Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2002-07-18
S. Ragot, P. Cortona. J. Chem. Phys. 121 7671-7680 (2004)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
26 pages
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1792153
The Colle and Salvetti approach [Theoret. Chim. Acta, 37, 329 (1975)] to the calculation of the correlation energy of a system is modified in order to explicitly include into the theory the kinetic contribution to the correlation energy. This is achieved by deducing from a many electrons wave function, including the correlation effects via a Jastrow factor, an approximate expression of the one-electron reduced density matrix. Applying the latter to the homogeneous electron gas, an analytic expression of the correlation kinetic energy is derived. The total correlation energy of such a system is then deduced from its kinetic contribution inverting a standard procedure. At variance of the original Colle-Salvetti theory, the parameters entering in both the kinetic correlation and the total correlation energies are determined analytically, leading to a satisfactory agreement with the results of Perdew and Wang [Phys. Rev. B 45, 13244 (1992)]. The resulting (parameter-free) expressions give rise to a modified-local-density approximation that can be used in self-consistent density-functional calculations. We have performed such calculations for a large set of atoms and ions and we have found results for the correlation energies and for the ionization potentials which improve those of the standard local-density approximation.
Cortona Pietro
Ragot Sebastien
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