Is it Reasonable to Obtain Information on the Polarizability and Hyperpolarizability Only from the Electron Density?

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dylan Jayatilaka ◽  
Kunal K. Jha ◽  
Parthapratim Munshi
Keyword(s):  
Density Matrix ◽  
Electron Density ◽  
Ground State ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Particle Density ◽  
Density Matrices ◽  
Hartree Fock ◽  
Electron Density Matrix ◽  
Ground State Electron ◽  
Side Result

Formulae for the static electronic polarizability and hyperpolarizability are derived in terms of moments of the ground-state electron density matrix by applying the Unsöld approximation and a generalization of the Fermi-Amaldi approximation. The latter formula for the hyperpolarizability appears to be new. The formulae manifestly transform correctly under rotations, and they are observed to be essentially cumulant expressions. Consequently, they are additive over different regions. The properties of the formula are discussed in relation to others that have been proposed in order to clarify inconsistencies. The formulae are then tested against coupled-perturbed Hartree-Fock results for a set of 40 donor-π-acceptor systems. For the polarizability, the correlation is reasonable; therefore, electron density matrix moments from theory or experiment may be used to predict polarizabilities. By constrast, the results for the hyperpolarizabilities are poor, not even within one or two orders of magnitude. The formula for the two- and three-particle density matrices obtained as a side result in this work may be interesting for density functional theories.

scholarly journals TREATMENTS OF THE EXCHANGE ENERGY IN DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (14) ◽  
pp. 2225-2239
Author(s):  
TAMÁS GÁL
Keyword(s):  
Density Functional Theory ◽  
Ground State ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Particle Density ◽  
Exchange Energy ◽  
Density Functionals ◽  
Simple Derivation ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Hartree Fock

Following a recent work [Gál, Phys. Rev. A64, 062503 (2001)], a simple derivation of the density-functional correction of the Hartree–Fock equations, the Hartree–Fock–Kohn–Sham equations, is presented, completing an integrated view of quantum mechanical theories, in which the Kohn–Sham equations, the Hartree–Fock–Kohn–Sham equations and the ground-state Schrödinger equation formally stem from a common ground: density-functional theory, through its Euler equation for the ground-state density. Along similar lines, the Kohn–Sham formulation of the Hartree–Fock approach is also considered. Further, it is pointed out that the exchange energy of density-functional theory built from the Kohn–Sham orbitals can be given by degree-two homogeneous N-particle density functionals (N = 1, 2, …), forming a sequence of degree-two homogeneous exchange-energy density functionals, the first element of which is minus the classical Coulomb-repulsion energy functional.

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