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Fermion $N$-representability for prescribed density and paramagnetic current density

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-17 v2 math.MP Chemical Physics Computational Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

The NN-representability problem is the problem of determining whether or not there exists NN-particle states with some prescribed property. Here we report an affirmative solution to the fermion NN-representability problem when both the density and paramagnetic current density are prescribed. This problem arises in current-density functional theory and is a generalization of the well-studied corresponding problem (only the density prescribed) in density functional theory. Given any density and paramagnetic current density satisfying a minimal regularity condition (essentially that a von Weiz\"acker-like the canonical kinetic energy density is locally integrable), we prove that there exist a corresponding NN-particle state. We prove this by constructing an explicit one-particle reduced density matrix in the form of a position-space kernel, i.e.\ a function of two continuous position variables. In order to make minimal assumptions, we also address mathematical subtleties regarding the diagonal of, and how to rigorously extract paramagnetic current densities from, one-particle reduced density matrices in kernel form.

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@article{arxiv.1310.1246,
  title  = {Fermion $N$-representability for prescribed density and paramagnetic current density},
  author = {Erik Tellgren and Simen Kvaal and Trygve Helgaker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.1246},
  year   = {2015}
}
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