Gradient Correction to the Exchange Pair-Correlation Function of the Weighted Spin-Density Approximation in the Density Functional Formalism
Chemical Physics Letters 296, 307 - 312 (1998)
Gradient Correction to the Exchange Pair-Correlation Function of the Weighted Spin-Density Approximation in the Density Functional Formalism
A gradient correction to the exchange pair-correlation function Gxσhom(r12) of the homogeneous electron gas is developed in order to improve its performance for inhomogeneous systems within the weighted spin-density approximation (WSDA) of density functional theory. The correction factor has the form of a Padé-type approximant of the dimensionless gradient (nσ is the electron spin-density) and of the dimensionless argument
(
is the weighted spin-density Fermi momentum and r12 is the interelectronic distance). In the zero-gradient limit the corrected pair-correlation function reduces to Gxσhom, while for atoms the present WSDA with gradient correction (WSDA-GC) provides a substantial improvement of the calculated exchange energies compared to the standard WSDA based on Gxσhom.
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