Density functional theory and Kohn-Sham scheme for self-bound systems

Jérémie Messud (1) , M. Bender (2) , Eric Suraud (1, 3)

1 AGR-LPT - Agrégats (LPT)
2 CENBG - Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan
3 LPT - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique

We demonstrate how the separation of the total energy of a self-bound system into a functional of the internal one-body Fermionic density and a function of an arbitrary wave vector describing the center-of-mass kinetic energy can be used to set up an "internal" Kohn-Sham scheme.

Domaines: Physique Nucléaire Théorique [nucl-th]

Jérémie Messud, M. Bender, Eric Suraud. Density functional theory and Kohn-Sham scheme for self-bound systems. Physical Review C, 2009, 80, pp.054314. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevC.80.054314⟩. ⟨in2p3-00380689⟩