Nonlocal free-energy density functional for warm dense matter
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| author | Ma, Cheng Chen, Min Xie, Yu Xu, Qiang Mi, Wenhui Wang, Yanchao Ma, Yanming |
| author_facet | Ma, Cheng Chen, Min Xie, Yu Xu, Qiang Mi, Wenhui Wang, Yanchao Ma, Yanming |
| contents | Finite-temperature orbital-free density functional theory (FT-OFDFT) holds significant promise for simulating warm dense matter due to its favorable scaling with both system size and temperature. However, the lack of the numerically accurate and transferable noninteracting free energy functionals results in a limit on the application of FT-OFDFT for warm dense matter simulations. Here, a nonlocal free energy functional, named XWMF, was derived by line integrals for FT-OFDFT simulations. Particularly, a designed integral path, wherein the electronic density varies from uniform to inhomogeneous, was employed to accurately describe deviations in response behavior from the uniform electron gas. The XWMF has been benchmarked by a range of warm dense matter systems including the Si, Al, H, He, and H-He mixture. The simulated results demonstrate that FT-OFDFT within XWMF achieves remarkable performance for accuracy and numerical stability. It is worth noting that XWMF exhibits a low computational cost for large-scale ab~initio simulations, offering exciting opportunities for the realistic simulations of warm dense matter systems covering a broad range of temperatures and pressures. |
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| spellingShingle | Nonlocal free-energy density functional for warm dense matter Ma, Cheng Chen, Min Xie, Yu Xu, Qiang Mi, Wenhui Wang, Yanchao Ma, Yanming Computational Physics Finite-temperature orbital-free density functional theory (FT-OFDFT) holds significant promise for simulating warm dense matter due to its favorable scaling with both system size and temperature. However, the lack of the numerically accurate and transferable noninteracting free energy functionals results in a limit on the application of FT-OFDFT for warm dense matter simulations. Here, a nonlocal free energy functional, named XWMF, was derived by line integrals for FT-OFDFT simulations. Particularly, a designed integral path, wherein the electronic density varies from uniform to inhomogeneous, was employed to accurately describe deviations in response behavior from the uniform electron gas. The XWMF has been benchmarked by a range of warm dense matter systems including the Si, Al, H, He, and H-He mixture. The simulated results demonstrate that FT-OFDFT within XWMF achieves remarkable performance for accuracy and numerical stability. It is worth noting that XWMF exhibits a low computational cost for large-scale ab~initio simulations, offering exciting opportunities for the realistic simulations of warm dense matter systems covering a broad range of temperatures and pressures. |
| title | Nonlocal free-energy density functional for warm dense matter |
| topic | Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12527 |