scholarly journals Performance of a nonempirical exchange functional from density matrix expansion: comparative study with different correlations

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (32) ◽  
pp. 21707-21713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxiang Mo ◽  
Guocai Tian ◽  
Jianmin Tao

Recently, Tao and Mo proposed a meta-generalized gradient approximation for the exchange–correlation energy with remarkable accuracy for molecules, solids, and surfaces.

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (10n11) ◽  
pp. 1724-1727 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARLOS FIOLHAIS ◽  
L. M. ALMEIDA

We calculated the exchange, correlation and total energies of clusters of alkali metals with N=1-150 atoms in the spherical jellium model. The calculations were made using the Kohn-Sham method with exchange and correlation energies evaluated in the meta-generalized gradient approximation (MGGA), proposed by J. P. Perdew, S. Kurth, A. Zupan and P. Blaha, in the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) of J. P. Perdew, K. Burke and M. Ernzerhof, and in the Local Density Approximation (LDA). We evaluated the relative deviations of MGGA and GGA energies with respect to LDA. Exchange energies of MGGA and GGA are more negative than the LDA exchange energy and become closer to this as the cluster size increases. On the other hand, the GGA and MGGA correlation energies, which are almost identical, are less negative than LDA. The deviations of GGA and MGGA exchange-correlation energies with respect to LDA are smaller than those of the exchange and correlation energies separately. For clusters with 18 and 20 atoms we have compared our jellium results with Variational and Diffusion Monte-Carlo results. Errors of LDA for exchange and correlation tend to cancel so that the total exchange-correlation energy is close to the Monte-Carlo results. Similar cancellations occur with GGA and MGGA. We also examined the validity of the liquid drop model.


2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (27) ◽  
pp. 4081-4092 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. EL HAJ HASSAN ◽  
A. ALAEDDINE ◽  
M. ZOAETER ◽  
I. RACHIDI

The ground state properties and the structural phase transformation of tin dioxide ( SnO 2) have been investigated using first principle full potential-linearized augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method within density functional theory (DFT). We used local density approximation (LDA) and the generalized gradient approximation (GGA), which are based on exchange-correlation energy optimization, to optimize the internal parameters by relaxing the atomic positions in the force directions and to calculate the total energy. For band structure calculations, we utilized both the Engel-Vosko's generalized gradient approximation (EVGGA), which optimizes the exchange-correlation potential, and also GGA. From the obtained band structures, the electron (hole) valance and conduction effective masses are deduced. For compressed volumes SnO 2 is shown to undergo two structural phase transitions with increasing pressure from the rutile- to the CaCl 2-type phase at 12.4 GPa and to a cubic phase, space group [Formula: see text] at 22.1 GPa. The calculated total energy allowed us to investigate several structural properties, in particular, the equilibrium lattice constants, bulk modulus, cohesive energy, interatomic distances and the angles between different atomic bonds. In addition, we discuss the bonding parameter in term of charge density, which show the localization of charge around the anion side.


2010 ◽  
Vol 09 (06) ◽  
pp. 619-622
Author(s):  
BOTHINA A. HAMAD

In this work, a theoretical study of the structural, electronic and magnetic properties are presented for Mn 0.5 Ni 0.5 alloyed overlayer adsorbed on Cu (001) surface. The calculations were performed using the density functional theory (DFT) and the exchange-correlation potential was treated by the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). The system was fully relaxed except for the central layer, which yields to outward relaxations and inward Mn and Ni surface atoms, respectively in the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic configurations. The in-plane ferromagnetic configuration was found to be more stable than the antiferromagnetic one by 25 meV/atom. The local magnetic moments of Mn atoms were found to be about 4 μ B , whereas those of the Ni atoms where found to be 0.46 μ B .


2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (10n11) ◽  
pp. 1672-1683 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN P. PERDEW ◽  
STEFAN KURTH ◽  
MICHAEL SEIDL

If the electron-electron repulsion in an atom or molecule were very weak, it could be treated by orbital-based perturbation theory. If this repulsion were very strong, it could be treated in a model of strict correlation. A simple interaction strength interpolation between these two limits, at fixed electron density, can describe the reality that lies between the extremes. By working entirely within a sophisticated density functional approximation, the meta-generalized gradient approximation, we find that the interpolation error is only about 0.1% for the exchange-correlation energy and about 4 kcal/mole = 0.17 eV for the atomization energy. We also find that real systems probably lie close to the radius of convergence of density functional perturbation theory.


2005 ◽  
Vol 475-479 ◽  
pp. 3103-3106 ◽  
Author(s):  
You Song Gu ◽  
Jian He ◽  
Zhen Ji ◽  
Xiao Yan Zhan ◽  
Yue Zhang ◽  
...  

The electronic structures and magnetic properties of Fe-Pt systems were calculated by CASTEP codes, which employed density functional theory, generalized gradient approximation (GGA), Perdew Burke Ernzerh exchange correlation, Pulay density-mixing scheme and Ultra Soft pseudo potential. The band structures and density of states (DOS) were calculated, together with band populations and magnetic properties. The calculated results of α-Fe show the validatiy of this method in predication magnetic properties. It is found that as the Pt concentration increases, Fe 4s and 3d electrons decrease while 4p electrons increase, and the magnetic moment of Fe atom increases. Pt atoms also contribute to the magnetic moment due to polarization. The calculated magnetization agrees with experimental values quite well.


2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (40) ◽  
pp. 27858-27867 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Gutsev ◽  
K. G. Belay ◽  
K. V. Bozhenko ◽  
L. G. Gutsev ◽  
B. R. Ramachandran

Geometrical and electronic structures of the 3d-metal oxide clusters (FeO)n, (CoO)n, and (NiO)n are computed using density functional theory with the generalized gradient approximation in the range of 1 ≤ n ≤ 10.


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