title: Time-dependent density functional theory for many-electron systems interacting with cavity photons.
abstract: Time-dependent (current) density functional theory for many-electron systems strongly coupled to quantized electromagnetic modes of a microcavity is proposed. It is shown that the electron-photon wave function is a unique functional of the electronic (current) density and the expectation values of photonic coordinates. The Kohn-Sham system is constructed, which allows us to calculate the above basic variables by solving self-consistent equations for noninteracting particles. We suggest possible approximations for the exchange-correlation potentials and discuss implications of this approach for the theory of open quantum systems. In particular we show that it naturally leads to time-dependent density functional theory for systems coupled to the Caldeira-Leggett bath.
authors.affiliation: Nano-bio Spectroscopy group and ETSF Scientific Development Centre, Departamento de Física de Materiales, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, E-20018 San Sebastían, Spain and IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48011 Bilbao, Spain.
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Tokatly
mesh_terms: D004583:Electrons; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017785:Photons; D011789:Quantum Theory