Entropic Density Functional Theory
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Preliminaries
2.1. The Quantum MaxEnt Method
2.2. Optimal Approximations of Density Operators
3. Density Functional Formalism
3.1. Introducing Density as the Relevant Variable
3.2. The Entropic DFT Variational Principle
3.3. The DFT Theorem
4. The Kohn–Sham Approximation Scheme
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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