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Optimal power series expansions of the Kohn-Sham potential

Callow, Timothy J.; Gidopoulos, Nikitas I.

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Timothy J. Callow



Abstract

A fundamental weakness of density functional theory (DFT) is the difficulty in making systematic improvements to approximations for the exchange and correlation functionals. In this paper, we follow a wave-function-based approach [N.I. Gidopoulos, Phys. Rev. A, 83, 040502 (2011)] to develop perturbative expansions of the Kohn-Sham (KS) potential. Our method is not impeded by the problem of variational collapse of the second-order correlation energy functional. Arguing physically that a small magnitude of the correlation energy implies weak perturbation and hence fast convergence of the perturbative expansion for the interacting state and for the KS potential, we discuss several choices for the zeroth-order Hamiltonian in such expansions. Our first two choices yield KS potentials containing only Hartree and exchange terms: the exchange-only optimized effective potential (xOEP), also known as the exact-exchange potential (EXX), and the Local Fock exchange (LFX) potential. Finally, we choose the zeroth order Hamiltonian that corresponds to minimum magnitude of the second order correlation energy, aiming to obtain at first order the most accurate approximation for the KS potential with Hartree, exchange and correlation character.

Citation

Callow, T. J., & Gidopoulos, N. I. (2018). Optimal power series expansions of the Kohn-Sham potential. The European Physical Journal B, 91(10), Article 209. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2018-90189-2

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 30, 2018
Online Publication Date Oct 1, 2018
Publication Date Oct 1, 2018
Deposit Date May 31, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal The European Physical Journal B
Print ISSN 1434-6028
Electronic ISSN 1434-6036
Publisher SpringerOpen
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 91
Issue 10
Article Number 209
DOI https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2018-90189-2
Related Public URLs http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.12239

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