Density functional theory (DFT) is a cornerstone tool of modern physics, chemistry, and engineering used to explore the behavior of electrons. While essential in modeling systems with many electrons, ...

Living organisms, ecosystems and the planet Earth are, from a physics point of view, examples of extraordinarily large and complex systems that are not in thermal equilibrium. To physically describe ...

Due to its high electron mobilities at ambient temperature and peculiar electronic behaviors like the quantum hall effect, which imitates massless transportation and results in high superconductivity, ...

Density functional theory (DFT) has become the cornerstone of modern computational chemistry and condensed-matter physics by providing a practical route to compute the electronic structure of atoms, ...

Power functional theory is a new approach that makes it possible to describe precisely the dynamics of many-particle systems over time. Physicists at the University of Bayreuth are among the ...

A study published in April 2026 in Proceedings of the Royal Society A shows a different possibility. Researchers demonstrated that a foundational classical principle can reproduce the exact same ...