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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 76, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.052514
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We derive the basic formalism of density functional theory for time-dependent electron-nuclear systems. The basic variables of this theory are the electron density in body-fixed frame coordinates and the diagonal of the nuclear N-body density matrix. The body-fixed frame transformation is carried out in order to achieve an electron density that reflects the internal symmetry of the system. We discuss the implications of this body-fixed frame transformation and establish a Runge-Gross-type theorem and derive Kohn-Sham equations for the electrons and nuclei. We illustrate the formalism by performing calculations on a one-dimensional diatomic molecule for which the many-body Schrodinger equation can be solved numerically. These benchmark results are then compared to the solution of the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations in the Hartree approximation. Furthermore, we analyze the excitation energies obtained from the linear response formalism in the single pole approximation. We find that there is a clear need for improved functionals that go beyond the simple Hartree approximation.
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