Excited-State-Specific Kohn-Sham Formalism for the Asymmetric Hubbard Dimer

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Autori principali: Loos, Pierre-François, Giarrusso, Sara
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author Loos, Pierre-François
Giarrusso, Sara
author_facet Loos, Pierre-François
Giarrusso, Sara
contents Building on our recent study [https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02052, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 8780 (2023)], we explore the generalization of the ground-state Kohn-Sham (KS) formalism of density-functional theory (DFT) to the (singlet) excited states of the asymmetric Hubbard dimer at half-filling. While we found that the KS-DFT framework can be straightforwardly generalized to the highest-lying doubly-excited state, the treatment of the first excited state presents significant challenges. Specifically, using a density-fixed adiabatic connection, we show that the density of the first excited state lacks non-interacting $v$-representability. However, by employing an analytic continuation of the adiabatic path, we demonstrate that the density of the first excited state can be generated by a complex-valued external potential in the non-interacting case. More practically, by performing state-specific KS calculations with exact and approximate correlation functionals -- each state possessing a distinct correlation functional -- we observe that spurious stationary solutions of the KS equations may arise due to the approximate nature of the functional.
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spellingShingle Excited-State-Specific Kohn-Sham Formalism for the Asymmetric Hubbard Dimer
Loos, Pierre-François
Giarrusso, Sara
Chemical Physics
Materials Science
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Nuclear Theory
Building on our recent study [https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02052, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 8780 (2023)], we explore the generalization of the ground-state Kohn-Sham (KS) formalism of density-functional theory (DFT) to the (singlet) excited states of the asymmetric Hubbard dimer at half-filling. While we found that the KS-DFT framework can be straightforwardly generalized to the highest-lying doubly-excited state, the treatment of the first excited state presents significant challenges. Specifically, using a density-fixed adiabatic connection, we show that the density of the first excited state lacks non-interacting $v$-representability. However, by employing an analytic continuation of the adiabatic path, we demonstrate that the density of the first excited state can be generated by a complex-valued external potential in the non-interacting case. More practically, by performing state-specific KS calculations with exact and approximate correlation functionals -- each state possessing a distinct correlation functional -- we observe that spurious stationary solutions of the KS equations may arise due to the approximate nature of the functional.
title Excited-State-Specific Kohn-Sham Formalism for the Asymmetric Hubbard Dimer
topic Chemical Physics
Materials Science
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14945