Nonlocal vs Local Pseudopotentials Affect Kinetic Energy Kernels in Orbital-Free DFT
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| author | Moldabekov, Zhandos A. Shao, Xuecheng Pavanello, Michele Vorberger, Jan Dornheim, Tobias |
| author_facet | Moldabekov, Zhandos A. Shao, Xuecheng Pavanello, Michele Vorberger, Jan Dornheim, Tobias |
| contents | The kinetic energy (KE) kernel, which is defined as the second order functional derivative of the KE functional with respect to density, is the key ingredient to the construction of KE models for orbital free density functional theory (OFDFT) applications. For solids, the KE kernel is usually approximated using the uniform electron gas (UEG) model or the UEG-with-gap model. These kernels do not have information about the effects from the core electrons since there are no orbitals for the projection on nonlocal pseudopotentials. To illuminate this aspect, we provide a methodology for computing the KE kernel from Kohn-Sham DFT and apply it to the valence electrons in bulk aluminum (Al) with a face-centered cubic lattice and in bulk silicon (Si) in a semiconducting crystal diamond state. We find that bulk-derived local pseudopotentials provide accurate results for the KE kernel in the interstitial region. The effect of using nonlocal pseudopotentials manifests at short wavelengths, defined by the diameter of an ion surrounded by its core electrons. Specifically, we find that the utilization of nonlocal pseudopotentials leads to significant deviations in the KE kernel from the von Weizsacker result in this region, which is, as a rule, explicitly enforced in most widely used KE functional approximations for OFDFT simulations. |
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| spellingShingle | Nonlocal vs Local Pseudopotentials Affect Kinetic Energy Kernels in Orbital-Free DFT Moldabekov, Zhandos A. Shao, Xuecheng Pavanello, Michele Vorberger, Jan Dornheim, Tobias Materials Science Chemical Physics The kinetic energy (KE) kernel, which is defined as the second order functional derivative of the KE functional with respect to density, is the key ingredient to the construction of KE models for orbital free density functional theory (OFDFT) applications. For solids, the KE kernel is usually approximated using the uniform electron gas (UEG) model or the UEG-with-gap model. These kernels do not have information about the effects from the core electrons since there are no orbitals for the projection on nonlocal pseudopotentials. To illuminate this aspect, we provide a methodology for computing the KE kernel from Kohn-Sham DFT and apply it to the valence electrons in bulk aluminum (Al) with a face-centered cubic lattice and in bulk silicon (Si) in a semiconducting crystal diamond state. We find that bulk-derived local pseudopotentials provide accurate results for the KE kernel in the interstitial region. The effect of using nonlocal pseudopotentials manifests at short wavelengths, defined by the diameter of an ion surrounded by its core electrons. Specifically, we find that the utilization of nonlocal pseudopotentials leads to significant deviations in the KE kernel from the von Weizsacker result in this region, which is, as a rule, explicitly enforced in most widely used KE functional approximations for OFDFT simulations. |
| title | Nonlocal vs Local Pseudopotentials Affect Kinetic Energy Kernels in Orbital-Free DFT |
| topic | Materials Science Chemical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12625 |