APS March Meeting 2016
Volume 61, Number 2
Monday–Friday, March 14–18, 2016;
Baltimore, Maryland
Session B31: Advances in Density Functional Theory II
11:15 AM–2:15 PM,
Monday, March 14, 2016
Room: 331
Sponsoring
Unit:
DCP
Chair: John Perdew, Temple University
Abstract ID: BAPS.2016.MAR.B31.1
Abstract: B31.00001 : Self-Interaction Corrected Density Functional Approximations with Unitary Invariance: Applications to Molecules
11:15 AM–11:51 AM
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Author:
Mark Pederson
(Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University)
For a system of 2N electrons, the Fermi-hole may be interpreted as the square of a normalized "Fermi orbital", $F({\bf a}) \equiv \rho_\sigma({\bf a},{\bf r})/\sqrt{\rho_\sigma({\bf a})}$. This normalized orbital captures all of the spin density at its position of definition, or descriptor, $({\bf a})$. Given a set of N quasi-classical electronic positions $({\bf a_i})$ and a spin density-matrix composed of N Kohn-Sham orbitals, the resulting set of Fermi orbitals may then be used to construct a set of localized Loewdin-orthonormalized orbitals[1]. These orbitals are explicitly a functional of the spin density and are related to the Kohn-Sham orbitals by a unitary transformation that is parametrically dependent on the set quasi-classical electronic descriptors. The construction of such localized orbitals allows for the restoration of unitary invariance into the original Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction[2,3] and provides a possible simplification compared to the localization-equation based solution of self-interaction corrected functionals[4]. This talk will discuss the construction of this Fermi-orbital-based self-interaction corrected method and the minimization algorithm that relies upon analytical derivatives[3] of the self-interaction energy with respect to the Fermi-orbital descriptors. Recent applications to a large set of molecules including aromatic molecules, molecules with open transition-metal centers, and molecules with frustrated Kekule' structures will be discussed. Initial applications indicate improvements in atomization energies of pi-bonded systems and demonstrate the desired downward shift of orbital energies relative to their Kohn-Sham counterparts.
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[4]M. R. Pederson, R. A. Heaton, and C. C. Lin, J. Chem. Phys. ${\bf 80}$, 1972 (1984).
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