Implemen tation of
Mo dern Densit y F unctional Metho ds
Gradien ts for Lo cal Hybrid F unctionals
and
SCF for Lo cal Range-Separated Hybrid F unctionals
v orgelegt v on
Master of Science
Sasc ha Kla w ohn
https://orcid.org/0000- 0003- 4850- 776X
v on der F akultät I I – Mathematik und Naturwissensc haften
der T ec hnisc hen Univ ersität Berlin
zur Erlangung des akademisc hen Grades
Doktor der Naturwissensc haften
Dr. rer. nat.
genehmigte Dissertation
Promotionsaussc h uss:
V orsitzende: Prof. Dr. Karola R üc k-Braun
Gutac h ter: Prof. Dr. Martin Kaupp
Gutac h ter: PD Dr. Florian W eigend
T ag der wissensc haftlic hen Aussprac he: 2019–09–04
Berlin 2019

Abstract
Lo cal h ybrid functionals are a relativ ely new and promising to ol in the widely used
K ohn-Sham densit y functional theory , but they ha v e b een lac king the capabilit y
for structure optimization and vibrational sp ectroscopic calculations. T o close that
gap, this thesis is concerned with the implemen tation and assessmen t of energy
deriv ativ es w.r.t. n uclear displacemen ts (gradien ts) for lo cal h ybrids. The new im-
plemen tation in the quan tum c hemical program pac kage T urb omole is then used
in the ev aluation of a new b enc hmark set of small, gas phase mixed-v alence sys-
tems. One of the lo cal h ybrid functionals is among the b est p erforming functionals
in that ev aluation.
In the second part, the concept of making a previously constan t parameter
p osition-dep enden t is transferred to the comp eting approac h of range-separated
h ybrid functionals. Expanding on previous preliminary w ork with this metho d, the
first self-consisten t implemen tation of lo cal range-separated functionals in to T ur-
b omole is describ ed, follo w ed b y an assessmen t of a new functional on molecular
prop erties of selected test sets. W e use a semi-empirical range-separation function
in com bination with PBE-t yp e exc hange and the standard PBE correlation func-
tionals. Ev en with this simple approac h, the functionals with lo c al range separation
are sup erior to those with constan t parameters for thermo c hemistry and kinetics.
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Zusammenfassung
Lokale Hybridfunktionale sind ein relativ neues und vielv ersprec hendes W erk-
zeug in der w eit v erbreiteten K ohn-Sham-Dic h tefunktionaltheorie, jedo c h waren
Strukturopimierungungen und sc h wingungssp ektrosk opisc he Berec hn ungen bis-
lang nic h t möglic h. Um diese Lück e zu sc hließen, b efasst sic h diese Dissertation
mit der Implemen tierung und V alidierung v on Ableitungen der Energie bzgl. der
Kernp ositionen (Gradien ten) für lokale Hybridfunktionale. Die neue Implemen tie-
rung im quan tenc hemisc hen Programmpak et T urb omole wird ansc hließend b ei der
Ev aluierung eines neuen Benc hmark-T estsatzes gen utzt, der aus kleinen, gemisc h t-
v alen ten Systemen in der Gasphase b esteh t. Eines der lokalen Hybridfunktionale
ist un ter den b esten F unktionalen in dieser Untersuc h ung.
Im zw eiten T eil wird das K onzept, einen zuvor k onstan ten P arameter p ositi-
onsabhängig zu mac hen, auf den k onkurrierenden Ansatz der Hybridfunktiona-
le mit R eichenweitensep arierung üb ertragen. A ufbauend auf vorigen anfänglic hen
Bem üh ungen zu dieser Metho de b esc hreib en wir die erste selbstk onsisten te Imple-
men tierung lokaler Reic hen w eitenseparierungsfunktionale in T urb omole und v ali-
dieren ein neues F unktional für molekulare Eigensc haften an ausgew ählten T est-
sätzen. Es wird eine semiempirisc he Reic h w eitenseparierungsfunktion in K om bi-
nation mit einem A ustausc hfunktional des PBE-T yps und dem üblichen PBE-
K orrelationfunktional gen utzt. Selbst mit diesem einfac hen Ansatz sind die F unk-
tionale mit lokaler Reic h w eitenseparierung solc hen mit k onstan ten P arametern für
Thermo c hemie und Kinetik üb erlegen.
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List of Publications
[1] S. Kla w ohn, H. Bahmann, and M. Kaupp. J. Chem. The ory Comput. 12
(2016). PMID: 27434098, 4254. doi : 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00486 .
[2] S. Kla w ohn, M. Kaupp, and A. Karton. J. Chem. The ory Comput. 14
(2018). PMID: 29874463, 3512. doi : 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00289 .
[3] S. Kla w ohn and H. Bahmann. “Self-Consistent Implemen tation of Lo cal
Range-Separated Hybrid F unctionals (preliminary title)” . 2019. T o b e Sub-
mitted.
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List of Publications
Cop yrigh t
• P arts of Chapters 2 and 3, including tables and graphics therein, are repro-
duced with p ermission from S. Kla w ohn, H. Bahmann, and M. Kaupp. J.
Chem. The ory Comput. 12 (2016). PMID: 27434098, 4254. doi : 10 . 1021 /
acs.jctc.6b00486 . Cop yrigh t 2019 American Chemical So ciet y .
• P arts of Section 3.4, including tables and graphics therein, are repro duced
with p ermission from S. Kla w ohn, M. Kaupp, and A. Karton. J. Chem.
The ory Comput. 14 (2018). PMID: 29874463, 3512. doi : 10 . 1021 / acs .
jctc.8b00289 . Cop yrigh t 2019 American Chemical So ciet y .
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Contents
1 Intro duction 1
2 Theo retical Background 5
2.1 Hartree-F o c k Metho d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2 Densit y F unctional Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.3 A tomic Orbital Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.4 In tegration T ec hniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.5 Ov erview of T urb omole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.6 Implemen tation Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
3 Lo cal Hyb rid Gradients 43
3.1 Theoretical Bac kground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
3 . 2 I m p l e m e n t a t i o n............................ 4 7
3 . 3 A s s e s s m e n t .............................. 5 1
3.4 Application to a Gas-Phase Mixed-V alence Oxide Benc hmark Set 62
3.5 Conclusions and Outlo ok . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
3 . A A p p e n d i x ............................... 7 7
4 Lo cal Range-Sepa rated Hyb rids 95
4.1 Theoretical Bac kground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
4 . 2 I m p l e m e n t a t i o n............................ 1 0 1
4 . 3 A s s e s s m e n t .............................. 1 0 6
4.4 Conclusions and Outlo ok . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
4 . A A p p e n d i x ............................... 1 1 9
5 Conclusions and Outlo ok 123
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A cron yms
A cronyms
AE atomization energy
A O atomic orbital
BH barrier heigh t
CBS complete basis set
CF calibration function
COSX c hain-of-spheres exchange
CPU cen tral pro cessing unit
DFT density functional theory
EA electron affinit y
FDO functional deriv ativ e w.r.t. the orbitals
GGA generalized gradien t approximation (functional)
GH global h ybrid (functional)
GKS generalized K ohn-Sham
GRSH global range-separated h ybrid (functional)
GTO Gaussian-t yp e orbital
HF Hartree-F o c k (metho d)
HK Hohen b erg-K ohen (theorem)
HOMO highest o ccupied molecular orbital
IP ionization p oten tial
IR infrared
IR C in trinsic reaction co ordinate
IRMPD infrared m ultiphoton disso ciation
KS K ohn-Sham (metho d)
KS-DFT K ohn-Sham densit y functional theory
LC long-range correction
LCA O linear com bination of atomic orbitals
LD A lo cal densit y appro ximation (functional)
LH lo cal h ybrid (functional)
LHG lo cal h ybrid gradien t
LMF lo cal mixing function
LR long-range
LRSH lo cal range-separated h ybrid (functional)
LSD A lo cal spin-densit y approximation (functional)
LUMO lo w est uno ccupied molecular orbital
MAE mean absolute error
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Basis Sets
MAX maxim um error
mGGA meta -GGA (functional)
MLSL m ulti-lev el single linkage (algorithm)
MO molecular orbital
MP Møller-Plesset (p erturbation theory)
MSE mean signed error
MV mixed v alence
RHF restricted Hartree-F o c k (metho d)
RI resolution of the iden tit y
RMSE ro ot mean square error
RS range separation
RSF range-separation function
RSH (global or lo cal) range-separated h ybrid
SCF self-consisten t field
SIE self-in teraction error
SL semi-lo cal
SR short-range
STO Slater-t yp e orbital
TDDFT time-dep enden t densit y functional theory
UHF unrestricted Hartree-F o c k (metho d)
wMAE w eigh ted MAE
X C exc hange-correlation
XX exact exc hange
Basis Sets
6-311+G(3df,2p) T riple- ζ basis set with implicit diffuse functions on
non-H and explicit additional ones (P ople family). 4–14
aug-cc-pVTZ Correlation-consisten t triple- ζ basis set with p olar-
ization and diffuse functions (Dunning family). 15
aug-cc-p wCV5Z Correlation-consisten t quin tuple- ζ basis set with p o-
larization and diffuse functions, and w eigh ted core-
v alence (Dunning family). 15
aug-cc-V QZ Correlation-consisten t quadruple- ζ basis set with p o-
larization and diffuse functions (Dunning family). 15
def2-QZVP Quadruple- ζ basis set (Ahlric hs family). 16
def2-SVP Basis set with split-v alence p olarization (Ahlric hs
family). 17,18
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T est Sets
def2-TZVP T riple- ζ basis set (Ahlric hs family). 18,19
MG3 Basis set in tro duced for mo difications of the
Gaussian-3 metho d (mo dified G3). 20,21
MG3S V arian t of MG3 without diffuse functions on h ydro-
gen ( semi-diffuse ). 22
T est Sets
ABDE4 Subset of alkyl b ond disso ciation ener gies from
AECE.
AE6/11 Subset of AEs from DBH24/08.
AECE Com bination of DBH24/08 and four test sets of b ond
energies/AEs for systems of catalytic in terest ( aver-
age d err or for c atalytic ener gies ). 23
AL2X Subset of dimerization ener gies of A lX 3 c omp ounds
from GMTKN30.
ALK6 Subset of r e actions of alkaline and alkaline-c ation-
b enzene c omplexes from GMTKN30.
BH76 Subset of v arious b arrier heights from GMTKN30.
BH76R C R e action ener gies of BH76 from GMTKN30.
BHPERI Subset of b arrier heights of p ericyclic r e actions from
GMTKN30.
BSR36 Subset of b ond sep ar ation r e actions of satur ate d hy-
dr o c arb ons from GMTKN30.
D AR C Subset of Diels-A lder r e action ener gies from
GMTKN30.
DBH24/08 Collection of four small test sets for div erse BHs. 24
DC9 Subset of nine difficult c ases for DFT from
GMTKN30.
F2 Vibrational data of small second-p erio d molecules. 25
G2 Collection of test sets for m ultiple prop erties. 26
G2-1 Subset of 55 AEs from G2. 27,28
G21EA Subset of adiab atic ele ctr on affinities from G2, used
in GMTKN30.
G21IP Subset of adiab atic ionization p otentials from G2,
used in GMTKN30 (except for t w o excited states).
G2R C Subset of r e action ener gies of sele cte d G2/97 systems
from GMTKN30.
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GMTKN30 Collection of 30 test sets, split in to three prop ert y
categories. 29
HA TBH6 Subset of DBH24/08.
HTBH38/08 Subset of H-tr ansfer BHs from Minnesota Databases
2.0. 24,30
HTBH6 Subset of BHs from HTBH38/08.
ISO34 Subset of isomerization ener gies of smal l and
me dium-size d or ganic mole cules from GMTKN30.
ISOL22 Subset of isomerization ener gies of lar ge or ganic
mole cule from GMTKN30.
MB08-165 Subset of de c omp osition ener gies of artificial
mole cules from GMTKN30.
MGAE109/11 Subset of AEs from Minnesota Databses 2.0. 30,31
MGBL19 T est set of main-gr oup b ond lengths . 32
MV O-10 Benc hmark test set of ten MV o xides. 2
NBPR C Subset of NH 3 /BH 3 r e actions from GMTKN30.
NSBH6 Subset of BHs for nucle ophilic substitution from
AECE.
O3ADD6 Subset of v arious ener gies for addition of O 3 from
GMTKN30.
P A Subset of adiab atic pr oton affinities from GMTKN30.
RSE43 Subset of r adic al stabilization ener gies from
GMTKN30.
SIE11 Subset of self-inter action err or r elate d pr oblems from
GMTKN30.
UABH6 Subset of BHs for unimole cular and asso ciation r e-
actions from AECE.
W4-08 Subset of atomization ener gies of smal l mole cules
from GMTKN30.
Metho ds and F unctionals
G 0 W 0 P erturbational metho d based on Green’s function
G with screened Coulom b interaction W to zeroth-
order. 33
ω B97M-V GRSH functional with XX at LR, mGGA at SR and
full-range NL mGGA correlation. 34,35
ω B97X GRSH functional with B97 at short-range (SR) and
XX at long-range (LR). 36
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ω B97X-D ω B97X with DFT-D1 disp ersion correction. 37
B3L YP GH functional com bining XX, B88, VWN, and L YP;
adjusted b y three parameters. 38–40
B88 GGA exc hange functional by Bec k e. 41
B97 GH functional b y Bec k e with gradient expansion of
exc hange and correlation, empirically optimized on
G2. 42,43
BHL YP GH functional com bining B88 exc hange and 50 % XX
with L YP correlation. 44
BL YP35 V arian t of BHL YP with 35 % XX, dev elop ed for MV
systems. 45,46
BMK GH mGGA functional b y Bo ese and Martin for ki-
netics. 47
BP86 GGA functional with B88 exc hange and P86 correla-
tion. 41
CAM-B3L YP GRSH v arian t of B3L YP . 48
CC Coupled cluster; p ost-HF metho d with v arying de-
grees of excited states.
CCSD CC with single and double excitations.
CCSD(T) CCSD with p erturbativ e triple excitations.
CCSDT(Q) CCSD with triple and p erturbativ e quadruple exci-
tations.
CI Configuration in teraction; p ost-HF metho d with
v arying degrees of excited states.
DFT-D1 First v ersion of Grimme’s empirical disp ersion cor-
rection. 49
GRS-oPBE GRSH functional in v estigated in Section 4.3.
GRS-sPBE GRSH functional in v estigated in Section 4.3.
GRS-SVWN GRSH functional in v estigated in Section 4.3.
HISS GRSH functional emplo ying PBE at SR and LR, and
XX at mid-range b y Henderson, Izma ylo v, Scuseria
and Sa vin. 50
HSE GRSH v arian t of PBE0 b y Heyd, Scuseria and Ernz-
erhof. 51,52
LC- ω PBE GRSH functional based on PBE with XX at LR. 53
LH-sifPW92 LH functional with Slater exc hange and PW92 cor-
relation, with ful l self-in teraction correlation correc-
tion. 54
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LH-sirPW92 LH-sifPW92 with partial ( r e duc e d ) self-in teraction
correlation correction. 54
LH-SVWN LH functional with Slater exc hange and VWN corre-
lation.
LH646-SVWN LH functional with t-LMF ( b = 0 . 646) used in Sec-
tion 3.4.
LH670-SVWN LH functional with t-LMF ( b = 0 . 670) used in Sec-
tion 3.4.
LRS-oPBE LRSH functional in v estigated in Section 4.3.
LRS-sPBE LRSH functional in v estigated in Section 4.3.
LRS-SVWN LRSH functional in v estigated in Section 4.3.
L YP GGA correlation functional b y Lee, Y ang and P arr. 55
M06 GH mGGA functional from Minnesota. 56
M06-2X V arian t of M06 with double XX (54 %). 56
MN15 GH functional from Minnesota. 57
MR-A CPF Multi-Reference metho d using a v eraged coupled pair
functional. 58
oPBE sPBE scaled to equate for non-RS limit.
OT-oPBE PBE-based functional recreated with GRS-oPBE for
comparison in Section 4.3.
OT-RSH Category of GRSHs functionals adjusted to exact
constrain ts (e.g. K o opmans’ theorem) for eac h sys-
tem separately .
P86 GGA correlation functional b y P erdew. 59
PBE GGA exc hange and correlation functionals by
P erdew, Burk e, and Ernzerhof. 60,61
PBE0 GH functional v ersion of PBE with a quarter XX
admixture. 62,63
PBE0–1/3 V arian t of PBE0 with a third XX instead of a quar-
ter. 64
PW92 LD A correlation functional b y P erdew and W ang. 60
revPBE V arian t of PBE. 65
RPBE V arian t of PBE. 66
S LD A exc hange functional named after Slater (and/or
Dirac). 67,68
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s-lh Abbreviation for LH-SVWN with s-LMF ( c = 0 . 22)
used in Section 3.3.
s-LMF LMF with scaled reduced densit y gradien t. 69
sPBE PBE-related GRSH functional with a differen t non-
RS limit than PBE.
SVWN LD A functional with Slater exc hange and correla-
tion.
t-lh Abbreviation for LH-SVWN with t-LMF ( b = 0 . 48)
used in Section 3.3.
t-LMF LMF with scaled reduced kinetic energy densit y . 70
TPSSh GH functional b y T ao, P erdew, Stanro v ero v, and
Scuseria. 60,71,72
VWN LD A correlation functional b y V osk o, Wilk, and Nu-
sair. 73
W2-F12 Predecessor of W3-F12. 74–76
W3-F12 Comp osite p ost-HF metho d based on CC/CBS cal-
culations. 77
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1 Intro duction
Mo dern c hemistry is ev er more relian t on predictions from theoretical electronic
structure metho ds, e.g. for the in terpretation of exp erimen tal data or the prese-
lection of promising materials. W a v e function metho ds can b e highly accurate but
tend to b e restricted to relativ ely small systems b ecause of their often unfa v orable
scaling of computational demands with systems size. As an alternativ e, densit y
functional theory (DFT) 78 relies p er definition on the electron densit y only and
therefore enables the in v estigation of larger systems. In practice, the appro ximate
K ohn-Sham densit y functional theory (KS-DFT) 79 has b ecome the most widely
used quan tum c hemical metho d b ecause of its balance b et w een accuracy and ef-
ficiency , alb eit b y in tro ducing more complex ingredien ts lik e the gradien t of the
electron densit y , and (un)o ccupied orbitals. Within this metho d, the difficult y
of finding an appro ximation for the univ ersal densit y functional is shifted to the
notorious exc hange-correlation (X C) functional, for whic h v arious constrain ts are
kno wn. Starting from the simple mo del of the uniform electron gas, the sophis-
tication of new X C functionals has increased ev er since, ranging from ab initio
deriv ations of exact constrain ts, o v er highly parametrized approac hes optimized
for a (p ossibly large) selection of systems, to com bined ansatzes.
One ma jor domain is the inclusion of non-lo cal exact exc hange (XX) to mitigate
the self-in teraction error (SIE), either in a constant w a y , as in global hybrid (GH)
functionals, or at certain in terelectronic ranges, as in global range-separated h y-
brid (GRSH) functionals. In b oth cases the con trolling parameters are constan ts
optimized for sets of prop erties and systems to get a v erage v alues. Instead, the con-
stan ts can also b e optimized individually to fulfill certain theoretical conditions
(e.g. K o opmans’ theorem) for a giv en system, resulting in optimally tuned range-
separated h ybrid (OT-RSH) functionals. 80,81 This leads to a (inhomogeneous) col-
lection of range-separated h ybrid (RSH) functionals but with fav orable description
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1 In tro duction
of outer v alence prop erties.
T o circum v en t this one-size-fits-all men talit y , using a p osition- and therefore
system-dep enden t lo cal mixing function (LMF) to replace the constan t fraction
of XX in GHs giv es rise to lo cal h ybrid (LH) functionals. 82 They yield impro v ed
results for thermo c hemical prop erties and excitation energies. 69 Computation of
structural or vibrational data of LHs ha v e b een out of reac h so far since the neces-
sary algorithms had not b een implemen ted. F ollo wing the prior efficien t implemen-
tations of self-consisten t field (SCF) energy and linear resp onse time-dep enden t
densit y functional theory (TDDFT) algorithms for LHs, 83,84 the first part (Chap-
ter 3) of this thesis will pro vide the theoretical background and implemen tation of
the energy deriv ativ es w.r.t. the displacemen t of n uclei, i.e. the lo cal h ybrid gra-
dien ts (LHGs), 1 in to the quan tum c hemical program pac kage T urb omole. 85 These
gradien ts enable structure optimization as well as the (n umerical) calculation of
vibrational sp ectroscopic data for comparison with exp erimen t. The implemen-
tation is assessed for accuracy and efficiency , esp ecially regarding t w o screening
tec hniques. F urthermore, LHs are applied to a b enc hmark set of small, gas phase
mixed v alence (MV) o xides, whic h are sensitiv e to the XX fraction for the correct
description of their electronic structure. 2
The same principle can also b e applied to GRSH functionals b y in tro ducing a
p osition-dep enden t range-separation function (RSF), whic h leads to lo cal range-
separated h ybrid (LRSH) functionals. Prior work in this direction yielded impro ve-
men ts in comparison with the fixed approach. 86 Ho w ev er, those inv estigations were
based only on functionals of the lo cal densit y appro ximation (LD A) and w ere con-
ducted non-self-consisten tly . In terest in the further developmen t of this metho d has
apparen tly halted since then. The second part (Chapter 4) of this thesis will b e
concerned with the deriv ation and self-consisten t implemen tation of this approac h
for the LD A as w ell as a v arian t based on the generalized gradien t appro ximation
(GGA) functional PBE in to T urb omole. 3 W e in tro duce our first, general RSF,
optimize it for a small training set, and assess the resulting LRSH functionals
for m ultiple test sets co v ering v arious prop erties, including the comparison with
separately optimized global equiv alen ts of our new functionals.
In preparation of those t w o main topics, the next c hapter (Chapter 2) will give
some theoretical foundations. Starting from basic Hartree-F o c k (HF) theory , KS-
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DFT will b e in tro duced, leading to appro ximations for the X C functionals, includ-
ing the GH, LH, and GRSH sc hemes men tioned ab o v e. Afterw ards the mathemat-
ical and algorithmic common ground for b oth ansatzes will b e defined for later
reference in the principal results c hapters.
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2 Theo retical Background
This c hapter sets the theoretical bac kground for the deriv ations and implemen ta-
tions. First, some basics of quan tum c hemical metho dology with fo cus on the HF
metho d is giv en, follo w ed b y an o v erview of KS-DFT with fo cus on the global,
lo cal and range-separated h ybrid functionals. A short o v erview of the quan tities
and in tegration tec hniques will help in understanding the implemen tation asp ects
and c hanges to existing computer co de in later c hapters. The program pac kage
T urb omole is describ ed to giv e an impression of ho w the program parts in teract,
follo w ed b y further details of curren t implemen tation details for later reference.
As is common practice in quan tum mec hanics, w e will use atomic units in this
w ork. They are linked to fundamen tal constants a and their com binations b . The
upp er limit of sums and pro ducts will b e omitted if they are clear from con text.
2.1 Ha rtree-F o ck Metho d
A ccording to the basic principles of quan tum mec hanics, ev ery system can b e
describ ed b y a w a v e function Ψ , whic h con tains all information ab out the system. 87
In the non-relativistic, time-indep enden t case, the Sc hrö dinger equation
ˆ
H Ψ = E Ψ (2.1.1)
holds, where Ψ is the eigenfunction and the energy E is the eigen v alue of the
Hamilton op erator ˆ
H , whic h expresses all interactions of the system. Except for
the simplest cases, Eq. ( 2.1.1) cannot b e solv ed analytically . V arious metho ds hav e
b een dev elop ed to find appro ximate solutions.
a mass: rest mass of the electron m e ; c harge: elemen tal c harge e ; action: Planc k constan t ℏ .
b length: Bohr radius a 0 ; energy: Hartree E h .
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2 Theoretical Bac kground
A t ypical simplification is the Born-Opp enheimer appro ximation, where the p o-
sitions of the n uclei (b ecause of their distinctly higher mass) is treated as fixed
compared to the electrons. With this, Eq. (2.1.1) reduces to an analogous equa-
tion with an ele ctr onic Hamilton op erator ˆ
H e and an electronic w a v e function Ψ e ,
whic h dep ends only parametrically on the co ordinates of the n uclei. W e will only
consider these electronic op erators and w a v e functions from here on and therefore
drop the index ‘e’ for simplicit y .
The energy con tribution of the n uclei is then limited to the in tern uclear Coulom b
repulsion
E N = ∑
A ∑
B >A
Z A Z B
r AB
. (2.1.2)
Here Z A and Z B are the c harges of the n uclei A and B , resp ectiv ely , and r AB is
the distance b et w een them. The (electronic) Hamilton op erator
ˆ
H = ˆ
T + ˆ
V Ne + ˆ
V ee = − 1
2 ∑
i ∇ 2
i − ∑
A ∑
i
Z A
r Ai
+ ∑
i ∑
j >i
1
r ij
, (2.1.3)
therefore con tains the remaining electronic energy con tributions. The in teraction
of the electrons with the p oten tial of the n uclei is treated within the op erator
ˆ
V Ne . A dditionally there is the kinetic energy ( ˆ
T ) and the p oten tial energy due
to the in terelectronic repulsion ( ˆ
V ee ). Again, Z A is the c harge of n ucleus A , and
r Ai or r ij refer to the distance b et w een an electron i and either a n ucleus A or
another electron j . The sym b ol ∇ 2 describ es the second deriv ativ e w.r.t. electronic
co ordinates.
A ccording to the v ariational principle, the energy exp ectation v alue of an arbi-
trary trial w a v e function Ψ trial cannot lie b elo w the true ground state wa v e function
Ψ 0 , i.e. E trial ≥ E 0 . By minimizing the energy , one therefore tends to w ards Ψ 0 .
Since the insp ection of all (infinitely man y) p ossible w a v e functions is practically
imp ossible, one c ho oses a subset of functions from whic h the b est one can b e
determined algorithmically .
In the HF metho d, the system’s w a v e function Ψ is comp osed of orthonormal
one-electron w a v e functions ˜ φ i for eac h electron i , which are called spin orbitals.
They are created b y multiplying the spatial orbitals φ i with an orthonormal spin
function α or β (in general σ ), whic h takes the spin s ∈ { − 1
2 , + 1
2 } of the electron
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as an argumen t,
˜ φ i ( r , s ) = φ i ( r ) σ ( s ) . (2.1.4)
The P auli principle states that the w a v e function c hanges sign when fermions (e.g.
electrons) are in terc hanged. T o satisfy this condition, one uses an an tisymmetric
pro duct of spin orbitals, the Slater determinan t
Ψ = Φ SD = 1
√ N !        
˜ φ 1 ( r 1 , s 1 ) · · · ˜ φ 1 ( r N , s N )
.
.
. . . . .
.
.
˜ φ N ( r 1 , s 1 ) · · · ˜ φ N ( r N , s N )
       
