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Optimization of atomic density-fitting basis functions for molecular two-electron integral approximations

Chemical Physics 2020-10-13 v2

Abstract

A general procedure for the optimization of atomic density-fitting basis functions is designed with the balance between accuracy and numerical stability in mind. Given one-electron wavefunctions and energies, weights are assigned to the product densities, modeling their contribution to the exchange and second-order correlation energy, and a simple weighted error measure is minimized. Generally-contracted Gaussian auxiliary basis sets are optimized to match the wavefunction basis sets [D. N. Laikov, Theor. Chem. Acc. 138, 40 (2019)] for all 102 elements in a scalar-relativistic approximation [D. N. Laikov, J. Chem. Phys. 150, 061102 (2019)].

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@article{arxiv.2005.10129,
  title  = {Optimization of atomic density-fitting basis functions for molecular two-electron integral approximations},
  author = {Dimitri N. Laikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.10129},
  year   = {2020}
}
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