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We introduce a new functional for simulating ground-state and time-dependent electronic systems within density-functional theory. The functional combines an expression for the exact Kohn-Sham (KS) potential in the limit of complete electron…

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Density-functional theory is used to study the electronic structure of quantum dots in a magnetic field. New series of magic numbers are found for the total angular momentum of electrons. The empirical formula for the plateau width is…

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Using the polarizability of a free electron gas in a magnetic field and the Current-Density Functional Theory (CDFT) developed by Vignale and Rasolt, we derive the gradient and current corrections for the energy functional of a non-uniform…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Mazzolo , E. L. Pollock , G. Zerah

This work explores the use of joint density-functional theory, a new form of density-functional theory for the ab initio description of electronic systems in thermodynamic equilibrium with a liquid environment, to describe electrochemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Kendra Letchworth-Weaver , T. A. Arias

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density-functional theory (DFT) is broadly considered the conceptual basis for a full characterization of an electronic system in its ground state by just the one-body particle density. In this Part~II of a…

We study a model quantum dot system in an external magnetic field by using both the spin-density-functional theory and the current-spin-density-functional theory. The theories are used with local approximations for the spin-density and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Saarikoski , E. Räsänen , S. Siljamäki , A. Harju , M. J. Puska , R. M. Nieminen

We show an $\textit{ab initio}$ construction of the energy density functional (EDF) for electron systems using the functional renormalization group. The correlation energies of the homogeneous electron gas given in our framework reproduce…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-03 Takeru Yokota , Tomoya Naito

We train a neural network as the universal exchange-correlation functional of density-functional theory that simultaneously reproduces both the exact exchange-correlation energy and potential. This functional is extremely non-local, but…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Jonathan Schmidt , Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Miguel A. L. Marques

Density Functional Theory relies on universal functionals characteristic of a given system. Those functionals in general are different for the electron gas and for jellium (electron gas with uniform background). However, jellium is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-23 James W. Dufty

We present the current-density functional theory for the superconductor immersed in the magnetic field. The order parameter of the superconducting state, transverse component of the paramagnetic current-density, and electron density are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-04 Katsuhiko Higuchi , Masahiko Higuchi

Density functional methods were developed, in which the Coulomb electron-electron interaction is split into a long- and a short-range part. In such methods, one term is calculated using traditional density functional approximations, like…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julien Toulouse , Andreas Savin

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…

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We introduce a spectral density functional theory which can be used to compute energetics and spectra of real strongly--correlated materials using methods, algorithms and computer programs of the electronic structure theory of solids. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Y. Savrasov , G. Kotliar

One of the most powerful strategies to address properties of real many-body systems is to incorporate data obtained for models, for example, to use data of the homogeneous electron gas in order to build the Local Density Approximation for…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Muhammed Hüseyin Güneş , Ayoub Aouina , Vitaly Gorelov , Matteo Gatti , Lucia Reining

We put forward a general procedure to obtain an approximate free energy density functional for any hard-core lattice gas, regardless of the shape of the particles, the underlying lattice or the dimension of the system. The procedure is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luis Lafuente , Jose A. Cuesta

An exchange energy functional is proposed and tested for obtaining a class of excited-state energies using density functional formalism. The functional is the excited-state counterpart of the local-density approximation functional for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Prasanjit Samal , Manoj K. Harbola

This paper studies DFT models for homogeneous 2D materials in 3D space, under a constant perpendicular magnetic field. We show how to reduce the three--dimensional energy functional to a one--dimensional one, similarly as in our previous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 David Gontier , Salma Lahbabi , Abdallah Maichine

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

The local density approximation (LDA) constructed through quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the homogeneous electron gas (HEG) is the most common approximation to the exchange-correlation functional in density functional theory. We…

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