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American Chemical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 5(3), p. 576-581, 2012

DOI: 10.1021/jz201685r

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Does a Molecule-Specific Density Functional Give an Accurate Electron Density? The Challenging Case of the CuCl Electric Field Gradient

Journal article published in 2012 by Monika Srebro ORCID, Jochen Autschbach ORCID
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Abstract

In the framework of determining system-specific long-range corrected density functionals, the question is addressed whether such functionals, tuned to satisfy the condition − ε HOMO = IP or other energetic criteria, provide accurate electron densities. A nonempirical physically motivated two-dimensional tuning of range-separated hybrid functionals is proposed and applied to the particularly challenging case of a molecular property that depends directly on the ground-state density: the copper electric field gradient (EFG) in CuCl. From a continuous range of functional parametrizations that closely satisfy − ε HOMO = IP and the correct asymptotic behavior of the potential, the one that best fulfills the straight-line behavior of E ( N ), the energy as a function of a fractional electron number N , was found to provide the most accurate electron density as evidenced by calculated EFGs. The functional also performs well for related Cu systems.