Density functional theory: Foundations reviewed |
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Authors: | Eugene S. Kryachko,Eduardo V. Ludeñ a |
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Affiliation: | 1. Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, 03680, Ukraine;2. Centro de Química, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, IVIC, Apartado 21827, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela1;3. Prometheus Program, Senescyt, Ecuador;4. Grupo Ecuatoriano para el Estudio Experimental y Teórico de Nanosistemas, GETNano, USFQ, N104-E, Quito, Ecuador;5. Escuela Politécnica Superior del Litoral, ESPOL, Guayaquil, Ecuador |
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Abstract: | Guided by the above motto (quotation), we review a broad range of issues lying at the foundations of Density Functional Theory, DFT, a theory which is currently omnipresent in our everyday computational study of atoms and molecules, solids and nano-materials, and which lies at the heart of modern many-body computational technologies. The key goal is to demonstrate that there are definitely the ways to improve DFT. We start by considering DFT in the larger context provided by reduced density matrix theory (RDMT) and natural orbital functional theory (NOFT), and examine the implications that N-representability conditions on the second-order reduced density matrix (2-RDM) have not only on RDMT and NOFT but, also, by extension, on the functionals of DFT. This examination is timely in view of the fact that necessary and sufficient N-representability conditions on the 2-RDM have recently been attained. |
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