Generalization of the optimized-effective-potential model to include electron correlation: A variational derivation of the Sham-Schlueter equation for the exact exchange-correlation potential
- Departement de Chimie, Universite de Montreal, Case Postale 6128, Succursale Centre-ville, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7 (Canada)
The now classic optimized-effective-potential (OEP) approach of Sharp and Horton [Phys Rev. 90, 317 (1953)] and Talman and Shadwick [Phys. Rev. A 14, 36 (1976)] seeks the local potential that is variationally optimized to best approximate the Hartree-Fock exchange operator. The resulting OEP can be identified as the exchange potential of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory. The present work generalizes this OEP approach to treat the correlated case, and shows that the Kohn-Sham exchange-correlation potential is the variationally best local approximation to the exchange-correlation self-energy. This provides a variational derivation of the equation for the exact exchange-correlation potential that was derived by Sham and Schlueter using a density condition. Implications for an approximate physical interpretation of the Kohn-Sham orbitals are discussesd. A correlated generalization of the Sharp-Horton--Krieger-Li-Iafrate [Phys Lett. A 146, 256 (1990)] approximation of the exchange potential is introduced in the quasiparticle limit.
- OSTI ID:
- 6589992
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review A; (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review A; (United States) Vol. 51:3; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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