Orbital-dependent second-order scaled-opposite-spin correlation functionals in the optimized effective potential method
arXiv:1407.8096 · doi:10.1063/1.4887097
Abstract
The performance of correlated optimized effective potential (OEP) functionals based on the spin-resolved second-order correlation energy is analyzed. The relative importance of singly- and doubly- excited contributions as well as the effect of scaling the same- and opposite- spin components is investigated in detail comparing OEP results with Kohn-Sham (KS) quantities determined via an inversion procedure using accurate ab initio electronic densities. Special attention is dedicated in particular to the recently proposed scaled-opposite-spin OEP functional [I. Grabowski, E. Fabiano and F. Della Sala, Phys. Rev. B, 87, 075103, (2013)] which is the most advantageous from a computational point of view. We find that for high accuracy a careful, system dependent, selection of the scaling coefficient is required. We analyze several size-extensive approaches for this selection. Finally, we find that a composite approach, named OEP2-SOSh, based on a post-SCF rescaling of the correlation energy can yield high accuracy for many properties, being comparable with the most accurate OEP procedures previously reported in the literature but at substantially reduced computational effort.
14 pages, 4 figures
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