Density functional theory and Kohn-Sham scheme for self-bound systems

J. Messud, M. Bender, E. Suraud

Published 2009-04-01, updated 2009-11-10Version 2

We demonstrate how the separation of the total energy of a self-bound system into a functional of the internal one-body Fermionic density and a function of an arbitrary wave vector describing the center-of-mass kinetic energy can be used to set-up an "internal" Kohn-Sham scheme.