Density functional theory at finite temperatures

DOI10.1016/0003-4916(88)90271-0zbMath0662.46082OpenAlexW1983171872MaRDI QIDQ5903830

Ivan Zh. Petkov, Mario V. Stoitsov

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-4916(88)90271-0

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equationslocal density distributionconjugacy relation in the space of density matricesGibbs energy density matrixgrand-canonical density matrix minimizes the Gibbs free energy over the space of hermitian and positive definite density matrices with unit traceHilbert space of wave functionsquantum statistical variational principlerigorous foundation of the density functional approach to quantum statistical mechanicstemperature-dependent Hartree-Fock theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10) Miscellaneous applications of functional analysis (46N99)

Cites Work

• Stability of the thermal Hartree-Fock approximation
• Nuclear Surface Effects
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