Density Functional Theory: An Advanced Course
Density Functional Theory: An Advanced Course
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-14090-7
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2011-01-01
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Dreizler, Reiner M.
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Engel, Eberhard;Dreizler, Reiner M.
This book emerged from a course on density functional theory (DFT), first given at the University of Munich more than a decade ago. The course was based on the classic texts by Dreizler and Gross (Springer, 1990) and by Parr and Yang (Oxford University Press, 1989). More recent topics of that time, such as time-dependent DFT or orbital-dependent functionals, were added to the material covered by the two books. However, already at that time restriction to the most relevant and/or most illustrative statements on a particular aspect of DFT was necessary, in order to keep the length of the course under control. When the course was later given again at the University of Frankfurt it soon turned out to be impossible to integrate the exploding number of new results, concerning both the formalism as well as important applications, into the course: So, even a selection of the branches of DFT covered in the course was unavoidable.The present text reflects this, admittedly subjective, choice of topics: it concentrates on the basics of the most widely used variants of DFT. This implies a thorough discussion of the corresponding existence theorems and effective singleparticle equations as well as of the key approximations utilized in implementations. Ground state DFT (on the nonrelativistic level) is addressed in Chaps. 2–6. Chapter 2 introduces the fundamental Hohenberg-Kohn theorem and its extensions to spin-, current-and current-spin-density functional theory, together with some basic notions such as v-representability. The resulting Kohn-Sham equations are collected in Chap. 3. This chapter also includes a discussion of the relation between the Kohn-Sham wavefunctions and eigenvalues and the true many-body wavefunctions and energies. Chapter 4 is devoted to a detailed exposition of the currently available approximations for the exchange-correlation functional, based on two exact representations of this quantity. The most important virial relations valid for density functionals are summarized in Chap. 5. The discussion of the exchange-correlation functional is then resumed in Chap. 6, in which the concept of orbital-dependent functionals is introduced. This chapter also serves as a demonstration of the firstprinciples character of DFT, in that it shows that the true exchange-correlation energies and potentials can be systematically approached by use of orbital-dependent functionals. On the other hand, the discussion of the existence theorem, of the basic