, (2.1.5)
where N is the n um b er of electrons.
Considering a closed-shell system, one can assign a pair of electrons to the same
spatial orbital φ i . Eac h pair then contains one α and one β spin function. Suc h
a calculation is called restricted Hartree-F o c k (RHF). F or systems with unpaired
electrons, the theory is extended to unrestricted Hartree-F o c k (UHF), where each
electron is assigned its o wn spatial orbital, so that op en-shell systems can b e
describ ed as w ell. A disadv an tage of UHF is that the resulting w av e function is
not an eigenfunction of the total angular momen tum op erator ˆ
S 2 , whereas this is
true for RHF. The deviation of the calculated from the exp ected v alue is called
spin con tamination. In the restricted case (i.e. for closed-shell systems), the spin
functions v anish b y in tegration o v er all spins, so that the equations con tain only
spatial orbitals and further distinction b et w een α and β is unnecessary .
A ccording to the v ariational principle, b y minimizing the energy of the system’s
w a v e function Φ SD from Eq. ( 2.1.5) for an infinite (basis) set of orbitals, one reac hes
the Hartree-F o c k limit E HF as the upp er limit of the true ground state energy .
The minimization is accomplished b y v ariation of the orbitals φ i , whic h leads to
equations similar to Eq. ( 2.1.1), named HF equations,
ˆ
f HF
i φ i = ε i φ i , (2.1.6)
where the eigen v alue ε i represen ts the energy of the orbital φ i and the F o c k op er-
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ator is defined as
ˆ
f HF
i = ˆ
h i + ∑
j [ 2 ˆ
J j ( r 1 ) + ˆ
K j ( r 1 ) ] . (2.1.7)
The op erator ˆ
h i is the Hamilton op erator of an indep enden t system of electron i
in the p oten tial of the n uclei. The Coulom b op erator
ˆ
J j ( r 1 ) φ i ( r 1 ) = φ i ( r 1 ) ∫ φ j ( r 2 ) φ j ( r 2 ) 1
r 12
d r 2 (2.1.8)
describ es the repulsion of an electron b y the a v erage p oten tial of electron j . Because
of the sum o v er j in Eq. ( 2.1.7), ev ery electron i in teracts with the a v erage p oten tial
of all other electrons j , ev en from itself for i = j , whic h is kno wn as self-in teraction.
The prefactor 2 in Eq. ( 2.1.7) stems from the simplification of RHF (the n um b er
of orbitals is halfed but eac h is o ccupied t wice).
The exc hange op erator
ˆ
K j ( r 1 ) φ i ( r 1 ) = − φ j ( r 1 ) ∫ φ j ( r 2 ) φ i ( r 2 ) 1
r 12
d r 2 (2.1.9)
do es not ha v e a classical equiv alen t. It is non-lo cal and results from the P auli
principle. F urthermore, it exactly comp ensates the unph ysical self-in teraction of
the Coulom b op erator for i = j (see ab o v e).
T o solv e the system of equations depicted b y Eq. ( 2.1.6), it w ould b e necessary
to already kno w the solution b ecause of the sum of Coulom b and exc hange terms
o v er all electrons in Eq. ( 2.1.7). T o circum v en t this problem, one starts with initial
orbitals, e.g. b y neglecting the Coulom b and exc hange terms at first, and calculates
all orbitals anew. These solutions differ from the initial ones and can again b e used
for the iterativ e recalculation un til the c hange in energy from one cycle to the next
falls b elo w a c hosen threshold. Within this threshold, the resulting one-electron
w a v e functions then describ e a p oten tial from whic h they reemerge. Hence, this is
named the self-consisten t field (SCF) metho d.
The HF metho d deals with the in teraction of the electrons only in an a v eraged
manner (i.e. it is a mean-field theory). Ho w ev er, in their motion electrons a v oid
eac h other due to their Coulom b and exc hange in teractions, so the Coulom b term
in Eq. ( 2.1.7) is to o large and the true energy lies lo w er. This effect is termed
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(Coulom b) electron correlation, and the difference b et ween the true energy E 0 and
the HF limit is called the correlation energy E C = E 0 − E HF . This quan tit y will
reapp ear in DFT with a sligh tly differen t meaning.
The correlation lac king in HF can b e further dissected in to dynamic correlation
and static (also non-dynamic, or near-degeneracy) correlation. The attribution
is inconclusiv e, though, and other terms are mangled with them, e.g. left-righ t
correlation. 88 P art of the error stems from the usage of a single Slater determinant
to describ e a non-in teracting reference systems, whic h is insufficien t in general.
Cases where this leads to esp ecially erroneous results are called m ulti-reference
systems. A simple example is the h ydrogen molecule with stretched b ond length,
where the single determinan t enforces a closed-shell, ionic description instead of
the op en-shell co v alen t one with lo w er energy .
In mo dern quan tum c hemistry one tries to incorp orate the missing energy as it
ma y amoun t to the range of binding energies. Next to v arious p ost-HF metho ds lik e
configuration in teraction (CI), coupled cluster (CC), or p erturbation theoretical
ansatzes lik e Møller-Plesset (MP) theory , DFT is another approac h that turned
out to b e quite successful, esp ecially within the appro ximation b y K ohn and Sham.
After a short general in tro duction in the next section, w e will consider only the
KS-DFT framew ork for the remainder of this w ork.
2.2 Densit y F unctional Theo ry
The electron densit y is generally defined as
ρ ( r 1 ) = N ∫ · · · ∫ | Ψ | 2 d r 2 . . . d r N (2.2.1)
where Ψ is the electronic w a v e function of the quantum system of in terest. 89 F or
a normalized w a v e function, integrating ρ o v er the complete space (d r 1 ) yields N ,
the total n um b er of electrons.
A function f ( x ) = y assigns a n um b er y to another n um b er x . In con trast, a
functional F [ f ] = y assigns a n umber y to a function f . F ormally , ev ery exp ectation
v alue in quan tum mec hanics is a functional of the w a v e function but w e will use
it to refer to the exc hange and correlation functionals of KS-DFT, whic h dep end
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on the electron densit y and related quan tities at eac h p oin t in space.
2.2.1 F rom Hohenb erg-K ohn Theo ry to the K ohn-Sham DFT
Metho d
The first Hohen b erg-K ohn (HK) theorem 78 states that the prop erties of a system
in the ground state can b e describ ed fully b y the electron densit y alone (without
the w a v e function). The second HK theorem sho ws, analogously to the v ariational
principle for w a v e functions, that there is only one electron densit y ρ 0 that yields
the energy of the ground state; an y other electron densit y ρ trial will giv e a higher
energy: E [ ρ trial ] ≥ E [ ρ 0 ] . This facilitates the application of an SCF metho d for
DFT analogous to HF as describ ed in Section 2.1.
The total energy is, according to Hohen b erg and K ohn, a functional of the
electron densit y and is comp osed of an in trinsic and an extrinsic part,
E [ ρ ] = F HK [ ρ ] + V ext [ ρ ] . (2.2.2)
The extrinsic part V ext consists of the p oten tial energy of the electrons in the field
of the n uclei A , wit h c harge Z A at p ositions A ,
V Ne = − ∑
A ∫ Z A
| r − A | ρ ( r ) d r , (2.2.3)
and whatev er additional external fields that affect the system under scrutin y , e.g.
a magnetic field. The HK functional
F HK [ ρ ] = T [ ρ ] + V ee [ ρ ] (2.2.4)
con tains the kinetic energy of the electrons T and the complete p oten tial of in ter-
action b et w een the electrons. There is up to no w no go o d appro ximativ e functional
kno wn for the kinetic energy of a m ulti-electron system.
In the K ohn-Sham (KS) ansatz, 79 one uses a Slater determinan t of one-electron
w a v e functions, as with the HF metho d, whic h are no w called KS orbitals. F rom
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this, one gets
T = − 1
2 ∑
i ∫ φ i ( r ) ∇ 2 φ i ( r ) d r . (2.2.5)
Its v alue is the correct kinetic energy of a non-in teracting reference system with
the same densit y as the actual, in teracting system. With this appro ximation, the
predominan t p ortion of the kinetic energy is incorp orated. The electron-electron
in teraction
V ee [ ρ ] = J [ ρ ] + E XC [ ρ ] , (2.2.6)
then consists of the Coulom b repulsion J and the exchange-correlation energy E X C .
The Coulom b energy
J = 1
2 ∫ ∫ ρ ( r 1 ) ρ ( r 2 )
r 12
d r 1 d r 2 (2.2.7)
is giv en as a functional of the densit y (cf. Eq. ( 2.1.8)). The non-in teracting ki-
netic energy and the Coulom b energy can thus b e calculated exactly (and, more
imp ortan tly , simply ). What is left is E X C in Eq. ( 2.2.6).
F rom HF (Section 2.1) w e kno w that the P auli principle leads to a non-classical
exc hange con tribution to the energy . F urthermore, the correlation energy , defined
b efore as the difference b et w een the HF limit and the true energy , and a small part
of the kinetic energy of the fully in teracting system all need to b e included. This
is done via the X C functional. In summary , the quan tit y E X C is the condensed
problem to b e solv ed in KS-DFT to get more accurate results. It is usually split
in to the exc hange energy E X and the correlation energy E C ,
E X C = E X + E C , (2.2.8)
although this splitting is not mandatory . Note that this correlation energy is not
equiv alen t to the correlation energy defined in HF theory since it includes also the
missing kinetic energy con tribution by definition. F urthermore, w e in tro duce the
corresp onding energy densities ε X and ε C according to
E X C [ ρ ] = ∫ ε X C ( r ) d r = ∫ ε X ( r ) d r + ∫ ε C ( r ) d r . (2.2.9)
In analogy to HF theory (cf. Eq. ( 2.1.6)) the orbitals that giv e the lo w est energy
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are determined b y solving the KS equations
ˆ
f KS
i φ i = ε i φ i , (2.2.10)
where the KS op erator
ˆ
f KS
i = − 1
2 ∇ 2
i − ∑
A
Z A
r iA
+ ∫ ρ ( r 2 )
r i 2
d r 2 + v X C (2.2.11)
includes the kinetic and classical Coulom b con tributions (n uclear-electronic and
in terelectronic), as w ell as the X C p oten tial
v X C = δ E X C
δ ρ . (2.2.12)
F rom the HK theorem follo ws that E X C [ ρ ( r )] can b e expressed using the electron
densit y alone. Ho w ev er, a prescription ho w this dep endence lo oks lik e is still lac king
and ma y b e arbitrarily complicated. Some constrain ts that the true functional m ust
fulfill are kno wn, ho w ev er. They ma y b e used in the construction of appro ximate
functionals.
2.2.2 App ro ximate F unctionals
Man y appro ximate densit y functionals for exc hange and correlation ha v e b een and
still are b eing prop osed. They are the fundamen tal starting p oin t for improving the
predictions of DFT, and they are often group ed b y the quan tities they dep end on.
F or functionals within the LDA only the electron densit y is used. F or op en-shell
systems one t ypically uses the lo cal spin-densit y approximation (LSD A), whic h is
based on spin-DFT with t w o separate densities ρ α and ρ β , one for eac h spin. W e
will refer to b oth appro ximations as LD A going on w ard.
F unctionals within the GGA additionally rely on the density gradient ∇ ρ . With
the term meta -GGA one refers to functionals that use the second deriv ativ e of the
electron densit y ∇ 2 ρ , and/or the KS-kinetic energy dens it y τ = 1
2 ∑ i |∇ φ i | 2 . This
classification, whic h con tin ues with hyp er -GGAs, is referred to as Jac ob’s ladder
of chemic al ac cur acy 90 where eac h “rung” inv olv es more complex ingredien ts and
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the prior ones. The aim of ev er more accurate results is, ho w ev er, not assured.
In a differen t classification 91 the first group con tains all functionals with explicit
dep endence on the electron densit y and quan tities deriv ed from it. The second
con tains those that also incorp orate quan tities dep ending on o ccupied orbitals,
e.g. τ or exact exc hange (see b elo w). The third class further includes uno ccupied
(i.e. virtual) orbitals and promises the highest accuracy but also requires the largest
computing effort.
In searc h of functionals that give more reliable descriptions of quan tum mec han-
ical systems, the n um b er of parameters has increased. Some of them are fixed b y
exact constrain ts, others b y fitting to a (p ossibly large) selection of training sys-
tems in order to minimize the deviation of sev eral prop erties compared to exp eri-
men tal or highly accurate theoretical v alues. Those are often atomization energys
(AEs), barrier heigh ts (BHs), and excitation energies. There is criticism that new
functionals ma y div erge from the true path to w ards the exact one if lo w ering of
energies is the only b enc hmark, while the densit y they exp ort do es not conform
with the correct one. 92
LD A F unctionals
F or the LD A one assumes an artificial uniform electron gas with constan t densit y
that exists in an infinite space filled with homogeneously distributed p ositiv e c harge
(for electroneutralit y). The Slater functional (S) for exc hange w as deriv ed from this
mo del. Its energy densit y is
ε LD A
X ( r ) = 3
4 ( 3
π ) 1
3
ρ 4
3 ( r ) . (2.2.13)
The corresp onding correlation term cannot b e stated analytically , but there are
analytical fits to accurate Mon te-Carlo sim ulations. T w o prominen t examples are
the functional b y V osk o, Wilk, and Nusair (VWN) 73 and PW92 b y P erdew and
W ang. 60
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GGA functionals
While a go o d starting p oin t, LD A is not a sufficien t mo del for molecular systems
where the densit y may v ary strongly . The GGA giv es rise to a v ariet y of functionals.
They are classified as semi-lo cal (SL), ev en though the gradien t is lo cal from a
mathematical p oin t of view, to distinguish them from LD A.
F or example, there is b oth the exc hange and the correlation functional b y
P erdew, Burk e, and Ernzerhof (PBE). 61 By using sev eral constrain ts for the lo w
and high v arying densit y limits (i.e. ∇ ρ → 0 and |∇ ρ | → ∞ ) they got for exc hange
E PBE
X = ∫ ε LD A
X F PBE
X d r , (2.2.14)
F PBE
X = 1 + µs 2
1 + µs 2 / κ , (2.2.15)
s = |∇ ρ |
2(3 π 2 ) 1
3 ρ 4
3
, (2.2.16)
where κ = 0 . 804 is determined b y the Lieb-Oxford b ound 93,94 ( F X ≤ 1 . 804 ), s is the
reduced densit y gradien t, and µ ≈ 0 . 21951 is c hosen w.r.t. the corresp onding PBE
correlation functional. 95 T w o examples of man y further v ariations are revPBE 65
with an adjusted κ = 1 . 245 , and RPBE, 66 where F PBE
X includes an exp onen tial
term, exp ( − µs 2 / κ ) . Both of them impro v e c hemisorption results but ma y w orsen
other prop erties. 66
Global Hyb rid F unctionals
In case of GH functionals, part of the DFT exc hange is replaced b y a quan tit y
that is calculated analogously to the HF exc hange. Since the orbitals used for
this calculation are not equal to the ones in the HF metho d, some authors prefer
to distinguish them b y calling the DFT equiv alen t exact exc hange (XX) instead
of HF exc hange. F or GHs, part of the DFT exc hange is replaced b y a constan t
fraction a 0 of XX. The XX is non-lo cal due to the dep endence on t w o indep enden t
p ositions r 1 and r 2 (see r.h.s. of Eq. ( 2.1.9)), therefore all h ybrid functionals are
also classified as non-lo cal within the generalized K ohn-Sham (GKS) framew ork.
F or example, in PBE0 96 one mixes 25 % XX with 75 % PBE exchange, while the
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correlation is not adjusted. The widely used functional B3L YP 38–40,55
E B3L YP
X C = a 0 E ex
X + (1 − a 0 ) E S
X + a X ∆ E B88
X + E VWN
C + a C ∆ E L YP
C (2.2.17)
con tains XX (ex), Slater exc hange (LD A), gradien t corrections of the B88 ex-
c hange, and the correlation functional b y Lee, Y ang und P arr (L YP) in addition
to the VWN correlation functional. The mixing parameters a 0 = 0 . 20, a X = 0 . 72
und a C = 0 . 81 are empirical and the differences in Eq. ( 2.2.17) are ∆ E B88
X =
E B88
X − E LD A
X and ∆ E L YP
C = E L YP
C − E VWN
C .
Lo cal Hyb rid F unctionals
F or GH functionals a 0 is a constan t, for LH functionals it is a space-dep enden t
function, termed the LMF a ( r ) , usually constrained b y
0 ≤ a ≤ 1 . (2.2.18)
The exc hange energy for LHs is then defined as
E X = ∫ aε ex
X + (1 − a ) ε SL
X d r , (2.2.19)
where ε SL
X is an appro ximate exchange energy densit y (semi-lo cal (SL) or Slater).
The LMF is also a function of the electron densit y and related quan tities. The first
prop osal 82 w as
a = τ W
τ = |∇ ρ | 2
8 ρτ ≡ t , (2.2.20)
where τ W is the v on-W eizsäc k er kinetic energy densit y . By this definition the LMF
approac hes one in one-electron regions so that only exact exc hange is tak en in to
accoun t, whic h is a desired effect: in HF, the Coulom b term includes the unph ysical
self-in teraction, whic h is canceled exactly b y HF exc hange. By using the analogous
equation for the Coulom b term in DFT (cf. Eqs. ( 2.1.8) and (2.2.7)) the same
effect o ccurs here as w ell. Since the corresp onding exc hange is included in the X C
functional only appro ximately , this leads to the self-in teraction error (SIE). It may
b e comp ensated, at least in part, b y admixture of XX.
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Figure 2.1 T w o visualizations of a scaled t-LMF with b = 0 . 48 for carb on mono x-
ide; left: graph along the b ond axis; righ t: con tour plot in b ond axis
plane.
With PBE functionals for exc hange and correlation the ansatz yields bad pre-
dictions for atomization energies. 69 An extension of Eq. (2.2.20) is accomplished
b y scaling with a constan t prefactor 0 < b < 1 , yielding the t-LMF
a = bt = b τ W
τ , (2.2.21)
whic h is visualized in Fig. 2.1 for carb on dio xide. Both near the n uclei and far
from them, the LMF v alues are high (ev en though scaled do wn), thereb y adding
more XX. In a spherical shell some distance from the n uclei and esp ecially inside
the b onding region, SL exc hange dominates instead.
The optimal v alue when using the Slater exc hange functional and the VWN
correlation functional (i.e. an LD A-based LH) is b = 0 . 48 for the G2-1 test set, 69
although that reduces the comp ensation of the SIE. Nev ertheless this pro duces
distinctly b etter results, ev en in comparison with GGA functionals. One p ossible
reason lies in the error comp ensation of the LD A functionals used, i.e. Slater and
VWN. The exc hange energy is to o high, the correlation energy to o lo w, reduc-
ing the total error. 97 If one com bines, for example, Slater exchange with a GGA
correlation functional, that b eneficial effect is reduced.
Another cause for bad results when using GGA exc hange in LHs is related to the
gauge problem. In con trast to the energy , the energy densit y is arbitrary in that
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one can add a function to the in tegrand and get the same energy in Eq. (2.2.9) if
that function in tegrates to zero. This implies that an y giv en energy densit y could
already con tain p ortions of gauge. By m ultiplying with an LMF suc h a term ma y
not v anish an ymore but distort the results. One can try to comp ensate the gauge
error b y addition of a calibration function (CF) to the SL exc hange functional,
leading to so-called c alibr ate d LMF s. 98 A calibrated t-LMF can impro v e GGA re-
sults for v arious prop erties ov er LD A-based ones. 99 More sophisticated calibration
requires ingredien ts lik e second deriv ativ es of the electron densit y or deriv ativ es of
the XX energy densit y and therefore pro vides a c hallenge for dev elop ers.
Another family of LMF s transforms the reduced densit y gradien t 0 ≤ s < ∞
(Eq. (2.2.16)) to a range b et w een zero and one, e.g. using the error function,
a = erf ( cs ) (2.2.22)
with an adjustable constan t c = 0 . 22 (also optimized for G2-1). This s-LMF 69
fulfills the constrain t of mixing in full XX in asymptotic regions (lo w densit y , high
s ) due to the error function, in con trast to the scaled do wn t-LMF, but it p erforms
w orse than the latter for thermo c hemical kinetics. 69
W e ha v e so far assumed restricted calculations of closed-shell systems. F or unre-
stricted cases there are t w o c hoices. The LMF ma y b e calculated for eac h densit y
ρ α and ρ β separately and then m ultiplied with the exc hange energy densit y of the
resp ectiv e spin ( spin-channel LMF). Alternativ ely , one can use the sum ρ = ρ α + ρ β
for b oth, resulting in additional cross terms, e.g. the pro duct of mixed-spin densit y
gradien ts ∇ ρ α ∇ ρ β ( c ommon LMF). Suc h terms w ould violate that only electrons
of same spin in teract via exc hange. They can b e justified if the exc hange term is
in terpreted as non-dynamical correlation that is added to the full XX, as can b e
done b y adding and s ubtracting ε ex
X in Eq. (2.2.19),
E X = ∫ ε ex
X + (1 − a ) ( ε SL
X − ε ex
X ) d r . (2.2.23)
Suc h c ommon LMF s further impro v e reaction barriers and other prop erties. 54
There are also ansatzes to in tro duce range separation (RS) in to the exc hange 100,101
(see next section) or correlation 54 part of LH functionals. The latter is motiv ated b y
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the idea that the SIE is more adv erse at SR, i.e. for short in terelectronic distances,
while it can ha v e b eneficial error canceling effects at LR. Th us the LD A correlation
functional PW92 w as mo dified at SR to reduce the SIE partially (LH-sirPW92)
or fully (LH-sifPW92), in conjunction with Slater exc hange and the t-LMF. F ull
correction yielded b etter BHs but w orse AEs, whereas partial treatmen t (related
to the t-LMF) impro ved both. 54
This is only a small glimpse of the dev elopmen ts in recen t y ears. W e refer to the
review b y Maier, Arbuzniko v, and Kaupp 102 for a more comprehensiv e in tro duction
to LH functionals.
Range-Sepa rated Hyb rid F unctionals
Another h ybrid functional approac h is the partitioning of the Coulom b op erator
in to a SR and a LR part, usually by applying the (complemen tary) error function
1
r 12
= erf ( ω r 12 )
r 12
+ 1 − erf ( ω r 12 )
r 12
, (2.2.24)
where r 12 ≥ 0 is the in terelectronic distance and 0 ≤ ω < ∞ (or µ ) is the RS
parameter con trolling the steepness of the partitioning. This facilitates the ap-
plication of differen t metho ds, functionals, or appro ximations for either or b oth
ranges.
Originally , this separation had b een used for w a v e function metho ds to smo othly
simplify the computationally demanding Coulom b interactions b y calculating the
LR erf term as a truncated F ourier series. 103 An adjusted ansatz, termed Coulom b-
atten uation, neglected the LR part completely 104 and w as also applied to LD A
functionals. 105 Then DFT w as used at SR within a CI framew ork to more efficien tly
describ e the correlation cusp of the w a v e function. 106
A no w common use case, lab eled long-range correction (LC), applies a semi-
lo cal exc hange functional at SR and XX at LR to ensure the correct asymptotic
b eha vior of ρ in regions far from the n uclei. F or example, in LC- ω PBE this is
done for PBE exc hange with fitted ω = 0 . 4, which giv es sim ultaneously go o d
results for en thalpies of formation and BHs. 53 In con trast, HSE incorp orates XX
at SR range while LR has only PBE exc hange, whic h is fa v orable for solid-state
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systems. 51,52,107 Both ansatzes can b e com bined, as done for the HISS functional,
whic h incorp orates XX only at mid-range while PBE is applied at b oth SR and
LR. 50
The HSE functional men tioned ab o ve is in fact a range-separated GH since
it reduces to PBE0 for ω → 0 (and PBE for ω → ∞ ). F or CAM-B3L YP one
applies the RS to the exc hange part of B3L YP (cf. Eq. ( 2.2.17)) to use differen t
mixing parameters for SR ( a 0 = 0 . 19) and LR ( a 0 = 0 . 65) with ω = 0 . 33 yielding
