Correction schemes exchange-correlation

The advantage over the HF scheme is that whereas in conventional ah initio theory we must resort to costly perturbation theory or configuration interaction expansions, in DFT electron correlation is already included explicitly in the exchange-correlation functional. The key problem is instead to find an appropriate expression for xc. As stated above, when we have the correct functional we should be able to extract the exact energy, the exact ground state density, and all properties for our system. 

The complete treatment of solvation effects, including the solute selfpolarization contribution was developed in the frame of the DFT-KS formalism. Within this self consistent field like formulation, the fundamental expressions (96) and (97) provide an appropriate scheme for the variational treatment of solvent effects in the context of the KS theory. The effective KS potential naturally appears as a sum of three contributions the effective KS potential of the isolated solute, the electrostatic correction which is identified with the RF potential and an exchange-correlation correction. Simple formulae for these quantities have been presented within the LDA approximation. There is however, another alternative to express the solva-... 

In this nonvariational approach for the first term represents the potential of the exchange-correlation hole which has long range — 1/r asymptotics. We recognize the previously introduced splitup into the screening and screening response part of Eq. (69). As discussed in the section on the atomic shell structure the correct properties of the atomic sheU structure in v arise from a steplike behavior of the functional derivative of the pair-correlation function. However the WDA pair-correlation function does not exhibit this step structure in atoms and decays too smoothly [94]. A related deficiency is that the intershell contributions to E c are overestimated. Both deficiencies arise from the fact that it is very difficult to represent the atomic shell structure in terms of the smooth function p. Substantial improvement can be obtained however from a WDA scheme dependent on atomic shell densities [92,93]. In this way the overestimated intershell contributions are much reduced. Although this orbital-depen-... 

An approach to address the proper r decay of the exchange-correlation potential is the LC scheme, where LC indicates a long-range correction. HF exchange is only applied to long-range electron correlation, with a functional defined as... 

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