Van der Waals density functional: an appropriate exchange functional

Details Van der Waals density functional: an appropriate exchange functional Van der Waals density functional: an appropriate exchange functional

2009-10-07

arxiv.org/abs/0910.1250v1

PRB 81, 161104(R) (2010)

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Chemical Physics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.81.161104

In this paper, an exchange functional which is compatible with the non-local Rutgers-Chalmers correlation functional (vdW-DF) is presented. This functional, when employed with vdW-DF, demonstrates remarkable improvements on intermolecular separation distances while further improving the accuracy of vdW-DF interaction energies. The key to the success of this three parameter functional is its reduction of short range exchange repulsion through matching to the gradient exchange approximation in the slowly varying/high density limit while recovering the large reduced gradient, s, limit set in the revised PBE exchange functional. This augmented exchange functional could be a solution to long-standing issues of vdW-DF lending to further applicability of density functional theory to the study of relatively large, dispersion bound (van der Waals) complexes.

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