b etter c harge transfer energies. 48 Another example is ω B97X, whic h applies the
B97 exc hange 108 (with 16 % XX) at SR and full XX at LR, and impro v es on
describing the disso ciations of radical cations. 36
The next step, com bining RS and LHs, w as tak en first for LD A and PBE with
a t-LMF and either full XX at LR (i.e. the LC ansatz from ab o v e),
E X = ∫ aε ex
X , SR + (1 − a ) ε SL
X , SR + ε ex
X , LR d r , (2.2.25)
or the (semi-)lo cal functional instead (denoted as “screened”),
E X = ∫ aε ex
X , SR + (1 − a ) ε SL
X , SR + ε SL
X , LR d r , (2.2.26)
while the LH functional is used at SR in b oth cases. 100 Later, Haunsc hild and
Scuseria applied b oth v ersions (LC and screened) to one of their PBE-based LHs, 109
where the LC v arian t ga v e b etter results for AEs and non-h ydrogen BHs than LC-
ω PBE. 101
The parameter ω is constan t system-wide in the ab o v e examples. While the
o v erall p erformance is appreciable, in principle the optimal v alue for eac h system
v aries considerably . This is underlined b y the optimal tuning pro cedure for finite
systems, 110,111 in whic h the parameter ω is optimized (“tuned”) for eac h system
individually to fulfill (or minimize the deviation from) an exact condition, e.g.
that the negativ e v ertical ionization p oten tial (IP) should b e equal to the highest
o ccupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy (K o opmans’ theorem),
ϵ HOMO = − IP = E ( N ) − E ( N − 1) , (2.2.27)
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for a system with N electrons. The IP condition could b e complemen ted b y con-
necting the electron affinit y (EA) with the low est uno ccupied molecular orbital
(LUMO) energy (EA condition) to b etter describ e fundamen tal gaps but there
is no theoretical basis for this. That is wh y the IP condition is applied to the
anion instead. Suc h OT-RSH functionals giv e go o d c harge-transfer excitation en-
ergies 110,112 and quasi-particle sp ectra. 81,113 It w as further sho wn that they can
ac hiev e similar IP and EA results as the computationally more exp ensiv e man y-
b o dy calculations usually used. 114 On the do wnside, the optimal ω for a system of
t w o sufficien tly separated subsystems can b e differen t than for either subsystem
alone, so the sum of their total energies ma y not coincide. This size inconsistency
results in wrong predictions for binding energies, p oten tial energy surfaces, and
spin configurations. 111
As an alternativ e to individual tuning and in analogy to the relation b et w een
global and lo cal h ybrids, the parameter ω can b e con v erted to a p osition-dep enden t
RSF with quan tities like the electron densit y . Such LRSH functionals w ere in v es-
tigated non-self-consisten tly b y Krukau et al. for LD A ingredients and impro v e on
the global results. 86 An extension to self-consistency and GGAs exc hange app ears
promising and will b e discussed in Chapter 4.
2.3 A tomic Orbital Basis
This section will giv e some information on Gaussian basis functions, predominan tly
used for molecular DFT applications, and the connection to the ingredien ts for
SL functionals to giv e con text and in tro duce quan tities for the deriv ations and
explanations later on. It will b e complemen ted b y the follo wing sections giving
an o v erview of the program pac kage T urb omole and some considerations for the
implemen tation thereafter.
2.3.1 Ca rtesian Gaussian Orbitals
T o solv e the DFT equations w e choose a basis of primitiv e functions cen tered on the
n uclei, also kno wn as atomic orbitals (A Os). F or primitiv es one ma y use Slater-t yp e
orbitals (STOs), whic h is the correct form for the h ydrogen atom. More commonly ,
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Gaussian-t yp e orbitals (GTOs) are used since the analytical computation of their
in tegrals is v ery efficien t, ev en though a larger n umber of primitives is needed to
appro ximate the correct orbital form. The type and parameters are defined b y the
c hosen basis set.
W e will fo cus on GTOs of the general form
G A = x i
A y k
A z m
A exp ( − αr 2
A ) . (2.3.1)
The monomial exp onen ts i, k , m ≥ 0 are in tegers and define the angular quan tum
n um b er L = i + k + m . The v ariable x A = x − A x is the x -comp onen t of the
difference v ector b et w een the co ordinate r and the p osition of n ucleus A . The
quan tities y A and z A are defined analogously , and r 2
A = x 2
A + y 2
A + z 2
A .
These primitiv es may be con tracted,
χ µ = ∑
γ
d γ µ G γ
A , (2.3.2)
with constan t con traction co efficien ts d γ µ . Both d γ µ and α from Eq. (2.3.1) are
defined b y the basis set for each elemen t of the system. The same v alues are used
for differen t A Os that b elong to the same shell with angular quan tum n um b er L ,
e.g. the three basis functions p x , p y , p z of a p -shell ( L = 1 ) use the same parameters.
In the sp ecial case of an uncon tracted basis, the sum in Eq. ( 2.3.2) includes only
one term and the con traction co efficien t is one.
W e then define the molecular orbitals (MOs) as a linear com bination of atomic
orbitals (LCA O),
φ i = ∑
µ
C µi χ µ , (2.3.3)
with co efficien ts C µi , whic h are optimized in the con text of the SCF algorithm.
Interaction of T w o GTOs
F or the in teraction of t w o primitiv es w e use an additional set of parameters j , l ,
and n for a second primitiv e cen tered on atom B and distinguish the exp onen tial
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prefactors as α A and α B . The o v erlap in tegral is then written as
S AB = ∫ G A G B d r = ∫ x i
A y k
A z m
A exp ( − α A r 2
A ) x j
B y l
B z n
B exp ( − α B r 2
B ) d r . (2.3.4)
Using the Gaussian o v erlap rule, w e can further simplify this to
S AB = K AB ∫ x i
A x j
B y k
A y l
B z m
A z n
B exp ( − α P r 2
P ) d r , (2.3.5)
K AB = exp ( − α A α B
α A + α B
R 2
AB ) , (2.3.6)
P = α A A + α B B
α A + α B
, (2.3.7)
where P is called the c enter of char ge b et w een A and B (whic h is closer to the
cen ter with greater α ), R AB = | A − B | , and α P = α A + α B .
The more relev an t in tegral for this w ork is the repulsion in tegral
V AB = V AB ( G ) = ∫ G A G B
1
| r − G | d r . (2.3.8)
It will b e at the cen ter of atten tion in Sections 2.4, 3.1 and 4.1 as it is needed for
the calculation of XX.
Derivative of GTOs
Differen tiating a one-dimensional GTO w.r.t. the electronic co ordinate
∇ G i = iG i − 1 − 2 αG i +1 , (2.3.9)
results in a sum of t wo GTOs, one with a lo w er and one with a higher quan tum
n um b er i , with prefactors. Since x A = x − A x , the gradien t w.r.t. the n uclear
co ordinates and w.r.t. the electronic co ordinates can b e con v erted to eac h other,
whereb y the sign c hanges,
∇
A G A = −∇ G A . (2.3.10)
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This also applies to the A Os b ecause the con traction co efficien ts are constants,
∇
A χ µ = −∇ χ µ . (2.3.11)
One should, ho w ev er, k eep in mind that the sums m ust still only consider A Os
χ µ cen tered on atom A . The iden tit y Eq. ( 2.3.11) can b e exploited for the im-
plemen tation b y reusing in termediate quantities needed for the energy , SCF, and
gradien t calculations.
2.3.2 F rom Eigenvalue to Matrix Equations
The A O basis enables us to restate the KS equations as matrix equations. By
inserting the MO definition from Eq. ( 2.3.3) in to Eq. (2.2.10), m ultiplying from
the left with another A O χ µ , and integrating w e get
∑
ν
C ν i ∫ χ µ ˆ
f KS
i χ ν d r = ε i ∑
ν
C ν i ∫ χ µ χ ν d r . (2.3.12)
This is equiv alen t to
∑
ν
F µν C ν i = ε i ∑
ν
S µν C ν i , (2.3.13)
F µν = ∫ χ µ ˆ
f KS
i χ ν d r , (2.3.14)
S µν = ∫ χ µ χ ν d r , (2.3.15)
where w e in tro duced the KS matrix with elemen ts F µν and the o v erlap matrix
elemen ts S µν for A Os (not to b e confused with the o v erlap in tegrals S AB for prim-
itiv es from Eqs. ( 2.3.4) and (2.3.5)). Now the eigen v alue problem can b e solv ed
with algebraic to ols. W e just ha v e to construct the KS matrix.
2.3.3 Densit y and Related Quantities in the A O Basis
As preparation for the deriv ations in Chapters 3 and 4 this subsection defines all
quan tities for the ev aluation of semi-lo cal functionals and real-space functions in
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the A O basis. F or reference, w e define a set of those dep ended-on quan tities
Q = { ρ, γ , τ } . (2.3.16)
Electron Densit y
The electron densit y
ρ = ∑
i
φ i φ i = ∑
i ∑
µν
C µi C ν i χ µ χ ν = ∑
µν
D µν χ µ χ ν (2.3.17)
is the most basic prop ert y . Here w e expand the MOs in basis functions as describ ed
in Section 2.3.1 and in tro duce the densit y matrix with elemen ts
D µν = ∑
i
C µi C ν i . (2.3.18)
Densit y gradient
The deriv ativ e of the densit y w.r.t. the electronic co ordinate is
∇ ρ = 2 ∑
i ∇ φ i φ i = 2 ∑
µν
D µν ∇ χ µ χ ν . (2.3.19)
The deriv ativ e of the co efficien ts v anishes since they do not dep end on the elec-
tronic co ordinate. The densit y gradien t w as men tioned b efore as the next-step
ingredien t for GGA functionals. In practice, one also uses the scalar pro duct of
this gradien t
γ = ∇ T ρ ∇ ρ = 4 ∑
ij ∇ T φ i φ i ∇ φ j φ j
= 4 ∑
µν κλ
D µν D κλ ∇ T χ µ χ ν ∇ χ κ χ λ , (2.3.20)
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whose deriv ativ e is
∇ γ = 8 ∑
ij ∇∇ T φ i φ i ∇ φ j φ j + ∇ φ i ∇ T φ i ∇ φ j φ j
= 8 ∑
µν κλ
D µν D κλ ( ∇∇ T χ µ χ ν ∇ χ κ χ λ + ∇ χ µ ∇ T χ ν ∇ χ κ χ λ ) . (2.3.21)
Kinetic Energy Densit y
The kinetic energy densit y
τ = 1
2 ∑
i ∇ T φ i ∇ φ i = 1
2 ∑
µν
D µν ∇ T χ µ ∇ χ ν (2.3.22)
is similar to the densit y gradien t. Its gradien t is
∇ τ = ∑
i ∇∇ T φ i ∇ φ i = ∑
µν
D µν ∇∇ T χ µ ∇ χ ν . (2.3.23)
Exact Exchange
F or the exact exc hange the dep endency on either r 1 or r 2 is of relev ance. F or
brevit y w e will use φ 1
i = φ i ( r 1 ) , χ 1
µ = χ µ ( r 1 ) , and a 1 = a ( r 1 ) in suc h instances.
The XX energy densit y is defined b y
ε ex
X ( r 1 ) = − 1
2 ∑
ij
φ 1
i φ 1
j ∫ φ 2
i φ 2
j
1
r 12
d r 2
= − 1
2 ∑
µν
D µκ D ν λ χ 1
µ χ 1
ν ∫ χ 2
κ χ 2
λ
1
r 12
d r 2 .
(2.3.24)
F or the SCF metho d, the KS matrix has to b e determined b y calculating the
functional deriv ativ e of the energy w.r.t. the densit y . Ho w ev er, the XX dep ends
only implicitly on the densit y through the KS orbitals. In the GKS framew ork the
strict constrain t of KS that the X C p oten tial m ust b e a lo cal p oten tial is relaxed. 115
Realizing then that
δ E ex
X
δ φ i
= δ E ex
X
δ ρ
δ ρ
δ φ i
= δ E ex
X
δ ρ 2 φ i , (2.3.25)
the XX p oten tial can b e expressed as a functional deriv ativ e w.r.t. the orbitals
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(FDO),
v ex
X φ i = δ E ex
X
δ ρ φ i = 1
2
δ E ex
X
δ φ i
. (2.3.26)
W e therefore apply the FDO to the XX
δ E ex
X
δ φ i
= − 2 ∑
j
φ 1
j ∫ φ 2
i φ 2
j
1
r 12
d r 2 (2.3.27)
but calculate the usual deriv ativ e w.r.t. the densit y for the other parts.
F or LHs w e ha v e to consider that the in tegrand includes the LMF, whic h also
dep ends on r 1 (cf. first term in Eq. ( 2.2.19)). The FDO then con tains the deriv ativ e
of the LMF m ultiplied b y the usual XX energy densit y , and t w o terms where the
deriv ativ e w as applied to one orbital that dep ends on either r 1 or r 2 , resp ectiv ely .
By sw apping the order of in tegration in one of those t w o w e get
δ
δ φ i ∫ a 1 ε ex
X ( r 1 ) d r 1 = ∫ δ a 1
δ φ i
ε ex
X ( r 1 ) d r 1 (2.3.28a)
+ ∑
j
φ 1
j ∫ φ 2
i φ 2
j
a 1 + a 2
r 12
d r 2 . (2.3.28b)
where b oth a 1 and a 2 are included in the last term. F or the con tributions to the
KS matrix (see Eq. ( 2.3.14)) w e c hange in to the A O basis. Then w e can split the
second term again due to the symmetry of the op erator and in tegration, calculate
one of the resulting terms including a 1 ,
K µκ = − ∫ a 1 ∑
ν λ
D ν λ χ 1
µ χ 1
ν ∫ χ 2
κ χ 2
λ
1
r 12
d r 2 d r 1 , (2.3.29)
and add the transp osed matrix,
K µκ = K µκ + K κµ . (2.3.30)
The first term on the r.h.s. in Eq. ( 2.3.28) con tains the deriv ativ e of the LMF,
whic h can b e calculated and used as for SL energy densities. This also implies
deriv ativ es w.r.t. the gradien t of the orbitals, whic h do not o ccur for the second
term.
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2.4 Integration T echniques
This section includes some further details on in tegrals related to XX. Both Chap-
ters 3 and 4 will use it as the basis of their resp ectiv e implemen tations. It en-
compasses the n umerical in tegration on a grid necessary for semi-lo cal KS-DFT
functionals as w ell as the sc hemes for Gauss-R ys quadrature or via Bo ys functions
for the GTO basis. Finally , w e lo ok at prescreenings to a v oid some of the costly
ev aluations.
2.4.1 Numerical Integration
The in tegrals for semi-lo cal and non-lo cal functionals cannot b e solv ed analytically ,
so the in tegration is done numerically on a grid. The in tegrals o v er the spatial
co ordinates are con v erted to a summation o v er grid p oin ts g ,
F = ∫ f ( r ) d r ≈ ∑
g
f ( G ) w g (2.4.1)
with spatial v ectors G = G g and weigh ts w g . The grid p oin ts are not necessarily
distributed ev enly but ma y b e denser in regions where the electron density fluc-
tuates more strongly than where it is nearly constan t. The w eigh ts are adjusted
accordingly and cannot b e mo v ed in fron t of the sum.
In T urb omole the molecular grid 116 is constructed b y com bining atomic grids
for all atoms of the system and mitigating the o v erlaps via Bec k e partitioning. 117
The atomic grids are built from spherical Leb edev 118 (or Lobatto 119 ) grid shells
placed on radial Cheb yc hev grid p oin ts, whic h are transformed from their defined
range [ − 1 , +1] to [0 , ∞ ] .
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2.4.2 Rephrasing Exact Exchange on the Grid
F or easier reference later on w e in tro duce in termediate quan tities for the ingredi-
en ts of the XX energy densit y on the grid:
X µg = √ w g χ µ ( G ) , (2.4.2)
F κg = ∑
µ X µg D µκ , (2.4.3)
G κg = ∑
λ F λg A κλg , (2.4.4)
A κλg = ∫ χ κ ( r ) χ λ ( r ) 1
| r − G | d r . (2.4.5)
F or eac h grid p oin t g the first three quan tities ( X , F , G ) are v ectors and the last
one ( A ) is a matrix with comp onents for all A Os ( κ , λ ). Applying this to the energy
densit y and KS matrix con tributions of XX for LHs (cf. Section 2.3.3) yields
ε ex
X g = − 1
2 ∑
κλ F κg F λg A κλg = − 1
2 ∑
κ F κg G κg , (2.4.6)
K µκ = − ∑
g
a g ∑
λ X µg F λg A κλg = − ∑
g
a g X µg G κg . (2.4.7)
2.4.3 Gaussian Quadrature
In tegration can b e efficien tly simplified under certain conditions using orthogonal
p olynomials P n ( x ) , whic h fulfill
∫ b
a
P m ( x ) P n ( x ) W ( x ) d x = h n δ mn , (2.4.8)
where W ( x ) is a w eigh ting function, δ mn is the Kronec k er delta, and h n = 1
if the p olynomials are normalized (i.e. orthonormal). F or our in tegrals we need
the w eigh ting function to b e the exp onen tial of the GTO primitiv es, so Hermite
p olynomials
H n ( x ) = ( − 1) n exp ( − x 2 ) d n
d x n exp ( − x 2 ) = ( 2 x − d
d x ) n
1 (2.4.9)
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are suitable ( W ( x ) = exp ( − x 2 ) , a = −∞ , b = + ∞ ). Gaussian quadrature reduces
the effort of computing electronic in tegrals (o v erlap, Coulom b, exc hange, etc.) to
finding the ro ots and w eigh ts of the p olynomials, calculating the v alue of the GTO
monomials at those ro ots, and adding up the pro ducts. F or example, the o v erlap
in tegral from Eq. ( 2.3.5) then is
S AB = K AB
α 3/2
P ∑
η x
w η x x i
A x j
B ∑
η y
w η y y k
A y l
B ∑
η z
w η z z m
A z n
B . (2.4.10)
Here η x is the index for the ro ots in the x -direction and w η x is the w eigh t corre-
sp onding to the ro ot o η x within
x A = 1
√ α P
o η x − X AP , (2.4.11)
where X AP = A x − P x is (exemplary) the x -comp onen t of the difference v ector
b et w een A and P . The other quan tities are analogous. The ro ots and w eigh ts of
the Hermite p olynomials are indep enden t of the in tegration parameters and are
giv en in the co de.
The Coulom b op erator can b e expressed as the in tegral of a Gaussian,
1
| r G | = 2
√ π ∫ ∞
0
exp ( − r 2
G v 2 ) d v . (2.4.12)
A dapting this integral b y v ariable transformation (or other in tegration tec hniques),
the repulsion in tegral from Eq. ( 2.3.8) is reform ulated to
V AB = 2 K AB
√ π α P ∑
γ
w γ ∑
η x
w η x x i
A x j
B ∑
η y
w η y y k
A y l
B ∑
η z
w η z z m
A z n
B . (2.4.13)
Here the in tegration of the additional in tegral from the op erator is done via Gauss-
R ys quadrature 120 ( W ( x ) = exp ( − αx 2 ) , a = 0 , b = 1 ) with the index γ and the
w eigh t w γ . The ro ots and w eigh ts of the R ys p olynomials m ust b e determined
for eac h exp onen tial prefactor α in con trast to Gauss-Hermite quadrature. The
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relativ e p ositions are transformed as
x A = √ 1 − t 2
γ
α P
o η + X GP t 2
γ − X AP (2.4.14a)
= √ 1
α P (1 + u γ ) o η + X GP
u γ
1 + u γ − X AP , (2.4.14b)
where o η x and t γ are the ro ots of the Hermite and R ys p olynomials, resp ectiv ely .
The alternativ e u γ = t 2
γ / ( 1 − t 2
γ ) sho wn in Eq. ( 2.4.14b) is used sometimes instead,
e.g. in T urb omole. The other p ositions ( x B , y A , etc.) are analogous, and X GP =
G x − P x is (exemplary) the x -comp onen t of the difference v ector b et w een G and
P .
The n um b er of needed p oin ts, i.e. the degree of the underlying p olynomial,
dep ends on the angular quan tum n um b ers via
η max
x > i + j
2 , (2.4.15)
and analogously for y and z . If the in tegrals for all basis functions of a shell pair
are calculated together, the upp er limit of all Gauss-Hermite sums can b e set to
the highest among them without significan t o v erhead,
η max > i + j + k + l + m + n
2 = L I + L J
2 . (2.4.16)
The same is true for the Gauss-R ys index γ .
2.4.4 Integration with Bo ys F unctions
As an alternativ e to Gauss-R ys quadrature, one ma y express the in tegrals resulting
from Eq. ( 2.4.12) as Bo ys functions
F n ( x ) = ∫ 1
0
s 2 n exp ( − xs 2 ) d s . (2.4.17)
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The monomials cen tered on A and B can b e further expanded in to monomials on
the cen ter of charge P with expansion co efficien ts C ij
w ,
x i
A x j
B =
i + j
∑
w =0
C ij
w x w
P . (2.4.18)
Com bining this and the Gaussian pro duct rule, w e can rephrase the pro duct of
GTOs as
G i G j =
i + j
∑
t =0
E ij
t
∂ t
∂ P t
x
exp ( − α P x 2
P ) , (2.4.19)
E AB
tuv = E ij
t E k l
u E mn
v , (2.4.20)
with prefactors E ij
t , E k l
u , and E mn
v for the x , y and z direction, resp ectiv ely . They
can b e calculated starting from E 00
t =0 = K x
AB and analogues. The con v ersions culmi-
nate in another expression for the repulsion in tegral (cf. Eqs. ( 2.3.8) and (2.4.13))
V AB = 2 π
α P ∑
tuv
E AB
tuv
∂ t
∂ P t
x
∂ u
∂ P u
y
∂ v
∂ P v
z
F 0 ( α P R 2
P G ) . (2.4.21)
Differen tiating the Bo ys function results in a Bo ys function of higher order. They
are usually appro ximated b y in terp olation and already implemen ted in the pro-
grams. F or example, tw o p x primitives ( i, j = 1; k , l , m, n = 0 ) yield
V 110000 = 2 π
α P
K AB {( X P A X P B + 1
2 α P ) F 0
− [ ( X P B + X P A ) X P G + 1
2 p ] F 1 + X 2
P G F 2 } .
(2.4.22)
F or more details, see [ 121, Sections 9.4ff ].
2.4.5 Prescreening T echniques fo r Exact Exchange
The computation of the repulsion in tegrals related to XX is the b ottlenec k of all
the functional implemen tations w e are in terested in. Therefore we prescreen pairs
of shells, basis functions, or primitiv es in order to skip any demanding computation
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for elemen ts deemed to b e negligible.
S-Junctions
The concept of S-junctions follo ws the c hain-of-spheres exc hange (COSX) algo-
rithm 122 for XX in GHs. Starting at an initial distance from the n ucleus, esti-
mated from the most diffuse primitiv e, one prob es eac h basis function of that
atom b y v arying the distance and ev aluating its v alue un til it is smaller than a
giv en threshold. Constructing spheres with these distances as radii, only shell pairs
whose spheres o v erlap are ev aluated. A ccordingly , a lo w er threshold results in more
shell pairs to b e ev aluated. Thresholds are adjusted in negativ e p o w ers of ten, e.g.
10 − 5 .
P-Junctions
An additional ansatz for prescreening lo oks at the m ultiplication of A with F in
Eq. ( 2.4.4). If elemen ts of F are v ery small, the corresp onding pro ducts with A
will b e negligible and the ev aluation of some elemen ts A κλg can b e skipp ed. The
threshold is adjusted in negativ e p o w ers of ten, as with S-junctions.
Exp onential Overlap
This concept is similar to that of S-junctions but applied to pairs of primitiv es. The
prefactor K AB from Eqs. ( 2.4.13) and (2.4.21) can b e screened using the n uclear
p ositions and basis set information alone. If the exp onen tial is v ery small, the
ev aluation of the in tegral can b e skipp ed.
2.5 Overview of T urb omole
The program pac kage T urb omole 85 consists of v arious programs and scripts, col-
lectiv ely called mo dules. The most imp ortan t ones in the con text of this thesis are
listed in T able 2.1. This section gives an o v erview of the in terlo c king of those mo d-
ules to fulfill v arious tasks so that the c hanges applied for the LHGs and the LRSHs
are easier to comprehend. Mo dules and subroutines will b e set in monospace font
and the latter ha v e app ended paren theses.
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T able 2.1 Some programs (P) and scripts (S) of T urb omole and their usage.
Name T yp e Usage
define P In teractiv e input for calculation parameters
dscf P SCF calculation
ridft P Same as dscf with RI appro ximation
grad P Analytical n uclear gradient calculation
rdgrad P Same as grad with RI appro ximation
statpt P Nuclear stationary p oin t analysis and displacemen t of n uclei
aoforce P Analytical n uclear Hessian calculation
jobex S Structure optimization
NumForce S Numerical n uclear Hessian calculation
2.5.1 SCF Calculation with dscf and ridft
The programs dscf and ridft b oth do SCF calculations to con v erge the ground-
state for a fixed configuration of n uclei. In ridft the resolution of the iden tit y
(RI) appro ximation 19 is used for Coulom b (option $rij ) and/or exc hange (option
$rik ). F or b oth programs, starting orbitals (i.e. MO co efficients) ha ve to b e pro-
vided. This can b e accomplished b y an extended Hüc k el guess 123 via the input
program define .
Some subroutines of b oth programs are visualized in Fig. 2.2. F or dscf , the n u-
clear repulsion energy is calculated in nucrep() , then the one-electron in tegrals of
the core Hamiltonian as w ell as the ov erlap matrix are handled in symoneint() .
The same routine is used b y ridft through allone() . The Coulom b repulsion
energies are determined in fockbuild() for dscf and in colaux() for ridft . The
X C parts are prepared in scf() and riscf() for dscf and ridft , resp ectiv ely .
Both of them call scf_dft() . It splits according to the necessary ingredien ts b e-
t w een LD A ( xcurhf() ), GGA ( xcrhf() ), meta -GGA (mGGA) ( xcmrhf() ), and
LH ( xclhyb() ), where the X C energy and the corresp onding parts of the KS ma-
trix are calculated. The latter is used for the optimization of the MO co efficien ts
via matrix diagonalization in fdiag() for restricted or ufdiag() for unrestricted
calculations. The new implemen tation for LRSHs will b e inserted analogously in
a new subroutine xclrs() , so it can b e used b y b oth programs.
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scf_dft()
scf() riscf()
dscf() nucrep()
N
symoneint()
S T V
fockbuild()
J
allone() ridft()
colaux()
J
xcurhf()
X C
xcrhf()
X C
xcmrhf()
X C
xclhyb()
X C
xclrs()
X C

