Nonlocal Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory Incorporating Nuclear Shell Effects

Author(s): Xinhui Wu, Gianluca Colò, Kouichi Hagino, and Pengwei Zhao Incorporating nuclear shell effects within the framework of orbital-free density functional theory (DFT) has remained a long-standing challenge in nuclear physics. While the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem formally guarantees the existence of an orbital-free density functional that is capable of describing a… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 092501] Published Mon Mar 02, 2026