self-adaptive…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-14 Zefeng Cai , Ke Wang , Yong Xu , Su-Huai Wei , Ben Xu

The group theory framework developed by Fukutome for a systematic analysis of the various broken symmetry types of Hartree-Fock solutions exhibiting spin structures is here extended to the general many body context using spinor-Green…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. K. Rajagopal , Mogus Mochena

We numerically study imbalanced two component Fermi gases with attractive interactions in highly elongated harmonic traps. An accurate parametrization formula for the ground state energy is presented for a spin-polarized attractive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-03-20 Gao Xianlong , Reza Asgari