Figure 2.2 Call graph for dscf and ridft and the energy terms calculated
therein: n uclear repulsion N, electronic repulsion J, ov erlap in tegrals
S, kinetic energy T, n ucleus-electron attraction V, DFT exc hange and
correlation X C. The subroutine xclhyb() for LH energy and KS ma-
trix highligh ted in blue has already b een implemen ted 83 and will b e
describ ed in Section 2.6. The orange-shaded xclrs() foreshadows the
implemen tation of LRSHs in Chapter 4.
2.5.2 Nuclea r Gradient Calculation with grad o r rdgrad
Assuming a con v erged SCF calculation, the program grad (or rdgrad for the RI
v ersion) calculates the c hange in energy w.r.t. a displacemen t of n uclear co ordinates
directly from the MO co efficien ts.
As for the SCF programs, Fig. 2.3 depicts some subroutines of grad and rdgrad .
The former delegates to scfder() to call jkder() for the gradien t con tributions
of the electron-electron Coulom b in teractions, and dstv() for the n ucleus-electron
and n ucleus-n ucleus in teractions as w ell as o v erlap in tegrals and kinetic energy .
F or rdgrad the first part is done in twoder() , and oneder() calls dstv() as w ell.
Both rdgrad and grad (through scfder() ) rely on the same routine grdfinp()
for the X C con tributions. As for the SCF, it splits in to grurhf() for LD A, grrhf()
for GGA, grmrhf() for mGGA functionals. W e can adopt this concept with a new
routine grlochyb() for LHG, thereb y supp orting b oth programs.
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grdfinp()
scfder()
grad() oneder() rdgrad()
twoder()
J
dstv()
N S T V
jkder()
J
grurhf()
X C
grrhf()
X C
grmrhf()
X C
grlochyb()
X C

