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Title: Nonempirical range-separated hybrid functionals for solids and molecules

Journal Article · · Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter
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  1. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Inst. for Molecular Engineering; Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division
  2. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Inst. for Molecular Engineering; Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Divisionv

Dielectric-dependent hybrid (DDH) functionals were recently shown to yield accurate energy gaps and dielectric constants for a wide variety of solids, at a computational cost considerably less than that of GW calculations. The fraction of exact exchange included in the definition of DDH functionals depends (self-consistently) on the dielectric constant of the material. Here we introduce a range-separated (RS) version of DDH functionals where short and long-range components are matched using system dependent, non-empirical parameters. We show that RS DDHs yield accurate electronic properties of inorganic and organic solids, including energy gaps and absolute ionization potentials. Moreover, we show that these functionals may be generalized to finite systems.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOD; USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357; FG02-06ER46262; AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1267148
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1255472
Journal Information:
Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter, Vol. 93, Issue 23; ISSN 0163-1829
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 112 works
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