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A general approach to calculate the diabatic surfaces for electron-transfer reactions is presented, based on first-principles molecular dynamics of the active centers and their surrounding medium. The excitation energy corresponding to the…
Time-dependent (TD) density functional theory (TDDFT) promises a numerically tractable account of many-body electron dynamics provided good simple approximations are developed for the exchange-correlation (XC) potential functional (XCPF).…
It was found by Perdew, Parr, Levy, and Balduz [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 49}, 1691 (1982)] and by Sham and Schl\"uter [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 51}, 1884 (1983)] that the exact Kohn-Sham exchange-correlation potential of an open system may jump…
We derive an exact representation of the exchange-correlation energy within density functional theory (DFT) which spawns a class of approximations leading to correct long-range asymptotic behavior. In what amounts to be the simplest…