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Petr Čársky1, Roman Čurík, Štefan Varga
1J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i, Dolejškova 3, 18223 Prague 8, Czech Republic. carsky@jh-inst.cas.cz
Abstract:
The objective of this paper is to show that the density fitting (resolution of the identity approximation) can also be applied to Coulomb integrals of the type (k(1)(1)k(2)(1)|g(1)(2)g(2)(2)), where k and g symbols refer to plane-wave functions and gaussians, respectively. We have shown how to achieve the accuracy of these integrals that is needed in wave-function MO and density functional theory-type calculations using mixed Gaussian and plane-wave basis sets. The crucial issues for achieving such a high accuracy are application of constraints for conservation of the number electrons and components of the dipole moment, optimization of the auxiliary basis set, and elimination of round-off errors in the matrix inversion.
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