spirit of the original HK theorems, is orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT), in which approximate functionals are also used for the kinetic energy...
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orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) is a quantum mechanical approach to electronic structure determination which is based on functionals of...
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Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a quantum mechanical theory used in physics and chemistry to investigate the properties and dynamics...
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molecular orbitals – as linear combinations of atomic orbitals (LCAO). These approximations are made by applying the density functional theory (DFT) or...
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Electronic band structure (redirect from Band theory)
calculated using density-functional theory (DFT), which is not a model but rather a theory, i.e., a microscopic first-principles theory of condensed matter...
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Thomas–Fermi model (redirect from Thomas-Fermi theory)
Thomas–Fermi theory is also used as a component in more sophisticated density approximation to the kinetic energy within modern orbital-free density functional theory...
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many-body effects encoded in the wave function, going beyond mean-field theory. In particular, there exist numerically exact and polynomially-scaling algorithms...
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In chemistry, valence bond (VB) theory is one of the two basic theories, along with molecular orbital (MO) theory, that were developed to use the methods...
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Hartree–Fock method (redirect from Hartree-Fock theory)
alternative to Hartree–Fock calculations used in some cases is density functional theory, which treats both exchange and correlation energies, albeit approximately...
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to what MP pertubation theory is in HF theory is Görling-Levy (GL) pertubation theory in Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT). Electron correlation...
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John Perdew (section Work in density functional theory)
analogue to the Kohn-Sham equations for Orbital-free density functional theory. Visualizing DFT functionals to be a succession of ladder steps, Perdew...
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In solid-state physics, the nearly free electron model (or NFE model and quasi-free electron model) is a quantum mechanical model of physical properties...
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combinations of either atomic orbitals, delocalized atomic orbitals (Coulson-Fischer theory), or even molecular orbital fragments. Although this is often...
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band), with an extremum at k = 0, and with no spin–orbit coupling, the result of k·p perturbation theory is (to lowest nontrivial order): u n , k = u n ...
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chemistry, natural resonance theory (NRT) is an iterative, variational functional embedded into the natural bond orbital (NBO) program, commonly run in...
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Anderson's rule Dynamical theory of diffraction Solid state physics Linear combination of atomic orbitals molecular orbital method (LCAO) Holstein–Herring...
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pseudopotential and linear augmented-plane-wave methods, and allows for density functional theory calculations to be performed with greater computational efficiency...
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bond theory and molecular orbital theory, whilst avoiding many of their weaknesses. For example, unlike the widely used Hartree–Fock molecular orbital method...
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determinants where the electron in orbital i has been excited to orbital a and the electron in orbital j has been excited to orbital b, etc. In this way we generate...
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perturbation theory (GLPT) in Kohn–Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT) is the analogue to what Møller–Plesset perturbation theory (MPPT) is in Hartree–Fock...
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by the number of spin orbitals that are swapped with virtual orbitals from the Hartree–Fock determinant. If only one spin orbital differs, we describe...
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Conversely, the density determines the wave function modulo up to a phase factor, providing the formal foundation of density functional theory. According to...
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GW approximation (category Quantum field theory)
homogeneous or uniform electron gas which is characterized by an electron density or equivalently the average electron-electron separation or Wigner–Seitz...
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the solution of a complicated many-electron problem, but the density functional theory of Walter Kohn makes it possible to reduce it to the solution...
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the linear muffin-tin orbital method (LMTO) and various Green's function methods. One application is found in the variational theory developed by Jan Korringa...
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calculations of fragments and their dimers, such as Hartree–Fock, Density functional theory (DFT), Multi-configurational self-consistent field (MCSCF), time-dependent...
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{\displaystyle [\mathbf {k} ,\mathbf {k} +d\mathbf {k} ]} increases. The density of states in an energy interval [ E , E + d E ] {\displaystyle [E,E+dE]}...
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reference states of molecules in cases where Hartree–Fock and density functional theory are not adequate (e.g., for molecular ground states which are...
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Optimized effective potential method (category Density functional theory)
Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT) is a method to determine the potentials as functional derivatives of the corresponding KS orbital-dependent...
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Gotthard; Joswig, Jan-Ole (2012). "Density-functional tight binding—an approximate density-functional theory method". WIREs Computational Molecular Science...
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