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Simulating electron-ion dynamics using time-dependent density functional theory within an Ehrenfest dynamics scheme can be done in two ways that are in principle exact and identical: propagating time-dependent electronic Kohn-Sham equations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Lionel Lacombe , Neepa T. Maitra

Static electric response properties of atoms and molecules are reported within the real-space Cartesian grid implementation of pseudopotential Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT). A detailed systematic investigation is made for a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Tanmay Mandal , Abhisek Ghosal , Amlan K. Roy

We show that the energetics and lifetimes of resonances of finite systems under an external electric field can be captured by Kohn--Sham density functional theory (DFT) within the formalism of uniform complex scaling. Properties of…

We present a rigorous and efficient approach to the calculation of classical lattice-dynamical quantities from simulations that do not require an explicit solution of the time evolution. We focus on the temperature-dependent vibrational…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-14 Mathias P. Ljungberg , Jorge Íñiguez

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

A variational formulation of the time--dependent linear response based on the Sternheimer method is developed in order to make practical ab initio calculations of dynamical spin susceptibilities of solids. Using gradient density functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Y. Savrasov

A new alternate method for evaluating linear response theory is formally developed, and results are presented. This method involves the time-evolution of the system using TDHF and is constructed directly on top of a static Hartree-Fock…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 A. S. Umar , V. E. Oberacker

We present an algorithm to calculate the linear response of periodic systems in the time-dependent density functional thoery, using a real-space representation of the electron wave functions and calculating the dynamics in real time. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-02-05 G. F. Bertsch , J. -I. Iwata , Angel Rubio , K. Yabana

We present an accurate and efficient formulation for the calculation of phonons in real-space Kohn-Sham density functional theory. Specifically, employing a local exchange-correlation functional, norm-conserving pseudopotential in the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-30 Abhiraj Sharma , Phanish Suryanarayana

Basic issues of the time-dependent density-functional theory are discussed, especially on the real-time calculation of the linear response functions. Some remarks on the derivation of the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations and on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-06 Takashi Nakatsukasa

Quantifying materials' dynamical responses to external electromagnetic fields is central to understanding their physical properties. Here we present an implementation of the density functional perturbation theory for the computation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-03 Xiaoqiang Liu , Yihao Lin , Ji Feng

Linear response time-dependent density functional theory is used to study low-lying electronic continuum states of targets that can bind an extra electron. Exact formulas to extract scattering amplitudes from the susceptibility are derived…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Adam Wasserman , Neepa T. Maitra , Kieron Burke

The accurate description of the non-linear response of many-electron systems to strong-laser fields remains a major challenge. Methods that bypass the unfavorable exponential scaling with particle number are required to address larger…

The formalism of density functional theory (DFT) can be easily extended to the time dependent case (TDDFT). However, while in the static case the theory is well established and is expected to be, at least in principle, an exact approach for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandro Stringari

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is widely used to describe electronic excitations in complex finite systems with large numbers of atoms, such as biomolecules and nanocrystals. The first part of this paper will give a simple…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-15 C. A. Ullrich , V. Turkowski

An efficient mixed deterministic/sparse-stochastic plane-wave approach is developed for bandstructure calculations of large supercell periodic generalized-Kohn-Sham density functional theory, for any hybrid-exchange density functional. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-11 Tucker Allen , Barry Y. Li , Tim Duong , Kajsa Williams , Daniel Neuhauser

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

This article reviews the current status of lattice-dynamical calculations in crystals, using density-functional perturbation theory, with emphasis on the plane-wave pseudo-potential method. Several specialized topics are treated, including…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Baroni , S. de Gironcoli , A. Dal Corso , P. Giannozzi

We present a general computational protocol for the evaluation of extensive molecular response properties in complex environments within a polarizable quantum embedding framework. The approach extends multilevel density functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Alberto Barlini , Julien Bloino , Henrik Koch , Tommaso Giovannini

We derive the fundamental equations of an optimal control theory for systems containing both quantum electrons and classical ions. The system is modeled with Ehrenfest dynamics, a non-adiabatic variant of molecular dynamics. The general…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Alberto Castro , E. K. U. Gross