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Title: Communication: Charge-population based dispersion interactions for molecules and materials

Journal Article · · Journal of Chemical Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4947214· OSTI ID:1470763
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  1. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; Technical Univ. of Munich, Garching (Germany). Dept. of Chemistry
  2. Technical Univ. of Munich, Garching (Germany). Dept. of Chemistry
  3. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Dept. of Chemistry

We introduce a system-independent method to derive effective atomic C6 coefficients and polarizabilities in molecules and materials purely from charge population analysis. This enables the use of dispersion-correction schemes in electronic structure calculations without recourse to electrondensity partitioning schemes and expands their applicability to semi-empirical methods and tightbinding Hamiltonians. We then show that the accuracy of our method is en par with established electrondensity partitioning based approaches in describing intermolecular C6 coefficients as well as dispersion energies of weakly bound molecular dimers, organic crystals, and supramolecular complexes. We showcase the utility of our approach by incorporation of the recently developed many-body dispersion method [Tkatchenko et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 236402 (2012)] into the semi-empirical density functional tight-binding method and propose the latter as a viable technique to study hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces.

Research Organization:
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-05ER15677
OSTI ID:
1470763
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1248058
Journal Information:
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 144, Issue 15; ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 19 works
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