Figure 2.3 Call graph for grad and rdgrad . Gradien ts of the v arious energy
terms: n uclear repulsion N, electronic repulsion J, o v erlap in tegrals S,
kinetic energy T, n ucleus-electron attraction V, DFT exc hange and
correlation X C. The orange-shaded grlochyb() is the new subroutine
for LH gradien ts discussed in Chapter 3.
2.5.3 Structure Optimization with jobex
Structure optimizations are conducted using the sup erordinate script job ex . It calls
m ultiple mo dules sequen tially , whic h dep end on the results of the previous one.
The broad structure of the script is sho wn sc hematically in Fig. 2.4. After initial-
ization the script en ters a lo op for structure optimization. First a gradien t mo dule
( grad or rdgrad ) is called to calculate the gradien t w.r.t. nuclear coordinates,
follo w ed b y the computation of the (usually appro ximated) Hessian b y statpt .
The latter subroutine also c hanges the nuclear co ordinates, follo w ed b y a full SCF
calculation (with dscf or ridft ) un til conv ergence of the orbitals is reac hed. If
the difference in energy (and some other parameters) compared to the previous
(n uclear) iteration lies b elo w the con v ergence criterion for structure optimization,
the script finishes successfully . Otherwise, the next iteration starts with the cal-
culation of a new gradien t. T o prev en t an infinite lo op the n um b er of iterations
is limited. As so on as a new functional is implemen ted in to grad or rdgrad , this
mo dule can use it without further mo dification.
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Initialization
Gradien t Hessian
New Co ordinates
no
SCF
Con verged?
y es

Figure 2.4 Sc heme of structure optimization in the script job ex .
2.5.4 F requency Calculation with NumForce and aoforce
The script NumForce p erforms gradien t calculations with grad or rdgrad for v ar-
ious n uclear p ositions to get a n umerical appro ximation for the Hessian w.r.t.
n uclear displacemen t within the harmonic appro ximation. This is used for the cal-
culation of vibrational force constan ts, i.e. sp ectroscopic data for the infrared (IR)
range. The analytical equiv alen t is aoforce . Because of the complications arising
from the second deriv ativ es, they are often not implemen ted for new functionals.
F or suc h cases, NumForce remains a viable alternativ e. As so on as a new func-
tional is implemen ted into grad or rdgrad , this mo dule can use it without further
mo dification.
2.6 Implementation Prerequisites
This section will shed some ligh t on how A (Eq. (2.4.5)) is b eing constructed for
the SCF metho d of LHs, i.e. we will describ e the in tegration tec hniques in tro duced
in Section 2.4 in the con text of their explicit implemen tation in T urb omole. This
should pro v e helpful for understanding the c hanges for the implemen tation of b oth
LHGs (Section 3.2) and LRSHs (Section 4.2).
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T able 2.2 General flo w of information for subroutines regarding LH SCF (without
grid and junctions).
Subroutine Input Output
xclhyb() D E X C , F X C
funct_2() χ , χ ′
ondes_ks() D , χ , χ ′ , ρ , γ , τ
lmf_1() ρ , γ , τ a , ∂ a
∂ ρ , ∂ a
∂ γ , ∂ a
∂ τ
calc_ftg() D , χ F
numpot() F G
nlpot_lh() χ , a , F , G ε ex
X , K
lochyb_1() D , a , ∂ a
∂ ρ , ∂ a
∂ γ , ∂ a
∂ τ , ε ex
X E X C , O , O ′ , O ′′
onf_k() D , O , O ′ , O ′′ , χ , χ ′ F O
Sto ring G Instead of A
The matrix A is symmetrical, and its size dep ends on the n um b er of A Os, i.e. the
n um b er of atoms, the c hoice of elemen ts and the basis set. T o prev en t unnecessary
memory usage, A is calculated p er shell pair (for all its AOs, primitiv es and grid
p oin ts) and immediately m ultiplied with F to get G (see Eq. ( 2.4.4)). Nonetheless
w e denote this as calculating A since its repulsion integrals are the most tedious
task.
2.6.1 Calculating LH X C in xclhyb()
The subroutine xclhyb() 83 consists prominen tly of a lo op o v er grid p oin t blo c ks,
whic h cluster the (p ossibly millions of ) grid p oin ts in to groups of ab out a h undred.
This is a compromise b et w een not ha ving to calculate in termediate results for eac h
grid p oin t alone and k eeping memory requiremen ts at ba y . The routine’s general
flo w of information is listed in T able 2.2.
F or eac h blo c k of grid p oin ts the v alues and deriv ativ es of the A Os are calculated
in funct_2() . These are used to calculate F ( calc_ftg() , Eq. ( 2.4.3)) as w ell as
the electron densit y ρ , its squared deriv ativ e γ , and the kinetic energy densit y τ
( ondes_ks() , Section 2.3.3). Then G is determined in numpot() (Eq. (2.4.4)), and
giv en to nlpot_lh() to calculate ε ex
X (Eq. ( 2.4.6)) and K , the non-lo cal XX part
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of the KS matrix (Eq. (2.4.7)). The subroutine lochyb_1() is used to calculate
the X C energy (Eq. ( 2.2.9)) as well as the op erator terms ( O , O ′ , O ′′ ). These
purely m ultiplicativ e p oten tial terms arise from deriv ativ es of the SL quan tities
Θ ∈ { a, ε SL
X , ε SL
C } w.r.t. Q ∈ Q (Eq. (2.3.16)). They are subsequen tly con tracted
with the A Os and their deriv ativ es in onf_k() and added to the KS matrix,
∂ Θ
∂ Q → 




O χ µ χ ν
O ′ ∇ χ µ χ ν
O ′′ ∇ T χ µ ∇ χ ν




 → F O
µν . (2.6.1)
Finally , the non-m ultiplicativ e part K (Eqs. ( 2.3.30) and (2.4.7)) is added to get
the complete X C con tribution of the KS matrix,
F X C = F O + K . (2.6.2)
2.6.2 Calculating A in numpot()
The general structure of numpot() 83 can b e seen in Algorithm 1. The upp er triangle
of A is skipp ed b ecause it is symmetrical. It is comp ensated by an additional
m ultiplication for G using the same (off-diagonal) elemen t A κλg . Because of that
the in tegral routines assert that the second shell is nev er greater than the first.
The routine is dominated b y five nested lo ops. The first t w o are the shell pairs,
the next t w o their primitiv es. The innermost lo op discerns the grid p oin ts within
the curren t blo c k and calls the in tegral routine vspdf() to acquire the curren t part
of A . A mapping for the monomial exp onen ts is prepared b efore the primitiv e lo ops,
whic h is needed for the Gauss-R ys algorithm as will b e explained in Section 2.6.3.
The in tegral v alues of A are summed up ov er all primitiv es of the shell pair,
m ultiplied with F (t wice for the off-diagonal elemen ts) and added to the resp ectiv e
elemen ts of G .
2.6.3 Calculating V AB in vspdf()
The subroutine vspdf() is used for the repulsion in tegrals. It applies the Bo ys
algorithm from Section 2.4.4 for shells with angular quan tum n um b er 0 ≤ L ≤ 3 ¸
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for shel l I do
L I ← angular quan tum n um b er of I
for shel l J up to I do
L J ← angular quan tum n um b er of J
calculate monomial exp onen ts for L I L J
for primitive P I do
for primitive P J do
for grid p oint g do
I γ ← preliminary in tegrals for up to L I L J
for r o ots γ do
A ← com bine I γ for L I L J
end
end
sum up o ver all primitiv es P J
end
sum up o v er all primitiv es P I
end
G ← m ultiply A ( L I L J ) with F
G ← m ultiply A ( L J L I ) with F
end
end
Algorithm 1: Algorithm to calculate elemen ts of A for a shell pair I J .
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i.e. from s - to f -shells. F or higher shells Gauss-Rys quadrature from Section 2.4.3
is used instead.
Bo ys F unction Quadrature with vcl_??()
F or the smallest p ossible pairs ( ss and ps ) Bo ys function quadrature is done com-
pletely in sp ecific routines vcl_s() and vcl_p() . F or most higher ones, vcl_ll()
pro vides the basic building blo c ks with the Boys functions F n , the distances X P G
(also for y and z ), and the exp onen tial parameter. They are then com bined with
X P A and X P B (etc.) for the individual case, e.g. do_11() is used for tw o (non-
iden tical) p x primitiv es. The last few are handled b y sp ecific routines for eac h case
again (with vcl_ffdf() , vcl_fe() ).
Gauss-Rys Quadrature with vint()
W e can rewrite the repulsion in tegral from Eq. (2.4.13) as
V AB = 2 K AB
√ π α P ∑
γ
w γ I ij
γ I k l
γ I mn
γ , (2.6.3)
where w e ha v e in tro duced the Gauss-Hermite sums as preliminary in tegrals, e.g.
I ij
γ = ∑
η x
w η x x i
A x j
B . (2.6.4)
They are stored in arra ys of batc hes with ascending γ . Eac h batc h has space for
all p ossible p erm utations of the underlying quan tum n um b ers i and j within the
system (e.g. from i = 0 , j = 0 through i = 0 , j = 3 to i = 3 , j = 3 if the highest is
an f -shell) c . Elemen ts that are not needed for the shell pair at hand are skipp ed.
These in tegral arra ys are computed b y subroutine vint() .
The preliminary in tegrals are subsequen tly com bined according to the mapping
of monomial exp onen ts established in numpot() to get the A elemen ts for the
curren t shell pair and summed up ov er all ro ot batc hes. This concept is visualized
in Fig. 2.5 for t wo (differen t) p -shell pairs in a system where p is the highest shell
c The examples use lo w shell t yp es (s to f ) for simplicity although this sc heme is only used for
shells higher than f in vspdf() .
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ss ss ss
x y z
root 1 root 2
pp ss ss
× × = p x p x
ss ps sp p y p z
× × =
p x p x
p y p y
p z p z
p y p z
p x p y p x p z
p z p y
p z p x
p y p x

Figure 2.5 Calculating elemen ts of A arising from a pair of t w o differen t p -shells.
Left: preliminary in tegrals in x , y and z for multiple R ys ro ots (only
t w o are sho wn); top righ t: t w o example calculations; b ottom righ t:
o v erview of all results for the pp example. The preliminary in tegrals
are m ultiplied in sp ecific patterns to giv e the actual in tegrals, e.g. pp ,
ss , and ss yield the ( p x p x ) in tegral (yello w), ss , ps , and sp giv e ( p y p z )
(blue), and so on. The pro ducts ha v e to b e calculated for eac h ro ot,
then summed up o v er those ro ots, see Eq. ( 2.6.3).
(th us there are no gaps in the arra ys). In case of iden tical shells I = J the upp er
triangular elemen ts are skipp ed for efficiency , therefore the ordering is differen t
b ecause of the symmetry of the A part (not sho wn).
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3 Lo cal Hyb rid Gradients
A t the b eginning of this pro ject, SCF and linear-resp onse TDDFT capabilities for
LH functionals had already b een implemen ted. 83,84 Analytical n uclear gradien ts,
ho w ev er, w ere still lac king.
This c hapter is the first of the tw o main topics of this w ork. It con tains the
deriv ation (Section 3.1), implemen tation (Section 3.2) and assessment (Section 3.3)
of n uclear gradien ts for LH exc hange functionals, whic h w e had published previ-
ously . 1 F urthermore, a v alidation and application case is giv en b y the b enc hmark
of gas-phase MV o xides (Section 3.4), 2 taking adv an tage of structure optimization
and n umerical force calculations based on the analytical gradien ts dev elop ed in
this w ork.
3.1 Theo retical Background
Applying the n umerical in tegration from Eq. (2.4.1) to the exc hange energy for
LHs from Eq. ( 2.2.19) yields
E X = ∑
g
ε X g w g = ∑
g [ a g ε ex
X g + (1 − a g ) ε SL
X g ] w g (3.1.1)
with the index g denoting the ev aluation at G . W e differen tiate w.r.t. n uclear
displacemen t and reorder to get
∇
A E X = ∑
g [ ∇
A a g ( ε ex
X g − ε SL
X g ) + a g ∇
A ε ex
X g + (1 − a g ) ∇
A ε SL
X g ] w g + ε X g ∇
A w g . (3.1.2)
In the follo wing subsections, the gradien ts from Eq. ( 3.1.2) will b e deriv ed.
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3.1.1 Nuclea r Gradients of the Co efficients
Since the MO co efficien ts C µi (Eq. (2.3.3)) dep end on the n uclear p ositions through
the SCF sc heme, the gradients of the energy , including ∇
A E X , con tain suc h con-
tributions as w ell. On the other hand the total energy was minimized w.r.t. the
co efficien ts during the SCF, so the corresp onding partial deriv ativ es within the
gradien ts are zero. Hence it is p ossible to con v ert all those con tributions to a term
that do es not include partial deriv ativ es w.r.t. the co efficien ts.
Considering only the co efficien t-related gradien t terms of the total energy (de-
noted b y the sup erscript C) within the A O basis, w e get 124
∇ C
A E = 2 ∑
i ∑
µν ∇
A C µi F µν C ν i (3.1.3)
= 2 ∑
i
ε i ∑
µν ∇
A C µi S µν C ν i , (3.1.4)
where w e ha v e used Eq. ( 2.3.13) to replace the KS matrix elements F µν with the
MO eigen v alues ε i and the o v erlap matrix elemen ts S µν (Eq. ( 2.3.14)). W e then
apply the equalit y
2 ∑
µν ∇
A C µi S µν C ν i = − ∑
µν
C µi C ν i ∇
A S µν , (3.1.5)
whic h emerges from the orthogonalit y constrain t of the MOs and is deriv ed in
Section 3.A.1. Inserting this in to Eq. (3.1.4) yields
∇ C
A E = − ∑
i
ε i ∑
µν
C µi C ν i ∇
A S µν (3.1.6)
= − ∑
µν
W µν ∇
A S µν , (3.1.7)
W µν = ∑
i
ε i C µi C ν i , (3.1.8)
with the energy-w eigh ted densit y matrix W . Thus all the energy deriv ativ es w.r.t.
the MO co efficien ts, including those within E X , can b e con v erted to one gradien t
term of the o v erlap matrix S . This term is calculated outside of our routines and
do es not need to b e c hanged for differen t functionals.
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3.1.2 Gradients of the Densit y and Related Quantities in the
A O Basis
In analogy to Section 2.3.3, this section giv es the explicit n uclear gradien ts for the
quan tities the functionals dep end on.
Nuclea r Gradient of ρ , γ , and τ
The n uclear gradien ts of the basic quan tities are analogous to the electronic ones
from Section 2.3.3:
∇
A ρ = 2 ∑
i ∇
A φ i φ i = 2 ∑
µν
D µν ∇
A χ µ χ ν , (3.1.9)
∇
A γ = 8 ∑
ij ∇
A ∇ T φ i φ i ∇ φ j φ j + ∇
A φ i ∇ T φ i ∇ φ j φ j , (3.1.10)
= 8 ∑
µν κλ
D µν D κλ ( ∇
A ∇ T χ µ χ ν ∇ χ κ χ λ + ∇
A χ µ ∇ T χ ν ∇ χ κ χ λ ) , (3.1.11)
∇
A τ = ∑
i ∇
A ∇ T φ i ∇ φ i = ∑
µν
D µν ∇
A ∇ T χ µ ∇ χ ν . (3.1.12)
Due to the connection b et w een the t w o gradien ts describ ed in Section 2.3.1, the
same implemen tation can b e used as for the SCF with c hanged sign and the re-
striction to basis functions concerned with atom A .
Nuclea r Gradient of a and ε SL
X
Both the LMF and the semi-lo cal exc hange energy are c hosen b y the user of the
program. Therefore w e follo w a general ansatz of those principal quan tities Θ ∈
{ a, ε SL
X , ε SL
C } with dep endencies on all quan tities Q ∈ Q (Eq. ( 2.3.16)) via the total
differen tial, whic h yields
∇
A Θ = ∑
Q
∂ Θ
∂ Q ∇
A Q . (3.1.13)
The partial deriv ativ es of Θ are the same as for SCF or TDDFT, and can b e reused
as already implemen ted. The n uclear gradien ts of the inner quan tities ha v e b een
giv en ab o v e.
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Nuclea r Gradient of ε ex
X
Here w e use the abbreviations φ 1
i = φ i ( r 1 ) , χ 1
µ = χ µ ( r 1 ) , and a 1 = a ( r 1 ) . Differ-
en tiating the XX energy densit y (Eq. ( 2.3.24)) w.r.t. the n uclear p ositions yields
∇
A ε ex
X ( r 1 ) = − ∑
ij ∇
A φ 1
i φ 1
j ∫ φ 2
i φ 2
j
1
r 12
d r 2
− ∑
ij
φ 1
i φ 1
j ∫ ∇
A φ 2
i φ 2
j
1
r 12
d r 2 (3.1.14a)
= − ∑
µν κλ
D µκ D ν λ [ ∇
A χ 1
µ χ 1
ν ∫ χ 2
κ χ 2
λ
1
r 12
d r 2
+ χ 1
µ χ 1
ν ∫ ∇
A χ 2
κ χ 2
λ
1
r 12
d r 2 ] . (3.1.14b)
F or GHs one w ould no w sw ap the order of in tegration to get only one term. Y et this
is prev en ted b y the LMF, whic h also dep ends on r 1 and w ould end up within the
inner in tegral (cf. Eq. ( 2.3.28b)), complicating its analytical computation. In the
A O basis w e define the t w o energy gradien t terms (including the LMF) separately ,
∇
A E ex
1 = − ∑
g
a g w g ∑
µν κλ
D µκ D ν λ ∇
A χ µg χ ν g A κλg
= − ∑
g
a g ∑
µκλ
D µκ X ′
µg F λg A κλg = − ∑
g
a g ∑
µκ
D µκ X ′
µg G κg , (3.1.15a)
∇
A E ex
2 = − ∑
g
a g w g ∑
µν κλ
D µκ D ν λ χ µg χ ν g A ′
κλg
= − ∑
g
a g ∑
κλ F κg F λg A ′
κλg = − ∑
g
a g ∑
κ F κg G ′
κg , (3.1.15b)
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where w e ha v e applied the n umerical grid, reused the matrix and v ector elemen ts
in tro duced in Section 2.4.2, and added their gradien ts
X ′
µg = √ w g ∇
A X µg , (3.1.16)
F ′
κg = ∑
µ X ′
µg D µκ , (3.1.17)
G ′
κg = ∑
λ F λg A ′
κλg , (3.1.18)
A ′
κλg = ∫ ∇
A χ κ
1
r G
χ λ d r . (3.1.19)
Note that A ′ is not symmetrical, in con trast to A , b ecause the deriv ativ e only
applies to the first A O. It also has three comp onen ts, one eac h for x , y , and z . The
n um b er of elemen ts will therefore b e increased b y a factor of ab out sev en (one for
A and ab out six for A ′ ).
3.1.3 Nuclea r Gradient of w g
The grid w eigh ts dep end as w ell on the p osition of the n uclei due to the atom-
cen tered grids men tioned in Section 2.4.1. Consequen tly , they spa wn a gradien t
term as w ell. The v alues are usually small and can b e neglected but for some
tasks, e.g. frequency calculations, they ma y b e needed for the desired accuracy .
Because w e use the DFT grids as pro vided b y the program and there is no dep en-
dence on the functional (b esides m ultiplication, see last term in Eq. ( 3.1.2)), the
same routine can b e used as in an y other gradien t implemen tation and m ultiplied
with our X C energy density .
3.2 Implementation
3.2.1 Calculating LHGs in grlochyb()
The LH gradien t subroutine grlochyb() is similar to xclhyb() for LH SCF. It is,
ho w ev er, based on a cop y of the gradien t routine grmrhf() (cf. Section 2.5.2) for
the mGGA case b ecause that uses ingredien ts up to the kinetic energy densit y , as
do es the LH case. The structure can b e seen in T able 3.1.
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T able 3.1 General flo w of information for subroutines regarding LHGs (without
grid and junctions).
Subroutine Input Output
grlochyb() D ∇
A E X C
funct_3() χ , χ ′ , χ ′′
get_ftg_dftg() D , χ , χ ′ F , F ′
a_matrices() F G , G ′
get_hfx1() D , χ ′ , G ∇
A E ex
1
get_hfx2() F , G ′ ∇
A E ex
2
get_exx() F , G ε ex
X
ondes_ks() D , χ , χ ′ ρ , γ , τ
lmf_1() ρ , γ , τ a , ∂ a
∂ ρ , ∂ a
∂ γ , ∂ a
∂ τ
lochyb_1() D , ε ex
X , a , ∂ a
∂ ρ , ∂ a
∂ γ , ∂ a
∂ τ ε X C , O , O ′ , O ′′
ongrd_k() D , O , O ′ , O ′′ , χ ′ , χ ′′ ∇
A E O
X C
wmgrd() ε X C ∇
A E w
X C
F or eac h blo c k of grid p oin ts the v alues and deriv ativ es of the A Os are calcu-
lated. In comparison with the LH SCF routine, w e need basis function deriv ativ es
of higher order for the gradien t (i.e. funct_3() instead of funct_2() ). These are
used to calculate F and F ′ in calc_ftg() (Eqs. ( 2.4.3) and (3.1.17)), as w ell
as the electron densit y ρ , its squared deriv ativ e γ , and the kinetic energy den-
sit y τ ( ondes_ks() , Section 2.3.3). Then G and G ′ (Eqs. (2.4.4) and (3.1.18)) are
determined in a_matrices() and used to calculate ε ex
X (Eq. ( 2.4.6)) and the gra-
dien t parts ∇
A E ex
1 and ∇
A E ex
2 of the XX energy (Eqs. ( 3.1.15a) and (3.1.15b)) in
get_hfx1() and get_hfx2() , resp ectiv ely . F or the gradien ts from SL quan tities
Θ ∈ { a, ε SL
X , ε SL
C } w e use the same op erator terms as in the SCF implemen ta-
tion ( O , O ′ , O ′′ , cf. Section 2.6.1), whic h are calculated in lochyb_1() . They are
handed o v er to ongrd_k() to b e multiplied with the A Os and their deriv ativ es,
yielding ∇
A E O
X C ,
∂ Θ
∂ Q → 




