General density functional theory

SPIN-DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY General Density Functional Theory... 

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Main experimental findings both for the ground state (magic numbers for the stability of clusters [3] and the existence of supershells [4]) and for excited states (the dominance of collective states in the photoabsorption of metal clusters MeA with N > S) were predicted [5] before their experimental confirmation. Recently we were able to explain the temperature dependence of the absorption of small metal clusters as observed by Haber-land s group [6]. If the model is complemented by pseudopotential perturbation theory [7] the results obtained match qualitatively those obtained by demanding quantum-chemical methods (e.g. the photoabsorption spectra of Na6). Further improvement of the model includes the removal of self-interaction effects, the so-called SIC [8-10] (a consequence of using the local density approximation (LDA) to general density functional theory (DFT)). 

Massobrio C, Pasquarello A and Corso A D 1998 Structural and electronic properties of small Cu clusters using generalized-gradient approximations within density functional theory J. Chem. Phys. 109 6626... 

To use direct dynamics for the study of non-adiabatic systems it is necessary to be able to efficiently and accurately calculate electronic wave functions for excited states. In recent years, density functional theory (DFT) has been gaining ground over traditional Hartree-Fock based SCF calculations for the treatment of the ground state of large molecules. Recent advances mean that so-called time-dependent DFT methods are now also being applied to excited states. Even so, at present, the best general methods for the treatment of the photochemistry of polyatomic organic molecules are MCSCF methods, of which the CASSCF method is particularly powerful. 

Relativistic density functional theory can be used for all electron calculations. Relativistic DFT can be formulated using the Pauli formula or the zero-order regular approximation (ZORA). ZORA calculations include only the zero-order term in a power series expansion of the Dirac equation. ZORA is generally regarded as the superior method. The Pauli method is known to be unreliable for very heavy elements, such as actinides. 

Density functional theory-based methods ultimately derive from quantum mechanics research from the 1920 s, especially the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac model, and from Slater s fundamental work in quantum chemistry in the 1950 s. The DFT approach is based upon a strategy of modeling electron correlation via general functionals of the electron density. 

In the frozen MO approximation the last terms are zero and the Fukui functions are given directly by the contributions from the HOMO and LUMO. The preferred site of attack is therefore at the atom(s) with the largest MO coefficients in the HOMO/LUMO, in exact agreement with FMO theory. The Fukui function(s) may be considered as the equivalent (or generalization) of FMO methods within Density Functional Theory (Chapter 6). 

The precursor of such atomistic studies is a description of atomic interactions or, generally, knowledge of the dependence of the total energy of the system on the positions of the atoms. In principle, this is available in ab-initio total energy calculations based on the loc density functional theory (see, for example, Pettifor and Cottrell 1992). However, for extended defects, such as dislocations and interfaces, such calculations are only feasible when the number of atoms included into the calculation is well below one hundred. Hence, only very special cases can be treated in this framework and, indeed, the bulk of the dislocation and interfacial... 

Fischer-type carbene complexes, generally characterized by the formula (CO)5M=C(X)R (M=Cr, Mo, W X=7r-donor substitutent, R=alkyl, aryl or unsaturated alkenyl and alkynyl), have been known now for about 40 years. They have been widely used in synthetic reactions [37,51-58] and show a very good reactivity especially in cycloaddition reactions [59-64]. As described above, Fischer-type carbene complexes are characterized by a formal metal-carbon double bond to a low-valent transition metal which is usually stabilized by 7r-acceptor substituents such as CO, PPh3 or Cp. The electronic structure of the metal-carbene bond is of great interest because it determines the reactivity of the complex [65-68]. Several theoretical studies have addressed this problem by means of semiempirical [69-73], Hartree-Fock (HF) [74-79] and post-HF [80-83] calculations and lately also by density functional theory (DFT) calculations [67, 84-94]. Often these studies also compared Fischer-type and... 

Efforts to tame the unfavorable scaling of electronic structure methods are not limited to density functional theory. For a general summary of the current state of the art see the review by Goedecker, 1999. 

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