Corrected density functional theory and the random phase approximation: Improved accuracy at little extra cost.

Autor: Graf, Daniel, Thom, Alex J. W.
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Zdroj: Journal of Chemical Physics; 11/7/2023, Vol. 159 Issue 17, p1-10, 10p
Abstrakt: We recently introduced an efficient methodology to perform density-corrected Hartree–Fock density functional theory [DC(HF)-DFT] calculations and an extension to it we called "corrected" HF DFT [C(HF)-DFT] [Graf and Thom, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 19 5427–5438 (2023)]. In this work, we take a further step and combine C(HF)-DFT, augmented with a straightforward orbital energy correction, with the random phase approximation (RPA). We refer to the resulting methodology as corrected HF RPA [C(HF)-RPA]. We evaluate the proposed methodology across various RPA methods: direct RPA (dRPA), RPA with an approximate exchange kernel, and RPA with second-order screened exchange. C(HF)-dRPA demonstrates very promising performance; for RPA with exchange methods, on the other hand, we often find over-corrections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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