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Does the derivative of the energy density functional provide a proper quantitative formulation of electronegativity?

Chemical Physics 2012-09-28 v1

Abstract

It is pointed out that the derivative of the energy density functional does not provide a valid local electronegativity measure, in spite of its appealing property of becoming constant for ground-state equilibrium systems.

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@article{arxiv.1209.6353,
  title  = {Does the derivative of the energy density functional provide a proper quantitative formulation of electronegativity?},
  author = {Tamas Gal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.6353},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

unpublished sec.VI of arXiv:1107.4249v3 made into a separate paper