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Doubly hybrid density functional for accurate descriptions of nonbond interactions, thermochemistry, and thermochemical kinetics

  • 1. ROR icon Xiamen University
  • 2. ROR icon California Institute of Technology

Abstract

We develop and validate a density functional, XYG3, based on the adiabatic connection formalism and the Görling–Levy coupling-constant perturbation expansion to the second order (PT2). XYG3 is a doubly hybrid functional, containing 3 mixing parameters. It has a nonlocal orbital-dependent component in the exchange term (exact exchange) plus information about the unoccupied Kohn–Sham orbitals in the correlation part (PT2 double excitation). XYG3 is remarkably accurate for thermochemistry, reaction barrier heights, and nonbond interactions of main group molecules. In addition, the accuracy remains nearly constant with system size.

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© 2009 by the National Academy of Sciences. Contributed by William A. Goddard III, February 6, 2009 (sent for review November 25, 2008). We thank Prof. D. H. Zhang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian, China) for providing the CCSD(T) results of the potential energy curves for the H + CH4 → H2 + CH3 reaction. This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China Grants 20525311, 20533030, 20423002, and 10774126; Ministry of Science and Technology of China Grants 2007CB815206 and 2004CB719902, with partial support by National Science Foundation Grants ECS-0609128 and CTS-0608889) and Office of Naval Research (ONR)–Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Grants PROM N00014-06-1-0938 and N00014-05-1-0778). The computation facilities of the Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC) used in these studies have been supported by grants from the Army Research Office–Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) and ONR–DURIP.

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PMC2664054
Eprint ID
14552
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CaltechAUTHORS:20090710-075544902

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China
20525311
National Natural Science Foundation of China
20533030
National Natural Science Foundation of China
20423002
National Natural Science Foundation of China
10774126
Ministry of Science and Technology of China
2007CB815206
Ministry of Science and Technology of China
2004CB719902
NSF
ECS-0609128
NSF
CTS-0608889
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
N00014-06-1-0938
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
N00014-05-1-0778
Army Research Office (ARO)

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