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Spatial Separation of Molecular Conformers and Clusters
Published on: January 9, 2014
Range-separated hybrid and double-hybrid density functionals: A quest for the determination of the range-separation
Éric Brémond1, Ángel José Pérez-Jiménez2, Juan Carlos Sancho-García2
1Université de Paris, ITODYS, CNRS, F-75006 Paris, France.
Abstract:
We recently derived a new and simple route to the determination of the range-separation parameter in range-separated exchange hybrid and double-hybrid density functionals by imposing an additional constraint to the exchange-correlation energy to recover the total energy of the hydrogen atom [Brémond et al., J. Chem. Phys. 15, 201102 (2019)]. Here, we thoroughly assess this choice by statistically comparing the derived values of the range-separation parameters to the ones obtained using the optimal tuning (OT) approach. We show that both approaches closely agree, thus, confirming the reliability of ours. We demonstrate that it provides very close performances in the computation of properties particularly prone to the one- and many-electron self-interaction errors (i.e., ionization potentials). Our approach arises as an alternative to the OT procedure, conserving the accuracy and efficiency of a standard Kohn-Sham approach to density-functional theory computation.
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