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In the limit of infinite spatial dimensions a thermodynamically consistent theory, which is valid for arbitrary value of the Coulombic interaction ($U<\infty$), is built for the Hubbard model when the total auxiliary single-site problem…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-17 A. M. Shvaika

We show how quasiprobability distribution functions defined over $N^{2}$-dimensional discrete phase spaces can be used to treat physical systems described by a finite space of states which exhibit spin tunneling effects. This particular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marcelo A. Marchiolli , Evandro C. Silva , Diogenes Galetti

The solution of complex many-body lattice models can often be found by defining an energy functional of the relevant density of the problem. For instance, in the case of the Hubbard model the spin-resolved site occupation is enough to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 James Nelson , Rajarshi Tiwari , Stefano Sanvito

We consider the pairing Hamiltonian and systematically construct its density functional in the strong-coupling limit and in the limit of large particle number. In the former limit, the functional is an expansion into central moments of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Papenbrock , Anirban Bhattacharyya

The first order gradient correction to the Thomas-Fermi functional, proposed by Haq, Chattaraj and Deb (Chem. Phys. Lett. vol. 81, 8031, 1984) has been studied by evaluating both the total kinetic energy and the local kinetic energy…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 David Garcia-Aldea , T. Martin-Blas , J. E. Alvarellos

We calculate ground-state energies and densities of a helium atom confined in an impenetrable spherical box within density functional theory. These calculations are performed by variationally solving Kohn-Sham equation with the ground-state…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-06-24 Subhajit Waugh , Avijit Chowdhury , Arup Banerjee

Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been…

The exchange-correlation energy in Kohn-Sham density functional theory is expressed as a functional of the electronic density and the Kohn-Sham orbitals. An alternative to Kohn-Sham theory is to express the energy as a functional of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Goedecker , C. Umrigar

The quasiparticle concept is an important tool for the description of many-body systems. We study the quasiparticle properties for dilute Fermi systems with short-ranged, repulsive interactions using effective field theory. We calculate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Platter , H. -W. Hammer , Ulf-G. Meißner

The Hohenberg-Kohn density functional was long ago shown to reduce to the Thomas-Fermi approximation in the non-relativistic semiclassical (or large-$Z$) limit for all matter, i.e, the kinetic energy becomes local. Exchange also becomes…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-24 Kieron Burke , Antonio Cancio , Tim Gould , Stefano Pittalis

The advent of the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem in 1964, its extension to finite-T, Kohn-Sham theory, and relativistic extensions provide the well-established formalism of density-functional theory (DFT). This theory enables the calculation of all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-18 M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

We study the minimizers of an energy functional with a self-consistent magnetic field, which describes a quantum gas of almost-bosonic anyons in the average-field approximation. For the homogeneous gas we prove the existence of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Michele Correggi , Douglas Lundholm , Nicolas Rougerie

We propose a systematic procedure for the approximation of density functionals in density functional theory that consists of two parts. First, for the efficient approximation of a general density functional, we introduce an efficient ansatz…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-29 Michael Lubasch , Johanna I. Fuks , Heiko Appel , Angel Rubio , J. Ignacio Cirac , Mari-Carmen Bañuls

A one-dimensional quantum wire of Fermions is considered and ground state properties are calculated in the high density regime within the extended quasiparticle picture and Born approximation. Expanding the two-particle Green functions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-18 Klaus Morawetz , Vinod Ashokan , Kare Narain Pathak , Neil Drummond , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Building on the discussion in PRA 93, 042510 (2016), we present a systematic derivation of gradient corrections to the kinetic-energy functional and the one-particle density, in particular for two-dimensional systems. We derive the leading…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-08 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , Yink Loong Len , Hui Khoon Ng , Berthold-Georg Englert

We use voxel deep neural networks to predict energy densities and functional derivatives of electron kinetic energies for the Thomas-Fermi model and Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations. We show that the ground-state electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-24 Kevin Ryczko , Sebastian J. Wetzel , Roger G. Melko , Isaac Tamblyn

Density functional theory underlies the most successful and widely used numerical methods for electronic structure prediction of solids. However, it has the fundamental shortcoming that the universal density functional is unknown. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-23 M. Michael Denner , Mark H. Fischer , Titus Neupert

The fractional quantum Hall effect remains a captivating area in condensed matter physics, characterized by strongly correlated topological order, which manifests as fractionalized excitations and anyonic statistics. Numerical simulations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-27 Yi Yang , Yayun Hu , Zi-Xiang Hu

Density-corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT) is enjoying substantial success in improving semilocal DFT calculations in a wide variety of chemical problems. This paper provides the formal theoretical framework and assumptions for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Stefan Vuckovic , Suhwan Song , John Kozlowski , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

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. Part I of this review…