Appendix 1
Exchange and correlation functionals and potentials
(a) Dirac-Slater exchange energy functional and potential
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(b) von Barth-Hedin exchange energy functional and potential
(c) Becke exchange energy functional and potential

(d) Perdew-Wang 91 exchange energy functional and potential
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(e) Perdew-Zunger LSD correlation energy functional and potential
where sgn(s ) is 1 for
and –1 for
low density limit
:
high density limit
:
|
Parameter |
i=0 |
i=1 |
|
g |
–0.1423 |
–0.0843 |
|
b 1 |
1.0529 |
1.3981 |
|
b 2 |
0.3334 |
0.2611 |
|
A |
0.0311 |
0.0155 |
|
B |
–0.0480 |
–0.0269 |
|
C |
0.0020 |
0.0007 |
|
D |
–0.0116 |
–0.0048 |
Table A1 - Constants used in the Perdew-Zunger parametrization of the Ceperley-Alder quantum Monte-Carlo results for a homogeneous electron gas
(f) Vosko-Wilk-Nusair correlation energy functional

|
Parameter |
I |
II |
III |
|
Ai |
0.0621841 |
0.0310907 |
–0.033774 |
|
bi |
3.72744 |
7.06042 |
1.131071 |
|
ci |
12.9352 |
18.0578 |
13.0045 |
|
x0i |
–0.10498 |
–0.32500 |
–0.0047584 |
Table A2 - Constants for the Vosko-Wilk-Nusair parametrization
(g) von Barth-Hedin correlation energy functional and potential
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(h) Perdew 86 correlation energy functional and potential



(i) Perdew 91 correlation energy functional and potential
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(j) Lee, Yang and Parr correlation energy functional and potential

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