Fractionalized Kohn-Sham Scheme for Strongly Correlated Electrons

We propose to expand the territory of density functional theory to strongly correlated electrons by reformulating the Kohn-Sham scheme in the representation of fractionalized particles. We call it the "KS∗ scheme."Using inhomogeneous t-J chains as a test bed, we show that the KS∗ scheme with simple local density approximation is able to achieve accurate ground-state energy and density distribution comparable to the density matrix renormalization group method, while the computational complexity is much lower.