O ∇
A χ µ χ ν
O ′ ( ∇
A χ ′
µ χ ν + ∇
A χ µ χ ′
ν )
O ′′ ∇
A χ ′
µ χ ′
ν




 → ∇
A E O
X C . (3.2.1)
If desired, the gradien t of the grid weigh ts (see Section 3.1.3) is computed in
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wmgrd() . Finally , all the con tributions are added up to the X C energy gradien t
∇
A E X C = ∇
A E O
X C + ∇
A E ex
1 + ∇
A E ex
2 + ∇
A E w
X C . (3.2.2)
Note that in get_hfx1() χ ′ and D ha v e to b e used instead of F ′ b ecause the
mapping from the A O to the atom for whic h the gradien t is b eing computed w as
lost b y summing up ov er the relev an t index µ .
3.2.2 Calculating A and A ′ in a_matrices()
The structure of a_matrices() is more conv oluted than that of numpot() (cf. Sec-
tion 2.6.2) b ecause of the additional G ′ . As describ ed in Section 3.1.2 the complete
A ′ is needed for the gradien t.
W e could either extend the shell lo ops to go through all shell pairs (and skip
A for the upp er triangle), or w e k eep the structure but calculate b oth A ′
κλg and
A ′
λκg together. In the former case, the n um b er of subroutine calls for the in tegral
routines is almost doubled. In the latter, the angular quan tum n um b er of b oth
shells is effectiv ely increased b y one, thereb y also increasing the n um b er of ro ots
b y one, but the n um b er of calls remains the same. Cho osing the latter, the Gauss-
R ys quadrature (see Section 2.6.3) is a p oten t to ol b ecause of its mo dularit y: W e
can use all but one (the highest) elemen ts of the in termediate in tegral elemen ts
and com bine them in different w ays (see b elo w). T o do that, w e need five mapping
arra ys for the monomial exp onents ( L I L J ; L −
I L J , L +
I L J ; L I L −
J , L I L +
J ), where in
numpot() w e used just one ( L I L J ). Here w e use the abbreviations L +
I = L I + 1 ,
L −
I = L I − 1 , and analogues.
T o get the curren t parts of A ′ for t w o primitiv es of a giv en shell pair, w e m ultiply
the in termediate in tegrals L −
I L J and L +
I L J with their appropriate prefactors and
subtract one from the other according to Eq. ( 2.3.9). This is depicted on the r.h.s.
of Fig. 3.1. The same is done with the pair L I L −
J and L I L +
J . F or this w e need
a rev ersed mapping for the monomial exp onen ts to find the correct elemen ts to
com bine, whic h is prepared together with the normal mapping. The remaining
in tegrals ( L I L J ) already represen t the parts of A , as in numpot() . Outside the
primitiv e lo ops, all of those calculated elemen ts are m ultiplied with F to get b oth
G and G ′ . This is illustrated in Algorithm 2.
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L I ← angular quan tum n um b er of shell I
L J ← angular quan tum n um b er of shell J
calculate mapping of monomial exp onen ts for L I L J
calculate mappings of monomial exp onen ts for L −
I L J , L +
I L J , L I L −
J , L I L +
J
for primitive P I do
for primitive P J do
I γ ← preliminary in tegrals for up to L +
I L +
J
for r o ots γ do
A ← com bine I γ for L I L J
com bine I γ for L −
I L J
com bine I γ for L +
I L J
com bine I γ for L I L −
J
com bine I γ for L I L +
J
sum up eac h pro duct o v er all ro ots
end
A ′ ← com bine pro ducts of L I L −
J and L I L +
J
sum up o v er all primitiv es P J
end
A ′ ← com bine pro ducts of L −
I L J and L +
I L J
sum up o v er all primitiv es P I
end
G ← m ultiply A ( L I L J ) with F ′
G ← m ultiply A ( L J L I ) with F ′
G ′ ← m ultiply A ′ ( L −
I L J and L +
I L J ) with F
G ′ ← m ultiply A ′ ( L I L −
J and L I L +
J ) with F
Algorithm 2: Algorithm to calculate elemen ts of G and G ′ for a shell pair I J
(without consideration of P-junctions, see Fig. 3.2). Compare with Algorithm 1
(shell lo ops w ere left out for simplicit y).
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3.3 Assessmen t
Calculating V AB in a_matrices_integrals()
The subroutine a_matrices_integrals() is based on vspdf() (cf. Section 2.6.3).
As explained ab o v e, the Bo ys function part w as remo v ed b ecause of the mo dularit y
of the Gauss-R ys implemen tation. In Fig. 3.1 an example is giv en for a pp shell
pair, in comparison to Fig. 2.5. The routine is called as if it w as a dd shell pair
( L I = 2 , L J = 2 ). This giv es rise to the preliminary in tegrals for ss , sp , sd , ps , pp ,
pd , ds , dp and dd for m ultiple R ys ro ots, see l.h.s. of Fig. 3.1. They are m ultiplied
and summed up o v er all R ys ro ots for eac h of the fiv e shell t yp e pairs listed b efore,
as giv en b y the mappings prepared in a_matrices() . These in termediate in tegrals
are returned to a_matrices() for further pro cessing as explained ab o v e.
3.2.3 Prescreening with S- and P-Junctions
T o sp eed up the gradien t calculations, S-junctions w ere implemen ted as explained
for LH SCF (see Section 2.4.5) without adjustmen ts.
F or P-junctions the pro cedure had to b e extended to F ′ (cf. Section 2.4.5).
F or eac h shell the v alues of F and F ′ are compared to a giv en threshold and if
an y elemen ts are ab o v e that threshold for the curren t blo c k of grid p oin ts, the
shell is mark ed as mandatory . This results in t wo lists of junctions that indicate
non-negligible elemen ts of A and A ′ up on m ultiplication with F or F ′ .
The mo dularit y of the calculation enables us to further refine the prescreening.
F or eac h shell pair to b e calculated the com bination of primary ( I ) and secondary
( J ) shell is ev aluated to see if the pair can b e skipp ed, or at least if the virtual
quan tum n um b er L of the in tegral routine call can b e lo w ered for this pair. The
pro cedure is illustrated in Fig. 3.2.
3.3 Assessment
During and after implemen tation of the new gradien ts, some tests w ere run to
c hec k its correctness and efficiency . In addition to coinciding with n umerical gra-
dien ts, the analytical gradien t should giv e comparable structures and vibrational
frequencies.
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root 1
x
ss
⋮
d xx p x
d yy p x
d zz p x
d xy p x
d xz p x
d yz p x
d xx p y
d yy p y
d zz p y
d xy p y
d xz p y
d yz p y
d xx p z
d yy p z
d zz p z
d xy p z
d xz p z
d yz p z
p x p x
p y p x
p z p x
p x p y
p y p y
p z p y
p x p z
p y p z
p z p z
sp x sp y sp z
2 1 sp z
d xx p z
d xy p z
d xz p z
2
2
1 sp z
1 sp z
×
×
× =
=
=
∂ x p x p z
∂ y p x p z
∂ z p x p z
∂ p x p y
∂ p x p x
∂ p y p x
∂ p z p x
∂ p y p y
∂ p z p y
∂ p x p z
∂ p y p z
∂ p z p z
×
×
×

Figure 3.1 Calculating elemen ts of A ′ arising from a pair of t w o differen t p shells.
Left: preliminary in tegrals in x , y and z (only x is shown) for m ultiple
ro ots (only one is sho wn); cen ter: in termediate in tegrals; top righ t:
example calculations; b ottom righ t: o v erview of all results for the pp
example ( ∂ summarizes ∂ x , ∂ y and ∂ z ). The in termediate integrals sp,
pp and dp are crafted from the preliminary in tegrals as in Fig. 2.5.
The in termediate integrals of pp (gra y) represen t the elemen ts of A .
Those from sp and dp are com bined according to Eq. ( 2.3.9) to yield
the gradien t of pp in all three directions, including the exp onen tial
factor α and the Cartesian quan tum n um b er as a prefactor, here 1. F or
example, eac h of ( d xx p z ) , ( d xy p z ) and ( d xz p z ) is combined with ( sp z )
to giv e the gradients ( ∂ x p x p z ) , ( ∂ y p x p z ) , and ( ∂ z p x p z ) , whic h can b e
denoted as a v ector ( ∂ p x p z ) . This example only depicts the calculation
of elemen ts A ′
κλg but with the remaining preliminary in tegrals the
A ′
λκg elemen ts (e.g. ( p x ∂ p z ) ) can also b e created.
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3.3 Assessmen t
F I > th F 0
I > th
F J > th
skip I
F J > th skip J
L I L +
J
F 0
I > th
skip J
L +
I L J L +
I L +
J
lo ops o v er shells I , J

Figure 3.2 Sc heme for P-junctions. F and F ′ for primary ( I ) and secondary ( J )
shells are compared to the threshold ( th ) to p ossibly skip all for a
primary shell (skip I ), all for a secondary shell (skip J ), or to lo w er
the virtual angular quan tum n um b er for the in tegral routine by one
( L +
I L J or L I L +
J instead of L +
I L +
J ). Horizon tal arro ws (orange) denote
that all v alues of a shell are b elo w the threshold, v ertical ones (blue)
that at least one is not.
3.3.1 Compa ring Analytical and Numerical Gradients
The smallest system to c hec k the correctness of the gradien ts is a molecule of tw o
atoms, e.g. LiH. By calculating the total energy for t w o differen t distances and
dividing their difference b y the c hange in that distance, w e get a viable appro x-
imation for the gradien t. The smaller the c hange in distance the more accurate
this will b e. The appro ximation is also b etter if one compares with the gradien t
at a v erage distance.
F or example, w e calculated the gradien t of LiH with LH-SVWN (t-LMF with
b = 0 . 5 , cf. Eq. ( 2.2.21)) for an atomic distance of 2 . 4000 and the energy for
displacemen ts of ± 0 . 0001. The appro ximate n umerical gradien t
∇ app
A E = ∆ E
∆ d = − 7 . 657 339 710 539 − ( − 7 . 657 322 442 382 )
0 . 0002 = − 0 . 086 340 785 (3.3.1)
is quite close to the analytical − 0 . 086 340 797. Suc h tests w ere used during dev el-
opmen t but w e will instead lo ok at more practical cases in the follo wing sections.
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3.3.2 Main-Group and T ransition-Metal Structure T est Sets
Computational Details
F or structure optimizations w e used a set of small molecules of main group elemen ts
b y Zhao and T ruhlar 32 (MGBL19 test set) and a 3 d transition-metal test set b y
Bühl and Kabrede. 125 W e used def2-TZVP basis sets and a large grid size 116 of 5.
S- and P-junctions w ere not used for these calculations.
T o b e consisten t with t w o LHs previously optimized for thermo c hemistry and
kinetics, 70,126 w e used Slater exc hange, VWN correlation and set the constan t
prefactors b = 0 . 48 and c = 0 . 22 for the t-LMF and s-LMF (cf. Eqs. ( 2.2.21)
and ( 2.2.22)). Within this section w e will refer to these sp ecific LHs as “t-lh” and
“s-lh” . F or comparison w e used the follo wing functionals: BP86 41 and PBE 60,61 as
GGAs; TPSSh, 60,71,72 B3L YP , 38–40 PBE0, 62,63 and BHL YP 44 as GHs.
Results
Figure 3.3 sho ws mean signed errors (MSEs) and mean absolute errors (MAEs)
of computed b ond lengths for LHs and some other functionals, compared to the
exp erimen tal v alues of the MGBL19 set.
The results of t-lh are comparable to the B3L YP ones, with MAEs of 0 . 58 pm
and 0 . 59 pm and maxim um errors (MAXs) of − 2 . 68 pm (F 2 ) and − 2 . 65 pm (Cl 2 ),
resp ectiv ely . The s-lh results are sligh tly w orse with MAE 0 . 64 pm and MAX
3 . 05 pm (F 2 ). TPSSh p erforms somewhat b etter and PBE0 sligh tly w orse. BH-
L YP , c hosen as its large XX admixture of 50 % is close to the maxim um of 48 %
in the selected t-LMF, exhibits the largest errors (with generally negativ e MSE),
whereas the GGA functionals p erform mo derately w ell.
Figure 3.4 sho ws the results for the set of 3 d transition-metal complexes. Here
TPSSh has also the lo w est MAE. The MAEs of t-lh and B3L YP are similar
(1 . 73 pm vs. 1 . 68 pm). The GGA functionals p erform w ell for this test set, as
had b een noted b efore, 125 whereas PBE0 and in particular BHL YP are sligh tly
inferior. The MAE of s-lh (1 . 93 pm) lies b et w een t-lh and PBE0. In summary , the
selected LHs ha v e a similar accuracy for molecular structures as other commonly
used functionals lik e B3L YP for the c hosen test sets while they ha v e b een sho wn
to b e more accurate for a larger range of prop erties. 69,70,91,127
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3.3 Assessmen t
pm
−1
0
1
TPSSh
t−lh
B3LYP
BP86
s−lh
PBE0
PBE
BHLYP
MSE
MAE

Figure 3.3 MSEs and MAEs for b ond lengths (in pm) of main-group structure
test set MGBL19, comparing t w o lo cal h ybrids (t-lh, s-lh) and a few
other functionals.
3.3.3 Main-Group Vib rational F requencies
Computational Details
As an ev en more critical test, w e computed vibrational frequencies for a set of small
molecules (the F2 subset b y Scott and Radom 25 ). The structures w ere optimized
and the frequencies calculated with def2-TZVP basis sets and a grid size m5 (i.e.
a medium grid size 3 during the SCF but a large grid size 5 for the last iteration
and the gradien t). F urthermore the SCF con v ergence criterion w as set to 10 − 9 ,
and the gradien t threshold to 10 − 5 during the structure optimization.
In some cases, frequencies from differen t irreducible represen tations are v ery
close and the order ma y thus differ from one functional to another. W e ha v e
therefore compared the calculated to exp erimen tal frequencies in n umerical or-
der without attempting to matc h representations. This a v oids fa v oring a giv en
metho d that is used for the initial assignmen t. Since analytical second deriv ativ es
so far are not a v ailable for LH functionals, w e used the n umerical differen tiation of
analytical gradien ts, that is provided b y T urb omole’s NumForce mo dule (see Sec-
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pm
−2
−1
0
1
2
3
TPSSh
PBE
BP86
B3LYP
t−lh
s−lh
PBE0
BHLYP
MSE
MAE

Figure 3.4 MSEs and MAEs for b ond lengths (in pm) of the set of 3 d transition-
metal complexes, comparing t w o lo cal h ybrids (t-lh, s-lh) and a few
other functionals.
tion 2.5.4), to obtain the second deriv ativ es. F or consistency , this w as also done
for the reference calculations with other functionals. A dditional calculations with
fully analytical second deriv ativ es (for a v ailable functionals), computed using the
aoforce mo dule within the RI appro ximation, 116,128–131 w ere p erformed to gauge
the accuracy of n umerical differen tiation. The impact on mean errors is, ho w ev er,
marginal (b elo w 1 cm − 1 for an y GGA and GH functional) and only results with
n umerical deriv ativ es will b e compared b elo w. S- and P-junctions w ere not used
for these calculations.
Results
As is commonly done, for eac h functional we determined a scaling factor λ =
∑ ν th ν expt / ∑ ν 2
th that minimizes the ro ot mean square error (RMSE) b et w een cal-
culated and exp erimen tal frequencies. The scaling factor comp ensates for a general
o v erestimation in calculated frequencies, whic h is only in part caused b y a giv en
functional and to a larger exten t b y the harmonic appro ximation. 25
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3.3 Assessmen t
T able 3.2 Scaling factor λ and errors (in cm − 1 ) for the F2 vibrational frequency
test set. SMSE, SMAE, SMAX: The scaled results for the corresp onding
errors (without prefix S).
F unctional λ MSE MAE MAX SMSE SMAE SMAX
BHL YP 0.934339 111.3 113.2 319.8 − 0 . 8 20.4 179.3
PBE0 0.960138 60.0 63.5 216.6 − 6 . 0 24.9 169.5
t-lh 0.960182 60.9 64.6 215.8 − 5 . 1 22.1 170.6
s-lh 0.967318 48.0 52.4 206.5 − 5 . 7 23.1 169.7
B3L YP 0.967821 47.5 52.1 210.4 − 5 . 4 20.3 174.1
TPSSh 0.968549 45.4 51.6 210.7 − 6 . 2 20.6 175.2
T able 3.2 lists the scaling factors and the statistics without and with scaling.
Ov erall, scaling factors, and errors b efore and after scaling are v ery similar for
t-lh, s-lh, and most of the GHs. Only BHL YP requires notably more scaling, while
after scaling p erformance is comparable to the other functionals. These prelimi-
nary results suggest that b oth LHs p erform similarly for main-group vibrational
frequencies as established GHs. The IR in tensities (not shown) of t-lh and B3L YP
are also similar.
3.3.4 Timings fo r Linea r Alkanes and A damantane
Computational Details
T o ev aluate computational efficiency asp ects, w e measured the application of S-
and P-junctions b y timing gradien t calculations for unoptimized linear alkanes
(C n H 2 n +2 with n ∈ { 1 , . . . , 20 } ) with t-lh. All timings w ere done using a single
cen tral pro cessing unit (CPU) core (In tel i3-4130 CPU @ 3 . 40 GHz). W e used
the general timing output of the T urb omole programs. The initial structures w ere
created with C – C distances of 145 . 0 pm, H – C distances of 108 . 9 pm and angles
of 109 . 471°. A single SCF w as run on eac h structure. Afterw ards the gradien t w as
calculated with thresholds for S-junctions and P-junctions v arying from 10 − 4 to
10 − 8 , or without an y junction screening. Grid size 1 and def2-TZVP basis sets
w ere used for these calculations.
Subsequen tly , the timing measuremen ts w ere extended to adaman tane (C 10 H 16 )
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as a more compact case. The initial structure parameters are the same as for the
linear alkanes ab o v e. Here w e also in v estigated the time for a complete structure
optimization to an energy threshold of 10 − 6 . F or the LH functional we tested
differen t P-junction thresholds b et w een 10 − 4 and 10 − 6 , and also distinct ones for
SCF and gradien t calculations. In one case b oth S- and P-junction thresholds w ere
set to 10 − 5 . F or comparison we also measured the CPU time for gradien ts of the
semi-n umerical XX senex algorithm 132 for GHs in T urb omole, with grid size 1
and its default S- and P-junction thresholds (whic h are not directly comparable
to ours). T o estimate the influence of basis set size w e compared def2-SVP , def2-
TZVP , and def2-QZVP basis sets, using the same computer as ab o v e and grid size
1. F or all calculations with def2-QZVP basis sets, a grid p oin t batc h size of 70 w as
used, otherwise it w as 100.
Results fo r Linea r Alkanes
Figure 3.5 pro vides timings for the computation of the LHG as a function of alkane
c hain length, and with differen t thresholds for S- and P-junctions, resp ectiv ely .
While the o v erall app earance of the t w o graphs is similar, the magnitude of the
time sa vings due to prescreening b y S- and P-junctions is notably differen t. In b oth
cases, the p ercen tage sa ving increases with c hain length and th us with system size.
Ho w ev er, S-junctions are less efficien t for prescreening in this case than P-junctions.
T aking reasonably conserv ativ e and accurate (see b elo w) thresholds of 10 − 5 for
b oth cases, S-junction sa vings con v erge to ab out 7 % for longer c hains, whereas
the reduction in computation time due to P-junctions do es not seem to lev el off
m uc h ev en at 20 carb on atoms, where it amoun ts already to almost 40 %. With
tigh ter thresholds, the sa vings are less and they start at larger c hain lengths.
T urning to the effects of S- and P-junctions on n umerical accuracy , w e note that
the errors of the gradien ts with S- and P-junctions relative to calculations without
prescreening remain appro ximately constan t with c hain length. T able 3.3 pro vides
MAEs for all alkanes studied. These dep end appreciably on the thresholds used.
Considering an accuracy of 10 − 6 for the gradien t as reasonable for most purp oses,
w e see that thresholds of 10 − 5 for b oth S- and P-junctions pro vide sufficien t accu-
racy but still allo w for fa v orable timings (see ab o v e). If w e w an t to b e ev en more
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CPU time
−15%
−10%
−5%
0%
number of C atoms
5 10 15 20
8
7
6
5
4

CPU time
−60%
−40%
−20%
0%
number of C atoms
5 10 15 20
8
7
6
5
4

Figure 3.5 Relativ e CPU time of a lo cal h ybrid gradient calculation for n -alkanes
as function of c hain length, with differen t thresholds for S-junction
(ab o v e) and P-junctions (b elo w) in negativ e p o w ers of ten, compared
to results without S- or P-junctions. The kink of graph 5 and 6 for
C 4 H 10 are artifacts caused b y rounding the timings to seconds for
times longer than a min ute.
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T able 3.3 Mean absolute error (MAE) of lo cal hybrid alkane molecular gradien ts
(a v eraged o v er all alkanes) for differen t thresholds (th) of S- and P-
junctions. The reference v alues are gradien ts without prescreening.
th MAE ( ∇ A E ) / a.u.
S P
10 − 4 6 · 10 − 05 5 · 10 − 05
10 − 5 9 · 10 − 09 4 · 10 − 07
10 − 6 2 · 10 − 09 1 · 10 − 09
10 − 7 4 · 10 − 12 2 · 10 − 12
10 − 8 2 · 10 − 14 1 · 10 − 15
conserv ativ e, thresholds of 10 − 6 ma y b e used.
Results fo r A damantane
Figure 3.6 pro vides timings for a single gradien t calculation of adaman tane. In
addition to an LH with the presen t implemen tation (t-lh), w e ha v e c hosen TPSSh
as an example of a GH and PBE as an example GGA functional (timings for
functionals of the same family are v ery similar). The timings are giv en relativ e
to those of TPSSh using the efficien t analytical gradien t of T urb omole’s rdgrad
mo dule. W e additionally pro vide data for TPSSh obtained with the senex option,
whic h also uses a semi-n umerical treatmen t of the XX energy integrals (prefix sx).
As exp ected, the GGA gradien t calculation is m uc h faster than that with the
GH, whic h in turn is faster than the curren t implemen tation for LHs. Ho w ev er,
the semi-n umerical implemen tation for LHs and for GHs scales b etter with basis
set size than the analytical implemen tation for GHs. Th us, while the LH gradien t
tak es 7 . 5 times longer than a standard TPSSh calculation with the small def2-SVP
basis sets, the factor decreases to 3 . 3 with def2-TZVP and to 2 . 6 with def2-QZVP .
W e also confirm that the effect of using P-junctions (shaded area on the bar)
b ecomes more notable with increasing basis set size. The senex algorithm for GHs
(pro vided with default settings for S- and P-junctions) p erforms ev en b etter, with
factors of 1 . 5 (def2-SVP), 0 . 64 (def2-TZVP) and 0 . 62 (def2-QZVP). Due to the
additional in tegrals needed for A ′ with LHs (see Section 3.2.2), the corresp onding
factor decreases less quic kly for this system size.
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t / t (TPSSh)
0
2
4
6
8
TPSSh
PBE
sxTPSSh
t−lh
def2-SVP
TPSSh
PBE
sxTPSSh
t−lh
def2-TZVP
TPSSh
PBE
sxTPSSh
t−lh
def2-QZVP

Figure 3.6 Relativ e CPU times for a gradient calculation of adaman tane with
def2-SVP , def2-TZVP and def2-QZVP basis sets, resp ectiv ely . The
time of TPSSh is set to 1 with eac h basis set. The shaded part of t-lh
depicts the time sa vings obtained with S- and P-junction thresholds of
10 − 5 . sxTPSSh stands for a TPSSh calculation using the senex option
with default parameters.
T able 3.4 Absolute CPU time for a full structure optimization (excluding the
initial SCF) of adaman tane with a lo cal h ybrid using def2-QZVP and
differen t P-junction thresholds (no S-junctions). The energy difference
and timing ratio refer to the optimization without P-junctions. F or
comparison, timings with b oth the recommended v alue of S- and P-
junctions ( 10 − 5 ) are giv en as w ell.
P threshold Cycles t / h ∆ E t / t 0
SCF grad SCF Struc kJ/mol
— 50 10 13.7
10 − 4 116 15 13.8 10 +0 +1 %
10 − 4 10 − 5 84 11 12.3 10 +0 − 10 %
10 − 5 10 − 4 72 17 12.6 10 − 1 − 8 %
10 − 5 50 10 10.4 10 − 2 − 24 %
10 − 5 10 − 6 50 10 12.3 10 − 2 − 10 %
10 − 6 10 − 5 47 9 10.1 10 − 3 − 26 %
10 − 6 50 10 12.8 10 − 4 − 6 %
S,P th. = 10 − 5 50 10 9.8 10 − 2 − 28 %
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T able 3.4 lists the computation times and cycles of a complete structure op-
timization of adaman tane using t-lh with v arying P-junction thresholds (no S-
junctions), plus one result with b oth S- and P-junction thresholds set to 10 − 5 .
While the computation time of a single SCF cycle and gradien t calculation de-
creases with lo oser thresholds, for thresholds of 10 − 4 the o v erall time for a struc-
ture optimization increases due to inaccuracies in the in termediate gradien ts. The
error in total energy after structure con v ergence decreases to 0 . 01 kJ / mol up on
using P-junction thresholds of 10 − 5 or lo w er, and the computation time decreases
b y 24 %. If S-junction thresholds are additionally set to 10 − 5 , the error remains the
same but the time is lo w ered further b y ab out 4 %, resulting in an absolute CPU
time of 9 . 8 h compared to 13 . 7 h without prescreening. This also confirms previous
findings that P-junctions are more imp ortan t than S-junctions. A dditional v aria-
tions with tigh ter thresholds than 10 − 5 for either the SCF or the gradien t are lik ely
insignifican t within our measuremen t accuracy for a full optimization pro cess. Fi-
nally our v alue of 10 − 5 for b oth S- and P-junctions suggested ab o v e is confirmed
as a go o d compromise b et w een accuracy and efficiency for most applications.
3.4 Application to a Gas-Phase Mixed-V alence
Oxide Benchma rk Set
W e ha v e applied the gradien ts for LH functionals to optimize structures and cal-
culate vibrational data in a study on a new b enc hmark set for gas-phase mixed
v alence (MV) o xides consisting of small molecules (MV O-10), 2 whic h follo w ed an
extensiv e prior in v estigation on Al 2 O 4 – . 133
3.4.1 Theo retical Background
Chemical systems with t w o or more formally iden tical redo x cen ters sharing a
n um b er of v alence electrons, that do not allo w the same in teger n um b er of them
assigned to all cen ters, ma y b e considered to b e in a mixed v alence (MV) state. Suc h
systems are crucial in man y tec hnological applications or in bio catalysis and ha v e
th us b een studied b y a wide range of exp erimen tal metho ds 134–142 and increasingly
also b y quan tum-c hemical approac hes. 143 The classification b y Robin and Da y 144
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distinguishes three main classes for MV systems based on the electronic coupling
of their redo x cen ters and the resulting (de)lo calization of the charge: I) decoupled
with full lo calization, I I) mo derately coupled with partial delo calization, and I I I)
strongly coupled with full delo calization. The distinction b et w een class I I and
I I I systems can b e c hallenging for quan tum-c hemical mo dels since sev eral asp ects
m ust b e addressed sim ultaneously: (a) Exchange, as w ell as dynamical and non-
dynamical correlation need to b e treated in a balanced w a y . 45,46,143,145,146 (b) As
most (sp ectroscop y) exp erimen ts on the (often c harged) MV systems are p erformed
in p olar solv en ts, a go o d treatmen t of en vironmen tal effects also b ecomes crucial.
Moreo v er, man y of the MV systems of c hemical or tec hnological in terest ma y ha v e
appreciable size, rendering the most accurate p ost-HF metho ds to treat p oint (a)
to o computationally demanding at presen t.
Small MV systems in the gas phase could alleviate part of this complication
and allo w for the ev aluation of DFT functionals b y comparison with high-lev el
CC metho ds at the complete basis set (CBS) limit. The radical anion Al 2 O 4 –
is suc h a system and w as iden tified previously as class I I 133 in agreemen t with
exp erimen t. 147 In terestingly , the computations confirmed not only the lo calized
C 2 v minima represen ting terminal o xyl radicals but also pro vided a high-lying
further lo cal minim um with D 2 h symmetry that ma y b e c haracterized as a bridge-
lo calized state with the electron hole distributed o v er the t w o bridging o xygen
atoms. 133 The initially surprising lo calized c haracter of suc h a small MV system
has b een rationalized b y the relativ ely ionic Al – O b onding, whic h explains the
relativ ely w eak electronic coupling b et w een the terminal oxygen redo x centers.
" O Al
O
Al O
O # −
" Cr
O
O O
Cr
O
O
O # −
" O Si
O
Si O
O # −
" O Si
O
Si O
O # +
 O
Sc
O 
" O Ti
O
Ti O
O # −
" O Ti
O
Ti O
O # +
 O
Ti
O  +







