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An interesting fundamental problem in density-functional theory of electronic structure of matter is to construct the exact Kohn-Sham (KS) potential for a given density. The exact potential can then be used to assess the accuracy of…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2019-05-22 Ashish Kumar , Rabeet Singh , Manoj K. Harbola

In this work we give a comprehensive derivation of an exact and numerically feasible method to perform ab-initio calculations of quantum particles interacting with a quantized electromagnetic field. We present a hierachy of…

A bivariate perspective on Kohn-Sham density functional theory is proposed, treating potential and density as simultaneous independent variables, and used to make fruitful connection between Lieb's rigorous foundational framework and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-07 Paul E. Lammert

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

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

We formulate the Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) as a statistical theory in which the electron density is deter-mined from an average of correlated stochastic densities in a trace formula. The key idea is that it is sufficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser , Eran Rabani

Exact density-functional theory is reconstructed here from its convex variational structure as two parallel exact ensemble hierarchies: an interacting hierarchy rooted in Lieb's ensemble formulation and a noninteracting hierarchy rooted in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Nan Sheng

We present a new theory for partitioning simulations of periodic and solid-state systems into physically sound atomic contributions at the level of Kohn-Sham density functional theory. Our theory is based on spatially localized linear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Luna Zamok , Janus J. Eriksen

We present an unambiguous formulation for the total energy density within density-functional theory. We propose that it be used as a tool for the interpretation of computed energy and electronic structure changes during structural…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Morrel H Cohen , Derek Frydel , Kieron Burke , Eberhard Engel

A Kohn-Sham density-functional energy expression is derived for any (ground or excited) state within a given many-electron ensemble along with the stationarity condition it fulfills with respect to the ensemble density, thus giving access…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Emmanuel Fromager

A new class of methods is introduced for solving the Kohn-Sham equations of density functional theory, based on constructing a mapping dynamically between the Kohn-Sham system and an auxiliary system. The resulting auxiliary density…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-05 P. J. Hasnip , M. I. J. Probert

We introduce a non-equilibrium density-functional theory of local temperature and associated local energy density that is suited for the study of thermoelectric phenomena. The theory rests on a local temperature field coupled to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-16 F. G. Eich , M. Di Ventra , G. Vignale

A novel low complexity method to perform self-consistent electronic-structure calculations using the Kohn-Sham formalism of density functional theory is presented. Localization constraints are neither imposed nor required thereby allowing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. Rayson

Two electrons at the threshold of ionization represent a severe test case for electronic structure theory. A pseudospectral method yields a very accurate density of the two-electron ion with nuclear charge close to the critical value.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 Paul E. Grabowski , Kieron Burke

Ensemble density functional theory extends the usual Kohn-Sham machinery to quantum state ensembles involving ground- and excited states. Recent work by the authors [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 243001 (2017); 123, 016401 (2019)] has shown that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-28 Tim Gould , Stefano Pittalis

We generalize the recently developped "internal" Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Kohn-Sham scheme to multicomponent systems. We obtain a general formalism, applicable for the description of multicomponent self-bound systems (as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jeremie Messud

This article generalizes the notion of the local density of a many-body system to introduce collective coordinates as explicit degrees of freedom. It is shown that the energy of the system can be expressed as a functional of this object.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 Thomas Lesinski

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

Deriving accurate energy density functional is one of the central problems in condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and quantum chemistry. We propose a novel method to deduce the energy density functional by combining the idea of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-01 Haozhao Liang , Yifei Niu , Tetsuo Hatsuda

We propose a general machine learning-based framework for building an accurate and widely-applicable energy functional within the framework of generalized Kohn-Sham density functional theory. To this end, we develop a way of training…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 Yixiao Chen , Linfeng Zhang , Han Wang , E Weinan