Measuring Shared Electrons in Extended Molecular Systems: Covalent Bonds from Plane-Wave Representation of Wave Function

Autor: Giovanni La Penna, Davide Tiana, Paolo Giannozzi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Molecules, Vol 26, Iss 13, p 4044 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1420-3049
DOI: 10.3390/molecules26134044
Popis: In the study of materials and macromolecules by first-principle methods, the bond order is a useful tool to represent molecules, bulk materials and interfaces in terms of simple chemical concepts. Despite the availability of several methods to compute the bond order, most applications have been limited to small systems because a high spatial resolution of the wave function and an all-electron representation of the electron density are typically required. Both limitations are critical for large-scale atomistic calculations, even within approximate density-functional theory (DFT) approaches. In this work, we describe our methodology to quickly compute delocalization indices for all atomic pairs, while keeping the same representation of the wave function used in most compute-intensive DFT calculations on high-performance computing equipment. We describe our implementation into a post-processing tool, designed to work with Quantum ESPRESSO, a popular open-source DFT package. In this way, we recover a description in terms of covalent bonds from a representation of wave function containing no explicit information about atomic types and positions.
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