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Phys. Rev. B 59, 7876–7887 (1999)

Exact exchange-correlation potential for a time-dependent two-electron system

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Irene D’Amico and Giovanni Vignale
Department of Physics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211

Received 9 September 1998; published in the issue dated 15 March 1999

We obtain a solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for a two-electron system confined to a plane by an isotropic parabolic potential whose curvature is periodically modulated in time. From this solution we compute the “exact” time-dependent exchange correlation potential vxc, which enters the Kohn-Sham equation of time-dependent density functional theory. Our “exact” result provides a benchmark against which various approximate forms for vxc can be compared. Finally, vxc is separated in an adiabatic and a pure dynamical part and it is shown that, for the particular system studied, the dynamical part is negligible.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.59.7876
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.59.7876
PACS:
71.15.Mb, 71.45.Gm, 71.10.Ca, 31.15.Ew