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Continuous Information Descriptors for Electron Localization: Relativistic Spatial Responses, Nonadditivity, and

Kehang Liu¹, Qingzhen Zhu¹

¹Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, Jiangsu, P. R. China.

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

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Simulating heavy elements needs new methods beyond energy metrics. This study uses information theory to reveal spatial electron density changes, crucial for accurate heavy element chemistry and developing better computational models.

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Area of Science:

Quantum Chemistry
Computational Physics
Chemical Informatics

Background:

Traditional scalar energy metrics struggle to capture spatial electron density competitions in heavy elements.
Accurate simulations of heavy elements are vital for understanding their unique chemical properties.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and apply continuous information-theoretic descriptors for evaluating electron density competitions.
To investigate the interplay between relativistic effects, exact exchange, and electron spatial distribution across the periodic table.
To introduce a geometric probe for quantifying the spatial information cost of chemical bonding in molecules.

Main Methods:

Evaluation of the spin-free exact two-component (sf-X2C) Hamiltonian and exact-exchange interactions using continuous information-theoretic descriptors.
Analysis of electron density behavior from hydrogenic systems to many-body frameworks.
Introduction of the continuous Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence against a promolecular reference.

Main Results:

Demonstrated how effective nuclear charge decay drives core contraction versus d/f-block expansion.
Revealed intrinsic spatial nonadditivity of logarithmic descriptors.
Showed that relativistic effects and exact exchange create state-dependent spatial cross-terms in heavy elements.
Quantified spatial information cost of chemical bonding, distinguishing main-group and transition metal bond characteristics.

Conclusions:

Fully coupled treatments are necessary for heavy elements due to relativistic and exchange effects on spatial terms.
Continuous KL divergence provides a geometric probe to analyze bonding spatial characteristics.
These spatial divergence signatures can constrain next-generation density functional approximations for heavy elements.