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Virial Relations in Density Embedding

Chemical Physics 2020-02-04 v1

Abstract

The accuracy of charge-transfer excitation energies, solvatochromic shifts and other environmental effects calculated via various density embedding techniques depend critically on the approximations employed for the non-additive non-interacting kinetic energy functional, Tsnad[n]T_{\scriptscriptstyle\rm s}^{\scriptscriptstyle\rm nad}[n]. Approximating this functional remains an important challenge in electronic structure theory. To assist in the development and testing of approximations for Tsnad[n]T_{\scriptscriptstyle\rm s}^{\scriptscriptstyle\rm nad}[n], we derive two virial relations for fragments in molecules. These establish separate connections between the non-additive kinetic energies of the non-interacting and interacting systems of electrons, and quantities such as the electron-nuclear attraction forces, the partition (or embedding) energy and potential, and the Kohn-Sham potentials of the system and its parts. We numerically verify both relations on diatomic molecules.

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@article{arxiv.2002.00061,
  title  = {Virial Relations in Density Embedding},
  author = {Kaili Jiang and Martín A. Mosquera and Yan Oueis and Adam Wasserman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.00061},
  year   = {2020}
}
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