The Kohn-Sham system in one-matrix functional theory
| dc.creator | Requist, Ryan | |
| dc.creator | Pankratov, Oleg | |
| dc.date | 2007-11-19 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T09:51:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T09:51:56Z | |
| dc.description | A system of electrons in a local or nonlocal external potential can be studied with 1-matrix functional theory (1MFT), which is similar to density functional theory (DFT) but takes the one-particle reduced density matrix (1-matrix) instead of the density as its basic variable. Within 1MFT, Gilbert derived [PRB 12, 2111 (1975)] effective single-particle equations analogous to the Kohn-Sham (KS) equations in DFT. The self-consistent solution of these 1MFT-KS equations reproduces not only the density of the original electron system but also its 1-matrix. While in DFT it is usually possible to reproduce the density using KS orbitals with integer (0 or 1) occupancy, in 1MFT reproducing the 1-matrix requires in general fractional occupancies. The variational principle implies that the KS eigenvalues of all fractionally occupied orbitals must collapse at self-consistency to a single level, equal to the chemical potential. We show that as a consequence of the degeneracy the iteration of the KS equations is intrinsically divergent. Fortunately, the level shifting method, commonly introduced in Hartree-Fock calculations, is always able to force convergence. We introduce an alternative derivation of the 1MFT-KS equations that allows control of the eigenvalue collapse by constraining the occupancies. As an explicit example, we apply the 1MFT-KS scheme to calculate the ground state 1-matrix of an exactly solvable two-site Hubbard model. | |
| dc.description | 17 pages, 6 figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2996 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2996 | |
| dc.identifier | Phys. Rev. B, vol. 77, 235121 (2008) | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.77.235121 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/165422 | |
| dc.subject | Strongly Correlated Electrons | |
| dc.title | The Kohn-Sham system in one-matrix functional theory | |
| dc.type | text |