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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik

HL 25: Focus Session: Frontiers of electronic structure theory II (O, jointly with HL, TT)

HL 25.2: Talk

Monday, March 11, 2013, 16:15–16:30, H36

Extending the random phase approximation for electronic correlation energies: The renormalized adiabatic local density approximation — •Thomas Olsen — Technical University of Denmark

The adiabatic connection fluctuation-dissipation theorem with the random phase approximation (RPA) has recently been applied with success to obtain correlation energies of a variety of chemical and solid state systems. The main merit of this approach is the improved description of dispersive forces while chemical bond strengths and absolute correlation energies are systematically underestimated. In this work we extend the RPA by including a parameter-free renormalized version of the adiabatic local density (ALDA) exchange-correlation kernel. The renormalization consists of a (local) truncation of the ALDA kernel for wave vectors q>2kF, which is found to yield excellent results for the homogeneous electron gas. In addition, the kernel significantly improves both the absolute correlation energies and atomization energies of small molecules over RPA and ALDA. The renormalization can be straightforwardly applied to other adiabatic local kernels.

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