Description of plasmon-like band in silver clusters: The importance of the long-range Hartree-Fock exchange in time-dependent density-functional theory simulations
- Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Université de Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex (France)
Absorption spectra of Ag{sub 20} and Ag{sub 55}{sup q} (q = +1, −3) nanoclusters are investigated in the framework of the time-dependent density functional theory in order to analyse the role of the d electrons in plasmon-like band of silver clusters. The description of the plasmon-like band from calculations using density functionals containing an amount of Hartree-Fock exchange at long range, namely, hybrid and range-separated hybrid (RSH) density functionals, is in good agreement with the classical interpretation of the plasmon-like structure as a collective excitation of valence s-electrons. In contrast, using local or semi-local exchange functionals (generalized gradient approximations (GGAs) or meta-GGAs) leads to a strong overestimation of the role of d electrons in the plasmon-like band. The semi-local asymptotically corrected model potentials also describe the plasmon as mainly associated to d electrons, though calculated spectra are in fairly good agreement with those calculated using the RSH scheme. Our analysis shows that a portion of non-local exchange modifies the description of the plasmon-like band.
- OSTI ID:
- 22436574
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 141, Issue 14; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9606
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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