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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 present a review of the basic ideas and techniques of the spectral density functional theory which are currently used in electronic structure calculations of strongly-correlated materials where the one-electron description breaks down.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Kotliar , S. Y. Savrasov , K. Haule , V. S. Oudovenko , O. Parcollet , C. A. Marianetti

Classical density-functional theory provides an efficient alternative to molecular dynamics simulations for understanding the equilibrium properties of inhomogeneous fluids. However, application of density-functional theory to multi-site…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 Ravishankar Sundararaman , T. A. Arias

Density functional theory (DFT) is an essential building block for modern theoretical physics, chemistry, and engineering, especially those concerning electronic properties. Through decades of development, various program packages for…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-21 Yusuke Nomura , Ryosuke Akashi

Density functional theory is the workhorse of modern electronic structure calculations, with wide-ranging applications in chemistry, physics, materials science, and machine learning. At its heart lies the exchange-correlation functional, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Fabien Tran , Susi Lehtola , Stefano Pittalis , Miguel A. L. Marques

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is one of the most widely used methods for "ab initio" calculations of the structure of atoms, molecules, crystals, surfaces, and their interactions. Unfortunately, the customary introduction to DFT is often…

Physics Education · Physics 2010-12-07 Nathan Argaman , Guy Makov

We demonstrate the existence of different density-density functionals designed to retain selected properties of the many-body ground state in a non-interacting solution starting from the standard density functional theory ground state. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 F. A. Reboredo , P. R. C. Kent

Previously, it has been shown that the direct correlation function for a Lennard-Jones fluid could be modeled by a sum of that for hard-spheres, a mean-field tail and a simple linear correction in the core region constructed so as to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-20 James F. Lutsko

By introducing the self-energy density functionals for the dissipative interactions between the reduced system and its environment, we develop a time-dependent density-functional theory formalism based on an equation of motion for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao Zheng , Fan Wang , Chi Yung Yam , Yan Mo , GuanHua Chen

The self consistent version of the density functional theory (DFT) is presented, which allows to calculate the ground state and dynamic properties of finite multi-electron systems such as atoms, molecules and clusters. The exact functional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ya. Amusia , V. R. Shaginyan

The phenomenon of electrowetting, i.e., the dependence of the macroscopic contact angle of a fluid on the electrostatic potential of the substrate, is analyzed in terms of the density functional theory of wetting. It is shown that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-07 Markus Bier , Ingrid Ibagon

A density functional theory is developed for fermions in one dimension, interacting via a delta-function. Such systems provide a natural testing ground for questions of principle, as the local density approximation should work well for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Magyar , K. Burke

We derive an exact representation of the exchange-correlation energy within density functional theory (DFT) which spawns a class of approximations leading to correct long-range asymptotic behavior. In what amounts to be the simplest…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser

Implicit electron-density solvation models based on joint density-functional theory offer a computationally efficient solution to the problem of calculating thermodynamic quantities of solvated systems from firstprinciples quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-02-12 Deniz Gunceler , T. A. Arias

A framework for developing new approximate electronic structure methods is presented, in which the correlation energy of a many-electron system in the ground state is computed as in the single-reference second-order many-body perturbation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2011-06-15 Dimitri Laikov

In order to assess the accuracy of commonly used approximate exchange-correlation density functionals, we present a comparison of accurate exchange and correlation potentials, exchange energy densities and energy components with the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Claudia Filippi , Xavier Gonze , C. J. Umrigar

We investigate the possibility of electrostatic potential saturation, which may lead to the phenomenon of effective charge saturation. The system under study is a uniformly charged infinite plane immersed in an arbitrary electrolyte made up…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel Tellez , Emmanuel Trizac

We propose a generalisation of molecular density functional theory to describe inhomogeneous solvent mixture, with the objective of modelling electrolytic solutions. Two electrolytic models are presented, both within the HNC approximation.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Luc Belloni , Daniel Borgis

Electromechanics in fluids describes the response of the number density to electric fields, and thus provides a powerful means by which to control the behavior of liquids. While continuum approaches have proven successful in describing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-10 Anna T. Bui , Stephen J. Cox

A quantum electrodynamical time-dependent density functional theory framework is applied to describe strongly coupled light--matter interactions in cavity environments. The formalism utilizes a tensor product approach, coupling real-space…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Yetmgeta Aklilu , Matthew Shepherd , Cody L. Covington , Kalman Varga