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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

With the eigenfunctional theory, we study a general interacting electron system, and give a rigorous expression of its ground state energy which is composed of two parts, one part is contributed by the non-interacting electrons, and another…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-12-07 Yu-Liang Liu

We present a general approach for the construction of the exact local-energy-density functionals for a uniform N-dimensional electronic system in a magnetic field. For arbitrary dimension, we obtain explicit expressions for the matter,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. P. van Zyl

We propose a method for microscopic calculations of nuclear ground-state properties in the framework of density functional theory. We discuss how the density functional is equivalent to the effective action for the density, thereby…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Schwenk , J. Polonyi

We introduce an approximation to the short-range correlation energy functional with multide-terminantal reference involved in a variant of range-separated density-functional theory. This approximation is a local functional of the density,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Anthony Ferté , Emmanuel Giner , Julien Toulouse

Density functional theory (DFT) is the de facto approach for predicting self-consistent-field electronic structures of ground-state configurations of complex atoms, molecules, and solids and providing their property data for materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-30 Zi-Kui Liu

Finite temperature density functional theory requires representations for the internal energy, entropy, and free energy as functionals of the local density field. A central formal difficulty for an orbital-free representation is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-12 James W. Dufty , S. B. Trickey

An analysis shows that the ground state of the inhomogeneous system of interacting electrons in the static external field, which satisfies the thermodynamic limit, can be consistently described only using the Green function theory based on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-02 V. B. Bobrov

We analyze a decomposition of the Coulomb electron-electron interaction into a long-range and a short-range part in the framework of density functional theory, deriving some scaling relations and the corresponding virial theorem. We study…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Julien Toulouse , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

We derive a local approximation for the correlation energy in two-dimensional electronic systems. In the derivation we follow the scheme originally developed by Colle and Salvetti for three dimensions, and consider a Gaussian approximation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-21 S. Pittalis , E. Rasanen , M. Marques

In the exact Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT), the total energy versus the number of electrons is a series of linear segments between integer points. However, commonly used approximate density functionals produce total energies…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-03 Eli Kraisler , Leeor Kronik

Density functional theory is usually formulated in terms of the density in configuration space. Functionals of the momentum-space density have also been studied, and yet other densities could be considered. We offer a unified view from a…

Sparse matter is characterized by regions with low electron density and its understanding calls for methods to accurately calculate both the van der Waals (vdW) interactions and other bonding. Here we present a first-principles density…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-06-15 Elisa Londero , Elsebeth Schroder

We give the first mathematically rigorous justification of the Local Density Approximation in Density Functional Theory. We provide a quantitative estimate on the difference between the grand-canonical Levy-Lieb energy of a given density…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Mathieu Lewin , Elliott H. Lieb , Robert Seiringer

The interaction energy and minimum energy structure for different geometries of the benzene dimer has been calculated using the recently developed nonlocal correlation energy functional for calculating dispersion interactions. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Aaron Puzder , Maxime Dion , David C. Langreth

Stochastic density functional theory is applied to analyze the conductivity of strong two species electrolytes at arbitrary field strengths. The corresponding stochastic equations for the density of the electrolyte species are solved by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 Vincent Démery , David S Dean

We use the exact strong-interaction limit of the Hohenberg-Kohn energy density functional to approximate the exchange-correlation energy of the restricted Kohn-Sham scheme. Our approximation corresponds to a highly non-local density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-12 Francesc Malet , Paola Gori-Giorgi

Implicit and explicit density functionals for the exchange energy in finite two-dimensional systems are developed following the approach of Becke and Roussel [Phys. Rev. A 39, 3761 (1989)]. Excellent agreement for the exchange-hole…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-05-08 S. Pittalis , E. Rasanen , N. Helbig , E. K. U. Gross

Density functional theory has become the workhorse of quantum physics, chemistry, and materials science. Within these fields, a broad range of applications needs to be covered. These applications range from solids to molecular systems, from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Christof Holzer , Yannick J. Franzke

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density functional theory (DFT) for the case of electrons interacting with an external magnetic field (that couples to spin only) is examined in more detail than previously. A unexpected generalization is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Eschrig , W. E. Pickett