Strictly correlated electrons in density-functional theory: A general formulation with applications to spherical densities

We reformulate the strong-interaction limit of electronic density functional theory in terms of a classical problem with a degenerate minimum. This allows us to clarify many aspects of this limit, and to write a general solution, which is explicitly calculated for spherical densities. We then compare our results with previous approximate solutions and discuss the implications for density functional theory.

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  2007

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  Bulletin of the American Physical Society

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  2007-01-01

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  Physics

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  DOI 10.1103/PHYSREVA.75.042511arXiv cond-mat/0701025
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