A well-tempered density functional theory of electrons in molecules

Abstract

Reporting extensions of a recently developed approach to density functional theory with correct long-range be-havior (Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 043002 (2005)). The central quantities are a splitting functional gamma[n] and a complementary exchange-correlation functional. We give a practical method for determining the value of γin molecules, assuming an approximation for XC energy is given. The resulting theory shows good ability to reproduce the ionization potentials for various molecules. However it is not of sufficient accuracy for forming a satisfactory framework for studying molecular properties. A somewhat different approach is then adopted, which depends on a density-independent γand an additional parameter w eliminating part of the local exchange functional. The values of these two parameters are obtained by best-fitting to experimental atomization energies and bond-lengths of the molecules in the G2(1) database. The optimized values are gamma=0.5 a_0^{-1} and w=0.1 . We then examine the performance of this slightly semi-empirical functional for a variety of molecular properties, comparing to related works and to experiment. We show that this approach can be used for describing in a satisfactory manner a broad range of molecular properties, be they static or dynamic. Most satisfactory is the ability to describe valence, Rydberg and inter-molecular charge-transfer excitations.

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