Ab initio density functional theory approach to warm dense hydrogen: from density response to electronic correlations
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| author | Moldabekov, Zhandos A. Shao, Xuecheng Bellenbaum, Hannah M. Ma, Cheng Mi, Wenhui Schwalbe, Sebastian Vorberger, Jan Dornheim, Tobias |
| author_facet | Moldabekov, Zhandos A. Shao, Xuecheng Bellenbaum, Hannah M. Ma, Cheng Mi, Wenhui Schwalbe, Sebastian Vorberger, Jan Dornheim, Tobias |
| contents | Understanding the properties of warm dense hydrogen is of key importance for the modeling of compact astrophysical objects and to understand and further optimize inertial confinement fusion (ICF) applications. The work horse of warm dense matter theory is given by thermal density functional theory (DFT), which, however, suffers from two limitations: (i) its accuracy can depend on the utilized exchange--correlation (XC) functional, which has to be approximated and (ii) it is generally limited to single-electron properties such as the density distribution. Here, we present a new ansatz combining time-dependent DFT results for the dynamic structure factor $S_{ee}(\mathbf{q},ω)$ with static DFT results for the density response. This allows us to estimate the electron--electron static structure factor $S_{ee}(\mathbf{q})$ of warm dense hydrogen with high accuracy over a broad range of densities and temperatures. In addition to its value for the study of warm dense matter, our work opens up new avenues for the future study of electronic correlations exclusively within the framework of DFT for a host of applications. |
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| spellingShingle | Ab initio density functional theory approach to warm dense hydrogen: from density response to electronic correlations Moldabekov, Zhandos A. Shao, Xuecheng Bellenbaum, Hannah M. Ma, Cheng Mi, Wenhui Schwalbe, Sebastian Vorberger, Jan Dornheim, Tobias Plasma Physics Chemical Physics Computational Physics Understanding the properties of warm dense hydrogen is of key importance for the modeling of compact astrophysical objects and to understand and further optimize inertial confinement fusion (ICF) applications. The work horse of warm dense matter theory is given by thermal density functional theory (DFT), which, however, suffers from two limitations: (i) its accuracy can depend on the utilized exchange--correlation (XC) functional, which has to be approximated and (ii) it is generally limited to single-electron properties such as the density distribution. Here, we present a new ansatz combining time-dependent DFT results for the dynamic structure factor $S_{ee}(\mathbf{q},ω)$ with static DFT results for the density response. This allows us to estimate the electron--electron static structure factor $S_{ee}(\mathbf{q})$ of warm dense hydrogen with high accuracy over a broad range of densities and temperatures. In addition to its value for the study of warm dense matter, our work opens up new avenues for the future study of electronic correlations exclusively within the framework of DFT for a host of applications. |
| title | Ab initio density functional theory approach to warm dense hydrogen: from density response to electronic correlations |
| topic | Plasma Physics Chemical Physics Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00688 |