Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2009-05-12
Phys. Rev. B 79, p. R-201106 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
4 pages, PRB Rapid Comm. accepted
Scientific paper
One of the standard generalized-gradient approximations (GGAs) in use in modern electronic-structure theory, PBE, and a recently proposed modification designed specifically for solids, PBEsol, are identified as particular members of a family of functionals taking their parameters from different properties of homogeneous or inhomogeneous electron liquids. Three further members of this family are constructed and tested, together with the original PBE and PBEsol, for atoms, molecules and solids. We find that PBE, in spite of its popularity in solid-state physics and quantum chemistry, is not always the best performing member of the family, and that PBEsol, in spite of having been constructed specifically for solids, is not the best for solids. The performance of GGAs for finite systems is found to sensitively depend on the choice of constraints steaming from infinite systems. Guidelines both for users and for developers of density functionals emerge from this work.
Capelle Klaus
da Silva Antônio J. R.
Pedroza Luana S.
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