Fully numerical calculations on atoms with fractional occupations. Range-separated exchange functionals

Abstract

A recently developed finite element approach for fully numerical atomic structure calculations [S. Lehtola, Int. J. Quantum Chem. 119, e25945 (2019)] is extended to the description of atoms with spherically symmetric densities via fractionally occupied orbitals. Specialized versions of Hartree-Fock as well as local density and generalized gradient approximation density functionals are developed, allowing extremely rapid calculations at the basis set limit on the ground and low-lying excited states even for heavy atoms. The implementation of range-separation based on the Yukawa or complementary error function (erfc) kernels is also described, allowing complete basis set benchmarks of modern range-separated hybrid functionals with either integer or fractional occupation numbers. Finally, computation of atomic effective potentials at the local density or generalized gradient approximation levels for the superposition of atomic potentials (SAP) approach [S. Lehtola, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 15, 1593 (2019)] that has been shown to be a simple and efficient way to initialize electronic structure calculations is described. The present numerical approach is shown to afford beyond microhartree accuracy with a small number of numerical basis functions, and to reproduce literature results for the ground states of atoms and their cations for $1\le Z\le 86$. Our results indicate that the literature values deviate by up to 10 μEh from the complete basis set limit. The numerical scheme for the erfc kernel is shown to work by comparison to results from large Gaussian basis set calculations from the literature. Spin-restricted ground states are reported for Hartree-Fock and Hartree-Fock-Slater calculations with fractional occupations for $1\le Z\le 118$.

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