Exact Excited-State Functionals of the Asymmetric Hubbard Dimer

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Hauptverfasser: Giarrusso, Sara, Loos, Pierre-François
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author Giarrusso, Sara
Loos, Pierre-François
author_facet Giarrusso, Sara
Loos, Pierre-François
contents The exact functionals associated with the (singlet) ground and the two singlet excited states of the asymmetric Hubbard dimer at half-filling are calculated using both Levy's constrained search and Lieb's convex formulation. While the ground-state functional is, as commonly known, a convex function with respect to the density (or, more precisely, the site occupation), the functional associated with the (highest) doubly-excited state is found to be concave. Also, because the density of the first-excited state is non-invertible, its ``functional'' is a partial, multi-valued function composed of one concave and one convex branch that correspond to two separate sets of values of the external potential. Remarkably, it is found that, although the one-to-one mapping between density and external potential may not apply (as in the case of the first excited state), each state-specific energy and corresponding universal functional are ``functions'' whose derivatives are each other's inverse, just as in the ground state formalism. These findings offer insight into the challenges of developing state-specific excited-state density functionals for general applications in electronic structure theory.
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spellingShingle Exact Excited-State Functionals of the Asymmetric Hubbard Dimer
Giarrusso, Sara
Loos, Pierre-François
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Materials Science
Mathematical Physics
Nuclear Theory
Chemical Physics
The exact functionals associated with the (singlet) ground and the two singlet excited states of the asymmetric Hubbard dimer at half-filling are calculated using both Levy's constrained search and Lieb's convex formulation. While the ground-state functional is, as commonly known, a convex function with respect to the density (or, more precisely, the site occupation), the functional associated with the (highest) doubly-excited state is found to be concave. Also, because the density of the first-excited state is non-invertible, its ``functional'' is a partial, multi-valued function composed of one concave and one convex branch that correspond to two separate sets of values of the external potential. Remarkably, it is found that, although the one-to-one mapping between density and external potential may not apply (as in the case of the first excited state), each state-specific energy and corresponding universal functional are ``functions'' whose derivatives are each other's inverse, just as in the ground state formalism. These findings offer insight into the challenges of developing state-specific excited-state density functionals for general applications in electronic structure theory.
title Exact Excited-State Functionals of the Asymmetric Hubbard Dimer
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Materials Science
Mathematical Physics
Nuclear Theory
Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15084