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The thermodynamical analogy of density functional theory, which is an organic part of the spin-independent version of the theory, is reconsidered for its spin-polarized generalization in view of the recently uncovered nonuniqueness of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-25 T. Gal , P. W. Ayers , F. De Proft , P. Geerlings

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

Using density functional theory, we investigate fluctuations of the ground state energy of spin-polarized, disordered quantum dots in the metallic regime. To compare to experiment, we evaluate the distribution of addition energies and find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Hirose , F. Zhou , N. Wingreen

In spin-density-functional theory for noncollinear magnetic materials, the Kohn-Sham system features exchange-correlation (xc) scalar potentials and magnetic fields. The significance of the xc magnetic fields is not very well explored; in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-25 Edward A. Pluhar , Carsten A. Ullrich

We discuss a general form of the exchange energy for a homogeneous system of interacting electrons in two spatial dimensions which is particularly suited in the presence of a generic spin-orbit interaction. The theory is best formulated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Chesi , G. F. Giuliani

In this work, we generalize the local spin analysis of Clark and Davidson [J. Chem. Phys. 115(16), 7382 (2001)] for the partitioning of the expectation value of the molecular spin square operator, $\langle S^2 \rangle$, into atomic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-06 Bayileyegn A. Abate , Rajendra P. Joshi , Juan E. Peralta

The exchange energy of an arbitrary collinear-spin many-body system in an external magnetic field is a functional of the spin-resolved charge and current densities, $E_x[n_{\uparrow},n_{\downarrow},j_{\uparrow},j_{\downarrow}]$. Within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 J. M. Morbec , K. Capelle

The exchange-correlation energy in Kohn-Sham density functional theory is expressed as a functional of the electronic density and the Kohn-Sham orbitals. An alternative to Kohn-Sham theory is to express the energy as a functional of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Goedecker , C. Umrigar

A novel implementation of the linear response time-dependent density functional theory addressing spin excitations in non-collinear magnets based on the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Green's function method is presented. Following the exposition…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-22 David Eilmsteiner , Arthur Ernst , Paweł A. Buczek

We present for static density functional theory and time-dependent density functional theory calculations an all-electron method which employs high-order hierarchical finite element bases. Our mesh generation scheme, in which structured…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-08-06 Lauri Lehtovaara , Ville Havu , Martti Puska

It is shown that the Hartree-plus-exchange-correlation density functional potential for an integer N-electron system differs by a constant form the corresponding potential for an (N-1)-electron system if the densities are determined from…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-14 Daniel P. Joubert

We derive the gradient expansion for the exchange energy of a spin-polarized electron gas by perturbing the uniformly spin polarized state and thus inducing a small non-collinearity that is slowly varying in space. We show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-04 F. G. Eich , S. Pittalis , G. Vignale

A new ATSP2K module is presented for evaluating the electron density function of any multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock or configuration interaction wave function in the non relativistic or relativistic Breit-Pauli approximation. It is first…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Borgoo , O. Scharf , G. Gaigalas , M. Godefroid

We use spin-density functional theory to obtain novel expressions for the charge and spin local-field factors of an electron gas in terms of its electron-pair structure factors. These expressions (i) satisfy the compressibility and spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Davoudi , M. Polini , M. P. Tosi

We show an application of the functional-renormalization-group aided density functional theory to the homogeneous electron gas with arbitrary spin polarization, which gives the energy density functional in the local spin density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-12 Takeru Yokota , Tomoya Naito

An expression for the square of the spin operator expectation value, \textless{} S^2\textgreater{}, is obtained for a general complex Hartree-Fock (GCHF) wave function and decomposed into four contributions: The main one whose expression is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 Patrick Cassam-Chenaï

A new class of orbital-dependent exchange-correlation (xc) potentials for applications in noncollinear spin-density-functional theory is developed. Starting from the optimized effective potential (OEP) formalism for the exact exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Carsten A. Ullrich

Electrons in zero external magnetic field can be studied with density functional theory (DFT) or with spin-DFT (SDFT). The latter is normally used for open shell systems because its approximations appear to model better the exchange and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Timothy Callow , Benjamin Pearce , Nikitas Gidopoulos

Electron density and electron momentum density, while independently tractable experimentally, bear no direct connection without going through the many-electron wave function. However, invoking a variant of the constrained-search formulation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. K. Harbola , Rajendra R. Zope , Anjali Kshirsagar , Rajeev K. Pathak

Spin-currents and non-abelian gauge potentials in electronic systems can be treated by spin-current-density functional theory, whose main input is the exchange-correlation (xc) energy expressed as a functional of spin-currents. Constructing…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-30 Saeed H. Abedinpour , G. Vignale , I. V. Tokatly