Assessing Accuracy of Exchange-Correlation Functionals for the Description of Atomic Excited States
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AbstractThe performance of exchange-correlation functionals for the description of atomic excitations is investigated. A benchmark set of excited states is constructed and experimental data is compared to Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) calculations. The benchmark results show that for the selected group of functionals good accuracy may be achieved and the quality of predictions provided is competitive to computationally more demanding coupled-cluster approaches. Apart from testing the standard TDDFT approaches, also the role of self-interaction error plaguing DFT calculations and the adiabatic approximation to the exchange-correlation kernels is given some insight.
2008 ◽
Vol 130
(7)
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pp. 2130-2131
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2007 ◽
Vol 129
(46)
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pp. 14156-14157
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