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The exchange-correlation energy in Kohn-Sham density functional theory can be expressed exactly in terms of the change in the expectation of the electron-electron repulsion operator when, in the many-electron hamiltonian, this same operator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-08-05 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Giovanni Vignale , Michael Seidl

The fractional quantum Hall effect remains a captivating area in condensed matter physics, characterized by strongly correlated topological order, which manifests as fractionalized excitations and anyonic statistics. Numerical simulations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-27 Yi Yang , Yayun Hu , Zi-Xiang Hu

We present a general multi-component density functional theory in which electrons and nuclei are treated completely quantum mechanically, without the use of a Born-Oppenheimer approximation. The two fundamental quantities in terms of which…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Kreibich , Robert van Leeuwen , E. K. U. Gross

A model is developed, based on the density functional perturbation theory and the inverse Kohn-Sham method, that can be used to improve relativistic nuclear energy density functionals towards an exact but unknown Kohn-Sham…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Giacomo Accorto , Tomoya Naito , Haozhao Liang , Tamara Niksic , Dario Vretenar

The simulation of quantum transport in a realistic, many-particle system is a nontrivial problem with no quantitatively satisfactory solution. While real-time propagation has the potential to overcome the shortcomings of conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-16 Justin E. Elenewski , Yanxiang Zhao , Hanning Chen

We formulate a set of equations that facilitate an exact numerical solution of the Kohn-Sham potential for a finite Hubbard chain with nearest neighbour hopping and arbitrary site potentials. The approach relies on a mapping of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-25 Kossi Amouzouvi , Daniel Joubert

We showcase the advantages of orbital-free density-potential functional theory (DPFT), a more flexible variant of Hohenberg-Kohn density functional theory. DPFT resolves the usual trouble with the gradient-expanded kinetic energy functional…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-16 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , Jun Hao Hue , Berthold-Georg Englert

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

According to the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density-functional theory (DFT), all observable quantities of systems of interacting electrons can be expressed as functionals of the ground-state density. This includes, in principle, the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 Carsten A. Ullrich

We model the Hartree-exchange-correlation potential of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory adopting a novel strategy inspired by the strictly-correlated-electrons limit and relying on the exact decomposition of the potential based on the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Sara Giarrusso , Federica Agostini

In approximate Kohn-Sham density-functional theory, self-interaction manifests itself as the dependence of the energy of an orbital on its fractional occupation. This unphysical behavior translates into qualitative and quantitative errors…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-28 Ismaila Dabo , Andrea Ferretti , Nicolas Poilvert , Yanli Li , Nicola Marzari , Matteo Cococcioni

Density functional theory (DFT) has become a basic tool for the study of electronic structure of matter, in which the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem plays a fundamental role in the development of DFT. Unfortunately, the existing proofs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-24 Aihui Zhou

Density functional theory underlies the most successful and widely used numerical methods for electronic structure prediction of solids. However, it has the fundamental shortcoming that the universal density functional is unknown. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-23 M. Michael Denner , Mark H. Fischer , Titus Neupert

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem plays a fundamental role in density functional theory, which has become a basic tool for the study of electronic structure of matter. In this article, we study the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem for a class of external…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 Aihui Zhou

Reducing the many-fermion problem to a set of single-particle (s.p.) equations, the Kohn-Sham (KS) theory has provided a practical tool to implement \textit{ab initio} calculations of ground-state energies and densities in many-electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 H. Nakada

The exact interaction energy of a many-electron system is determined by the electron pair density, which is not well-approximated in standard Kohn-Sham density functional models. Here we study the (complicated but well-defined) exact…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-07 Huajie Chen , Gero Friesecke

In modeling low-dimensional electronic nanostructures, the evaluation of the electron-electron interaction is a challenging task. Here we present an accurate and practical density-functional approach to the two-dimensional many-electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-10-29 S. Pittalis , E. Rasanen

Two-dimensional abelian anyons are, in the magnetic gauge picture, represented as fermions coupled to magnetic flux tubes. For the ground state of such a system in a trapping potential, we theoretically and numerically investigate a Hartree…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Antoine Levitt , Douglas Lundholm , Nicolas Rougerie

Density Functional Theory's Kohn-Sham (KS) potential emerges as the minimizing effective potential in an unconstrained variational scheme that does not involve fixing the unknown single-electron density. The physical content behind the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 N. I. Gidopoulos

A conceptual difficulty in formulating the density functional theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect is that while in the standard approach the Kohn-Sham orbitals are either fully occupied or unoccupied, the physics of the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-12 Jianyun Zhao , Manisha Thakurathi , Manish Jain , Diptiman Sen , J. K. Jain