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The coupling constant dependence is derived in time-dependent {\em current} density functional theory. The scaling relation can be used to check approximate functionals and in conjunction with the adiabatic connection formula to obtain the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Maxime Dion , Kieron Burke

Practical density functional theory (DFT) owes its success to the groundbreaking work of Kohn and Sham that introduced the exact calculation of the non-interacting kinetic energy of the electrons using an auxiliary mean-field system.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-17 P. del Mazo-Sevillano , J. Hermann

Lieb's convex formulation of density-functional theory is presented in a pedagogical manner, emphasizing its connection to Hohenberg-Kohn theory and to Levy's constrained-search theory. The Hohenberg-Kohn and Lieb variation principles are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Trygve Helgaker , Andrew M. Teale

In orbital-free density functional theory the kinetic potential (KP), the functional derivative of the kinetic energy density functional, appears in the Euler equation for the electron density and may be more amenable to simple…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Jeng-Da Chai , Vincent L. Ligneres , Gregory Ho , Emily A. Carter , John D. Weeks

We analyze the structure of the Fundamental Measure Theory for the free energy density functional of hard sphere mixtures. A comparative study of the different versions of the theory, and other density functional approaches, is done in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Jose A. Cuesta , Yuri Martinez-Raton , Pedro Tarazona

We calculate the ground state energies of a system of two dipolar fermions trapped in a harmonic oscillator potential. The dipoles are assumed to be aligned parallel to each other. We perform the calculations of ground state energy as a…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2014-10-09 Amit K. Das , Arup Banerjee

We propose exchanging the energy functionals in ground-state DFT with physically equivalent exact force expressions as a new promising route towards approximations to the exchange-correlation potential and energy. In analogy to the usual…

We explore a variety of unsolved problems in density functional theory, where mathematicians might prove useful. We give the background and context of the different problems, and why progress toward resolving them would help those doing…

The fundamental measure approach to classical density functional theory has been shown to be a powerful tool to predict various thermodynamic properties of hard-sphere systems. We employ this approach to determine not only one-particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-11-02 Andreas Härtel , Matthias Kohl , Michael Schmiedeberg

We propose a new method of calculating electronically excited states that combines a density functional theory (DFT) based ground state calculation with a linear response treatment that employs approximations used in the time-dependent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Robert Rüger , Erik van Lenthe , Thomas Heine , Lucas Visscher

The exact reduced density-matrix functional is derived from the Luttinger-Ward functional of the single-particle Green's function. Thereby, a formal link is provided between diagrammatic many-body approaches using Green's functions on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-11 Peter E. Blöchl , Thomas Pruschke , Michael Potthoff

The classic density-functional theory (DFT) formalism introduced by Hohenberg, Kohn, and Sham in the mid-1960s, is based upon the idea that the complicated N-electron wavefunction can be replaced with the mathematically simpler 1-electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. E. Casida , M. Huix-Rotllant

A new method is presented that allows for efficient evaluation of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in density-functional theory calculations. In the so-called second-variational scheme, where Kohn-Sham functions obtained in a scalar-relativistic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-06 Cecilia Vona , Sven Lubeck , Hannah Kleine , Andris Gulans , Claudia Draxl

We recently introduced an efficient methodology to perform density-corrected Hartree-Fock density functional theory (DC(HF)-DFT) calculations and an extension to it we called "corrected" HF DFT (C(HF)-DFT). In this work, we take a further…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Daniel Graf , Alex J. W. Thom

We develop a formalism based on a time-dependent wave-function ansatz to study correlations of photons emitted from a collection of two-level quantum emitters. We show how to simulate the system dynamics and evaluate the intensity of the…

Coordinate scaling of each spin density separately is considered in spin density functional theory. A virial theorem relates the spin-scaled correlation energy to the spin-scaled correlation potentials. An adiabatic connection formula…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Magyar , T. K. Whittingham , K. Burke

A versatile method for combining density functional theory (DFT) in the local density approximation (LDA) with dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is presented. Starting from a general basis-independent formulation, we use Wannier functions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Lechermann , A. Georges , A. Poteryaev , S. Biermann , M. Posternak , A. Yamasaki , O. K. Andersen

The pairing energy density functionals (EDFs) that include the spatial derivative and kinetic terms of the pair densities are discussed. The coupling constants of the pairing EDF are adjusted to reproduce the experimental pairing rotational…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Nobuo Hinohara

The properties of the ground state of liquid $^4$He are studied using a correlated basis function of the form $\prod_{i<j} \psi(r_{ij})$. Here, $\psi(r)$ is chosen as the exact solution of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation for two $^4$He atoms.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-17 Sanghamitra Neogi , Gerald D. Mahan

A self-consistent calculation scheme for correlated electron systems is created based on the density-functional theory (DFT). Our scheme is a multi-reference DFT (MR-DFT) calculation in which the electron charge density is reproduced by an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Koichi Kusakabe , Naoshi Suzuki , Shusuke Yamanaka , Kizashi Yamaguchi