Optimised effective potential for ground states, excited states, and time-dependent phenomena
(1) The optimized effective potential method is a variant of the traditional Kohn-Sham scheme. In this variant, the exchange-correlation energy E{sub xc} is an explicit functional of single-particle orbitals. The exchange-correlation potential, given as usual by the functional derivative v{sub xc} = {delta}E{sub xc}/{delta}{rho}, then satisfies as integral equation involving the single-particle orbitals. This integral equation in solved semi-analytically using a scheme recently proposed by Krieger, Li and Iafrate. If the exact (Fock) exchange-energy functional is employed together with the Colle-Salvetti orbital functional for the correlation energy, the mean absolute deviation of the resulting ground-state energies from the exact nonrelativistic values is CT mH for the first-row atoms, as compared to 4.5 mH in a state-of-the-art CI calculation. The proposed scheme is thus significantly more accurate than the conventional Kohn-Sham method while the numerical effort involved is about the same as for an ordinary Hanree-Fock calculation. (2) A time-dependent generalization of the optimized-potential method is presented and applied to the linear-response regime. Since time-dependent density functional theory leads to a formally exact representation of the frequency-dependent linear density response and since the latter, as a function of frequency, has poles at the excitation energies of the fully interacting system, the formalism is suitable for the calculation of excitation energies. A simple additive correction to the Kohn-Sham single-particle excitation energies will be deduced and first results for atomic and molecular singlet and triplet excitation energies will be presented. (3) Beyond the regime of linear response, the time-dependent optimized-potential method is employed to describe atoms in strong emtosecond laser pulses. Ionization yields and harmonic spectra will be presented and compared with experimental data.
- OSTI ID:
- 447532
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960343-; TRN: 97:005429
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2. international congress on theoretical chemical physics, New Orleans, LA (United States), 9-13 Mar 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Second international congress on theoretical chemical physics - ICTCP II; PB: 90 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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