V
O
O
V
O
O V
O
O
O
V
O
O
O







−
" O V
O
V O
O # +

Figure 3.7 Systems included in the MV O-10 b enc hmark set.
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Based on that study , w e extended the in v estigation to ten systems of b oth main
group (Al, Si) and transition metal (Sc, Ti, V, Cr) o xides, shown in Fig. 3.7. F or
details on the selection of systems, see [2, Section 2].
The p erformance of a giv en functional will b e determined b y the balance b e-
t w een a minimization of so-called delo calization errors arising from incomplete
cancellation of Coulom b self-in teraction 148 on the one hand and co v ering imp or-
tan t left–righ t correlation con tributions in the co v alen t b onds on the other hand.
3.4.2 Computational Details
The calculations ha v e b een p erformed with the T urb omole (revision 7.2), 85,116,149
Gaussian (v ersion 09, revisions A.02 and D.01; v ersion 16, revision A.03), 150 as w ell
as with the MOLPR O (revision 2012.1) 151,152 and MRCC 153 program suites. W e
ha v e ensured that the programs usually pro vide iden tical energies (to within less
than 0 . 5 mH) and structures (to within less than 0 . 5 pm at a giv en computational
lev el). High-lev el b enc hmark data with an appro ximate energy accuracy of ab out
1 kJ / mol ha v e b een obtained b y our collab orator Dr. Amir Karton at the Univ ersit y
of W estern A ustralia 2 using W3-F12 theory 77 for systems con taining first- and
second-ro w atoms, and truncated lev els of theory for systems con taining first-
ro w transition metals. F or more details on those b enc hmark calculations, see [ 2,
Sections 3 and 4].
The b enc hmark data ha v e b een used to ev aluate the p erformance of a v ariet y
of differen t DFT approac hes. In all cases, the structures of minima and transition
states w ere fully optimized using the giv en functional with def2-TZVP basis sets. 18
Previous tests, e.g. against def2-QZVP results, sho w ed that this basis set pro vides
essen tially con v erged structures and energies 133 (w e confirmed this b y some further
test calculations that generally exhibited c hanges in energy differences that w ere
less than 2 kJ / mol).
W e ha v e ev aluated the following functionals: a) global h ybrids (B3L YP , 38–40 BH-
L YP , 44 BL YP35, 45,46 M06, 56 M06-2X, 56 MN15, 57 PBE0, 62,63 PBE0–1/3, 64 BMK 47 ),
b) global range-separated h ybrids (CAM-B3L YP , 48 ω B97X-D 37 ), and c) lo cal h y-
brids: t-LMF 70 with SVWN and b = 0 . 646 (LH646-SVWN) or b = 0 . 670 (LH670-
SVWN), LH-sifPW92 54 ( b = 0 . 709), and LH-sirPW92 54 ( b = 0 . 646), see Sec-
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3.4 Application to a Gas-Phase Mixed-V alence Oxide Benc hmark Set
tion 2.2.2. The prefactors of the t wo LH-SVWN functionals hav e b een c hosen
either to b e equal to that of LH-sirPW92 ( b = 0 . 646), to prob e the effects of the
correlation functional, or as b = 0 . 670 since this is ab o v e the threshold v alue where
the structural details of Al 2 O 4 – are correctly repro duced (see b elo w). F or the other
functionals, w e will rep ort data obtained with Gaussian 09 (and Gaussian 16 for
MN15), 150 after ha ving made sure that all programs provide essen tially iden tical
results for functionals a v ailable in b oth.
With Gaussian w e mostly used default options for con v ergence of structure op-
timizations and for vibrational frequency calculations. In some critical cases the
superfinegrid and tight or verytight options w ere used, or the more robust
quadratic con v ergence SCF pro cedure ( QC ) w as emplo y ed. Because of its small en-
ergy difference to the high-lying D 2 h minim um, we applied further options to con-
v erge the transition state of Si 2 O 4 + with ω B97X-D ( maxstep=5 ) and the asso ciated
in trinsic reaction co ordinate (IR C) ( maxpoints=200 , stepsize=1 , iop(1/7=10) ).
F or T urb omole, the SCF con v ergence threshold w as generally set to 10 − 8 to b e on
par with the default v alue of Gaussian. In some tests, gridsize w as set to 3 or 5,
the option gcart to 4 or 5 for the structure optimization, or the S- and P-junctions
w ere disabled. In particular, for frequency calculations we emplo y ed deriv ativ es of
in tegral grid w eigh ts to impro v e n umerical Hessians. The ground-state structure of
Al 2 O 4 – with LH-SVWN w as a b orderline case where stricter thresholds w ere not
reliably resulting in the lo w est energy . W e therefore started optimizations from
b oth delo calized and lo calized structures, c ho osing the result with the lo w est en-
ergy . Use of this sc heme when v arying the prefactor for the LMF led to a crossing
p oin t b et w een b = 0 . 664 and b = 0 . 665. This established the safe v alue of b = 0 . 670
men tioned ab o v e.
Based on these data, structures and spin-densit y distributions w ere visualized
using the Chemcraft (v1.8) soft w are. 154
3.4.3 Results and Discussion
Evaluation of X C F unctionals fo r Energies and Minimum Structures
W e compare the p erformance of differen t X C functionals in repro ducing b oth en-
ergetics and structures obtained at CC lev els. Figure 3.9 sho ws the spin-densit y
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Figure 3.8 Spin-densit y distributions of different stationary p oin ts of Si 2 O 4 +
( ω B97X-D, ± 0 . 01 isosurfaces). Left: C 2 v lo w-lying minim um; middle:
transition state ( C 2 v ); righ t: D 2 h bridge-lo calized high-lying minim um.
distributions (at ω B97X-D/def2-TZVP lev el) for b oth lo calized and delo calized
structures of all sp ecies (and for the bridge state of Al 2 O 4 – ; Si 2 O 4 + is giv en in
Fig. 3.8) to giv e a b etter impression of the electronic-structure situation. T able 3.5
summarizes relev an t energy differences for all complexes studied here. In most
cases, a p ositiv e n um b er denotes the energy barrier in going from a lo calized,
symmetry-brok en minim um to a delo calized transition state. Al 2 O 4 – and Si 2 O 4 +
are exceptions, as here the structure at higher energy represen ts another minim um,
with the spin densit y delo calized o ver the t w o bridging o xygen ligands (a “bridge-
lo calized minim um” and b ond-stretc h isomer, as discussed in detail in [ 133] for
Al 2 O 4 – ).
W e start with these tw o iso electronic main-group sp ecies. F or Al 2 O 4 – w e add
further results for LH functionals as w ell as for the GH MN15 to the data from
previous w ork. 133 While the energy differences for all four LHs are very similar
and o v erestimate the b est reference data only sligh tly , the ground-state structure
dep ends v ery sensitiv ely on min uscule details of the functional (T able 3.A.1). That
is, LH-sifPW92, LH-sirPW92, and LH646-SVWN do not giv e the correct symme-
try breaking but con v erge to a ground-state structure close to D 2 h symmetry ,
where the spin densit y is almost symmetrically delo calized o v er the t w o termi-
nal o xygen atoms (preliminary calculations for LH646-SVWN had suggested more
symmetry breaking, but for large grids and tigh t con v ergence criteria, the struc-
ture also remains close to D 2 h ). W e had found similar b eha vior for sev eral GHs
with in termediate XX admixtures b et w een 25 % and 32 % (see also PBE0 data in
T able 3.A.1). Notably , for this system the extreme sensitivit y of the ground-state
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(a) Al 2 O 4
– ( D 2 h ) (b) Al 2 O 4
– ( C 2 v ) (c) Si 2 O 4
– (TS, C 2 v ) (d) Si 2 O 4
– ( C s )
(e) Ti 2 O 4
– (TS, C 2 h ) (f ) Ti 2 O 4
– ( C s ) (g) Ti 2 O 4
+ (TS, C 2 h ) (h) Ti 2 O 4
– ( C s )
(i) ScO 2 (TS, C 2 v ) (j) ScO 2 (TS, C s ) (k) TiO 2
+ (TS, C 2 v ) (l) TiO 2
+ ( C s )
(m) V 2 O 4
+ (TS, C 2 h ) (n) V 2 O 4
+ ( C s ) (o) Cr 2 O 6
– (TS, D 2 h ) (p) Cr 2 O 6
– ( C 2 v )
(q) V 4 O 10
– (TS, D 2 d ) (r) V 4 O 10
– ( C s )
Figure 3.9 Spin-densit y distributions ( ± 0 . 01 isosurfaces) of lo calized and delo-
calized structures of the b enc hmark mo dels ( ω B97X-D/def2-TZVP
lev el). F or Si 2 O 4 + see Fig. 3.8. Designations of transition states and
minima obtained at the same lev el (inconsistent for V 4 O 10 – with a
delo calized D 2 d structure deduced from exp erimen tal sp ectra).
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T able 3.5 Comparison of relev an t energy differences (in kJ / mol) at differen t computational lev els
System Al 2 O 4
– Si 2 O 4
+ Si 2 O 4
– Ti 2 O 4
– Ti 2 O 4
+ ScO 2 TiO 2
+ Cr 2 O 6
– V 2 O 4
+ V 4 O 10
–
Character O hole O hole Si el. Ti el. O hole O hole O hole Cr el. V el. V el.
Symmetries D 2 h , C 2 v D 2 h , C 2 v C 2 v , C s C 2 h , C s C 2 h , C s C 2 v , C s C 2 v , C s D 2 h , C 2 v C 2 h , C s D 2 d , C s
CCSD(T) 69 . 5 120 . 5 48 . 1 − 2 . 5 59 . 4 10 . 7 − 6 . 9 − 1 . 1 31 . 5 < 5 d
CCSDT(Q) 67 . 9 112 . 2 47 . 8 — e — e 6 . 2 − 0 . 6 — e — e < 5 d
B3L YP 19 . 1 b 0 . 0 49 . 1 0 . 3 55 . 0 0 . 5 0 . 1 9 . 5 18 . 8 1 . 1
BHL YP 98 . 6 158 . 4 64 . 6 33 . 6 124 . 9 32 . 7 11 . 4 51 . 2 68 . 4 62 . 1
BL YP35 76 . 6 133 . 3 57 . 6 13 . 3 91 . 5 16 . 3 5 . 5 30 . 4 44 . 4 26 . 4
M06 19 . 4 b 134 . 5 47 . 2 0 . 6 67 . 7 9 . 6 4 . 3 4 . 3 12 . 4 0 . 1
M06-2X 85 . 2 140 . 9 52 . 7 23 . 3 114 . 8 25 . 6 16 . 0 53 . 9 66 . 1 60 . 9
PBE 0 . 0 0 . 0 36 . 1 0 . 3 0 . 1 0 . 1 0 . 1 0 . 0 0 . 1 0 . 7
PBE0 80 . 3 c 127 . 6 48 . 5 3 . 2 67 . 2 5 . 6 1 . 6 13 . 0 24 . 7 0 . 6
PBE0–1/3 74 . 5 136 . 0 52 . 1 11 . 0 87 . 0 14 . 8 4 . 9 24 . 0 38 . 3 18 . 3
BMK 77 . 8 134 . 5 50 . 1 10 . 1 101 . 0 13 . 9 10 . 2 36 . 7 56 . 7 31 . 0
MN15 76 . 2 131 . 7 39 . 0 5 . 9 85 . 1 12 . 8 6 . 7 13 . 0 27 . 7 6 . 7
CAM-B3L YP 68 . 7 124 . 4 58 . 2 15 . 2 89 . 4 14 . 4 4 . 1 23 . 0 36 . 5 18 . 7
ω B97X-D 67 . 1 125 . 6 54 . 8 16 . 7 69 . 4 14 . 9 5 . 2 21 . 1 34 . 8 13 . 3
LH-sirPW92 76 . 9 c 126 . 3 51 . 4 6 . 6 54 . 1 1 . 1 3 . 7 10 . 0 24 . 3 0 . 1
LH-sifPW92 74 . 5 c 129 . 1 51 . 0 8 . 8 60 . 0 3 . 0 5 . 0 12 . 3 27 . 7 2 . 7
LH646-SVWN 76 . 5 c 131 . 0 56 . 4 11 . 4 63 . 3 7 . 0 6 . 2 14 . 6 29 . 7 5 . 7
LH670-SVWN 76 . 3 133 . 2 60 . 2 13 . 3 66 . 8 8 . 7 7 . 3 16 . 3 32 . 2 8 . 2
a DFT/def2-TZVP with structures optimized at the same lev el, and CC single-p oin t energies with BL YP35/CBS-
optimized structures as b enc hmarks. b D 2 h structure do es not represent proper bridge-lo calized minimum but an
artifact of the structure optimization. c Lo w-lying minim um with spin density at the terminal o xygen atoms almost
delo calized to D 2 h symmetry . d No b enchmark computations a v ailable. The preference for a delo calized structure is
inferred from the exp erimen tal gas-phase vibrational sp ectra of [ 147], whic h are though t to corresp ond to a temp era-
ture b elo w 50 K. e The highest-lev el W3-F12 computations corresp onding to the CCSDT(Q)/CBS lev el ha v e not b een
p ossible with the a v ailable computational resources.
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structure ma y lead to con v ergence to differen t structures dep ending on the start-
ing p oin t within a rather wide range of LMF prefactors around this b orderline
v alue. MN15 pro vides also go o d structures and energy differences similar to those
of the b etter-p erforming functionals (T able 3.5). W e note that GHs with lo w er XX
admixtures, suc h as B3L YP or M06 (as w ell as GGA or mGGA functionals), do
not allo w the bridge-lo calized D 2 h structure to b e lo cated and inevitably giv e a
“terminal-o xo delo calized” D 2 h structure only (T able 3.A.1). GHs with to o large
XX admixture (e.g. BHL YP or M06-2X) giv e go o d structures but o v erestimate the
energy difference.
F or the iso electronic Si 2 O 4 + (Fig. 3.8) the o v erall electronic and molecular struc-
ture is v ery similar but the energy difference b et w een bridge-hole and terminal-hole
states is m uc h higher, ca. 112 kJ / mol compared to ab out 68 kJ / mol. 133 Lo cating the
barrier for transformation from the high-lying D 2 h minim um to the ground state
turned out to b e difficult in sev eral cases, lik ely due to its extreme smallness: with
ω B97X-D w e found it to b e 4 kJ / mol (supp orted b y a CCSD(T)/CBS// ω B97X-
D/def2-TZVP single-p oin t v alue of 4 . 3 kJ / mol obtained from W2-F12 theory),
ev en smaller than the one found for the iso electronic Al 2 O 4 – (ca. 10 kJ / mol 133 ).
Otherwise, results for Si 2 O 4 + sho w less sensitivit y to the functional than observ ed
for Al 2 O 4 – . PBE and B3L YP delo calize and fail to pro vide the bridge state, PBE0
and M06 giv e the high-lying bridge state (in con trast to its absence in case of
Al 2 O 4 – for M06 133 ) but a delo calized ground-state structure (T able 3.A.2). No-
tably , in con trast to Al 2 O 4 – (see ab o v e) all LHs tested giv e the correct C 2 v ground-
state minim um. In terestingly , all functionals that pro vide the qualitativ ely correct
minim um structures o v erestimate the b enc hmark CCSDT(Q)/CBS energy differ-
ence at least b y ab out 15 kJ / mol. Ho w ev er, this could b e related to the un usually
large effect of the p ost-CCSD(T) con tributions for this system (cf. [ 2, T ab. 1]). W e
note in this con text that the high-lying D 2 h minimum in v olv es a higher degree of
non-dynamical correlation effects relativ e to the C 2 v structure. This is reflected,
for example, in relativ e con tributions of p erturbativ e triples to the total atomiza-
tion energies 74,76,77 of 4 . 9 % and 6 . 8 % for the C 2 v and D 2 h structures, resp ectiv ely .
This means that all qualitativ ely reasonable functionals pro vide energy differences
only 4 kJ / mol to 14 kJ / mol larger than the CCSD(T)/CBS data (T able 3.5), with
noticeably go o d p erformance of ω B97X-D and CAM-B3L YP .
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The anion Si 2 O 4 – has a C s minim um structure with pyramidalization and partial
silicon radical-anion c haracter at one of the tw o silicon cen ters (the second Si cen ter
is almost planar, T able 3.A.3; computations on the dianion Si 2 O 4 2 – gav e a similar
C s structure for one isomer 155 ), whereas the C 2 v transition state sho ws a delo calized
distribution (Fig. 3.9). This anion differs from all other systems in this study b y
exhibiting an unexp ectedly small dep endence of the activ ation barrier on the X C
functional (T able 3.5): only PBE as our single example for a GGA functional
underestimates the barrier noticeably , and surprisingly the GH MN15 (with 44 %
XX admixture) also giv es a lo w barrier. The B3L YP and M06 h ybrids, whic h
featured clearly to o lo w XX admixture and consequen tly to o high delo calization
errors for Al 2 O 4 – and Si 2 O 4 + (see ab o v e), no w pro vide the b est agreemen t with the
ca. 48 kJ / mol b enc hmark CC barrier (together with ω B97M-V, PBE0, and some
LHs). Mo derately o v erestimated barriers are found with the other functionals,
with somewhat unexp ected trends (T able 3.5). F or example, M06-2X with 54 %
XX admixture, whic h clearly ov er-lo calizes the other sp ecies in this study , pro vides
a lo w er barrier than some functionals p erforming b etter for other systems.
Lea ving these main-group radicals, w e start with the smallest transition-metal
complexes, the iso electronic ScO 2 and TiO 2 + (T able 3.5). The v ery small b enc h-
mark C 2 v − C s energy differences render these systems particularly c hallenging.
Giv en the remaining error margins of the b enc hmark data, an y functional giving
an energy difference of only a few kJ / mol and reasonable structural data should
b e considered adequate (some functionals do not giv e an imaginary frequency at
the C 2 v structure, ev en though it is higher in energy than the C s minim um; for
TiO 2 + , this holds with PBE, for ScO 2 with PBE, B3L YP , and with some of the
LHs, consisten t with CC data 156 ). Most functionals repro duce small energy dif-
ferences, p ossibly with the exception of BHL YP and M06-2X (i.e. for the highest
XX admixtures of the GHs screened) for ScO 2 (T able 3.5). Structural differences
are not v ery pronounced (T ables 3.A.4 and 3.A.5): v ariations of the M – O dis-
tances in the C 2 v structures are small, the O – M – O angles v ary o v er a range of
ca. 20° for ScO 2 (with the CCSD(T) v alue in the middle) but only o v er less than
5° for TiO 2 + (with the CC v alue at the lo w er end). Differences b et w een the short
and long M – O distances at the C s structure are fairly similar for ScO 2 (with the
exception of PBE, whic h do es not giv e a distorted structure), whereas those for
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TiO 2 + v ary b et w een 0 pm (PBE) and 22 pm (M06-2X), with the CC data (10 pm)
in the middle. While functionals with elev ated XX admixtures agree b est with the
CCSD(T) data for this difference in ScO 2 , the smaller CC distortion in TiO 2 + is
b est repro duced b y B3L YP (8 pm, T able 3.A.5). In view of the extreme shallo wness
of the p oten tial-energy surfaces, these structural comparisons ha v e to b e view ed
with caution. W e can th us dra w only limited conclusions from these t w o systems.
It is therefore b est to jump from the t w o smallest systems to the largest com-
plex of the presen t study , V 4 O 10 – . In the absence of high-lev el quan tum-c hemical
b enc hmark data, w e tak e the lo w-temp erature exp erimen tal gas-phase vibrational
frequencies as indication for a D 2 d -symmetrical delo calized structure, with small
uncertain ties in the energetics arising from thermal fluctuations and zero-p oin t
vibrations. Getting righ t sim ultaneously the molecular and electronic structure of
Al 2 O 4 – as the most clear-cut lo calized gas-phase MV system, and of V 4 O 10 – as
a delo calized coun terp oin t, pro vides a c hallenge for an y appro ximate functional.
While functionals with lo w or zero XX admixture (PBE, B3L YP , M06) correctly
describ e V 4 O 10 – as delo calized, 157 they clearly fail to capture the correct lo calized
ground-state structure and high-lying bridge-hole structure of Al 2 O 4 – . F unctionals
lik e PBE0 and the lo cal h ybrids LH-sirPW92, LH-sifPW92, LH646-SVWN pro vide
an almost but not quite delo calized situation for V 4 O 10 – and get the high-lying
bridge-hole structure for Al 2 O 4 – , but they giv e a to o delo calized ground-state
structure for the latter anion. F unctionals that are already to o lo calized for the
alumin um system (BHL YP , M06-2X) are ob viously far from adequate for the v ana-
dium complex and giv e a large bias to w ards a lo calized C s minim um (see also T a-
ble 3.A.6 for structural data). But ev en GHs lik e BL YP35 and BMK, which ha v e
p erformed reasonably w ell in previous studies on class I I MV systems, 143,145,146 still
giv e sizeable stabilizations of ab o v e 25 kJ / mol to 30 kJ / mol to the C s minim um of
V 4 O 10 – (T able 3.5). F o cusing on the b est-p erforming functionals for the lo calized
Al 2 O 4 – (see ab o v e 133 ), w e see that for V 4 O 10 – the global range-separated h ybrids
ω B97X-D and CAM-B3L YP giv e an artificial barrier of only ab out 13 kJ / mol and
19 kJ / mol, resp ectiv ely . The lo cal h ybrid LH670-SVWN giv es 8 kJ / mol. Interest-
ingly , the recen t MN15 global h ybrid, whic h has b een presented as a particu-
larly go o d compromise b et w een single- and m ultireference situations, 57 giv es ca.
7 kJ / mol. The latter t w o functionals ma y th us b e considered to pro vide the o v erall
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b est com bined p erformance for these t w o extreme lo calized and delo calized cases.
The t w o d 1 d 0 din uclear systems Cr 2 O 6 – and Ti 2 O 4 – are electronically similar to
V 4 O 10 – , as the b enc hmark data c haracterize them as close to a delo calized class I I I
situation. W e should k eep in mind, ho w ev er, that higher-order corrections b ey ond
CCSD(T)/CBS migh t still giv e non-negligible barriers for b oth systems. Similar to
V 4 O 10 – , functionals with lo w er XX admixtures (PBE, B3L YP , M06, PBE0) ob vi-
ously giv e small or zero “delo calization barriers” . V ariations for Cr 2 O 6 – are larger
than for Ti 2 O 4 – . Ev en ω B97X-D and LH670-SVWN give barriers of 21 kJ / mol and
16 kJ / mol, resp ectiv ely , for the c hromium complex, sligh tly lo w er ones for the tita-
nium complex (T able 3.5). The lo w barrier (6 kJ / mol) for MN15 is again notable.
Ov erall the trends are similar as for V 4 O 10 – , suggesting that appreciably delo cal-
ized d 1 d 0 MV cases exhibit closely comparable dep endencies. Structural deviations
from a symmetrical arrangemen t for Cr 2 O 6 – in cases where a C 2 v structure is more
stable than the D 2 h one are rather small (T able 3.A.7), a fraction of a pm and a
few degree in distances and angles, resp ectiv ely . Differences in M – M distances
and M – M – O angles for Ti 2 O 4 – are more pronounced (T able 3.A.8).
The last of the d 1 d 0 MV systems studied is the cationic V 2 O 4 + , whic h has sub-
stan tially more lo calized c haracter according to the b enc hmark data. Here B3L YP ,
M06 or PBE0 still pro vide lo calized minima (see also previous B3L YP data 158 ),
but with to o lo w barriers compared to the ca. 32 kJ / mol CCSD(T)/CBS//BL YP35
b enc hmark and the previous ca. 27 kJ / mol MR-A CPF/B3L YP energies 158 (PBE
is the only functional tested that giv es a delo calized structure). Among the b est-
p erforming functionals for Al 2 O 4 – (see ab o v e), LH670-SVWN, MN15, ω B97X-D,
and CAM-B3L YP pro vides the b est agreemen t with the reference data for V 2 O 4 +
(T able 3.5). LH-sifPW92 and LH646-SVWN approac h the reference barrier for
V 2 O 4 + closely from b elo w, but they do not pro vide the correct ground-state struc-
ture for the alumin um anion (see ab o v e). BHL YP or M06-2X ov ersho ot strongly ,
and ev en BL YP35 or BMK giv e clearly to o large barriers. Structures are closely
comparable with all functionals (T able 3.A.9), except for the delo calized minim um
structure at PBE lev el.
Finally , w e return to a lo calized terminal o xyl-hole system, Ti 2 O 4 + (cf. Fig. 3.9),
for whic h the b enc hmark data pro vide an appreciable C 2 h − C s barrier of ca.
60 kJ / mol for the more stable trans isomer. In terestingly , this v alue is brac k eted
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quite w ell b y the B3L YP and M06 data (T able 3.5), while sev eral of the func-
tionals p erforming w ell for the alumin um case (BL YP35, PBE0–1/3, BMK, and
ev en CAM-B3L YP and MN15) o v erestimate the reference v alue appreciably . Keep-
ing in mind again p ossible effects of the missing “b ey ond CCSD(T)” corrections,
ω B97X-D and the LH670-SVWN lo cal h ybrid p erform again w ell, underscoring the
o v erall go o d p erformance of these t w o functionals for the o v erall test set, with the
LH a v oiding somewhat b etter o v er-lo calization in delo calized cases. Structurally ,
the distortions of the C s structure tend to b e similar for most functionals (T a-
ble 3.A.10). F or example, the differences b et w een the o xyl and oxo M – O b onds
v ary b et w een 22 pm (B3L YP) and 25 pm (e.g. M06-2X, BHL YP), except for the
PBE GGA (3 pm).
Compa rison of Vib rational F requencies with Exp erimental Data
While the aim w as mainly to establish a b enc hmark set for (de)lo calization er-
rors in small gas-phase MV systems, some comparison with a v ailable exp erimen tal
data seems in order, in particular regarding vibrational sp ectra, where a v ailable.
Because of the new implemen tation this is also p ossible for the used LH function-
als. F or Al 2 O 4 – , previous work sho w ed that the infrared m ultiphoton disso ciation
(IRMPD) sp ectra w ere repro duced b y sev eral functionals that pro vide the cor-
rect symmetry breaking of the C 2 v ground-state minima, 133,147 alb eit the exact
frequencies, and in particular the in tensities w ere a c hallenge. F or the iso electronic
Si 2 O 4 + , so far no vibrational data are a v ailable, and th us the data pro vided in
T able 3.A.11, whic h are closely analogous to the corresp onding data for Al 2 O 4 –
but naturally shifted to higher frequencies, are predictions.
In case of Si 2 O 4 – , the broad photo electron detac hmen t sp ectrum has b een in-
terpreted 159 as consisten t with a C s t yp e structure (cf. T able 3.A.3), similar to a
previous suggestion for the dianion. 155 No vibrational structure could b e extracted,
and th us the data in T able 3.A.12 are also predictions in this case.
W e used the exp erimen tal IRMPD sp ectra for V 4 O 10 – as evidence for the D 2 d
structure, as its v ery few features (one V –
– O stretc hing frequency near 990 cm − 1
and V – O – V stretc hes b elo w 750 cm − 1 ) are consisten t with a delo calized high-
symmetry structure. 157 When comparing differen t functionals and structures (T a-
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ble 3.A.13), it is clear that D 2 d structures repro duce the sp ectra w ell, p ossibly
with some do wnscaling needed, while C s minima do not, ev en if they are only v ery
sligh tly more stable than the D 2 d transition state (e.g. for LH670-SVWN or for
MN15). That is, C s structures alw a ys giv e additional bands in the region b et ween
800 cm − 1 to 900 cm − 1 , whic h are absen t in the exp erimen tal sp ectra, 157 ev en if a
giv en functional pro vides only a v ery small energetic p enalt y to the D 2 d structure
(T able 3.A.13). This holds also for the men tioned LH, alb eit in terestingly it do es
not giv e an y imaginary frequency for the D 2 d -optimized structure in spite of its
energy b eing ab out 8 kJ / mol ab o v e the C s structure (cf. T able 3.5). This suggests
on one hand that for this t yp e of functional the p oten tial energy surface is already
v ery shallo w in the decisiv e region. On the other hand we ma y ev en question if a
zero-p oin t vibration w ould fit in to the computed w ell of the C s structure. The ob-
serv ed high-symmetry sp ectrum migh t th us also b e consisten t with a v ery w eakly
stabilized C s structure.
Another ion for whic h gas-phase vibrational sp ectra are a v ailable is V 2 O 4 + . 160
Here the o v erall fiv e bands at 594, 776, 794 (shoulder), 1029, and 1049 cm − 1 had
b een clearly in terpreted in terms of a lo calized symmetry-brok en structure. 160 In-
deed, only calculations using a lo calized C s structure pro vide these fiv e bands
(T able 3.A.14), while computations for the delo calized C 2 h structure (e.g. fa v ored
at PBE lev el; T able 3.5) giv e only t w o bands. All functionals w ould require do wn-
scaling of the frequencies to agree b etter with exp erimen t. A dditionally , while all
functionals (except PBE, see ab o v e) correctly giv e higher in tensit y to the asym-
metric V –
– O stretc h at 1029 cm − 1 than to the symmetric one at 1049 cm − 1 , some
of them pro vide v ery lo w in tensit y to the symmetric band (T able 3.A.14). A d-
ditionally , the exp erimen tal sp ectra w ould suggest that the band at 794 cm − 1 ,
whic h is a shoulder to the 776 cm − 1 band, should th us ha v e m uc h less in tensit y
than the latter. This lo w er in tensit y is not correctly repro duced b y most func-
tionals (T able 3.A.14). W e k eep in mind, how ev er, that in tensities ma y dep end on
anharmonicities, whic h are neglected in the computations.
More limited information from photo detac hmen t sp ectra is a v ailable for Ti 2 O 4 –
and Cr 2 O 6 – . The resolution do es not allo w full vibrational analyses. Th us, for
Ti 2 O 4 – the ma jor information tak en from the photo electron sp ectra is that of a
lo calized extra electron. 161 As w e sa w ab o v e, the energy differences b et w een lo cal-
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ized and delo calized structures are so small in this case that ev en the b enc hmark
data do not unequiv o cally decide b et w een these t w o cases. Hence w e pro vide com-
puted vibrational data for b oth C 2 h and C s structures in T ables 3.A.15 and 3.A.16
for future reference (w e note, ho w ev er, that other photo electron sp ectra suggest a
mixture of cis and tr ans isomers 162 ). The only vibrational information that ma y b e
extracted from the photo electron sp ectra of Cr 2 O 6 – is a mo de at 780 cm − 1 (50).
A band in this area is presen t in the computed sp ectra b oth for delo calized and
lo calized structures, and th us no information on the structure of this b orderline
case ma y b e obtained from this comparison. No exp erimen tal vibration sp ectro-
scopic data are a v ailable for ScO 2 or TiO 2 + (but note high-lev el CC data 156 ), nor
for Ti 2 O 4 + .
3.4.4 Summa ry
Starting from the previous example Al 2 O 4 – , w e ha v e collected a b enc hmark set
of ten relativ ely small main-group and transition-metal MV oxo systems (MV O-
10). F or these systems w e hav e obtained high-level CC benchmark energy data
(CCSD(T)/CBS or CCSDT(Q)/CBS, dep ending on system size), taking in to ac-
