Sarah Reimann
Magnetic-field density-functional theory (BDFT): lessons from the adiabatic connection
Reimann, Sarah; Borgoo, Alex; Tellgren, Erik I.; Teale, Andrew M.; Helgaker, Trygve
Authors
Alex Borgoo
Erik I. Tellgren
ANDREW TEALE Andrew.Teale@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
Trygve Helgaker
Abstract
We study the effects of magnetic fields in the context of magnetic field density-functional theory (BDFT), where the energy is a functional of the electron density p and the magnetic field B. We show that this approach is a worthwhile alternative to current-density functional theory (CDFT) and may provide a viable route to the study of many magnetic phenomena using density-functional theory (DFT). The relationship between BDFT and CDFT is developed and clarified within the framework of the four-way correspondence of saddle functions and their convex and concave parents in convex analysis. By decomposing the energy into its Kohn–Sham components, we demonstrate that the magnetizability is mainly determined by those energy components that are related to the density. For existing density functional approximations, this implies that, for the magnetizability, improvements of the density will be more beneficial than introducing a magnetic-field dependence in the correlation functional. However, once a good charge density is achieved, we show that high accuracy is likely only obtainable by including magnetic-field dependence. We demonstrate that adiabatic-connection (AC) curves at different field strengths resemble one another closely provided each curve is calculated at the equilibrium geometry of that field strength. In contrast, if all AC curves are calculated at the equilibrium geometry of the field-free system, then the curves change strongly with increasing field strength due to the increasing importance of static correlation. This holds also for density functional approximations, for which we demonstrate that the main error encountered in the presence of a field is already present at zero field strength, indicating that density-functional approximations may be applied to systems in strong fields, without the need to treat additional static correlation.
Citation
Reimann, S., Borgoo, A., Tellgren, E. I., Teale, A. M., & Helgaker, T. (2017). Magnetic-field density-functional theory (BDFT): lessons from the adiabatic connection. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 13(9), 4089-4100. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00295
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 2, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 2, 2017 |
Publication Date | Sep 30, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Aug 4, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 3, 2018 |
Journal | Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation |
Print ISSN | 1549-9618 |
Electronic ISSN | 1549-9626 |
Publisher | American Chemical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 13 |
Issue | 9 |
Pages | 4089-4100 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00295 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/875372 |
Publisher URL | http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00295 |
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