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  • Computational Chemistry
  • Quantum Chemistry
  • Materials Science

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  • Density functional approximations (DFAs) commonly overestimate polarizabilities in chain-like molecules.
  • Accurate calculation of molecular properties like polarizability and ionization potential is crucial for understanding material behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate static electric dipole polarizabilities and vertical ionization potentials of polyacenes.
  • To evaluate the effectiveness of the Fermi-Löwdin orbital-based self-interaction corrected (FLOSIC) and locally scaled self-interaction correction (LSIC) methods for these properties.

Main Methods:

  • Employed the Fermi-Löwdin orbital-based self-interaction corrected (FLOSIC) density functional method.
  • Applied the recently developed locally scaled self-interaction correction (LSIC) method.
  • Calculated static electric dipole polarizabilities and vertical ionization potentials for polyacenes (benzene to pentacene).

Main Results:

  • FLOSIC-DFA showed an overcorrection tendency for molecular polarizabilities.
  • LSIC effectively corrected the overcorrection, yielding results in excellent agreement with coupled-cluster single and double (CCSD) reference values.
  • LSIC also provided good agreement for vertical ionization potentials with experimental data.

Conclusions:

  • The LSIC method offers a significant improvement over standard DFAs and FLOSIC for calculating polyacene polarizabilities.
  • LSIC demonstrates high accuracy for both polarizabilities and ionization potentials, making it a reliable computational tool.
  • This work validates LSIC as a robust method for electronic property calculations in conjugated organic molecules.