328 research outputs found
Thermodynamics as an alternative foundation for zero-temperature density functional theory and spin density functional theory
Thermodynamics provides a transparent definition of the free energy of
density functional theory (DFT), and of its derivatives - the potentials, at
finite temperatures T. By taking the T to 0 limit, it is shown here that both
DFT and spin-dependent DFT (for ground states) suffer from precisely the same
benign ambiguities: (a) charge and spin quantization lead to "up to a constant"
indeterminacies in the potential and the magnetic field respectively, and (b)
the potential in empty subspaces is undetermined but irrelevant. Surprisingly,
these simple facts were inaccessible within the standard formulation, leading
to recent discussions of apparent difficulties within spin-DFT.Comment: RevTeX, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Nuclear surface properties in relativistic effective field theory
We perform Hartree calculations of symmetric and asymmetric semi-infinite
nuclear matter in the framework of relativistic models based on effective
hadronic field theories as recently proposed in the literature. In addition to
the conventional cubic and quartic scalar self-interactions, the extended
models incorporate a quartic vector self-interaction, scalar-vector
non-linearities and tensor couplings of the vector mesons. We investigate the
implications of these terms on nuclear surface properties such as the surface
energy coefficient, surface thickness, surface stiffness coefficient, neutron
skin thickness and the spin-orbit force.Comment: 30 pages, 15 figures. Submitted to Nuclear Physics
Analysis of Web Browsing Data: A Guide
The use of individual-level browsing data, that is, the records of a person’s visits to online content through a desktop or mobile browser, is of increasing importance for social scientists. Browsing data have characteristics that raise many questions for statistical analysis, yet to date, little hands-on guidance on how to handle them exists. Reviewing extant research, and exploring data sets collected by our four research teams spanning seven countries and several years, with over 14,000 participants and 360 million web visits, we derive recommendations along four steps: preprocessing the raw data; filtering out observations; classifying web visits; and modelling browsing behavior. The recommendations we formulate aim to foster best practices in the field, which so far has paid little attention to justifying the many decisions researchers need to take when analyzing web browsing data.Die Verwendung von Browsing-Daten auf individueller Ebene, d.h. die Aufzeichnungen der Besuche einer Person bei Online-Inhalten über einen Desktop- oder mobilen Browser, ist für Sozialwissenschaftler*innen von zunehmender Bedeutung. Browsing-Daten haben Eigenschaften, die viele Fragen für die statistische Analyse aufwerfen, doch bisher gibt es nur wenige praktische Anleitungen für den Umgang mit ihnen. Nach Durchsicht bestehender Forschungsarbeiten und der Untersuchung von Datensätzen, die von vier Forschungsteams in sieben Ländern und über mehrere Jahre hinweg gesammelt wurden, mit über 14.000 Teilnehmenden und 360 Millionen Webbesuchen, leiten die Autor*innen Empfehlungen in vier Schritten ab: Vorverarbeitung der Rohdaten, Herausfiltern von Beobachtungen, Klassifizierung von Webbesuchen und Modellierung des Surfverhaltens
Is it possible to construct excited-state energy functionals by splitting k-space?
We show that our procedure of constructing excited-state energy functionals
by splitting k-space, employed so far to obtain exchange energies of
excited-states, is quite general. We do so by applying the same method to
construct modified Thomas-Fermi kinetic energy functional and its gradient
expansion up to the second order for the excited-states. We show that the
resulting kinetic energy functional has the same accuracy for the
excited-states as the ground-state functionals do for the ground-states.Comment: 20 pages, 1 figur
Dynamics at a smeared phase transition
We investigate the effects of rare regions on the dynamics of Ising magnets
with planar defects, i.e., disorder perfectly correlated in two dimensions. In
these systems, the magnetic phase transition is smeared because static
long-range order can develop on isolated rare regions. We first study an
infinite-range model by numerically solving local dynamic mean-field equations.
