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Density functional theory is widely used to treat quantum many body problems in many areas of physics and related fields. A brief survey of this method covering foundations, functionals and applications is presented here.
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Questions of additional degrees of freedom as, e.g., spin will be suppressed here.
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The actual argumentation is more subtle. The subtlety is discussed under the heading of v-representability, which concerns the question of the existence of functional derivatives of kinetic energy functionals [5].
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p stands for the fact that the heavy constituents are planar.
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Dreizler, R.M., Lüdde, C.S. (2013). A Safari Through Density Functional Theory. In: Greiner, W. (eds) Exciting Interdisciplinary Physics. FIAS Interdisciplinary Science Series. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00047-3_37
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