Table of Contents

Introduction.- Foundations of Density Functional Theory: Existence Theorems.- Effective Single-Particle Equations.- Exchange-Correlation Energy Functional.- Virial Theorems.- Orbital Functionals: Optimized Potential Method.- Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory.- Relativistic Density Functional Theory.- Further Reading.- Appendices: Functionals and the Functional Derivative.- Second Quantization in Many-Body Theory.- Scaling Behavior of Many-Body Methods.- Explicit Density Functionals for the Kinetic Energy: Thomas-Fermi Models and Beyond.- Asymptotic Behavior of Quasi-Particle Amplitudes.- Quantization of Noninteracting Fermions in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory.- Renormalization Scheme of Vacuum QED.- Relativistic Homogeneous Electron Gas.- Renormalization of Inhomogeneous Electron Gas.- Gradient Corrections to the Relativistic LDA.- Gordon Decomposition.- Some Useful Formulae.- Index.

Reviews

From the reviews: "This book is an introduction to density functional theory (DFT) ... . The presentation is ... aimed at a general scientific audience (physics, chemistry, etc.). ... There are ... many interesting choices in the covered topics. ... Several appendices help in making the book self-contained." (Gabriel Stoltz, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2011 m)