Technically, when dealing with a perfect crystal, methods (PBC) in conjunction with plane-wave basis sets are widely in k-(reciprocal) space that impose periodic boundary conditions used. Chemists, however, tend to think of a solid as a giant mole- cule, which offers a molecular way to describe a solid by using a finite cluster model (FCM). However, FCM may fail to sim- ulate a perfect crystal due to its inevitable boundary effects. We propose an RRS-PBC method that extracts the k-space infor- mation of a perfect crystalline solid out of a reduced real space (RRS) of an FCM. We show that the inevitable boundary effects in an FCM are eliminated naturally to achieve converged high-quality band structures.
本文回顾了现代密度泛函理论的基础,着重评述了XYG3型双杂化(XYG3 type of doubly hybrid,xDH)泛函的最新进展,解析能量梯度的实现.XYG3是首个依照绝热途径理论建立的双杂化泛函,在具体实现上具有独特的构架.该类型泛函利用常用泛函(如B3LYP或PBE0等)作母泛函来进行自洽计算,以期获得更好的密度和轨道,然后将所得到的轨道和密度信息带入到xDH泛函中以得到最终能量.由于自洽泛函和最终能量泛函不同,因而在计算解析能量梯度时需要求解耦合微扰Kohn-Sham方程.在此基础上,还评述了xDH泛函在能量,尤其是构型优化方面的具体表现.测试的构型集包括以共价键键合的分子和非键相互作用体系的平衡结构,以及反应过渡态结构.结果表明,xDH双杂化泛函总体上给出了比母泛函更好的能量和几何构型.
Recently,AnstÖter and co-workers[J.Am.Chem.Soc.141,6132(2019)]have provided the first photoelectron spectroscopic determination of the anion-πbond strength(De)using iodide-hexafluorobenzene(I-·C6F6)as the archetypical system.In combination with an equation-of-motion coupled cluster theory,namely EOM-IP-CCSD(d T),using Dunning’s aug-cc-p VDZ(a VDZ)basis set,Dein I-·C6F6 was found to be-0.53 e V with an uncertainty less than±0.03 e V.The interaction was claimed to arise for a large part from correlation forces(41%)with only a 23%contribution from electrostatic forces.In the present work,we performed the coupled-cluster with single and double and perturbative triple excitations,CCSD(T),calculations.We found that CCSD(T)/a VDZ can have an uncertainty up to 0.113 e V due to the basis set incompleteness.Our calculations disclosed that the previous calculations on the electrostatic contribution are concealed by the contributions from the exchange and Pauli repulsion.The electrostatic contribution is actually determinant,being more than double of the correlation contribution in the I-·C6F6 complex at the equilibrium binding distance.
Benzene dimer (bz2) is the simplest prototype of the π-π interactions. Such interactions are ubiquitous in diverse areas of science and molecular engineering. In the present work, we have made assessment on some modern density functional methods including B97-D, BLYP-D3, M06-2X, XYG3, and force field models including CHARMM, AMBER, MM3, AMOEBA on six important interaction modes of bz2. Our results not only highlight the usefulness of these cost-effective methods, which can be used as economic substitutes of the expensive CCSD(T) for complex real-world systems, but also indicate their weakness in the description of the π-π interactions, which points to the future direction for further improvements.