Document Type
Preprint
Publication Date
7-28-2014
Journal / Book Title
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Abstract
We present a formally exact van der Waals inclusive electronic structure theory, called FDE-vdW, based on the Frozen Density Embedding formulation of subsystem Density-Functional Theory. In subsystem DFT, the energy functional is composed of subsystem additive and non-additive terms. We show that an appropriate definition of the long-range correlation energy is given by the value of the non-additive correlation functional. This functional is evaluated using the fluctuation-dissipation theorem aided by a formally exact decomposition of the response functions into subsystem contributions. FDE-vdW is derived in detail and several approximate schemes are proposed, which lead to practical implementations of the method. We show that FDE-vdW is Casimir-Polder consistent, i.e., it reduces to the generalized Casimir-Polder formula for asymptotic inter-subsystems separations. Pilot calculations of binding energies of 13 weakly bound complexes singled out from the S22 set show a dramatic improvement upon semilocal subsystem DFT, provided that an appropriate exchange functional is employed. The convergence of FDE-vdW with basis set size is discussed, as well as its dependence on the choice of associated density functional approximant.
DOI
10.1063/1.4890839
Montclair State University Digital Commons Citation
Kevorkyants, Ruslan; Eshuis, Hendrik; and Pavanello, Michele, "FDE-vDW: A Van Der Waals Inclusive Subsystem Density-Functional Theory" (2014). Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 481.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/chem-biochem-facpubs/481
Comments
This is an Open Access manuscript made available through ArXiv. The published version may be found at the Journal of Chemical Physics.