Wavevector analysis of the jellium exchange-correlation surface energy in the random-phase approximation: detailed support for nonempirical density functionals

Details Wavevector analysis of the jellium exchange-correlation surface energy in the random-phase approximation: detailed support for nonempirical density functionals Wavevector analysis of the jellium exchange-correlation surface energy in the random-phase approximation: detailed support for nonempirical density functionals

2006-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0606772v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

7 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.045121

We report the first three-dimensional wavevector analysis of the jellium exchange-correlation (xc) surface energy in the random-phase approximation (RPA). The RPA accurately describes long-range xc effects which are challenging for semi-local approximations, since it includes the universal small-wavevector behavior derived by Langreth and Perdew. We use these rigorous RPA calculations for jellium slabs to test RPA versions of nonempirical semi-local density-functional approximations for the xc energy. The local spin density approximation (LSDA) displays cancelling errors in the small and intermediate wavevector regions. The PBE GGA improves the analysis for intermediate wavevectors, but remains too low for small wavevectors (implying too-low jellium xc surface energies). The nonempirical meta-generalized gradient approximation of Tao, Perdew, Staroverov, and Scuseria (TPSS meta-GGA) gives a realistic wavevector analysis, even for small wavevectors or long-range effects. We also study the effects of slab thickness and of short-range corrections to RPA.

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