Classical Density Functional Theory: The Local Density Approximation

Abstract

We prove that the lowest free energy of a classical interacting system at temperature $T$ with a prescribed density profile $\rho (x)$ can be approximated by the local free energy $\int f_T(\rho (x))dx$, provided that $\rho$ varies slowly over sufficiently large length scales. A quantitative error on the difference is provided in terms of the gradient of the density. Here $f_T$ is the free energy per unit volume of an infinite homogeneous gas of the corresponding uniform density. The proof uses quantitative Ruelle bounds (estimates on the local number of particles in a large system), which are derived in an appendix.

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