title: Time-dependent density functional theory of classical fluids.
abstract: We establish a rigorous time-dependent density functional theory of classical fluids for a wide class of microscopic dynamics. We obtain a stationary action principle for the density. We further introduce an exact practical scheme, to obtain hydrodynamical effects in density evolution, that is analogous to the Kohn-Sham theory of quantum systems. Finally, we show how the current theory recovers existing phenomenological theories in an adiabatic limit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-1301, USA.
authors.forename: Garnet Kin-Lic
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: Reimar
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Finken