Nicole Helbig edited RDMFT.tex  over 9 years ago

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The third term is the Hartree energy, $E_H$ and the forth the exchange-correlation energy $E_{xc}$. As in DFT, the exact functional of RDMFT is unknown. However, the only part that needs to be approximated $E_{xc}[\gamma]$ comes, contrary to DFT, only from the electron-electron interaction, as the interacting kinetic energy can be explicitely expressed in terms of $\gamma$.   Different approximate functionals are employed and minimized with respect to the 1-RDM in order to find the ground state energy, e.g.\ \cite{GPB2005,ML2008,P2013}. A common approximation for $E_{xc}$ is the M\"uller functional \cite{Mueller_1984}, which has the following form  \begin{eqnarray}  E_{xc}\left[\{n_j\},\{\phi_j\}\right]=-\frac{1}{2}\sum_{i,j=1}^\infty \sqrt{n_{i} n_{j}}\int n_{j}}\iint  d\mathbf{r} d\mathbf{r'} \frac{\phi_{i}^{*}(\mathbf{r})\phi_i(\mathbf{r'}) \phi_{j}^{*}(\mathbf{r'})\phi_j(\mathbf{r})}{|\mathbf{r}-\mathbf{r'}|} \end{eqnarray}  and is the only $E_{xc}$ implemented in octopus for the moment.   \par