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The glass transition of a hard sphere system is investigated within the framework of the density functional theory (DFT). Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are performed to study dynamical behavior of the system on the one hand and to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kang Kim , Toyonori Munakata

Quantum entanglement, crucial for understanding quantum many-body systems and quantum gravity, is commonly assessed through various measures such as von Neumann entropy, mutual information, and entanglement contour, each with its inherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Liang-Hong Mo , Yao Zhou , Jia-Rui Sun , Peng Ye

A formulation of the density functional theory is constructed on the foundations of entropic inference. The theory is introduced as an application of maximum entropy for inhomogeneous fluids in thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-29 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha

Starting from Newton's equations of motion, we derive a dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) applicable to atomic liquids. The theory has the feature that it requires as input the Helmholtz free energy functional from equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Archer

We present a framework to study the entanglement structure of a quantum field theory inspired by the formalism of particle detectors in relativistic quantum information. This framework can in principle be used to faithfully capture…

We investigate the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) from a quantum chemical perspective. Dynamical mean-field theory offers a formalism to extend quantum chemical methods for finite systems to infinite periodic problems within a local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-15 Dominika Zgid , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

This review gives an overview of effective field theory (EFT) as applied at finite density, with a focus on nuclear many-body systems. Uniform systems with short-range interactions illustrate the ingredients and virtues of many-body EFT and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 R. J. Furnstahl , G. Rupak , T. Schaefer

Nascent quantum computers motivate the exploration of quantum many-body systems in nontraditional scenarios. For example, it has become natural to explore the dynamics of systems evolving under both unitary evolution and measurement. Such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-15 Nicholas O'Dea , Alan Morningstar , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Vedika Khemani

Quantum entanglement, a fundamental aspect of quantum mechanics, has captured significant attention in the era of quantum information science. In multipartite quantum systems, entanglement plays a crucial role in facilitating various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Mengru Ma , Yinfei Li , Jiangwei Shang

The different quantum phases appearing in strongly correlated systems as well as their transitions are closely related to the entanglement shared between their constituents. In 1D systems, it is well established that the entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-04 M. Moreno-Cardoner , S. Paganelli , G. De Chiara , A. Sanpera

We propose a new method of calculating electronically excited states that combines a density functional theory (DFT) based ground state calculation with a linear response treatment that employs approximations used in the time-dependent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Robert Rüger , Erik van Lenthe , Thomas Heine , Lucas Visscher

This paper addresses the following main question: Do we have a theoretical understanding of entanglement applicable to a full variety of physical settings? It is clear that not only the assumption of distinguishability, but also the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerardo Ortiz , Rolando Somma , Howard Barnum , Emanuel Knill , Lorenza Viola

The entanglement properties of the phase transition in a two dimensional harmonic lattice, similar to the one observed in recent ion trap experiments, are discussed both, for finite number of particles and thermodynamical limit. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Elisabeth Rieper , Janet Anders , Vlatko Vedral

Density functional theory (DFT) based modeling of electronic excited states is of importance for investigation of the photophysical/photochemical properties and spectroscopic characterization of large systems. The widely used linear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Diptarka Hait , Martin Head-Gordon

In the last 50 years, equilibrium density functional theory (DFT) has been proven to be a powerful, versatile and predictive approach for the statics and structure of classical particles. This theory can be extended to the nonequilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-26 Hartmut Löwen

We study the concept of entanglement distance between two quantum states which quantifies the amount of information shared between their reduced density matrices (RDMs). Using analytical arguments combined with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-18 Mohammad-Sadegh Vaezi , Abolhassan Vaezi

We proposed a third quantization scheme to derive the quantum dynamics of the functional phase space distribution in quantum field theory (QFT). The derivation is straightforward and algorithmic. This readily yields the ballistic quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Felix A. Buot

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are non-equilibrium transitions characterized by the orthogonality between an initial quantum state and its time-evolved counterpart following a sudden quench. Recently, studies of this phenomenon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Kai Zhang , Chang Shu , Kai Sun

We show how the use of variational states to approximate the ground state of a system can be employed to study a multi-mode Dicke model. One of the main contributions of this work is the introduction of a not very commonly used quantity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 L. F. Quezada , E. Nahmad-Achar

The multi-terminal generalization of the steady-state density functional theory for the description of electronic and thermal transport (iq-DFT) is presented. The linear response regime of the framework is developed leading to exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Nahual Sobrino , Roberto D'Agosta , Stefan Kurth