One-electron density

SELF-CONSISTENT SOLUTION OF THE LOCAL DENSITY ONE-ELECTRON SCHROEDINGER EQUATION BY MEANS OF THE CANONICAL SCALING PRINCIPLE. EVALUATION OF THE CORRESPONDING POTENTIAL PARAMETERS, ENERGY-BAND PROPERTIES AND PRESSURE VERSION DEC. 1982... 

With the partitioning of the basis set, we can partition each block of each matrix— density, one-electron, and Fock—into four blocks. For the density matrix elements... 

In a number of classic papers Hohenberg, Kohn and Sham established a theoretical framework for justifying the replacement of die many-body wavefiinction by one-electron orbitals [15, 20, 21]. In particular, they proposed that die charge density plays a central role in describing the electronic stnicture of matter. A key aspect of their work was the local density approximation (LDA). Within this approximation, one can express the exchange energy as... 

The magnitude and shape of such a mean-field potential is shown below [21] in figure B3.1.4 for the two 1 s electrons of a beryllium atom. The Be nucleus is at the origin, and one electron is held fixed 0.13 A from the nucleus, the maximum of the Is orbital s radial probability density. The Coulomb potential experienced by the second electron is then a function of the second electron s position along the v-axis (coimecting the Be nucleus and the first electron) and its distance perpendicular to the v-axis. For simplicity, this second electron... 

By expressing the mean-field interaction of an electron at r with the N- 1 other electrons in temis of a probability density pyy r ) that is independent of the fact that another electron resides at r, the mean-field models ignore spatial correlations among the electrons. In reality, as shown in figure B3.T5 the conditional probability density for finding one ofA - 1 electrons at r, given that one electron is at r depends on r. The absence of a spatial correlation is a direct consequence of the spin-orbital product nature of the mean-field wavefiinctions... 

Pisani [169] has used the density of states from periodic FIP (see B3.2.2.4) slab calculations to describe the host in which the cluster is embedded, where the applications have been primarily to ionic crystals such as LiE. The original calculation to derive the external Coulomb and exchange fields is usually done on a finite cluster and at a low level of ab initio theory (typically minimum basis set FIP, one electron only per atom treated explicitly). 

VV e now wish to establish the general functional form of possible wavefunctions for the two electrons in this pseudo helium atom. We will do so by considering first the spatial part of the u a efunction. We will show how to derive functional forms for the wavefunction in which the i change of electrons is independent of the electron labels and does not affect the electron density. The simplest approach is to assume that each wavefunction for the helium atom is the product of the individual one-electron solutions. As we have just seen, this implies that the total energy is equal to the sum of the one-electron orbital energies, which is not correct as ii ignores electron-electron repulsion. Nevertheless, it is a useful illustrative model. The wavefunction of the lowest energy state then has each of the two electrons in a Is orbital ... 

The dipole moment operator is a sum of one-electron operators r , and as such the electronic conlribution to the dipole moment can be written as a sum of one-electron contributions. The eleclronic contribution can also be written in terms of the density matrix, P, as follows ... 

The electronic contribution to the dipole moment is thus determined from the density matrix and a series of one-electron integrals J dr< (-r)0. The dipole moment operator, r, h.)-components in the x, y and z directions, and so these one-electron integrals are divided into their appropriate components for example, the x component of the electronic contribution to the dipole moment would be determined using ... 

Kohn and Sham wrote the density p(r) of the system as the sum of the square moduli of a set of one-electron orthonormal orbitals ... 

By introducing this expression for the electron density and applying the appropriate variational condition the following one-electron Kohn-Sham equations result ... 

Once you have calculated an ab initio or a semi-empirical wave function via a single point calculation, geometry optimization, molecular dynamics or vibrations, you can plot the electrostatic potential surrounding the molecule, the total electronic density, the spin density, one or more molecular orbitals /i, and the electron densities of individual orbitals You can examine orbital energies and select orbitals for plotting from an orbital energy level diagram. 

The advent of the integrated circuit and its foundry has now firmly integrated materials scientists into modern electronics, their function both to optimise production processes and to resolve problems. To cite Just one example, many materials scientists have worked on the problem of clectronugraiion in the thin metallic conductors built into integrated circuits, a process which eventually leads to short circuits and circuit breakdown. At high current densities, migrating electrons in... 

We have extended the linear combination of Gaussian-type orbitals local-density functional approach to calculate the total energies and electronic structures of helical chain polymers[35]. This method was originally developed for molecular systems[36-40], and extended to two-dimensionally periodic sys-tems[41,42] and chain polymers[34j. The one-electron wavefunctions here are constructed from a linear combination of Bloch functions c>>, which are in turn constructed from a linear combination of nuclear-centered Gaussian-type orbitals Xylr) (in ihis case, products of Gaussians and the real solid spherical harmonics). The one-electron density matrix is given by... 

The one-electron density function is the first of a series of density functions which relate to clusters of any numbers of electrons. The second member of the series is... 

For every electronic wavefunction that is an eigenfunction of the electron spin operator S, the one-electron density function always comprises an spin part... 

The main output is shown in Figure 11.16. The energy of the ground state is given, together with the one-electron symbolic density matrix . 

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