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  • Quantum Chemistry
  • Computational Materials Science

Background:

  • The SCAN (Strongly Constrained and Appropriately Normed) meta-generalized gradient approximation is a widely used density functional.
  • Improving density functionals requires careful consideration of exact constraints and error cancellation properties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To enhance the SCAN functional by analyzing key properties and identifying areas for improvement.
  • To develop a new functional, revSCAN, with improved accuracy for various chemical and physical properties.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of the exchange energy density lower bound in single-orbital regions.
  • Revision of the correlation functional form to incorporate a wider range of gradient expansion.
  • Application of nonlocal VV10 dispersion correction and creation of a global hybrid version (revSCAN0).

Main Results:

  • The revised correlation functional improves single-orbital electron densities.
  • revSCAN shows more accurate atomization energies for multireference systems compared to SCAN.
  • VV10-corrected revSCAN provides better noncovalent interaction energies, and revSCAN0 improves reaction barrier heights.

Conclusions:

  • The revSCAN functional offers a balanced improvement over SCAN, particularly for systems with multireference character and noncovalent interactions.
  • revSCAN0 demonstrates superior performance for reaction barrier heights.
  • Further development is needed for local hybrid functionals incorporating nonconventional exact exchange energy densities.