Laplacian-level density functionals for the exchange-correlation energy of low-dimensional nanostructures

Abstract

In modeling low-dimensional electronic nanostructures, the evaluation of the electron-electron interaction is a challenging task. Here we present an accurate and practical density-functional approach to the two-dimensional many-electron problem. In particular, we show that spin-density functionals in the class of meta-generalized-gradient approximations can be greatly simplified by reducing the explicit dependence on the Kohn-Sham orbitals to the dependence on the electron spin density and its spatial derivatives. Tests on various quantum-dot systems show that the overall accuracy is well preserved, if not even improved, by the modifications.

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