Periodicity of the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equation and the Floquet theorem

Abstract

The Floquet theorem allows to reformulate periodic time-dependent problems such as the interaction of a many-body system with a laser field in terms of time-independent, field-dressed states, also known as Floquet states. If this was possible for density functional theory as well, one could reduce in such cases time-dependent density functional theory to a time-independent Floquet density functional theory. We analyze under which conditions the Floquet theorem is applicable in a density-functional framework. By employing numerical {\em ab initio} solutions of the interacting time-dependent Schrödinger equation with time-periodic external potentials we show that the exact effective potential in the corresponding Kohn-Sham equation is {\em not} unconditionally periodic. Whenever several Floquet states in the interacting system are involved in a physical process the corresponding Hartree-exchange-correlation potential is not periodic with the external frequency only. Using an analytically solvable example we demonstrate that, in general, the periodicity of the time-dependent Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian cannot be restored by choosing a different initial state. Only if the external periodic potential is sufficiently weak such that the initial state of the interacting system evolves adiabatically to a single, field-dressed state, the resulting Kohn-Sham system admits the application of the Floquet theorem.

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