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The frequency-dependent response of a one-dimensional fermion system is investigated using Current Density Functional Theory (CDFT) within the local approximation (LDA). DFT-LDA, and in particular CDFT-LDA, reproduces very well the…

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It is shown that the density-potential mapping and the ${\cal V}$-representability problems in the time-dependent current density functional theory (TDCDFT) are reduced to the solution of a certain many-body nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-27 I. V. Tokatly

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is a theory that describes the time evolution of quantum mechanical many-electron systems under the influence of external time-dependent electric and magnetic fields. INQ is a specially…

An exact theoretical framework based on Time Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) is proposed in order to deal with the time-dependent quantum transport in fully interacting systems. We use a \textit{partition-free} approach by Cini…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gianluca Stefanucci , Carl-Olof Almbladh

The adiabatic connection of density functional theory (DFT) for electronic systems is generalized here to negative values of the coupling strength $\alpha$ (with {\em attractive} electrons). In the extreme limit $\alpha\to-\infty$ a simple…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 Michael Seidl , Paola Gori-Giorgi

We perform model calculations for a stretched LiF molecule, demonstrating that nonadiabatic charge transfer effects can be accurately and seamlessly described within a density functional framework. In alkali halides like LiF, there is an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Chen Li , Ryan Requist , E. K. U. Gross

Density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful theoretical tool widely used in such diverse fields as computational condensed matter physics, atomic physics, and quantum chemistry. DFT establishes that a system of $N$ interacting electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Giovanni Manfredi

For classical many-body systems subject to Brownian dynamics we develop a superadiabatic dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) for the description of inhomogeneous fluids out-of-equilibrium. By explicitly incorporating the dynamics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-20 S. M. Tschopp , J. M. Brader

We discuss two problems which are particularly challenging for approximations in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to capture: momentum-distributions in ionization processes, and memory-dependence in real-time dynamics. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-22 Arun K. Rajam , Paul Hessler , Christian Gaun , Neepa T. Maitra

We present a simple geometrical "fluidic" approximation to the non-adiabatic part of the Kohn-Sham potential, $v_{\mathrm{KS}}$, of time-dependent density functional theory. This part of $v_{\mathrm{KS}}$ is often crucial, but most…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Mike Entwistle , Rex Godby

We adopted the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) within the linear augmented Slater-type orbitals (LASTO) basis and the cluster averaging method to compute the {\color{red}excitation} spectra of III-V ternary alloys with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Zhenhua Ning , Ching-Tarng Liang , Yia-Chung Chang

We use analytic (current) density-potential maps of time-dependent (current) density functional theory (TD(C)DFT) to inverse engineer analytically solvable time-dependent quantum problems. In this approach the driving potential (the control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Mehdi Farzanehpour , I. V. Tokatly

When can we map a classical density profile to an external potential? In equilibrium, without time dependence, the one-body density is known to specify the external potential that is applied to the many-body system. This mapping from a…

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We present the basic concepts and our recent developments in the density functional approaches with the Skyrme functionals for describing nuclear dynamics at low energy. The time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is utilized for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-10-16 Takashi Nakatsukasa

We present the theory, implementation, and benchmarking of a real-time time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) module within the RMG code, designed to simulate the electronic response of molecular systems to external…

The electron density $n(\rb,t)$, which is the central tool of time-dependent density functional theory, is presently considered to be derivable from a one-body time-dependent potential $V(\rb,t)$, via one-electron wave functions satisfying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Thomas A. Niehaus , Norman H. March

Real-time time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) is known to be hindered by the very small time step (attosecond or smaller) needed in the numerical simulation due to the fast oscillation of electron wavefunctions, which…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-25 Weile Jia , Dong An , Lin-Wang Wang , Lin Lin

The Tamm-Dancoff Approximation (TDA) offers a computationally efficient alternative to full linear-response Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) for calculating electronic excited states, particularly in large molecular systems.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Muhammed A. Dada , Sarah Pak , Matthew N. Ward , Megan Simons , Daniel R. Nascimento

Real-Time Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) has become an attractive tool to model quantum dynamics on a first-principles Density Functional Theory level. In recent years, several developments and applications in this field…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-21 Joscha Hekele , Peter Kratzer

Electronic stopping power models describing fuel heating processes in inertial fusion energy concepts typically assume linear-response behavior through quadratic scaling with the projectile charge. We report the results of real-time…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Alina Kononov , Thomas W. Hentschel , Stephanie B. Hansen , Andrew D. Baczewski