Optimized effective potential method

In the OEP method, the effective exchange-correlation potential, is given by solving the integral equation, 

This method is an extension of the Sharp-Hornton method for producing the local effective Hartree-Fock exchange potential (Sharp and Hornton 1953), 

This integral equation simply produces the same effect as the localization of the nonlocal Hartree-Fock exchange potential. 

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On the other hand, development of the xc kernel beyond ALDA does not necessarily bring better results. To illustrate this point, the singlet-singlet excitation energies 0)ks calculated in [24] for the He atom with the combination (accurate vxc)/ALDA are compared in Table 2 with (Ok calculated in [46] with the accurate vxc and with the spatially non-local kernel /ffI(TD0F P)(ri, r2), which is a part of the exchange-only kernel of the time-de-pendent optimized effective potential method (OEP) [47]. They are also compared with the TDDFRT zero-order estimate 0)kso, the difference (10) of the orbital energies obtained with the accurate vxc. 

Norman, M.R. and Koelling, D.D. (1984). Towards a Kohn-Sham potential via the optimized effective potential method, Phys. Rev. B 30, 5530-5540. 

Buendia et al. calculated many states of the iron atom with VMC using orbitals obtained from the parametrized optimal effective potential method with all electrons included. Iron is a particularly difficult system, and the VMC results are only moderately accurate. The same authors also pubhshed VMC and Green s functions quantum Monte Carlo (GFMQ calculations on the first transition-row atoms with all electrons. GFMC is a variant of DMC where intermediate steps are used to remove the time step error. Cafiarel et al. presented a very careful study on the role of electron correlation and relativistic effects in the copper atom using all-electron DMC. Relativistic effects were calculated with the Dirac-Fock model. Several states of the atom were evaluated and an accuracy of about 0.15 eV was achieved with a single determinant. ... 

Electronic Structure Beyond the Local Density Approximation,. I. Anisimov, Ed., Gordon and Breach, Tokyo, 2000, pp. 203-311. Orbital Eunctionals in Density Eunctional Theory The Optimized Effective Potential Method. 

Ensemble-Hartree-Fock Scheme for Excited States. The Optimized Effective Potential Method. 

The computational effort of solving orbital Euler-Lagrange (OEL) equations is significantly reduced if the generally nonlocal exchange-correlation potential vxc can be replaced or approximated by a local potential vxc(r). A variationally defined optimal local potential is determined using the optimized effective potential (OEP) method [380, 398]. This method can be applied to any theory in which the model... 

Kohn and Sham took E c as a functional of the density p. An alternative procedure, the optimized effective potential (OEP) method, takes as a functional of the occupied KS orbitals, in the hope that this will make it easier to develop accurate functionals. The OEP method leads to equations that are hard to solve. Kreiger, Li and lafrate (KLI) developed an accurate approximation to the OEP equations, thereby making them easier to deal with, and the KLI method has given good results in DF calculations on atoms [J. B. Krieger, Y. li, and G. I. lafrate in E. K U. Gross and R. M. Dreizler (eds.). Density Functional Theory, Plenum, 1995, pp. 191-216]. 

Note that this correction has the problem that the Kohn-Sham equation is not invariant for the unitary transformation of occupied orbitals, even after the correction, differently from the Hartree-Fock equation. In the Hartree-Fock equation, the variations of the Coulomb self-interaction energy and its potential for the unitary transformations of occupied orbitals cancel out with those of the exchange self-interaction, while these are not compensated, even after the correction in the Kohn-Sham equation. Therefore, the effect of the self-interaction correction depends on the difference in occupied orbitals before and after the unitary transformation. For removing this difference, it is usual to localize the orbitals before the self-interaction correction (Johnson et al. 1994). Note, however, that there are various types of orbital localization methods, and the effect of the selfinteraction correction inevitably depends on them. Combining with the optimized effective potential (OEP) method (see Sect. 7.5) may be one of the most efficient ways to solve this problem. This combination enables us to consistently obtain localized potentials with no self-interaction error. 

In this section the basic formalism for orbital-dependent XC-functionals is derived. The orbital-dependent KS potential can be derived by applying the chain-rule of functional derivatives (subsection 3.3), which requires the use of Green s functions (subsection 3.1) and of the density response (subsection 3.2). An equivalent approach is the Optimized Effective Potential (OEP) method (subsection 3.4). The main properties of the exact OEP exchange-correlation potential are discussed in subsection 3.5. In subsection 3.6 well-established approximations to the Green s function are presented, while in subsection 3.7 alternative derivations of orbital-dependent functional are discussed. 

In this chapter, we discuss some new developments in TDDFT beyond the linear response regime for accurate and efficient nonperturbative treatment of multiphoton dynamics and very-high-order nonlinear optical processes of atomic and molecular systems in intense and superintense laser fields. In Section 2, we briefly describe the time-dependent optimized effective potential (OEP) method and its simplified version, i.e., the time-dependent Krieger-Li-Iafrate (KLI) approximation, along with self-interaction correction (SIC). In Section 3, we present the TDDFT approaches and the time-dependent generalized pseudospectral (TDGPS) methods for the accurate treatment of multiphoton processes in diatomic and triatomic molecules. In Section 4, we describe the Floquet formulation of TDDFT. This is followed by a conclusion in Section 5. Atomic units will be used throughout this chapter. 

The method is sometimes also termed optimized effective potential (OEP). 

Prom such an action functional, one seeks to determine the local Kohn-Sham potential through a series of chain rules for functional derivatives. The procedure is called the optimized effective potential (OEP) or the optimized potential method (OPM) for historical reasons [15,16]. The derivation of the time-dependent version of the OEP equations is very similar to the ground-state case. Due to space limitations we will not present the derivation in this chapter. The interested reader is advised to consult the original paper [13], one of the more recent publications [17,18], or the chapter by E. Engel contained in this volume. The final form of the OEP equation that determines the EXX potential is... 

Before leaving our tutorial on ground-state formalism, we mention the optimized effective potential (OEP) method in which the XC functional is written as a functional of the KS orbitals (which in turn are functionals of... 

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