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We study the energetic properties of finite but internally homogeneous D-dimensional electron droplets in the strict-correlation limit. The indirect Coulomb interaction is found to increase as a function of the electron number, approaching…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-11 E. Rasanen , M. Seidl , P. Gori-Giorgi

Accurate treatment of the electronic correlation in inhomogeneous electronic systems, combined with the ability to capture the correlation energy of the homogeneous electron gas, allows to reach high predictive power in the application of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-22 E. Rasanen , S. Pittalis , C. R. Proetto

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 correlation energy of the homogeneous three-dimensional interacting electron gas is calculated using the variational and fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo methods, with trial functions that include backflow and three-body correlations.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yongkyung Kwon , D. M. Ceperley , Richard M. Martin

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

Spin transport properties of a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas are studied in the presence of electron-electron interactions. Longitudinal and transverse spin diffusion coefficients are calculated with the quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yutaka Takahashi , Kosuke Shizume , Naoto Masuhara

Local density approximation for the exchange energy is made for treatment of excited-states in density-functional theory. It is shown that taking care of the state-dependence of the LDA exchange energy functional leads to accurate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Manoj K. Harbola , Prasanjit Samal

We calculate the correlation energy of a two-dimensional homogeneous electron gas using several available approximations for the exchange-correlation kernel $f_{\rm xc}(q,\omega)$ entering the linear dielectric response of the system. As in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Asgari , M. Polini , B. Davoudi , M. P. Tosi

The electron-electron mutual Coulomb repulsion energy density functional satisfies an equation that links functionals and functional derivatives at N-electron and (N-1)-electron densities for densities determined from the same adiabatic…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-19 Daniel P. Joubert

Many-electron systems confined to a quasi-1D geometry by a cylindrical distribution of positive charge have been investigated by density functional computations in the unrestricted local spin density approximation. Our investigations have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-27 R. Cortes-Huerto M. Paternostro P. Ballone

A rigorous derivation of the density functional via the effective action in the Hohenberg-Kohn theory is outlined. Using the auxiliary field method, in which the electric coupling constant $e^2$ need not be small, we show that the loop…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-22 Yi-Kuo Yu

We suggest to include the density of electron charge explicitly in the electron potential of density functional theory, rather than implicitly via exchange-correlation functionals. The advantages of the approach are conceptual and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Werner A. Hofer , Krisztian Palotas

An explicit expression for the quadratic density-response function of a many-electron system is obtained in the framework of the time-dependent density-functional theory, in terms of the linear and quadratic density-response functions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 V. U. Nazarov , J. M. Pitarke , C. S. Kim , Y. Takada

The dissociation of molecules, even the most simple hydrogen molecule, cannot be described accurately within density functional theory because none of the currently available functionals accounts for strong on-site correlation. This problem…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-01-14 N. Helbig , I. V. Tokatly , A. Rubio

We analyse the ground-state energy and correlation energy of the Heisenberg model as a function of spin, both in the ferromagnetic and in the antiferromagnetic case, and in one, two and three dimensions. First, we present a comparative…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Valter L. Libero , K. Capelle

We analytically evaluate charge and spin density response functions of the clean two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling at finite momenta and frequencies. On the basis of our exact expressions we discuss the accuracy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Pletyukhov , S. Konschuh

We introduced a new electron density n({\epsilon}) by projecting the spatial electron density n(r) onto the energy coordinate {\epsilon} defined with the external potential \upsion (r) of interest. Then, a density functional theory (DFT)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 Hideaki Takahashi

The condensation energy of the homogeneous electron gas is calculated within the density functional theory for superconductors. Purely electronic considerations include the exchange energy exactly and the correlation energy on a level of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-02 M. Wierzbowska , J. W. Krogh

We lay out the extension of range-separated density-functional theory to a four-component relativistic frame-work using a Dirac-Coulomb-Breit Hamiltonian in the no-pair approximation. This formalism combines a wave-function method for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Julien Paquier , Julien Toulouse

Coulomb interactions that occur in electronic structure calculations are correlated by allowing basis function components of the interacting densities to polarize, thereby reducing the magnitude of the interaction. Exchange integrals of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-16 Jerry L. Whitten