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Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a formally exact approach to the time-dependent electronic many-body problem which is widely used for calculating excitation energies. We present a survey of the fundamental framework,…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-29 Carsten A. Ullrich , Zeng-hui Yang

Excitation energies of light-emitting organic conjugated polymers have been investigated with time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) within the adiabatic approximation for the dynamical exchange-correlation potential. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-06 Jianmin Tao , Sergei Tretiak , Jian-Xin Zhu

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presently enjoying enormous popularity in quantum chemistry, as a useful tool for extracting electronic excited state energies. This article explains what TDDFT is, and how it differs from…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Elliott , Kieron Burke , Filipp Furche

Systems whose underlying classical dynamics are chaotic exhibit signatures of the chaos in their quantum mechanics. We investigate the possibility of using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to study the case when chaos is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Adam Wasserman , Neepa T. Maitra , Eric J. Heller

We present a new methodology for the linear-response time-dependent density functional theory (LR-TDDFT) calculation of the dynamic density response function of warm dense matter in an adiabatic approximation that can be used with any…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Zhandos A. Moldabekov , Michele Pavanello , Maximilian P. Boehme , Jan Vorberger , Tobias Dornheim

Almost all time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) calculations of excited states make use of the adiabatic approximation, which implies a frequency-independent exchange-correlation kernel that limits applications to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-08 Miquel Huix-Rotllant , Andrei Ipatov , Angel Rubio , Mark E. Casida

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a powerful tool to study the non-equilibrium dynamics of inhomogeneous interacting many-body systems. Here we show that the simple adiabatic local-spin-density approximation for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-11 Wei Li , Gao Xianlong , Corinna Kollath , Marco Polini

We develop a scheme for building the scalar exchange-correlation (xc) kernel of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) from the tensorial kernel of time-dependent {\em current} density functional theory (TDCDFT) and the Kohn-Sham…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 V. U. Nazarov , J. M. Pitarke , Y. Takada , G. Vignale , Y. -C. Chang

We propose a machine learning based approach to develop the exchange-correlation potential of time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). The neural network projection from the time-varying electron densities to the corresponding…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Yasumitsu Suzuki , Ryo Nagai , Jun Haruyama

Time-dependent density functional theory continues to draw a large number of users in a wide range of fields exploring myriad applications involving electronic spectra and dynamics. Although in principle exact, the predictivity of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Lionel Lacombe , Neepa T. Maitra

In the current density functional theory of linear and nonlinear time-dependent phenomena, the treatment of exchange and correlation beyond the level of the adiabatic local density approximation is shown to lead to the appearance of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Vignale , C. A. Ullrich , S. Conti

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) often successfully reproduces excitation energies of finite systems, already in the adiabatic local-density approximation (ALDA). Here we show for prototypical molecular materials, i.e.,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-25 Caterina Cocchi , Claudia Draxl

The adiabatic approximation in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) yields reliable excitation spectra with great efficiency in many cases, but fundamentally fails for states of double excitation character. We discuss how…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Peter Elliott , Sharma Goldson , Chris Canahui , Neepa T. Maitra

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

To examine the applicability of the time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) for treating the electron-nucleus coupling in excited states, we calculate the strength distribution associated with the pi-pi* transition in ethylene. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. F. Bertsch , J. Giansiracusa , K. Yabana

A stochastic approach to time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is developed for computing the absorption cross section and the random phase approximation (RPA) correlation energy. The core idea of the approach involves…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 Yi Gao , Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer , Eran Rabani

A simple approximate solution to the linear response equations of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is given. This extends the single-pole approximation (SPA) to two strongly-coupled poles. The analysis provides both an…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Appel , E. K. U. Gross , K. Burke

We investigate the time an electronic excitation travels in a supermolecular setup using a measurement process in an open quantum-system framework. The approach is based on the stochastic Schr\"odinger equation and uses a Hamiltonian from…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-09 Dirk Hofmann , Heiko Appel , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Stephan Kümmel

This chapter provides a basic introduction to excited-state extensions of density functional theory (DFT), including time-dependent (TD-)DFT in both its linear-response and its explicitly time-dependent formulations. As applied to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 John M. Herbert

To investigate inelastic electron scattering, which is ubiquitous in various fields of study, we carry out ab initio study of the real-time dynamics of a one-dimensional electron wave packet scattered by a hydrogen atom using different…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Yeonghun Lee , Xiaolong Yao , Massimo V. Fischetti , Kyeongjae Cho