Empirical Functionals for Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory

Details Empirical Functionals for Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory Empirical Functionals for Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory

2008-01-22

arxiv.org/abs/0801.3332v1

Physics

Computational Physics

4 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.77.032509

We present fully empirical exchange-correlation functionals to be used within reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT). These are of the popular J-K form, where the function of the occupation numbers that multiplies the Fock orbital term is written as a Pade approximant. The coefficients of the Pade are optimized for a testset of eight molecules, and then refined for a larger set of 35 molecules. Two different approaches were tried, either keeping the self-interaction terms, or by removing them explicitly from the functional. The functionals thus obtained involve very few parameters, but are able to outperform other RDMFT functionals, yielding correlation energies that are, on average, even slightly better than Moeller-Plesset MP2 theory.

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