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We establish existence and uniqueness of the solution to the Dyson equation for the density-density response function in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) in the random phase approximation (RPA). We show that the poles of the…

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A conceptual difficulty in formulating the density functional theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect is that while in the standard approach the Kohn-Sham orbitals are either fully occupied or unoccupied, the physics of the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-12 Jianyun Zhao , Manisha Thakurathi , Manish Jain , Diptiman Sen , J. K. Jain

By minimizing the difference between the left- and the right-hand sides of the many-body time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation with the Slater-determinant wave-function, we derive a non-adiabatic and self-interaction free time-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-26 V. U. Nazarov

Within exact electron density-functional theory, we investigate Kohn-Sham (KS) potentials, orbital energies, and non-interacting kinetic energies of the fractional ions of Li, C and F. We use quantum Monte Carlo densities as input, which…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Tim Gould , Julien Toulouse

We demonstrate that the zero-temperature conductance of the Anderson model can be calculated within the Landauer formalism combined with static density functional theory (DFT). The proposed approximate functional is based on…

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We formulate a time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) in terms of the density matrix to study ultrafast phenomena in semiconductor structures. A system of equations for the density matrix components, which is equivalent to the…

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The ground state energy of a system of electrons and nuclei is proven to be a variational functional of the conditional electronic density $n_R(\mathbf{r})$, the nuclear wavefunction $\chi(R)$ and an induced vector potential $A_{\mu}(R)$…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-08 Ryan Requist , E. K. U. Gross

Quantum reflection of thermal He atoms from various surfaces (glass slide, GaAs wafer, flat and structured Cr) at grazing conditions is studied within the elastic close-coupling formalism. Comparison with the experimental results of B.S.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 G. Rojas-Lorenzo , J. Rubayo-Soneira , S. Miret-Artés , Eli Pollak

An atom placed inside a cavity of finite dimension offers many interesting features, and thus has been a topic of great current activity. This work proposes a density functional approach to pursue both ground and excited states of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 Sangita Majumdar , Amlan K. Roy

The accurate description of the non-linear response of many-electron systems to strong-laser fields remains a major challenge. Methods that bypass the unfavorable exponential scaling with particle number are required to address larger…

The nonlinear dynamics of energetic-particle (EP) driven geodesic acoustic modes (EGAM) is investigated here. A numerical analysis with the global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5 is performed, and the results are interpreted with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 A. Biancalani , I. Chavdarovski , Z. Qiu , A. Bottino , D. Del Sarto , A. Ghizzo , O. Gurcan , P. Morel , I. Novikau

We propose a way to improve energy density functionals (EDFs) in the density functional theory based on the combination of the inverse Kohn--Sham method and the density functional perturbation theory. Difference between the known EDF and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Tomoya Naito , Daisuke Ohashi , Haozhao Liang

The electron density $n(\rb,t)$, which is the central tool of time-dependent density functional theory, is presently considered to be derivable from a one-body time-dependent potential $V(\rb,t)$, via one-electron wave functions satisfying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Thomas A. Niehaus , Norman H. March

Basic issues of the time-dependent density-functional theory are discussed, especially on the real-time calculation of the linear response functions. Some remarks on the derivation of the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations and on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-06 Takashi Nakatsukasa

Recently, we have proposed the adaptive local basis set for electronic structure calculations based on Kohn-Sham density functional theory in a pseudopotential framework. The adaptive local basis set is efficient and systematically…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 Gaigong Zhang , Lin Lin , Wei Hu , Chao Yang , John E. Pask

This chapter provides a basic introduction to excited-state extensions of density functional theory (DFT), including time-dependent (TD-)DFT in both its linear-response and its explicitly time-dependent formulations. As applied to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 John M. Herbert

We theoretically study magnetic field, temperature, and energy band-gap dependences of magnetizations in the Dirac fermions. We use the zeta function regularization to obtain analytical expressions of thermodynamic potential, from which the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 F. R. Pratama , M. Shoufie Ukhtary , Riichiro Saito

We resolve a fundamental issue associated with the conventional Kohn-Sham formulation of real-time time-dependent density functional theory. We show that unphysical multielectron excitations, generated during time propagation of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-16 Xiaoning Zang , Udo Schwingenschlogl , Mark T. Lusk

Kohn-Sham density functional theory is one of the most widely used electronic structure theories. In the pseudopotential framework, uniform discretization of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian generally results in a large number of basis functions…

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