KS operator

A second situation where core electrons may be avoided is in the field of semiempirical quantum chemistry. In these approaches, the HF or KS operators... 

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DET equations analogous to Eqs. (13.4) and (13.5) can be derived in a similarly straightforward way. Again, the ultimate influence of the MM system on die KS orbitals is made manifest only by the appearance of additional one-electron integrals associated with the MM atoms in the KS operator. 

We have to consider the calculation of the fourth term, the problem term, in the KS operator of Eq. 7.23, the exchange-correlation potential vXc(r). This is defined as the functional derivative [36, 37] of the exchange-correlation energy functional, fsxc[p(r)], with respect to the electron density functional (Eq. 7.23). The exchange-correlation energy UX( lp(r)], a functional of the electron density function p(r), is a quantity which depends on the function p(r ) and on just what mathematical form the... 

Our next step is to minimize the energy of the total system with respect to the density and thereby we are able to define an effective Kohn-Sham (KS) operator. In first quantization, the KS operator is divided into a vacuum and a coupling contribution... 

Accordingly, the modifications to the KS operator are twofold (i) a static contribution through the static multipole moments (here charges) of the solvent molecules and (ii) a dynamical contribution which depends linearly on the electronic polarizability of the environment and also depends on the electronic density of the QM region. Due to the latter fact we need within each SCF iteration to update the DFT/MM part of the KS operator with the set of induced dipole moments determined from Eq. (13-29). We emphasize that it is the dynamical contribution that gives rise to polarization of the MM subsystem by the QM subsystem. 

The PE-DFT method is derived by constructing an effective Kohn-Sham (KS) operator, that is,... 

Within the DFT framework, the molecular Kohn Sham (KS) operator for a molecular solute becomes a sum of the core Hamiltonian h, a Coulomb and (scaled) exchange term, the exchange-correlation (XC) potential Vxc and the solvent reaction operator VPCM of Eq. (7-1), namely ... 

The solvent induced term of the KS operator is given in terms of the polarization charges (weights) as... 

The KS operator is defined by Eq. 7.23 The significance of these orbitals and energy levels is considered later, but we note here that in practice they can be interpreted in a similar way to the corresponding HF and extended Htickel entities. Pure DFT theory has no orbitals or wavefunctions these were introduced by Kohn and Sham only as a way to turn Eq. (7.11) into a useful computational tool, but if we can interpret the KS orbitals and energies in some physically useful way, so much the better. 

The FH method assumes that the Fock/Kohn Sham (KS) operator can be written as... 

The HF and KS operators in the reciprocal space are represented by the Fock matrices F f k) and Kohn-Sham matrices F k), which are related to the matrices in the coordinate space by the relations... 

In (9.6) F k) is the matrix of the Hartree-Fock (HP) or Kohn-Sham (KS) operator. The former operator includes a nonlocal exchange part, depending on the density matrix p R,R ), whereas the latter operator involves the electron density p R) = p R, R), that is, it depends only on the diagonal elements of the density matrix, see Chapters 4 and 7. 

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Thus, the information about T[p] - Ts[p] must be somehow folded into the corresponding hole functions. To do this, imagine that we connect the two systems central for the KS scheme (i. e. the non-interacting reference with no 1/r- electron-electron interaction and the real one where this interaction is operative with full strength) by gradually increasing... 

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Note that the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian hKS [Eq. (4.1)] is a local operator, uniquely determined by electron density15. This is the main difference with respect to the Hartree-Fock equations which contain a nonlocal operator, namely the exchange part of the potential operator. In addition, the KS equations incorporate the correlation effects through Vxc whereas they are lacking in the Hartree-Fock SCF scheme. Nevertheless, though the latter model cannot be considered a special case of the KS equations, there are some similarities between the Hartree-Fock and the Kohn-Sham methods, as both lead to a set of one-electron equations allowing to describe an n-electron system. 

If no correlation is introduced (ec = 0), the KS equations reduce to the well known Xa method proposed by Slater22 as a simplification of the Hartree-Fock scheme with a local exchange operator ... 

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Equation (96) shows that the effective KS potential may be simply obtained by adding to the standard KS potential of the isolated solute, an electrostatic correction which turns out to be the RE potential Or, and the exchange- correlation correction 8vxc. It is worth mentioning here, that Eq (96) is formally equivalent to the effective Fock operator correction bfteffi defined in the context of the self consistent reaction field (SCRF) theory [2,3,14] within the HF theory, the exchange contribution is exactly self-contained in Or, whereas correlation effects are completely neglected. As a result, within the HF theory 8v = Or, as expected. 

The following notation has been introduced in Eq. (4.92) As denote coefficients of terms linear in the Casimir operators, A.s denote coefficients of terms linear in the Majorana operators, Xs denote coefficients of terms quadratic in the Casimir operators, Ks denote coefficients of terms containing the product of one Casimir and one Majorana operator, and Zs denote coefficients of terms quadratic in the Majorana operators. This notation is introduced here to establish a uniform notation that is similar to that of the Dunham expansion, where (Os denote terms linear in the vibrational quantum numbers, jcs denote terms that are quadratic in the vibrational quantum numbers and y s terms which are cubic in the quantum numbers (see Table 0.1). Results showing the improved fit using terms bilinear in the Casimir operators are given in Table 4.8. Terms quadratic in the Majorana operators, Z coefficients, have not been used so far. A computer code, prepared by Oss, Manini, and Lemus Casillas (1993), for diagonalizing the Hamiltonian is available.2... 

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