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Interpretations of ground-state symmetry breaking and strong correlation in wavefunction and density functional theories
Perdew, John P Ruzsinszky, Adrienn Sun, Jianwei Nepal, Niraj K Kaplan, Aaron D
Perdew, John P
Ruzsinszky, Adrienn
Sun, Jianwei
Nepal, Niraj K
Kaplan, Aaron D
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2021-01-26
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10.1073/pnas.2017850118
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<jats:p>Strong correlations within a symmetry-unbroken ground-state wavefunction can show up in approximate density functional theory as symmetry-broken spin densities or total densities, which are sometimes observable. They can arise from soft modes of fluctuations (sometimes collective excitations) such as spin-density or charge-density waves at nonzero wavevector. In this sense, an approximate density functional for exchange and correlation that breaks symmetry can be more revealing (albeit less accurate) than an exact functional that does not. The examples discussed here include the stretched H<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> molecule, antiferromagnetic solids, and the static charge-density wave/Wigner crystal phase of a low-density jellium. Time-dependent density functional theory is used to show quantitatively that the static charge-density wave is a soft plasmon. More precisely, the frequency of a related density fluctuation drops to zero, as found from the frequency moments of the spectral function, calculated from a recent constraint-based wavevector- and frequency-dependent jellium exchange-correlation kernel.</jats:p>
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