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- Title
Comparison of Density Functional Approximations in the Jellium Model for Metal Clusters.
- Authors
Fiolhais, Carlos; Almeida, L. M.
- Abstract
We calculated the exchange, correlation and total energies of clusters of alkali metals with N = 1 - 150 atoms in the spherical jellium model. The calculations were made using the Kohn-Sham method with exchange and correlation energies evaluated in the meta-generalized gradient approximation (MGGA), proposed by J. P. Perdew, S. Kurth, A. Zupan, and P. Blaha, in the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) of J. P. Perdew, K. Burke and M. Ernzerhof, and in the Local Density Approximation (LDA). We evaluated the relative deviations of MGGA and GGA energies with respect to LDA. Exchange energies of MGGA and GGA are more negative than the LDA exchange energy and become closer to this as the cluster size increases. On the other hand, the GGA and MGGA correlation energies, which are almost identical, are less negative than LDA. The deviations of GGA and MGGA exchange-correlation energies with respect to LDA are smaller than those of the exchange and correlation energies separately. For clusters with 18 and 20 atoms we have compared our jellium results with Variational and Diffusion Monte-Carlo results. Errors of LDA for exchange and correlation tend to cancel so that the total exchange-correlation energy is close to the Monte-Carlo results. Similar cancellations occur with GGA and MGGA. We also examined the validity of the liquid drop model.
- Subjects
DENSITY functionals; METAL clusters; PHYSICS
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics B: Condensed Matter Physics; Statistical Physics; Applied Physics, 2001, Vol 15, Issue 10/11, p1724
- ISSN
0217-9792
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0217979201006239