Density Functional Theory association

Molecular dynamics and density functional theory studies (see Section IX-2) of the Lennard-Jones 6-12 system determine the interfacial tension for the solid-liquid and solid-vapor interfaces [47-49]. The dimensionless interfacial tension ya /kT, where a is the Lennard-Jones molecular size, increases from about 0.83 for the solid-liquid interface to 2.38 for the solid-vapor at the triple point [49], reflecting the large energy associated with a solid-vapor interface. 

The present chapter is organized as follows. We focus first on a simple model of a nonuniform associating fluid with spherically symmetric associative forces between species. This model serves us to demonstrate the application of so-called first-order (singlet) and second-order (pair) integral equations for the density profile. Some examples of the solution of these equations for associating fluids in contact with structureless and crystalline solid surfaces are presented. Then we discuss one version of the density functional theory for a model of associating hard spheres. All aforementioned issues are discussed in Sec. II. 

The inherent problems associated with the computation of the properties of solids have been reduced by a computational technique called Density Functional Theory. This approach to the calculation of the properties of solids again stems from solid-state physics. In Hartree-Fock equations the N electrons need to be specified by 3/V variables, indicating the position of each electron in space. The density functional theory replaces these with just the electron density at a point, specified by just three variables. In the commonest formalism of the theory, due to Kohn and Sham, called the local density approximation (LDA), noninteracting electrons move in an effective potential that is described in terms of a uniform electron gas. Density functional theory is now widely used for many chemical calculations, including the stabilities and bulk properties of solids, as well as defect formation energies and configurations in materials such as silicon, GaN, and Agl. At present, the excited states of solids are not well treated in this way. 

Space-coordinate density transformations have been used by a number of authors in various contexts related to density functional theory [26,27, 53-64, 85-87]. As the free-electron gas wavefunction is expressed in terms of plane waves associated with a constant density, these transformations were introduced by Macke in 1955 for the purpose of producing modified plane waves that incorporate the density as a variable. In this manner, the density could be then be regarded as the variational object [53, 54]. Thus, explicitly a set of plane waves (defined in the volume V in and having uniform density po = N/V) ... 

The general Jacobian problem associated with the transformation of a density Pi(r) into a density p2(r) (where these densities differ from that of the free-electron gas) was discussed by Moser in 1965 [58]. This work was not performed in the framework of orbital transformations - which might have interested chemists, nor was it done in the context of density functional theory - which might have attracted the attention of physicists. It was a paper written for mathematicians and, as such, it remained unknown to the quantum chemistry community. In the discussion that follows, we use the more accessible reformulation of Bokanowski and Grebert (1995) [65] which relies heavily on the work of Zumbach and Maschke (1983) [61]. Let us define as ifjy = the space of... 

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By using a full panoply of theory—time-dependent density functional theory and CASSCF and CASMP2 ab initio methods—the states and potential-energy surface features associated with the dynamics were uncovered. The high-energy excitation of acetone gives several excited Rydberg states that reach the S2( , 3i) surface in... 

The electronic SE focuses on the energy levels of the molecule. By obtaining the lowest energy, one assumes that the associated wave function will yield the electron distribution of the electronic ground state. An alternative theory has come into recent prominance, in which the SE is bypassed and attention focused on the electron density from which many desired properties including energy can derived directly [density functional theory (DFT)]. 

The homolytic bond dissociation energies (BDEs) of phenohc O—H bonds has been the subject of a computational study focusing on substituent effects by ab initio and density functional theory (DFT) methods.6 Consistent overestimation of the BDEs by MP2 and MP4 calculations was associated with spin contamination in the reference UHF wave functions, whilst the DFT calculations (particularly the B3LYP/6-31G level of theory) were relatively unaffected. Ab initio calculations of the photosensitized C—C BDEs of /f-phenethyl ethers has revealed a significant configurational... 

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