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- Title
Grid-based density functional calculations of many-electron systems.
- Authors
Roy, Amlan K.
- Abstract
Exploratory variational pseudopotential density functional calculations are performed for the electronic properties of many-electron systems in the 3D cartesian coordinate grid (CCG). The atom-centered localized gaussian basis set, electronic density, and the two-body potentials are set up in the 3D cubic box. The classical Hartree potential is calculated accurately and efficiently through a Fourier convolution technique. As a first step, simple local density functionals of homogeneous electron gas are used for the exchange-correlation potential, while Hay-Wadt-type effective core potentials are employed to eliminate the core electrons. No auxiliary basis set is invoked. Preliminary illustrative calculations on total energies, individual energy components, eigenvalues, potential energy curves, ionization energies, and atomization energies of a set of 12 molecules show excellent agreement with the corresponding reference values of atom-centered grid as well as the grid-free calculation. Results for three atoms are also given. Combination of CCG and the convolution procedure used for classical Coulomb potential can provide reasonably accurate and reliable results for many-electron systems. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2008
- Subjects
GAUSSIAN basis sets (Quantum mechanics); ELECTRONS; QUANTUM chemistry; MATHEMATICAL convolutions; EIGENVALUES
- Publication
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2008, Vol 108, Issue 5, p837
- ISSN
0020-7608
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/qua.21570