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Time-dependent (current) density functional theory for many-electron systems strongly coupled to quantized electromagnetic modes of a microcavity is proposed. It is shown that the electron-photon wave function is a unique functional of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 I. V. Tokatly

In contrast to the original Kohn-Sham (KS) formalism, we propose a density functional theory (DFT) with fractional orbital occupations for the study of ground states of many-electron systems, wherein strong static correlation is shown to be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jeng-Da Chai

We have developed an ensemble density functional theory which includes spin degrees of freedom for nonuniform quantum Hall systems. We have applied this theory using a local-spin-density approximation to study the edge reconstruction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. I. Lubin , O. Heinonen , M. D. Johnson

The density functional theory (DFT) is a remarkably successful theory of electronic structure of matter. At the foundation of this theory lies the Kohn-Sham (KS) equation. In this paper, we describe the long-time behaviour of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Fabio Pusateri , Israel Michael Sigal

One of the most important open challenges in modern Kohn-Sham (KS) density-functional theory (DFT) is the correct treatment of fractional electron charges and spins. Approximate exchange-correlation (XC) functionals struggle to do this in a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-12-24 Jonathan Nafziger , Adam Wasserman

By introducing the self-energy density functionals for the dissipative interactions between the reduced system and its environment, we develop a time-dependent density-functional theory formalism based on an equation of motion for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao Zheng , Fan Wang , Chi Yung Yam , Yan Mo , GuanHua Chen

We employ the density functional Kohn-Sham method in the local spin-density approximation to study the electronic structure and magnetism of quasi one-dimensional periodic arrays of few-electron quantum dots. At small values of the lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 K. Karkkainen , M. Koskinen , S. M. Reimann , M. Manninen

We present analytic expressions for the exact density functional and Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian of simple tight-binding models of correlated electrons. These are the single- and double-site versions of the Anderson, Hubbard and spinless fermion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-16 D. J. Carrascal , J. Ferrer

It is well known that the self-consistent field (SCF) iteration for solving the Kohn-Sham (KS) equation often fails to converge, yet there is no clear explanation. In this paper, we investigate the SCF iteration from the perspective of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 Xin Liu , Xiao Wang , Zaiwen Wen , Yaxiang Yuan

Deriving accurate energy density functional is one of the central problems in condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and quantum chemistry. We propose a novel method to deduce the energy density functional by combining the idea of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-01 Haozhao Liang , Yifei Niu , Tetsuo Hatsuda

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Lin Lin , Jianfeng Lu , Lexing Ying , E. Weinan

The constrained electron density method of embedding a Kohn-Sham system in a substrate system (first described by P. Cortona, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 44}, 8454 (1991) and T.A. Wesolowski and A. Warshel, J. Phys. Chem {\bf 97}, 8050 (1993)) is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 J. R. Trail , D. M. Bird

The Kohn-Sham approach to time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) can be formulated, in principle exactly, by invoking the force-balance equation for the density, which leads to an explicit expression for the exchange-correlation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Walter Tarantino , Carsten A. Ullrich

We consider the extension of the standard single-determinant Kohn-Sham method to the case of a multiconfiguration trial wavefunction. By applying the rigorous Kohn-Sham method to this case, we construct the proper interacting and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-12-08 Yair Kurzweil , M. Head-Gordon

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

This chapter presents the development of a density functional theory (DFT)-based method for accurate, reliable treatment of various resonances in atoms. Many of these are known to be notorious for their strong correlation, proximity to more…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Amlan K. Roy

While in principle exact, Kohn-Sham density functional theory -- the workhorse of computational chemistry -- must rely on approximations for the exchange-correlation functional. Despite staggering successes, present-day approximations still…

We calculate the exact Kohn-Sham (KS) scalar and vector potentials that reproduce, within current-density functional theory, the steady-state density and current density corresponding to an electron quasiparticle added to the ground state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. D. Ramsden , R. W. Godby

A single-term density functional model for nondynamic and strong correlation is presented, based on single-determinant Kohn-Sham density functional theory. It is derived from modeling the adiabatic connection and contains only two nonlinear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-12-21 Jing Kong , Emil Proynov

DFT calculations have become widespread in both chemistry and materials, because they usually provide useful accuracy at much lower computational cost than wavefunction-based methods. All practical DFT calculations require an approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Eunji Sim , Suhwan Song , Stefan Vuckovic , Kieron Burke