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Daniel Neuhauser1, Roi Baer2, Eran Rabani3.
Abstract
We develop a method in which the electronic densities of small fragments determined by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) are embedded using stochastic DFT to form the exact density of the full system. The new method preserves the scaling and the simplicity of the stochastic DFT but cures the slow convergence that occurs when weakly coupled subsystems are treated. It overcomes the spurious charge fluctuations that impair the applications of the original stochastic DFT approach. We demonstrate the new approach on a fullerene dimer and on clusters of water molecules and show that the density of states and the total energy can be accurately described with a relatively small number of stochastic orbitals.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25084868 DOI: 10.1063/1.4890651
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Chem Phys ISSN: 0021-9606 Impact factor: 3.488