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Yutaka Imamura1, Jun Suzuki, Hiromi Nakai
1Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan.
Abstract:
We proposed a novel kinetic energy decomposition analysis based on information theory. Since the Hirshfeld partitioning for electron densities can be formulated in terms of Kullback-Leibler information deficiency in information theory, a similar partitioning for kinetic energy densities was newly proposed. The numerical assessments confirm that the current kinetic energy decomposition scheme provides reasonable chemical pictures for ionic and covalent molecules, and can also estimate atomic energies using a correction with viral ratios.
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