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An iterative orbital interaction (iOI) approach is proposed to solve, in a bottom-up fashion, the self-consistent field problem in quantum chemistry. While it belongs grossly to the family of fragment-based quantum chemical methods, iOI is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Zikuan Wang , Wenjian Liu

We investigate the electronic structure of a planar mononuclear Cu-based molecule [Cu(C$_6$H$_4$S$_2$)$_2$]$^z$ in two oxidation states ($z$$=$$-2$, $-$1) using density-functional theory (DFT) with Fermi-L\"owdin orbital (FLO)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Anri Karanovich , Yoh Yamamoto , Koblar Alan Jackson , Kyungwha Park

We investigate from a practitioner's point of view the computation of the ionization potential (IP) within density functional theory (DFT). DFT with (semi-)local energy-density functionals is plagued by a self-interaction error which…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2015-06-16 Peter Klüpfel , Mai Phuong Dinh , Paul-Gerhard Reinhard , Eric Suraud

Incorporating self-interaction corrections (SIC) significantly improves chemical reaction barrier height predictions made using density functional theory methods. We present a detailed, orbital-by-orbital analysis of these corrections for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Yashpal Singh , Juan E Peralta , Koblar Alan Jackson

Density Functional Theory (DFT) sees prominent use in computational chemistry and physics, however, problems due to the self-interaction error (SIE) pose additional challenges to obtaining qualitatively correct results. An unphysical energy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Dale R. Lonsdale , Lars Goerigk

We examine the role of self-interaction errors (SIE) removal on the evaluation of magnetic exchange coupling constants. In particular we analyze the effect of scaling down the self-interaction-correction (SIC) for three {\em non-empirical}…

The accurate prediction of band gaps and structural properties in periodic systems continues to be one of the central goals of electronic structure theory. However, band gaps obtained from popular exchange-correlation functionals (such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-18 Ravindra Shinde , Sharma S. R. K. C. Yamijala , Bryan M. Wong

The Perdew-Zunger (PZ) method provides a way to remove the self-interaction (SI) error from density functional approximations on an orbital by orbital basis. The PZ method provides significant improvements for the properties such as barrier…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Yoh Yamamoto , Selim Romero , Tunna Baruah , Rajendra R. Zope

The Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction(PZ-SIC) improves the performance of density functional approximations(DFAs) for the properties that involve significant self-interaction error(SIE), as in stretched bond situations, but…

We studied the effect of self-interaction error (SIE) on the static dipole polarizabilities of water clusters modelled with three increasingly sophisticated, non-empirical density functional approximations (DFAs), viz. the local spin…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-01 Sharmin Akter , Yoh Yamamoto , Carlos M. Diaz , Koblar A. Jackson , Rajendra R. Zope , Tunna Baruah

We investigate configuration-interaction (CI) calculations on a basis of molecular orbitals generated by preliminary density-functional theory (DFT) calculations. We use this CI/DFT framework to improve the modeling of core-excited states…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Giorgio Visentin , Francois Mauger

Recently proposed local self-interaction correction (LSIC) method [Zope, R. R. et al., J. Chem. Phys. 151, 214108 (2019)] is a one-electron self-interaction-correction (SIC) method that uses an iso-orbital indicator to apply the SIC at each…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Yoh Yamamoto , Tunna Baruah , Po-Hao Chang , Selim Romero , Rajendra R. Zope

We find that for simple metal clusters a single-electron description of the ground state employing self-interaction correction (SIC) in the framework of local-density approximation strongly contaminates the high energy photoionization cross…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2009-11-07 M. E. Madjet , Himadri S. Chakraborty , Jan-M. Rost

Self-interaction is a fundamental flaw of practical Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS DFT) approximations responsible for numerous qualitative and even catastrophic shortcomings. Whereas self-interaction is easy to characterize in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Samuel A. Slattery , Edward F. Valeev

We extend some of the well established self-interaction correction (SIC) schemes of density-functional theory to the case of systems with noncollinear magnetism. Our proposed SIC schemes are tested on a set of molecules and metallic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Martin Lüders , Carsten A. Ullrich

We present a self-interaction-corrected (SIC) density-functional-theory (DFT) approach for the description of systems with an unpaired electron or hole such as spin 1/2 defect-centers in solids or radicals. Our functional is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Mayeul d'Avezac , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

We present a new formulation of the time-dependent self-interaction correction (TDSIC). It is derived variationally obeying explicitly the constraints on orthonormality of the occupied single-particle orbitals. The thus emerging rather…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-02 J. Messud , P. M. Dinh , P. -G. Reinhard , E. Suraud

In the present letter, it is demonstrated how full configuration interaction (FCI) results in extended basis sets may be obtained to within sub-kJ/mol accuracy by decomposing the energy in terms of many-body expansions in the virtual…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Janus J. Eriksen , Filippo Lipparini , Jürgen Gauss

Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction (PZSIC) reintroduces an exact constraint to approximate density functional theory (DFT), but can paradoxically degrade performance and is not systematically improvable. We use the Adiabatic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Benjamin G. Janesko

Full configuration interaction (FCI) solvers are limited to small basis sets due to their expensive computational costs. An optimal orbital selection for FCI (OptOrbFCI) is proposed to boost the power of existing FCI solvers to pursue the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Yingzhou Li , Jianfeng Lu