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Title: Perspective: How good is DFT for water?

Journal Article · · Journal of Chemical Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4944633· OSTI ID:1565470
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  1. London Centre for Nanotechnology (United Kingdom); Thomas Young Centre, Univ. College London, London (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  2. London Centre for Nanotechnology (United Kingdom); Thomas Young Centre, Univ. College London, London (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and Dept. of Earth Sciences

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) has become established as an indispensable tool for investigating aqueous systems of all kinds, including those important in chemistry, surface science, biology, and the earth sciences. Nevertheless, many widely used approximations for the exchange-correlation (XC) functional describe the properties of pure water systems with an accuracy that is not fully satisfactory. The explicit inclusion of dispersion interactions generally improves the description, but there remain large disagreements between the predictions of different dispersion-inclusive methods. We present here a review of DFT work on water clusters, ice structures, and liquid water, with the aim of elucidating how the strengths and weaknesses of different XC approximations manifest themselves across this variety of water systems. Our review highlights the crucial role of dispersion in describing the delicate balance between compact and extended structures of many different water systems, including the liquid. By referring to a wide range of published work, we argue that the correct description of exchange-overlap interactions is also extremely important, so that the choice of semi-local or hybrid functional employed in dispersion-inclusive methods is crucial. The origins and consequences of beyond-2-body errors of approximate XC functionals are noted, and we also discuss the substantial differences between different representations of dispersion. We propose a simple numerical scoring system that rates the performance of different XC functionals in describing water systems, and we suggest possible future developments.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725; AC05- 00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1565470
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1421160
Journal Information:
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 144, Issue 13; ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 485 works
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