Then we use extremal statistics and scaling arguments to discuss the dynamics
beyond mean-field theory. In the tail region of the smeared transition the
dynamics is even slower than in a conventional Griffiths phase: the spin
autocorrelation function decays like a stretched exponential at intermediate
times before approaching the exponentially small equilibrium value following a
power law at late times.Comment: 10 pages, 8eps figures included, final version as publishe
Exchange-correlation vector potentials and vorticity-dependent exchange-correlation energy densities in two-dimensional systems
We present a new approach how to calculate the scalar exchange-correlation
potentials and the vector exchange-correlation potentials from current-carrying
ground states of two-dimensional quantum dots. From these exchange-correlation
potentials we derive exchange-correlation energy densities and examine their
vorticity (or current) dependence. Compared with parameterizations of
current-induced effects in literature we find an increased significance of
corrections due to paramagnetic current densities.Comment: 5 figures, submitted to PR
Nonuniqueness of the Potentials of Spin-Density-Functional Theory
It is shown that, contrary to widely held beliefs, the potentials of
spin-density-functional theory (SDFT) are not unique functionals of the spin
densities. Explicit examples of distinct sets of potentials with the same
ground-state densities are constructed, and general arguments that uniqueness
should not occur in SDFT and other generalized density-functional theories are
given. As a consequence, various types of applications of SDFT require
significant corrections or modifications.Comment: 4 pages, no figure
Magnons in real materials from density-functional theory
We present an implementation of the adiabatic spin-wave dynamics of Niu and
Kleinman. This technique allows to decouple the spin and charge excitations of
a many-electron system using a generalization of the adiabatic approximation.
The only input for the spin-wave equations of motion are the energies and Berry
curvatures of many-electron states describing frozen spin spirals. The latter
are computed using a newly developed technique based on constrained
density-functional theory, within the local spin density approximation and the
pseudo-potential plane-wave method. Calculations for iron show an excellent
agreement with experiments.Comment: 1 LaTeX file and 1 postscript figur
Spin state and phase competition in TbBaCo_{2}O_{5.5} and the lanthanide series LnBaCo_{2}O_{5+\delta} (0<=\delta<=1)
A clear physics picture of TbBaCoO is revealed on the basis of
density functional theory calculations. An antiferromagnetic (AFM)
superexchange coupling between the almost high-spin Co ions competes
with a ferromagnetic (FM) interaction mediated by both p-d exchange and double
exchange, being responsible for the observed AFM-FM transition. And the
metal-insulator transition is accompanied by an xy/xz orbital-ordering
transition. Moreover, this picture can be generalized to the whole lanthanide
series, and it is predicted that a few room-temperature magnetoresistance
materials could be found in LnBaACoO
(Ln=Ho,Er,Tm,Yb,Lu; A=Sr,Ca,Mg).Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures; to be published in Phys. Rev. B on 1st Sept.
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Electronic structure study of double perovskites FeReO (A=Ba,Sr,Ca) and SrMoO (M=Cr,Mn,Fe,Co) by LSDA and LSDA+U
We have implemented a systematic LSDA and LSDA+U study of the double
perovskites FeReO (A=Ba,Sr,Ca) and SrMoO
(M=Cr,Mn,Fe,Co) for understanding of their intriguing electronic and magnetic
properties. The results suggest a ferrimagnetic (FiM) and half-metallic (HM)
state of FeReO (A=Ba,Sr) due to a pdd- coupling between the
down-spin Re/Fe orbitals via the intermediate O
ones, also a very similar FiM and HM state of SrFeMoO.
In contrast, a decreasing Fe component at Fermi level () in the
distorted CaFeReO partly accounts for its nonmetallic behavior,
while a finite - coupling between the down-spin
Re/Fe orbitals being present at serves to
stabilize its FiM state. For SrCrMoO compared with
SrFeMoO, the coupling between the down-spin Mo/Cr
orbitals decreases as a noticeable shift up of the Cr 3d
levels, which is likely responsible for the decreasing value and weak
conductivity. Moreover, the calculated level distributions indicate a
Mn(Co)/Mo ionic state in SrMnMoO
(SrCoMoO), in terms of which their antiferromagnetic insulating
ground state can be interpreted. While orbital population analyses show that
owing to strong intrinsic pd covalence effects, SrMoO
(M=Cr,Mn,Fe,Co) have nearly the same valence state combinations, as accounts
for the similar M-independent spectral features observed in them.Comment: 21 pages, 3 figures. to be published in Phys. Rev. B on 15th Se
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