Neutral electronic excitations and derivative discontinuities: An extended $N$-centered ensemble density functional theory perspective
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| author | Cernatic, Filip Loos, Pierre-François Senjean, Bruno Fromager, Emmanuel |
| author_facet | Cernatic, Filip Loos, Pierre-François Senjean, Bruno Fromager, Emmanuel |
| contents | This work merges two different types of many-electron ensembles, namely the Theophilou-Gross-Oliveira-Kohn ensembles of ground and neutrally-excited states, and the more recent $N$-centered ensembles of neutral and charged ground states. On that basis, an in-principle exact and general, so-called extended $N$-centered, ensemble density-functional theory of charged and neutral electronic excitations is derived. We revisit in this context the concept of density-functional derivative discontinuity for neutral excitations, without ever invoking nor using the asymptotic behavior of the ensemble electronic density. The present mathematical construction fully relies on the weight dependence of the ensemble Hartree-exchange-correlation density-functional energy, which makes the theory applicable to lattice models and opens new perspectives for the description of gaps in mesoscopic systems. |
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| spellingShingle | Neutral electronic excitations and derivative discontinuities: An extended $N$-centered ensemble density functional theory perspective Cernatic, Filip Loos, Pierre-François Senjean, Bruno Fromager, Emmanuel Chemical Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons This work merges two different types of many-electron ensembles, namely the Theophilou-Gross-Oliveira-Kohn ensembles of ground and neutrally-excited states, and the more recent $N$-centered ensembles of neutral and charged ground states. On that basis, an in-principle exact and general, so-called extended $N$-centered, ensemble density-functional theory of charged and neutral electronic excitations is derived. We revisit in this context the concept of density-functional derivative discontinuity for neutral excitations, without ever invoking nor using the asymptotic behavior of the ensemble electronic density. The present mathematical construction fully relies on the weight dependence of the ensemble Hartree-exchange-correlation density-functional energy, which makes the theory applicable to lattice models and opens new perspectives for the description of gaps in mesoscopic systems. |
| title | Neutral electronic excitations and derivative discontinuities: An extended $N$-centered ensemble density functional theory perspective |
| topic | Chemical Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04685 |