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A relativistic density-functional theory based on a Fock-space effective quantum-electrodynamics (QED) Hamiltonian using the Coulomb or Coulomb-Breit two-particle interaction is developed. This effective QED theory properly includes the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Julien Toulouse

Kohn-Sham density functional theory is in principle an exact formulation of quantum mechanical electronic structure theory, but in practice we have to rely on approximate exchange-correlation (xc) functionals. The objective of our work has…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-09-09 Roberto Peverati , Donald G. Truhlar

We present recent developments of the NTChem program for performing large scale hybrid Density Functional Theory calculations on the supercomputer Fugaku. We combine these developments with our recently proposed Complexity Reduction…

In this paper, we study finite dimensional approximations of Kohn-Sham models, which are widely used in electronic structure calculations. We prove the convergence of the finite dimensional approximations and derive the a priori error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-08-10 Huajie Chen , Xingao Gong , Lianhua He , Zhang Yang , Aihui Zhou

Motivated by the considerable importance of material properties in modern condensed matter physics research, and using techniques of the $N_{e}$ -electron systems in terms of the electron density $n_{\sigma e}\left( r\right) $ needed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-19 A. Belhaj , S. E. Ennadifi

Solvation effect might have a tremendous influence on chemical reactions. However, precise quantum chemistry calculations are most often done either in vacuum neglecting the role of the solvent or using continuum solvent model ignoring its…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maximilien Levesque , Daniel Borgis

On the basis of the zero-temperature grand canonical ensemble generalization of the energy E[N,N_s,v,B] for fractional particle N and spin N_s numbers, the energy surface over the (N,N_s) plane is displayed and analyzed in the case of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 T. Gal , P. Geerlings

Total energy electronic structure calculations, based on density functional theory or on the more empirical tight binding approach, are generally believed to scale as the cube of the number of electrons. By using the localisaton property of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Florian R. Krajewski , Michele Parrinello

We consider the use of the energy density for describing a localization of relativistic particles. This method is consistent with the causality requirements. The related positive operator valued measure is presented. The probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel R. Terno

In order to assess the accuracy of commonly used approximate exchange-correlation density functionals, we present a comparison of accurate exchange and correlation potentials, exchange energy densities and energy components with the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Claudia Filippi , Xavier Gonze , C. J. Umrigar

Recently, a new connection between density functional theory and kinetic theory has been proposed. In particular, it was shown that the Kohn-Sham (KS) equations can be reformulated as a macroscopic limit of the steady-state solution of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 M. Mendoza , H. J. Herrmann , S. Succi

We present an implementation in a linear-scaling density-functional theory code of an electronic enthalpy method, which has been found to be natural and efficient for the ab initio calculation of finite systems under hydrostatic pressure.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Niccolò R. C. Corsini , Andrea Greco , Nicholas D. M. Hine , Carla Molteni , Peter D. Haynes

We propose to expand the territory of density functional theory to strongly correlated electrons by reformulating the Kohn-Sham scheme in the representation of fractionalized particles. We call it the ``KS* scheme.'' Using inhomogeneous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Bo Zhao , Jingyu Zhao , Zheng Zhu , Jian Wu , Zheng Liu

The dynamical transverse magnetic Kohn-Sham susceptibility calculated within time-dependent density functional theory shows a fairly linear behavior for a finite energy window. This observation is used to propose a scheme where the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Samir Lounis , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Benedikt Schweflinghaus

In addition to being the core quantity in density functional theory, the charge density can be used in many tertiary analyses in materials sciences from bonding to assigning charge to specific atoms. The charge density is data-rich since it…

Recently, Theophilou (J. Chem.Phys {\bf 149} 074104 (2018)) showed that a set of spherically symmetric densities determines uniquely the external potential in molecules and solids. Here, spherically symmetric Kohn-Sham-like equations are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Ágnes Nagy , Kalevi Kokko , Jesse Huhtala , Torbjörn Björkman , Levente Vitos

This paper derives and demonstrates a new, purely density-based ab initio approach for calculation of the energies and properties of many-electron systems. It is based upon the discovery of relationships that govern the "mechanics" of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 James C. Ellenbogen

The practical success of density functional theory (DFT) is largely credited to the Kohn-Sham approach, which enables the exact calculation of the non-interacting electron kinetic energy via an auxiliary noninteracting system. Yet, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sangita Majumdar , Zekun Shi , Giovanni Vignale

Electronic structure calculations are routinely carried out within the framework of density-functional theory, often with great success. For electrons in reduced dimensions, however, there is still a need for better approximations to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-22 S. Pittalis , E. Rasanen , E. K. U. Gross

Exact density functionals for the exchange and correlation energies are approximated in practical calculations for the ground-state electronic structure of a many-electron system. An important exact constraint for the construction of…