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A fermion ground state energy functional is set up in terms of particle density, relative pair density, and kinetic energy tensor density. It satisfies a minimum principle if constrained by a complete set of compatibility conditions. A…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-17 Bin Liu , Jerome K. Percus

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 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

Rigorous mathematical foundations of density functional theory are revisited, with some use of infinitesimal (nonstandard) methods. A thorough treatment is given of basic properties of internal energy and ground-state energy functionals…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-30 Paul E. Lammert

In this work we establish a density-functional reformulation of coupled matter-photon problems subject to general external electromagnetic fields and charge currents. We first show that for static minimally-coupled matter-photon systems an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-07 M. Ruggenthaler

The principles of density-functional theory are studied for finite lattice systems represented by graphs. Surprisingly, the fundamental Hohenberg-Kohn theorem is found void in general, while many insights into the topological structure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Markus Penz , Robert van Leeuwen

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem and the Kohn-Sham equations, which are at the basis of the Density Functional Theory, are reformulated in terms of a particular many-body density, which is translational invariant and therefore is relevant for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 A. Kievsky , G. Orlandini , M. Gattobigio

We review some of the basic mathematical results about density functional theory.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Heinz Siedentop

A generalization of the Kohn--Sham approach is derived where the correlation-energy functional depends on the one-particle density matrix of noninteracting states and on the external potential from the interacting target-state. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 James P. Finley

The main goal of this paper is deriving Density of states $g(\epsilon)$ (degeneracy function) per volume for an equation of state (EOS) $p=-\rho$ (we called it dark energy(DE)).We have concluded that thermodynamic quantities such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-22 Nayereh Majd , D. Momeni

A functional $E_{xc}[\rho(\r,\epsilon)]$ is presented, in which the exchange and correlation energy of an electron gas depends on the local density of occupied states. A simple local parametrization scheme is proposed, entirely from first…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Jose M. Soler

A framework for developing new approximate electronic structure methods is presented, in which the correlation energy of a many-electron system in the ground state is computed as in the single-reference second-order many-body perturbation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2011-06-15 Dimitri Laikov

We propose a framework to construct the ground-state energy and density matrix of an N-electron system by solving selfconsistently a set of single-particle equations. The method can be viewed as a non-trivial extension of the Kohn-Sham…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Van Neck , S. Verdonck , G. Bonny , P. W. Ayers , M. Waroquier

Density-functional theory is a formally exact description of a many-body quantum system in terms of its density; in practice, however, approximations to the universal density functional are required. In this work, a model based on deep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Jeffrey M. McMahon

This chapter introduces thermal density functional theory, starting from the ground-state theory and assuming a background in quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. We review the foundations of density functional theory (DFT) by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-06-02 Aurora Pribram-Jones , Stefano Pittalis , E. K. U. Gross , Kieron Burke

A density-functional theory is developed based on the Maxwell--Schr\"odinger equation with an internal magnetic field in addition to the external electromagnetic potentials. The basic variables of this theory are the electron density and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Erik Tellgren

We present a Green's function method for the evaluation of the particle density profile and of the higher moments of the one-body density matrix in a mesoscopic system of N Fermi particles moving independently in a linear potential. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anna Minguzzi , Patrizia Vignolo , M. P. Tosi

Density functional theory (DFT) is an essential building block for modern theoretical physics, chemistry, and engineering, especially those concerning electronic properties. Through decades of development, various program packages for…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-21 Yusuke Nomura , Ryosuke Akashi

We construct a density functional theory for two-dimension electron (hole) gases subjected to both strong magnetic fields and external potentials. In particular, we are focused on regimes near even-denominator filling factors, in which the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-11 Yinhan Zhang , Junren Shi

A system of soft ellipsoid molecules confined between two planar walls is studied using classical Density Functional Theory (DFT). Both the isotropic and nematic phases are considered. The excess free energy is evaluated using two different…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 David Cheung , Friederike Schmid