Density-functional theory for systems with noncollinear spin: orbital-dependent exchange-correlation functionals and their application to the Hubbard dimer
Abstract
A new class of orbital-dependent exchange-correlation (xc) potentials for applications in noncollinear spin-density-functional theory is developed. Starting from the optimized effective potential (OEP) formalism for the exact exchange potential - generalized to the noncollinear case - correlation effects are added via a self-consistent procedure inspired by the Singwi-Tosi-Land-Sjolander (STLS) method. The orbital-dependent xc potentials are applied to the Hubbard dimer in uniform and noncollinear magnetic fields and compared to exact diagonalization and to the Bethe-ansatz local spin-density approximation. The STLS gives the overall best performance for total energies, densities and magnetizations, particularly in the weakly to moderately correlated regime.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1805.06417,
title = {Density-functional theory for systems with noncollinear spin: orbital-dependent exchange-correlation functionals and their application to the Hubbard dimer},
author = {Carsten A. Ullrich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.06417},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Manuscript: 13 pages with 10 figures. Supplemental material: 12 pages