Quantum electrodynamical time-dependent density functional theory on a lattice
Abstract
We present a rigorous formulation of the time-dependent density functional theory for interacting lattice electrons strongly coupled to cavity photons. We start with an example of one particle on a Hubbard dimer coupled to a single photonic mode, which is equivalent to the single mode spin-boson model or the quantum Rabi model. For this system we prove that the electron-photon wave function is a unique functional of the electronic density and the expectation value of the photonic coordinate, provided the initial state and the density satisfy a set of well defined conditions. Then we generalize the formalism to many interacting electrons on a lattice coupled to multiple photonic modes and prove the general mapping theorem. We also show that for a system evolving from the ground state of a lattice Hamiltonian any density with a continuous second time derivative is locally -representable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1408.6324,
title = {Quantum electrodynamical time-dependent density functional theory on a lattice},
author = {Mehdi Farzanehpour and I. V. Tokatly},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6324},
year = {2015}
}
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9 pages, 1 figure