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Density functional theory (DFT) is a computational quantum mechanical modelling method used in physics, chemistry and materials science to investigate the electronic structure (or nuclear structure) (principally the ground state) of many-body systems, in particular atoms, molecules, and the condensed phases.
The Density Functional Based Tight Binding method is an approximation to density functional theory, which reduces the Kohn-Sham equations to a form of tight binding related to the Harris functional. The original [ 1 ] approximation limits interactions to a non-self-consistent two center hamiltonian between confined atomic states.
which is the other notable building block of orbital-free density functional theory. The problem with the inaccurate modelling of the kinetic energy in the Thomas–Fermi model, as well as other orbital-free density functionals, is circumvented in Kohn–Sham density functional theory with a fictitious system of non-interacting electrons whose ...
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In practice, the density functional is known exactly except for two terms. These are the electronic kinetic energy and the exchange – correlation energy. The lack of the true exchange–correlation functional is a well known problem in DFT, and there exists a huge variety of approaches to approximate this crucial component.
The density response function, the functional derivative of the density with respect to the external potential, should be causal: a change in the potential at a given time can not affect the density at earlier times. The response functions from the Dirac action however are symmetric in time so lack the required causal structure.
BigDFT is a free software package for physicists and chemists, distributed under the GNU General Public License, whose main program allows the total energy, charge density, and electronic structure of systems made of electrons and nuclei (molecules and periodic/crystalline solids) to be calculated within density functional theory (DFT), using pseudopotentials, and a wavelet basis.
Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is a method to determine the electronic structure of strongly correlated materials.In such materials, the approximation of independent electrons, which is used in density functional theory and usual band structure calculations, breaks down.