scholarly journals Dynamic kinetic energy potential for orbital-free density functional theory

2011 ◽  
Vol 134 (14) ◽  
pp. 144101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Neuhauser ◽  
Shlomo Pistinner ◽  
Arunima Coomar ◽  
Xu Zhang ◽  
Gang Lu
Author(s):  
Vittoria Urso

The development of novel Kinetic Energy (KE) functionals is an important topic in density functional theory (DFT). In particular, this happens by means of an analysis with newly developed benchmark sets. Here, I present a study of Laplacian-level kinetic energy functionals applied to metallic nanosystems. The nanoparticles are modeled using jellium sph eres of different sizes, background densities, and number of electrons. The ability of different functionals to reproduce the correct kinetic energy density and potential of various nanoparticles is investigated and analyzed in terms of semilocal descriptors. Most semilocal KE functionals are based on modifications of the second-order gradient expansion GE2 or GE4. I find that the Laplacian contribute is fundamental for the description of the energy and the potential of nanoparticles.


Author(s):  
Kati Finzel

A detailed analysis of the recently published deformation potentials for application in orbital-free density functional theory is given. Since orbital-free density functional theory is a purely density-based description of quantum mechanics, it may in the future provide itself useful in quantum crystallography as it establishes a direct link between experiment and theory via a single meaningful quantity: the electron density. In order to establish this goal, sufficiently accurate approximations for the kinetic energy have to be found. The present work is a further step in this direction. The so-called deformation potentials allow the interaction between the atoms to be taken into account through the help of their electron density only. It is shown that the present ansatz provides a systematic pathway beyond the recently introduced atomic fragment approach.


2016 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 87-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhui Mi ◽  
Xuecheng Shao ◽  
Chuanxun Su ◽  
Yuanyuan Zhou ◽  
Shoutao Zhang ◽  
...  

2001 ◽  
Vol 114 (9) ◽  
pp. 4036-4044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrizia Calaminici ◽  
Andreas M. Köster ◽  
Tucker Carrington ◽  
Pierre–Nicholas Roy ◽  
Nino Russo ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Matthew S. Ryley ◽  
Michael Withnall ◽  
Tom J. P. Irons ◽  
Trygve Helgaker ◽  
Andrew M. Teale

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