The correlation potential in density functional theory at the GW-level: spherical atoms

Details The correlation potential in density functional theory at the GW-level: spherical atoms The correlation potential in density functional theory at the GW-level: spherical atoms

2007-03-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703819v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

13 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.075107

As part of a project to obtain better optical response functions for nano materials and other systems with strong excitonic effects we here calculate the exchange-correlation (XC) potential of density-functional theory (DFT) at a level of approximation which corresponds to the dynamically- screened-exchange or GW approximation. In this process we have designed a new numerical method based on cubic splines which appears to be superior to other techniques previously applied to the "inverse engineering problem" of DFT, i.e., the problem of finding an XC potential from a known particle density. The potentials we obtain do not suffer from unphysical ripple and have, to within a reasonable accuracy, the correct asymptotic tails outside localized systems. The XC potential is an important ingredient in finding the particle-conserving excitation energies in atoms and molecules and our potentials perform better in this regard as compared to the LDA potential, potentials from GGA:s, and a DFT potential based on MP2 theory.

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