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We develop a method in which the electronic densities of small fragments determined by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) are embedded using stochastic DFT to form the exact density of the full system. The new method preserves the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer , Eran Rabani

The structural, electronic, mechanical and thermal properties of Ir$_{1-x}$Rh$_{x}$ alloys were studied systematically using ab initio density functional theory at different concentrations (x = 0.00, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.00). A Special…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Ahmed , M. Zafar , M. Shakil , M. A. Choudhary

New energy-density functionals (EDFs) inspired by effective-field theories (EFTs) have been recently proposed. The present work focuses on three of such functionals which were developed to produce satisfactory equations of state for nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Jérémy Bonnard , Marcella Grasso , Denis Lacroix

We use coupled-cluster quantum chemical methods to calculate the energetics of molecular clusters cut out of periodic molecular hydrogen structures that model observed phases of solid hydrogen. The hydrogen structures are obtained from…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-15 J. R. Trail , P. López Ríos , R. J. Needs

Context Mixed-metal clusters have long been studied because of their peculiar properties and how they change with cluster size, composition and charge state and their potential roles in catalysis. The characterization of these clusters is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Paulo H. Acioli

Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory (OFDFT) has re-emerged as a viable alternative to Kohn-Sham DFT, driven by recent advances in kinetic energy density functionals (KEDFs). Nonlocal (NL) KEDFs have significantly extended OFDFT's…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-24 Abhishek Bhattacharjee , Hemanadhan Myneni , Manoj K. Harbola , Prasanjit Samal

We investigate the particle and kinetic energy densities of harmonically trapped fermion gases at zero temperature in arbitrary dimensions. We derive analytically a differential equation connecting these densities, which so far have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Matthias Brack , M. V. N. Murthy

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) holds the promise to compute ground state molecular properties at minimal cost. However, it has been held back by our inability to compute the kinetic energy as a functional of the electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Roman Remme , Tobias Kaczun , Maximilian Scheurer , Andreas Dreuw , Fred A. Hamprecht

We present a Gaussian-basis implementation of orbital-free density-functional theory (OF-DFT) in which the trust-region image method (TRIM) is used for optimization. This second-order optimization scheme has been constructed to provide…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Matthew S. Ryley , Michael Withnall , Tom J. P. Irons , Trygve Helgaker , Andrew M. Teale

In order to obtain a reasonably accurate and easily implemented approach to many-electron calculations, we will develop a new Density Functional Theory (DFT). Specifically, we derive an approximation to electron density, the first term of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-23 Gregory C. Dente

To explore the applicability of orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) in nuclear physics, we perform a systematic benchmark of 36 one-point kinetic energy density functionals, which are originally developed for electron systems in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 Tian Shuai Shang , Jian Li , Haozhao Liang , Xinhui Wu , Cheng Ma , Wenhui Mi , Xuecheng Shao , Yanchao Wang

We study the accuracy of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) for warm- and hot-dense matter (WDM and HDM). Specifically, considering a wide range of systems, we perform accurate ab initio molecular dynamics simulations with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Phanish Suryanarayana , Arpit Bhardwaj , Xin Jing , Shashikant Kumar , John E. Pask

The density functional theory originally developed by Hohenberg, Kohn and Sham provides a rigorous conceptual framework for dealing with inhomogeneous interacting Fermi systems. We extend this approach to deal with inhomogeneous interacting…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Griffin

The binding energies of n < 100 carbon clusters are calculated using the ab-initio density functional theory code Quantum Espresso. Carbon cluster geometries are determined using several levels of classical techniques and further refined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Christopher Mauney , Marco Buongiorno Nardelli , Davide Lazzati

We present an ``orbital'' free density functional theory for computing the quantum ground state of atomic clusters and liquids. Our approach combines the Bohm hydrodynamical description of quantum mechanics with an information theoretical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Sean W. Derrickson , Eric R. Bittner

A semiclassical Thomas-Fermi method, including a Weizs\"acker gradient term, is implemented to describe ground states of two dimensional nanostructures of arbitrary shape. Time dependent density oscillations are addressed in the same spirit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Puente , M. Casas , Ll. Serra

We present a $\Delta$-machine learning model for obtaining Kohn-Sham accuracy from orbital-free density functional theory (DFT) calculations. In particular, we employ a machine learned force field (MLFF) scheme based on the kernel method to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Shashikant Kumar , Xin Jing , John E. Pask , Andrew J. Medford , Phanish Suryanarayana

One of the potential applications of a quantum computer is solving quantum chemical systems. It is known that one of the fastest ways to obtain somewhat accurate solutions classically is to use approximations of density functional theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Thomas E. Baker , David Poulin

We survey approaches to nonrelativistic density functional theory (DFT) for nuclei using progress toward ab initio DFT for Coulomb systems as a guide. Ab initio DFT starts with a microscopic Hamiltonian and is naturally formulated using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 J. E. Drut , R. J. Furnstahl , L. Platter

A generalization of the Density Functional Theory is proposed. The theory developed leads to single-particle equations of motion with a quasi-local mean-field operator, which contains a quasi-particle position-dependent effective mass and a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 V. B. Soubbotin , V. I. Tselyaev , X. Vinas