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In the exact Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT), the total energy versus the number of electrons is a series of linear segments between integer points. However, commonly used approximate density functionals produce total energies…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-03 Eli Kraisler , Leeor Kronik

Density functional theory (DFT), the most widely adopted method in modern computational chemistry, fails to describe accurately the electronic structure of strongly correlated systems. Here we show that DFT can be formally and practically…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn , David A. Mazziotti

Incorporating nuclear shell effects within the framework of orbital-free density functional theory (DFT) has remained a longstanding challenge in nuclear physics. While the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem formally guarantees the existence of an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Xinhui Wu , Gianluca Colò , Kouichi Hagino , Pengwei Zhao

In this study, we propose a quantum-classical hybrid scheme for performing orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) using probabilistic imaginary-time evolution (PITE), designed for the era of fault-tolerant quantum computers (FTQC),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Yusuke Nishiya , Hirofumi Nishi , Taichi Kosugi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

Here, we report orbital-free density-functional theory (OF DFT) molecular dynamics simulations of the displacement cascade in aluminum. The electronic effect is our main concern. The displacement threshold energies are calculated using OF…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-26 Ruizhi Qiu

Localized basis sets in the projector augmented wave formalism allow for computationally efficient calculations within density functional theory (DFT). However, achieving high numerical accuracy requires an extensive basis set, which also…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-18 G. Gandus , A. Valli , D. Passerone , R. Stadler

We propose a novel scheme to bring reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT) into the realm of density functional theory (DFT) that preserves the accurate density functional description at equilibrium, while incorporating accurately…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 Nektarios N. Lathiotakis , Nicole Helbig , Angel Rubio , Nikitas I. Gidopoulos

Density functional theory (DFT) has emerged as one of the most versatile and lucrative approaches in electronic structure calculations of many-electron systems in past four decades. Here we give an account of the development of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Abhisek Ghosal , Amlan K. Roy

Over the last few decades, classical density-functional theory (DFT) and its dynamic extensions (DDFTs) have become powerful tools in the study of colloidal fluids. Recently, previous DDFTs for spherically-symmetric particles have been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-02 Miguel A. Durán-Olivencia , Benjamin D. Goddard , Serafim Kalliadasis

The strong boundary normalized condition of wavefunction for fully occupied semicore 3d orbitals leads the linear response DFT+U on such metal oxide to have an insurmountable obstacle in Hubbard U determination. We treated the orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-17 Bolong Huang

We present an Augmented Lagrangian formulation and its real-space implementation for non-periodic orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) calculations. In particular, we rewrite the constrained minimization problem of OF-DFT as a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Phanish Suryanarayana , Deepa Phanish

We present a Gaussian-basis implementation of orbital-free density-functional theory (OF-DFT) in which the trust-region image method (TRIM) is used for optimization. This second-order optimization scheme has been constructed to provide…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Matthew S. Ryley , Michael Withnall , Tom J. P. Irons , Trygve Helgaker , Andrew M. Teale

The Breit correction, the finite-light-speed correction for the Coulomb interaction of the electron-electron interaction in $ O \left( 1/ c^2 \right) $, is introduced to density functional theory (DFT) based on the non-relativistic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Tomoya Naito , Ryosuke Akashi , Haozhao Liang , Shinji Tsuneyuki

A novel approach to electronic correlations and magnetism of crystals based on realistic electronic structure calculations is reviewed. In its simplest form it is a combination of the ``local density approximation'' (LDA) and the dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Lichtenstein , M. I. Katsnelson , G. Kotliar

We survey approaches to nonrelativistic density functional theory (DFT) for nuclei using progress toward ab initio DFT for Coulomb systems as a guide. Ab initio DFT starts with a microscopic Hamiltonian and is naturally formulated using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 J. E. Drut , R. J. Furnstahl , L. Platter

Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) is a successful method to compute the electronic structure of strongly correlated materials, especially when it is combined with density functional theory (DFT). Here, we present an open-source…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-03 Vijay Singh , Uthpala Herath , Benny Wah , Xingyu Liao , Aldo H. Romero , Hyowon Park

Time-dependent orbital-free density functional theory (TD-OFDFT) is an efficient ab-initio method for calculating the electronic dynamics of large systems. In comparison to standard TD-DFT, it computes only a single electronic state…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Kaili Jiang , Xuecheng Shao , Michele Pavanello

Understanding, optimizing, and controlling the optical absorption process, exciton gemination, and electron-hole separation and conduction in low dimensional systems is a fundamental problem in materials science. However, robust and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Keenan Lyon , María Rosa Preciado-Rivas , Duncan John Mowbray , Vito Despoja

We present a joint implementation of dynamical-mean-field theory (DMFT) with the pseudopotential plane-wave approach, via Wannier functions, for the determination of the electronic properties of strongly correlated materials. The scheme…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-08 G. Trimarchi , I. Leonov , N. Binggeli , Dm. Korotin , V. I. Anisimov

Orbital-optimized density functional theory (DFT) has emerged as an alternative to time-dependent (TD) DFT capable of describing difficult excited states with significant electron density redistribution, such as charge-transfer, Rydberg,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Hanh D. M. Pham , Rustam Z. Khaliullin