Time-dependent density-functional theory beyond the adiabatic approximation: insights from a two-electron model system

Details Time-dependent density-functional theory beyond the adiabatic approximation: insights from a two-electron model system Time-dependent density-functional theory beyond the adiabatic approximation: insights from a two-electron model system

2006-10-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610341v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

10 pages, 7 figures

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Most applications of time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) use the adiabatic local-density approximation (ALDA) for the dynamical exchange-correlation potential Vxc(r,t). An exact (i.e., nonadiabatic) extension of the ground-state LDA into the dynamical regime leads to a Vxc(r,t) with a memory, which causes the electron dynamics to become dissipative. To illustrate and explain this nonadiabatic behavior, this paper studies the dynamics of two interacting electrons on a two-dimensional quantum strip of finite size, comparing TDDFT within and beyond the ALDA with numerical solutions of the two-electron time-dependent Schroedinger equation. It is shown explicitly how dissipation arises through multiple particle-hole excitations, and how the nonadiabatic extension of the ALDA fails for finite systems, but becomes correct in the thermodynamic limit.

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