On the thermodynamical analogy in spin-polarized density functional theory

Details On the thermodynamical analogy in spin-polarized density functional theory On the thermodynamical analogy in spin-polarized density functional theory

2009-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/0903.2719v3

J. Chem. Phys. 131, 154114 (2009)

Physics

Chemical Physics

15 pages

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3233717

The thermodynamical analogy of density functional theory, which is an organic part of the spin-independent version of the theory, is reconsidered for its spin-polarized generalization in view of the recently uncovered nonuniqueness of the external magnetic field B(r) corresponding to a given pair of density n(r) and spin density n_s(r). For ground states, the nonuniqueness of B(r) implies the nondifferentiability of the energy functional E[n,n_s] with respect to n_s(r). It is shown, on the other hand, that this nonuniqueness allows the existence of the one-sided derivatives of E[n,n_s] with respect to n_s(r). Although the N-electron ground state can always be obtained from the minimization of E[n,n_s] without any constraint on the spin number N_s, the Lagrange multiplier mu_s associated with the fixation of N_s does not vanish even for ground states. Rather, mu_s is identified as the left- or right-side derivative of the total energy with respect to N_s. This justifies the interpretation of mu_s as a (spin) chemical potential, which is the cornerstone of the thermodynamical analogy.

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