A Simple Generalized Gradient Approximation for the Non-interacting Kinetic Energy Density Functional

Abstract

A simple, novel, non-empirical, constraint-based orbital-free generalized gradient approximation (GGA) non-interacting kinetic energy density functional is presented along with illustrative applications. The innovation is adaptation of constraint-based construction to the essential properties of pseudo-densities from the pseudo-potentials that are essential in plane-wave-basis {\it ab initio} molecular dynamics. This contrasts with constraining to the qualitatively different Kato-cusp-condition densities. The single parameter in the new functional is calibrated by satisfying Pauli potential positivity constraints for pseudo-atom densities. In static lattice tests on simple metals and semiconductors, the new LKT functional outperforms the previous best constraint-based GGA functional, VT84F (Phys.\ Rev.\ B \textbf{88}, 161108(R) (2013)), is generally superior to a recently proposed meta-GGA, is reasonably competitive with parametrized two-point functionals, and is substantially faster.

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