Reduction of Electronic Wavefunctions to Kohn-Sham Effective Potentials

Abstract

A method for calculating the Kohn--Sham exchange-correlation potential, $v_{\text{XC}}(\mathbf{r})$, from a given electronic wavefunction is devised and implemented. It requires on input one- and two-electron density matrices and involves construction of the generalized Fock matrix. The method is free from numerical limitations and basis-set artifacts of conventional schemes for constructing $v_{\text{XC}}(\mathbf{r})$ in which the potential is recovered from a given electron density, and is simpler than various many-body techniques. The chief significance of this development is that it allows one to directly probe the functional derivative of the true exchange-correlation energy functional and to rigorously test and improve various density-functional approximations.

5 pages, 4 figures, accepted in Physical Review Letters

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