Spherically symmetric density and potential of a hydrogen molecule

Using a hydrogen molecule as a test system we demonstrate how to compute the effective potential according to the formalism of the new density functional theory (DFT), in which the basic variable is the set of spherically averaged densities instead of the total density, used in the traditional DFT....

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Main Authors Kokko, K, Nagy, Á, Huhtala, J, Björkman, T, Vitos, L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 19.09.2020
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Physics - Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Physics - Chemical Physics
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Summary:Using a hydrogen molecule as a test system we demonstrate how to compute the effective potential according to the formalism of the new density functional theory (DFT), in which the basic variable is the set of spherically averaged densities instead of the total density, used in the traditional DFT. The effective potential together the external potential, nuclear Coulomb potential, can be substituted in the Schr\"odinger like differential equation to obtain the spherically averaged electron density of the system. In the new method instead of one three-dimensional low symmetry equation one has to solve as many spherically symmetric equations as there are atoms in the system.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2009.09178