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Lookup NU author(s): Josh Littlefair, Dr Daniel ColeORCiD, Professor Thomas Penfold
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Despite the exact form of Exc being unknown, remarkably simple approximations can provide unrivaled accuracy to cost ratio. Both physically and empirically motivated approaches for developing Exc are used, but nearly all focus upon improving calculated energies. Herein we simultaneously study energy and density errors associated with a range of density functionals for CuCl and four related complexes. Atomisation energies are compared with high-level coupled cluster, CCSD(T), while computed electric field gradients are compared with those obtained from microwave spectroscopy and CCSD(T). We show that simple metrics are able to reveal the relative contributions of the energetic errors associated with the use of an approximate density and an approximate exchange and correlation functional. The methods adopted provide a potentially useful approach for assessing and developing new balanced functionals that are able to provide simultaneous improvement in both energetics and properties associated with the electron density.
Author(s): Littlefair J, Cole DJ, Penfold TJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Journal of Quantum Chemistry
Year: 2021
Volume: 121
Issue: 23
Print publication date: 05/12/2021
Online publication date: 16/08/2021
Acceptance date: 30/07/2021
ISSN (print): 0020-7608
ISSN (electronic): 1097-461X
Publisher: Wiley
URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/qua.26799
DOI: 10.1002/qua.26799
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