coun t also exp erimen tal observ ations (e.g. for V 4 O 10 – ) on the relative stabilities
of lo calized and delo calized MV situations. These b enc hmark data ha v e b een used
to ev aluate a range of DFT X C functionals, in particular GH, GRSH, and LH
functionals. The goal has b een to pro vide guidelines to screen for minimal delo-
calization vs. lo calization errors for gas-phase MV systems, i.e. without the added
complication of en vironmen tal effects that usually affect studies of MV systems.
Pinning Al 2 O 4 – and V 4 O 10 – against eac h other as the most extreme coun ter
p oin ts of a strongly lo calized class I I main-group o xyl system and a delo calized
early transition-metal d 1 d 0 case pro vides already a substantial c hallenge that is
not fully met b y an y of the functionals tested. F unctionals with relativ ely high XX
admixtures get the prop er structures and energetics of the alumin um system righ t
(alb eit to o high admixtures o v erestimate the energy differences). Ho w ev er, these
functionals tend to artificially lo calize the spin/c harge in V 4 O 10 – . The o v erall b est
p erformers sim ultaneously for these t w o extreme cases are the highly parameterized
MN15 global h ybrid, the muc h less empirical LH670-SVWN lo cal h ybrid, and
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the ω B97X-D global range-separated h ybrid (all three functionals exhibit w eak
symmetry breaking for the v anadium system but with energy differences that ma y
b e insignifican t compared to zero-p oin t vibrational energies). Other systems in the
b enc hmark set encompass b oth delo calized and lo calized d 1 d 0 cases, as w ell as
o xyl cases on b oth sides of the divide b et w een lo calized and delo calized. The three
functionals men tioned pro vide the o v erall b est p erformance across these cases, with
the notable exception of the silicon-cen tered Si 2 O 4 – , whic h exhibits a pattern of
relativ e energies that is difficult to rationalize, and the o xyl-cen tered Ti 2 O 4 – , where
MN15 clearly o v er-lo calizes. The systems studied co v er an appreciable n um b er but
certainly not all p oten tial electronic situations w e ma y encoun ter in MV systems.
The data set pro vided should th us at least constitute a go o d starting p oin t for
further ev aluations.
3.5 Conclusions and Outlo ok
Up to no w implemen tations of LH functionals had b een lac king gradien ts w.r.t.
n uclear displacemen t, hindering structure optimization and the calculation of vi-
brational force constan ts. This gap has no w b een closed b y the implemen tation
of those gradien ts in to the program pac kage T urb omole. W e emplo y ed a semi-
n umeric in tegration sc heme with the Gauss-R ys and Gauss-Hermite formalisms,
reusing auxiliary in tegrals in the sim ultaneous calculation of the XX-related matri-
ces A and A ′ for efficiency . This is accompanied by adjusted screening tec hniques
of S- and P-junctions from the LH SCF routines.
The implemen tation w as initially assessed for test sets of main-group and tran-
sition metal comp ounds yielding structures and vibrational data on par with com-
monly used GGA and GH functionals. The effectiv eness of the screenings w as
ev alutated on timings and error estimates for un branc hed alkanes and the three-
dimensional adaman tane, resulting in recommended v alues of 10 − 5 (or 10 − 6 ) for
b oth S- and P-junctions.
Finally , the gradien ts w ere applied to a new b enc hmark test set consisting of
ten small, gas-phase molecules that lie on the v erge b et w een the mixed v alence
classes I I and I I I. One LH (t-LMF, b = 0 . 670 with SVWN) p erformed esp ecially
w ell, ev en though the transition state b et w een the lo w- and high-lying minima of
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Si 2 O 4 + could only b e determined with another functional and program b ecause of
its shallo wness.
The gradien t implemen tation ma y in the future b e extended to further ingredi-
en ts, e.g. the Laplacian and Hessian of the electron densit y . The efficiency could b e
increased b y adapting the Bo ys-function based in tegration for lo w angular quan-
tum n um b ers used b y the energy calculations. Alternativ ely , the Obara-Saika
sc heme 163 could yield ev en b etter timings b y utilizing recurrence relations. The
P-junction sc heme w ould ha v e to b e adapted accordingly .
P arts of the co de can b e reused in other implemen tations, e.g. for gradien ts
of excited states (w ork along this line is in progress 164 ). An extension to second
deriv ativ es (i.e. aoforce ) is probably not w orth while at this time as the second
deriv ativ es of A w ould exhibit a v ery high demand for pro cessing and memory ,
while the n umerical approximation ( NumForce ) already offers usable results.
3.A App endix
3.A.1 Connection Bet w een Gradient and Overlap
Assuming orthonormal MOs, the o v erlap matrix is defined as 124
∫ φ i φ j d r = ∑
µν
C µi S µν C ν j = δ ij , (3.A.1)
with co efficien ts C µi and C ν i , ov erlap matrix elemen ts S µν and the Kronec k er delta
δ ij . If one differentiates the equation w.r.t. n uclear co ordinates, the pro duct rule
yields
∑
µν ∇
A C µi S µν C ν j + C µi ∇
A S µν C ν j + C µi S µν ∇
A C ν j = 0 . (3.A.2)
The first and last summand can b e com bined b y in terc hanging the indices. Mo ving
the second summand to the other side giv es
2 ∑
µν ∇
A C µi S µν C ν j = − ∑
µν
C µi C ν j ∇
A S µν (3.A.3)
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and for i = j the used iden tit y
2 ∑
µν ∇
A C µi S µν C ν i = − ∑
µν
C µi C ν i ∇
A S µν . (3.1.5)
3.A.2 A dditional T ables fo r MV O-10
The follo wing pages include tables of structural and vibrational data for the MV
systems discussed and referenced in Section 3.4. They w ere giv en as supp orting
information for the original pap er. 2
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T able 3.A.1 Comparison of k ey structure parameters (in pm and °) for Al 2 O 4 – at v arious computational lev els. a
d ( MM ) d ( MM ) d ( MO t ) d ( MO t ) ∆ d ( MO t )
F unctional ∆ E D 2 h C 2 v D 2 h [ C 2 v ] s [ C 2 v ] l − s
CCSD(T)
/ aug-cc-V QZ 69 . 0 282 . 8 243 . 3 162 . 6 163 . 6 12 . 1
B3L YP 19 . 1 242 . 5 242 . 1 168 . 3 167 . 5 0 . 0
BHL YP 98 . 6 279 . 0 240 . 7 159 . 8 160 . 8 13 . 0
BL YP35 76 . 6 279 . 9 241 . 7 160 . 8 161 . 9 12 . 0
M06 19 . 4 240 . 1 239 . 6 167 . 2 166 . 5 0 . 0
M06-2X 85 . 2 279 . 7 241 . 1 160 . 8 161 . 8 12 . 6
PBE 0 . 0 242 . 8 242 . 8 168 . 9 168 . 9 0 . 0
PBE0 80 . 3 278 . 1 240 . 7 161 . 5 167 . 2 0 . 0
PBE0–1/3 77 . 4 279 . 3 240 . 6 160 . 7 162 . 0 11 . 8
BMK 77 . 8 278 . 6 239 . 9 160 . 6 161 . 7 12 . 3
MN15 76 . 2 280 . 7 242 . 2 161 . 0 162 . 0 12 . 7
CAM-B3L YP 68 . 7 280 . 1 241 . 6 160 . 8 161 . 7 12 . 7
ω B97X-D 67 . 1 280 . 5 241 . 6 161 . 0 162 . 0 12 . 9
LH-sirPW92 76 . 9 281 . 0 242 . 7 161 . 8 167 . 8 0 . 0
LH-sifPW92 74 . 5 281 . 9 242 . 7 161 . 7 167 . 8 0 . 1
LH646-SVWN 76 . 5 282 . 1 243 . 0 161 . 8 167 . 7 0 . 5
LH670-SVWN 76 . 3 282 . 5 243 . 9 161 . 8 162 . 9 13 . 7
a Results with lo cal h ybrids from [ 2], the other data from [133].
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T able 3.A.2 Comparison of k ey structure parameters (in pm and °) for Si 2 O 4 + at v arious computational lev els.
d ( MM ) d ( MM ) d ( MO t ) d ( MO t ) ∆ d ( MO t )
F unctional ∆ E D 2 h C 2 v D 2 h [ C 2 v ] s [ C 2 v ] l − s
CCSD(T)
/ aug-cc-V QZ 116 . 7 269 . 9 234 . 3 150 . 0 150 . 2 12 . 0
B3L YP 0 . 0 233 . 4 233 . 5 154 . 2 154 . 2 0 . 0
BHL YP 158 . 4 266 . 3 232 . 3 147 . 1 147 . 5 12 . 7
BL YP35 133 . 3 267 . 8 233 . 4 148 . 2 148 . 5 12 . 3
M06 134 . 5 266 . 0 231 . 0 148 . 1 153 . 3 0 . 1
M06-2X 140 . 9 267 . 4 232 . 6 148 . 2 148 . 5 12 . 5
PBE 0 . 0 233 . 8 233 . 8 155 . 8 155 . 8 0 . 0
PBE0 127 . 6 267 . 6 231 . 8 148 . 8 153 . 8 0 . 0
PBE0–1/3 136 . 0 266 . 8 232 . 0 148 . 1 148 . 5 12 . 2
BMK 134 . 5 267 . 6 232 . 3 148 . 2 148 . 5 12 . 3
MN15 131 . 7 267 . 5 233 . 2 148 . 1 148 . 5 12 . 2
CAM-B3L YP 124 . 4 267 . 9 233 . 3 148 . 3 148 . 6 12 . 5
ω B97X-D 125 . 6 267 . 7 232 . 6 148 . 4 148 . 7 12 . 5
LH-sirPW92 126 . 3 269 . 4 234 . 2 148 . 8 149 . 8 10 . 7
LH-sifPW92 129 . 1 269 . 4 234 . 4 148 . 8 149 . 3 12 . 4
LH646-SVWN 131 . 0 269 . 8 235 . 3 148 . 8 149 . 3 13 . 3
LH670-SVWN 133 . 2 269 . 9 234 . 8 148 . 8 149 . 2 13 . 4
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T able 3.A.3 Comparison of k ey structure parameters (in pm and °) for Si 2 O 4 – at v arious computational lev els.
d ( MM ) d ( MM ) d ( MO t ) d ( MO t ) d ( MO t ) ∠ ( MMO t ) ∠ ( MMO t ) ∠ ( MMO t )
F unctional ∆ E C 2 v C s C 2 v [ C s ] s [ C s ] l [ C 2 v ] [ C s ] s [ C s ] l
CCSD(T)
/ aug-cc-V QZ 47 . 7 236 . 2 242 . 9 153 . 2 152 . 9 154 . 8 170 . 0 134 . 6 177 . 5
B3L YP 49 . 1 238 . 5 243 . 5 153 . 0 152 . 4 154 . 6 163 . 9 133 . 5 177 . 0
BHL YP 64 . 6 230 . 2 240 . 8 150 . 9 150 . 5 152 . 7 171 . 6 132 . 8 177 . 8
BL YP35 57 . 6 234 . 4 242 . 3 152 . 0 151 . 4 153 . 7 168 . 0 133 . 0 177 . 5
M06 47 . 2 233 . 8 240 . 7 152 . 0 151 . 4 153 . 5 166 . 8 133 . 3 177 . 1
M06-2X 52 . 7 232 . 6 241 . 3 151 . 9 151 . 4 153 . 5 169 . 5 133 . 0 177 . 8
PBE 36 . 1 239 . 6 244 . 1 154 . 7 154 . 0 155 . 9 162 . 9 135 . 1 175 . 6
PBE0 48 . 5 231 . 1 241 . 4 152 . 4 152 . 0 154 . 0 171 . 0 133 . 8 177 . 1
PBE0–1/3 52 . 1 229 . 0 240 . 6 515 . 8 151 . 4 153 . 5 172 . 7 133 . 5 177 . 4
BMK 50 . 1 230 . 0 240 . 9 151 . 9 151 . 6 153 . 8 172 . 4 133 . 0 177 . 4
MN15 39 . 0 235 . 3 241 . 4 151 . 9 151 . 5 153 . 3 167 . 1 134 . 5 176 . 2
CAM-B3L YP 58 . 2 232 . 1 242 . 2 152 . 0 151 . 5 153 . 7 170 . 9 133 . 0 177 . 6
ω B97X-D 54 . 8 229 . 2 241 . 7 152 . 1 151 . 6 153 . 9 173 . 3 133 . 2 177 . 6
LH-sirPW92 51 . 4 233 . 3 243 . 1 152 . 8 152 . 2 154 . 3 170 . 5 133 . 7 177 . 6
LH-sifPW92 51 . 0 232 . 2 243 . 0 152 . 7 152 . 2 154 . 3 171 . 4 133 . 9 177 . 4
LH646-SVWN 56 . 4 233 . 9 244 . 0 152 . 8 152 . 3 154 . 5 170 . 4 132 . 4 178 . 1
LH670-SVWN 60 . 2 237 . 0 243 . 7 152 . 7 152 . 3 154 . 2 167 . 9 134 . 1 178 . 2
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T able 3.A.4 Comparison of k ey structure parameters (in pm and °) for ScO 2 at v arious computational lev els.
d ( MO ) d ( MO ) ∆ d ( MO ) ∠ ( OMO ) ∠ ( OMO )
∆ E C 2 v [ C s ] s C s C 2 v C s
CCSD(T)
/ aug-cc-V QZ 9 . 8 180 . 1 171 . 5 29 . 4 146 . 5 123 . 4
B3L YP 0 . 5 177 . 0 169 . 9 20 . 2 134 . 3 119 . 9
BHL YP 32 . 74 176 . 0 166 . 6 30 . 2 140 . 1 120 . 9
BL YP35 16 . 3 176 . 6 167 . 7 28 . 0 137 . 6 119 . 3
M06 9 . 6 176 . 9 167 . 9 26 . 1 127 . 6 117 . 7
M06-2X 25 . 6 175 . 7 166 . 9 30 . 4 147 . 6 119 . 5
PBE 0 . 1 177 . 3 177 . 3 0 . 1 129 . 7 129 . 3
PBE0 5 . 6 175 . 6 167 . 5 25 . 1 136 . 1 118 . 0
PBE0–1/3 14 . 8 175 . 2 166 . 6 27 . 7 137 . 6 118 . 6
BMK 13 . 9 176 . 4 168 . 1 27 . 8 138 . 6 120 . 1
MN15 128 . 8 181 . 1 167 . 1 27 . 9 142 . 8 121 . 3
CAM-B3L YP 14 . 4 175 . 7 167 . 2 27 . 6 138 . 0 119 . 1
ω B97X-D 14 . 9 175 . 7 167 . 0 28 . 2 136 . 0 119 . 1
LH-sirPW92 1 . 1 175 . 8 167 . 5 27 . 4 144 . 2 123 . 1
LH-sifPW92 3 . 0 175 . 6 167 . 1 28 . 9 145 . 9 122 . 0
LH646-SVWN 7 . 0 176 . 6 167 . 6 29 . 9 146 . 1 120 . 7
LH670-SVWN 8 . 7 176 . 7 167 . 6 30 . 9 147 . 5 121 . 9
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T able 3.A.5 Comparison of k ey structure parameters (in pm and °) for TiO 2 + at v arious computational lev els.
d ( MO ) d ( MO ) ∆ d ( MO ) ∠ ( OMO ) ∠ ( OMO )
∆ E C 2 v [ C s ] s C s C 2 v C s
CCSD(T)
/ aug-cc-p wCV5Z − 3 . 8 165 . 9 161 . 2 9 . 9 92 . 8 94 . 1
B3L YP 0 . 1 164 . 9 161 . 4 7 . 7 95 . 2 96 . 0
BHL YP 11 . 4 164 . 0 154 . 3 21 . 7 96 . 6 102 . 4
BL YP35 5 . 5 164 . 4 156 . 4 18 . 5 95 . 7 100 . 2
M06 4 . 3 164 . 2 156 . 9 17 . 5 95 . 3 98 . 7
M06-2X 16 . 0 163 . 4 154 . 5 22 . 2 95 . 1 103 . 1
PBE 0 . 1 165 . 7 165 . 7 0 . 1 94 . 1 94 . 2
PBE0 1 . 6 163 . 6 157 . 5 14 . 1 94 . 1 97 . 1
PBE0–1/3 4 . 9 163 . 2 155 . 6 17 . 9 94 . 4 99 . 1
BMK 10 . 2 164 . 6 155 . 9 19 . 2 95 . 8 101 . 9
MN15 6 . 7 163 . 5 155 . 7 18 . 7 94 . 9 100 . 1
CAM-B3L YP 4 . 1 163 . 7 156 . 5 17 . 1 94 . 6 99 . 0
ω B97X-D 5 . 2 163 . 5 156 . 0 18 . 0 95 . 1 99 . 7
LH-sirPW92 3 . 7 163 . 7 156 . 4 17 . 3 96 . 5 100 . 2
LH-sifPW92 5 . 0 163 . 5 155 . 8 18 . 4 96 . 7 100 . 6
LH646-SVWN 6 . 2 164 . 4 156 . 2 19 . 8 96 . 9 101 . 6
LH670-SVWN 7 . 3 164 . 5 156 . 1 20 . 5 97 . 2 102 . 3
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T able 3.A.6 Comparison of k ey structure parameters (in pm and °) for V 4 O 10 – at v arious computational lev els.
d ( MM ) d ( MM ) d ( MM ) d ( MM ) d ( MO t ) d ( MO t ) d ( MO b ) d ( MO b )
F unctional ∆ E [ D 2 d ] min [ D 2 d ] max [ C s ] min [ C s ] max D 2 d [ C s ] max [ D 2 d ] mean
all [ C s ] mean,max
B3L YP 1 . 1 309 . 0 312 . 9 309 . 0 312 . 6 158 . 8 158 . 8 180 . 2 180 . 2
BHL YP 62 . 1 307 . 8 310 . 6 305 . 7 317 . 9 156 . 0 156 . 5 178 . 3 190 . 3
BL YP35 26 . 4 308 . 6 312 . 0 306 . 7 318 . 5 157 . 4 157 . 7 179 . 3 190 . 2
M06 0 . 1 306 . 0 310 . 6 306 . 0 310 . 5 157 . 8 157 . 7 179 . 4 179 . 4
M06-2X 60 . 9 308 . 6 311 . 2 306 . 1 317 . 7 156 . 1 156 . 5 179 . 2 191 . 3
PBE 0 . 7 307 . 6 312 . 9 307 . 6 312 . 8 160 . 4 160 . 4 181 . 1 181 . 1
PBE0 0 . 6 305 . 7 310 . 2 305 . 6 310 . 1 157 . 5 157 . 5 178 . 9 178 . 9
PBE0–1/3 18 . 3 305 . 2 309 . 3 303 . 7 315 . 3 156 . 6 156 . 9 178 . 2 188 . 5
BMK 31 . 0 308 . 7 311 . 9 307 . 0 317 . 6 157 . 3 157 . 7 179 . 5 190 . 0
MN15 6 . 7 305 . 3 310 . 1 304 . 2 315 . 3 150 . 7 157 . 2 178 . 5 187 . 8
CAM-B3L YP 18 . 7 307 . 1 311 . 0 305 . 9 317 . 1 157 . 3 157 . 5 178 . 9 189 . 3
ω B97X-D 13 . 3 307 . 1 311 . 0 305 . 9 316 . 8 157 . 1 157 . 2 179 . 3 189 . 5
LH-sirPW92 0 . 1 306 . 9 311 . 0 306 . 1 315 . 1 157 . 4 157 . 6 179 . 3 187 . 1
LH-sifPW92 2 . 7 306 . 7 310 . 6 305 . 7 315 . 7 157 . 2 157 . 3 179 . 2 188 . 1
LH646-SVWN 5 . 7 308 . 6 312 . 2 307 . 5 317 . 9 157 . 8 158 . 0 180 . 0 189 . 9
LH670-SVWN 8 . 2 308 . 8 312 . 4 307 . 6 318 . 3 157 . 8 158 . 0 180 . 1 190 . 4
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T able 3.A.7 Comparison of k ey structure parameters (in pm and °) for Cr 2 O 6 – at v arious computational lev els.
d ( MM ) ∆ d ( MM ) d ( MO t ) ∆ d ( MO t ) ∆ d ( MO t ) ∠ ( MMO t ) ∆ ∠ ( MMO t ) ∆ ∠ ( MMO t )
F unctional ∆ E D 2 h C 2 v − D 2 h D 2 h [ C 2 v − D 2 h ] s [ C 2 v − D 2 h ] l D 2 h [ C 2 v − D 2 h ] s [ C 2 v − D 2 h ] l
B3L YP 9 . 5 252 . 4 6 . 5 158 . 6 − 0 . 1 0 . 3 123 . 4 − 1 . 8 1 . 3
BHL YP 51 . 2 250 . 9 8 . 9 155 . 8 − 0 . 5 0 . 5 123 . 2 − 2 . 3 1 . 5
BL YP35 30 . 4 251 . 6 8 . 5 157 . 2 − 0 . 3 0 . 6 123 . 2 − 2 . 1 1 . 4
M06 4 . 3 249 . 9 4 . 8 157 . 7 − 0 . 1 0 . 4 123 . 4 − 1 . 4 1 . 1
M06-2X 53 . 9 251 . 8 9 . 5 156 . 0 − 0 . 4 0 . 7 123 . 1 − 2 . 3 1 . 5
PBE 0 . 0 252 . 5 0 . 0 160 . 3 0 . 0 0 . 0 123 . 4 0 . 0 0 . 0
PBE0 13 . 0 249 . 6 7 . 1 157 . 2 − 0 . 1 0 . 4 123 . 3 − 1 . 9 1 . 4
PBE0–1/3 24 . 0 249 . 0 8 . 3 156 . 4 − 0 . 2 0 . 6 123 . 3 − 2 . 1 1 . 4
BMK 36 . 7 251 . 5 7 . 9 157 . 0 − 0 . 2 0 . 6 123 . 2 − 2 . 2 1 . 4
MN15 13 . 0 248 . 5 7 . 7 156 . 7 − 0 . 1 0 . 4 123 . 3 − 1 . 8 1 . 3
CAM-B3L YP 23 . 0 249 . 9 8 . 7 157 . 0 − 0 . 1 0 . 5 123 . 3 − 1 . 9 1 . 4
ω B97X-D 21 . 1 249 . 6 8 . 3 157 . 0 − 0 . 1 0 . 5 123 . 3 − 1 . 9 1 . 4
LH-sirPW92 10 . 0 250 . 0 6 . 9 157 . 2 − 0 . 1 0 . 4 123 . 3 − 1 . 7 1 . 3
LH-sifPW92 12 . 3 249 . 7 7 . 4 156 . 9 − 0 . 1 0 . 5 123 . 3 − 1 . 8 1 . 3
LH646-SVWN 14 . 6 251 . 7 7 . 5 157 . 7 − 0 . 2 0 . 6 123 . 3 − 1 . 9 1 . 3
LH670-SVWN 16 . 3 251 . 9 7 . 8 157 . 6 − 0 . 2 0 . 6 123 . 3 − 1 . 9 1 . 3
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T able 3.A.8 Comparison of k ey structure parameters (in pm and °) for Ti 2 O 4 – at v arious computational lev els.
d ( MM ) d ( MM ) d ( MO t ) ∆ d ( MO t ) ∆ d ( MO t ) ∠ ( MMO t ) ∠ ( MMO t ) ∠ ( MMO t )
F unctional ∆ E C 2 v C s C 2 v [ C s ] s [ C s ] l [ C 2 v ] [ C s ] s [ C s ] l
CCSD(T)
//B3L YP a 0 . 8 169 . 4
B3L YP 0 . 3 269 . 5 269 . 6 167 . 1 0 . 1 0 . 1 144 . 8 144 . 6 146 . 0
BHL YP 33 . 6 266 . 6 273 . 3 165 . 8 0 . 0 1 . 6 156 . 1 149 . 2 162 . 4
BL YP35 13 . 3 268 . 3 272 . 2 166 . 5 0 . 2 1 . 1 150 . 1 148 . 3 153 . 0
M06 0 . 6 266 . 9 266 . 8 166 . 3 0 . 0 0 . 0 146 . 2 146 . 8 146 . 9
M06-2X 23 . 3 265 . 7 272 . 9 165 . 7 − 0 . 2 1 . 5 163 . 6 146 . 5 162 . 1
PBE 0 . 3 270 . 4 270 . 4 167 . 7 0 . 0 0 . 0 138 . 0 137 . 9 138 . 3
PBE0 3 . 2 267 . 4 269 . 0 165 . 8 0 . 2 0 . 4 144 . 0 141 . 7 145 . 8
PBE0–1/3 11 . 0 266 . 5 269 . 7 165 . 4 0 . 2 0 . 8 146 . 5 145 . 7 146 . 2
BMK 10 . 1 268 . 2 272 . 1 167 . 2 0 . 1 1 . 3 151 . 7 147 . 0 150 . 6
MN15 5 . 9 265 . 4 268 . 7 166 . 0 − 0 . 1 0 . 6 154 . 5 151 . 0 153 . 4
CAM-B3L YP 15 . 2 266 . 6 271 . 1 166 . 3 0 . 0 0 . 6 151 . 4 147 . 1 149 . 7
ω B97X-D 16 . 7 266 . 8 271 . 3 166 . 2 − 0 . 1 0 . 5 150 . 3 145 . 5 145 . 9
LH-sirPW92 6 . 6 267 . 7 270 . 8 166 . 3 0 . 1 0 . 4 148 . 4 145 . 7 147 . 8
LH-sifPW92 8 . 8 267 . 4 270 . 8 166 . 1 0 . 1 0 . 5 149 . 5 146 . 3 148 . 3
LH646-SVWN 11 . 4 269 . 1 272 . 8 166 . 9 0 . 0 0 . 7 150 . 6 147 . 8 149 . 0
LH670-SVWN 13 . 3 269 . 1 273 . 3 167 . 0 0 . 0 0 . 8 151 . 4 149 . 1 150 . 7
a CCSD(T)//B3L YP results from [ 165].
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T able 3.A.9 Comparison of k ey structure parameters (in pm and °) for V 2 O 4 + at v arious computational lev els.
d ( MM ) d ( MM ) d ( MO t ) ∆ d ( MO t ) ∆ d ( MO t ) ∠ ( MMO t ) ∠ ( MMO t ) ∠ ( MMO t )
F unctional ∆ E C 2 h C s C 2 h [ C s − C 2 h ] s [ C s − C 2 h ] l [ C 2 h ] [ C s ] small [ C s ] large
MR-A CPF a 27 . 4 b 159 . 0 123 . 8
CCSD(T) c 31 . 6
B3L YP 18 . 8 258 . 4 264 . 3 155 . 0 − 0 . 4 0 . 5 123 . 6 121 . 7 123 . 2
BHL YP 68 . 4 256 . 6 264 . 3 152 . 3 − 0 . 2 0 . 4 125 . 7 122 . 8 123 . 9
BL YP35 44 . 4 257 . 5 264 . 8 153 . 7 − 0 . 3 0 . 5 124 . 7 122 . 8 123 . 0
M06 12 . 4 255 . 4 260 . 8 154 . 0 − 0 . 3 0 . 25 121 . 8 118 . 6 123 . 5
M06-2X 66 . 1 257 . 1 265 . 2 152 . 5 − 0 . 3 0 . 5 125 . 3 122 . 1 123 . 7
PBE 0 . 1 258 . 7 258 . 7 156 . 6 0 . 0 0 . 0 121 . 8 121 . 8 121 . 8
PBE0 24 . 7 255 . 5 262 . 1 153 . 7 − 0 . 3 0 . 5 122 . 8 120 . 7 122 . 6
PBE0–1/3 38 . 3 254 . 8 262 . 1 152 . 8 − 0 . 3 0 . 5 123 . 2 121 . 0 122 . 4
BMK 56 . 7 257 . 1 264 . 2 153 . 7 − 0 . 3 0 . 6 125 . 2 122 . 8 124 . 0
MN15 27 . 2 254 . 3 261 . 4 153 . 3 − 0 . 3 0 . 4 123 . 3 120 . 4 123 . 4
CAM-B3L YP 36 . 5 256 . 0 263 . 4 153 . 6 − 0 . 3 0 . 5 123 . 8 121 . 9 122 . 8
ω B97X-D 34 . 8 255 . 6 263 . 1 153 . 5 − 0 . 3 0 . 6 123 . 5 121 . 6 124 . 1
LH-sirPW92 24 . 3 256 . 1 263 . 0 153 . 5 − 0 . 3 0 . 6 123 . 5 121 . 6 124 . 1
LH-sifPW92 27 . 7 255 . 8 263 . 0 153 . 2 − 0 . 3 0 . 6 123 . 7 121 . 7 124 . 2
LH646-SVWN 29 . 7 257 . 3 264 . 2 153 . 9 − 0 . 2 0 . 5 124 . 7 122 . 9 125 . 8
LH670-SVWN 32 . 2 257 . 9 264 . 9 154 . 0 − 0 . 3 0 . 5 124 . 8 123 . 5 123 . 8
a MR-A CPF results from [ 158]. b Single-p oin t energies at B3L YP-optimized structures.
c CCSD(T)/CBS) at BL YP35-optimized structures from [ 2].
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T able 3.A.10 Comparison of k ey structure parameters (in pm and °) for Ti 2 O 4 + at v arious computational lev els.
d ( MM ) d ( MM ) d ( MO t ) ∆ d ( MO t ) ∆ d ( MO t ) ∠ ( MMO t ) ∠ ( MMO t ) ∠ ( MMO t )
F unctional ∆ E C 2 h C s C 2 h [ C s − C 2 h ] s [ C s − C 2 h ] l [ C 2 h ] [ C s ] small [ C s ] large
B3L YP 55 . 0 272 . 5 272 . 2 164 . 5 158 . 2 180 . 8 109 . 2 113 . 9 117 . 3
BHL YP 124 . 9 269 . 7 270 . 1 164 . 5 155 . 6 181 . 0 109 . 4 115 . 4 121 . 7
BL YP35 91 . 5 271 . 2 271 . 2 164 . 3 156 . 9 181 . 3 109 . 3 114 . 7 120 . 0
M06 67 . 7 270 . 4 270 . 1 163 . 8 157 . 1 180 . 9 108 . 6 113 . 2 115 . 4
M06-2X 114 . 8 272 . 0 270 . 8 161 . 4 155 . 8 181 . 2 110 . 8 115 . 5 119 . 9
PBE 0 . 1 273 . 9 274 . 0 165 . 3 163 . 8 167 . 0 108 . 5 107 . 8 109 . 3
PBE0 67 . 2 270 . 2 269 . 8 163 . 3 156 . 9 180 . 2 108 . 5 113 . 2 117 . 4
PBE0–1/3 87 . 0 269 . 3 269 . 0 163 . 0 156 . 1 180 . 2 108 . 5 113 . 5 117 . 8
BMK 101 . 0 272 . 5 270 . 9 163 . 1 156 . 8 182 . 0 111 . 2 115 . 6 121 . 2
MN15 85 . 1 269 . 8 269 . 3 162 . 5 156 . 4 180 . 3 108 . 7 114 . 0 118 . 1
CAM-B3L YP 89 . 4 271 . 4 270 . 4 162 . 4 156 . 7 180 . 7 108 . 7 114 . 3 118 . 4
ω B97X-D 69 . 4 272 . 3 270 . 6 161 . 6 156 . 6 181 . 8 108 . 8 112 . 7 118 . 1
LH-sirPW92 54 . 1 273 . 5 270 . 8 162 . 5 156 . 7 181 . 4 109 . 5 114 . 9 120 . 2
LH-sifPW92 60 . 0 273 . 6 270 . 6 162 . 1 156 . 4 181 . 3 109 . 6 115 . 1 120 . 8
LH646-SVWN 63 . 3 274 . 3 271 . 8 163 . 5 157 . 0 182 . 7 110 . 3 115 . 3 121 . 6
LH670-SVWN 66 . 8 274 . 4 271 . 9 163 . 6 157 . 0 182 . 9 110 . 4 115 . 6 121 . 9
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T able 3.A.11 Computed vibrational frequencies (in tensities) for Si 2 O 4 + . a
F unctional frequencies in cm − 1 (in tensities in km / mol)
B3L YP 117 192 254 260 442 482 591 717 872 899 905 1267
(21) (43) (0) (0) (115) (0) (1785) (0) (0) (1786) (237) (0)
BHL YP 115 196 260 278 467 496 668 765 919 1049 1206 1425
(24) (38) (0) (8) (138) (0) (77) (187) (2) (205) (230) (118)
BL YP35 112 189 252 267 449 482 642 732 887 1016 1139 1378
(22) (35) (0) (7) (122) (1) (71) (137) (1) (186) (45) (32)
M06 116 195 259 266 271 455 491 756 879 904 945 1310
(22) (44) (0) (0) (7169) (121) (0) (0) (1516) (0) (240) (0)
M06-2X 113 194 253 267 445 487 646 740 896 1032 1182 1393
(21) (35) (0) (8) (126) (0) (73) (182) (0) (189) (203) (101)
PBE 111 179 241 245 409 463 683 688 821 868 999 1215
(17) (36) (0) (0) (88) (0) (0) (2) (0) (191) (447) (0)
PBE0 117 192 256 260 296 445 487 736 865 883 926 1287
(22) (44) (0) (0) (6608) (117) (0) (0) (1630) (0) (239) (0)
PBE0–1/3 111 188 252 266 445 483 653 735 887 1026 1141 1384
(21) (35) (0) (7) (118) (1) (68) (126) (3) (180) (29) (24)
BMK 118 201 264 280 448 487 708 770 906 1055 1182 1499
(20) (37) (0) (6) (122) (1) (64) (159) (0) (188) (99) (66)
MN15 108 184 246 260 441 479 655 744 894 1026 1157 1391
(21) (34) (0) (7) (118) (0) (68) (148) (0) (184) (72) (48)
CAM-B3L YP 111 187 252 266 445 480 368 732 884 1014 1156 1382
(21) (33) (0) (7) (119) (0) (70) (171) (0) (179) (125) (73)
ω B97X-D 109 189 253 276 442 477 641 723 881 1042 1161 1370
(20) (35) (0) (6) (114) (0) (65) (175) (0) (172) (146) (81)
LH-sirPW92 111 1965 254 272 446 473 638 714 864 1002 1050 1355
(22) (37) (0) (6) (125) (10) (65) (40) (60) (193) (69) (1)
LH-sifPW92 112 191 253 269 446 452 604 652 827 935 984 1328
(22) (39) (0) (5) (125) (373) (883) (57) (864) (564) (198) (83)
LH646-SVWN 110 196 254 274 446 473 626 719 868 1001 1099 1361
(22) (36) (0) (6) (124) (1) (67) (128) (2) (194) (26) (24)
LH670-SVWN 109 197 249 267 445 475 627 722 872 1009 1122 1368
(22) (37) (0) (6) (125) (0) (70) (153) (0) (193) (74) (45)
a With def2-TZVP basis, after optimization in C 2 v symmetry .
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T able 3.A.12 Computed vibrational frequencies (in tensities) for Si 2 O 4 – . a
F unctional frequencies in cm − 1 (in tensities in km / mol)
B3L YP 109 228 304 307 411 499 546 646 872 919 1134 1284
(15) (17) (0) (8) (39) (27) (68) (133) (7) (146) (216) (213)
BHL YP 117 247 326 329 452 536 592 712 934 977 1197 1356
(18) (23) (1) (11) (50) (48) (85) (194) (12) (174) (257) (268)
BL YP35 113 238 315 318 433 517 568 679 903 948 1163 1320
(17) (20) (0) (10) (45) (37) (77) (166) (10) (160) (235) (241)
M06 111 235 311 314 422 510 573 673 900 949 1177 1327
(15) (19) (0) (9) (41) (31) (71) (146) (8) (152) (243) (232)
M06-2X 110 243 320 322 436 524 585 695 914 963 1184 1339
(17) (22) (1) (10) (50) (41) (78) (176) (11) (172) (260) (247)
PBE 100 213 287 289 366 471 528 598 821 878 1098 1230
(12) (14) (0) (6) (24) (13) (51) (79) (2) (122) (195) (166)
PBE0 109 233 310 313 416 508 572 669 885 940 1157 1303
(15) (19) (1) (9) (39) (27) (67) (143) (8) (148) (230) (218)
PBE0–1/3 112 239 316 320 429 518 586 689 904 958 1176 1325
(16) (20) (1) (9) (43) (33) (72) (162) (10) (156) (242) (235)
BMK 111 240 318 319 430 517 602 700 907 963 1185 1343
(17) (22) (1) (10) (46) (36) (72) (173) (12) (163) (239) (246)
CAM-B3L YP 113 236 313 318 432 516 568 681 901 946 1167 1318
(16) (19) (0) (9) (45) (38) (75) (177) (11) (157) (238) (239)
ω B97X-D 112 237 319 322 429 512 583 683 897 965 1148 1321
(16) (20) (9) (1) (42) (35) (67) (180) (13) (155) (234) (246)
LH-sifPW92 118 245 319 323 430 516 567 673 892 939 1164 1310
(16) (20) (0) (9) (43) (41) (74) (167) (10) (164) (248) (244)
LH-sirPW92 123 250 323 324 434 518 567 673 891 939 1164 1309
(16) (21) (8) (0) (42) (43) (74) (166) (10) (165) (248) (243)
LH646-SVWN 112 237 314 321 430 515 556 669 891 940 1152 1303
(16) (19) (0) (10) (45) (41) (77) (179) (13) (165) (241) (253)
LH670-SVWN 120 246 319 323 434 515 561 673 892 935 1167 1308
(17) (20) (0) (9) (45) (45) (77) (180) (12) (171) (262) (247)
a With def2-TZVP basis, after optimization in C s symmetry ( tr ans isomer).
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T able 3.A.13 Computed vibrational frequencies (in tensities) for V 4 O 10 – . a
F unctional frequencies in cm − 1 (in tensities in km / mol)
B3L YP 466 522 522 551 567 596 596 632 650 650 660 675 1062 1062 1062 1091
(23) (20) (20) (0) (0) (30) (30) (98) (148) (148) (0) (0) (539) (490) (490) (0)
BHL YP 467 513 552 558 651 687 688 739 752 906 910 943 1123 1137 1139 1171
(4) (9) (0) (11) (15) (130) (50) (111) (269) (618) (670) (917) (609) (664) (653) (23)
BL YP35 457 502 535 541 629 665 665 715 727 866 869 888 1090 1100 1101 1131
(4) (9) (1) (10) (14) (107) (42) (91) (230) (620) (516) (554) (600) (604) (593) (13)
M06 498 549 549 565 583 621 621 649 672 672 680 705 1079 1079 1079 1110
(16) (13) (13) (0) (0) (27) (27) (100) (174) (174) (0) (0) (582) (531) (530) (0)
M06-2X 491 508 528 553 640 674 679 717 732 883 898 918 1122 1134 1137 1169
(5) (3) (0) (13) (24) (139) (47) (85) (248) (705) (538) (937) (616) (644) (627) (21)
PBE 535 546 561 561 591 614 614 633 641 652 666 666 1014 1014 1014 1038
(0) (0) (0) (0) (7) (10) (10) (0) (173) (0) (243) (243) (441) (393) (393) (0)
PBE0 410 502 502 566 580 606 606 647 668 668 679 696 1090 1090 1090 1121
(17) (20) (20) (0) (0) (22) (22) (92) (142) (142) (0) (0) (590) (532) (532) (0)
PBE0–1/3 476 512 546 548 636 676 677 727 735 863 874 886 1103 1113 1115 1144
(4) (8) (11) (1) (12) (35) (107) (85) (225) (626) (502) (442) (609) (602) (587) (13)
BMK 359 493 522 544 603 613 631 703 713 872 907 976 1114 1138 1139 1166
(13) (19) (33) (26) (140) (44) (29) (409) (388) (370) (249) (687) (606) (592) (595) (42)
CAM-B3L YP 455 504 529 542 630 668 668 716 727 860 870 882 1097 1104 1106 1135
(2) (7) (1) (10) (13) (112) (36) (78) (227) (637) (510) (451) (605) (598) (586) (8)
ω B97X-D 437 498 504 533 619 657 658 705 712 840 849 866 1091 1097 1099 1129
(0) (0) (4) (12) (15) (32) (122) (81) (232) (628) (499) (439) (615) (591) (578) (5)
LH-sifPW92 455 492 531 535 606 662 664 702 705 731 816 819 1085 1091 1093 1122
(4) (3) (1) (11) (5) (35) (109) (184) (56) (254) (324) (419) (621) (594) (567) (3)
LH-sirPW92 482 485 527 530 616 665 666 710 711 776 838 840 1090 1098 1099 1129
(3) (6) (1) (12) (9) (39) (111) (80) (192) (390) (457) (357) (633) (605) (577) (4)
LH646-SVWN 464 484 516 524 612 656 658 702 706 791 834 840 1074 1085 1086 1115
(3) (7) (1) (12) (10) (42) (111) (74) (212) (476) (459) (364) (600) (590) (573) (10)
LH670-SVWN 476 489 517 524 614 656 658 703 709 809 839 847 1076 1086 1087 1116
(4) (6) (0) (12) (11) (39) (113) (84) (218) (547) (472) (376) (604) (590) (580) (10)
a With def2-TZVP basis after optimization without symmetry (con v erging to C s symmetry). Only vibrations ab o ve
400 cm − 1 are sho wn.
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T able 3.A.14 Computed vibrational frequencies (in tensities) for V 2 O 4 + . a
F unctional frequencies in cm − 1 (in tensities in km / mol)
B3L YP 112 194 208 328 353 389 442 639 789 852 1126 1145
(24) (14) (2) (1) (38) (19) (3) (237) (147) (141) (324) (59)
BHL YP 118 197 211 346 380 420 450 681 839 930 1203 1220
(28) (18) (4) (1) (56) (16) (2) (305) (212) (289) (512) (0)
BL YP35 114 195 209 337 366 406 441 662 813 896 1166 1183
(26) (16) (3) (1) (48) (17) (3) (274) (179) (230) (419) (31)
M06 111 191 217 337 349 386 431 636 799 852 1139 1155
(25) (16) (2) (1) (36) (26) (6) (228) (167) (105) (395) (14)
M06-2X 134 215 220 346 376 414 432 659 822 908 1202 1222
(23) (13) (3) (1) (58) (16) (1) (297) (206) (282) (470) (45)
PBE 115 201 202 294 313 407 443 520 733 748 1080 1092
(19) (8) (0) (42) (0) (0) (63) (0) (106) (0) (262) (0)
PBE0 115 198 212 337 360 401 454 658 812 881 1159 1176
(24) (14) (2) (1) (40) (18) (3) (250) (162) (178) (370) (45)
PBE0–1/3 116 199 214 342 368 411 456 671 827 906 1183 1199
(25) (15) (3) (1) (45) (17) (3) (269) (181) (229) (425) (27)
BMK 116 197 214 343 371 410 554 735 885 971 1168 1193
(28) (18) (3) (1) (46) (19) (6) (260) (189) (276) (420) (79)
CAM-B3L YP 115 197 211 337 363 404 446 666 817 897 1171 1190
(25) (14) (3) (1) (45) (17) (2) (275) (176) (218) (393) (55)
ω B97X-D 115 198 216 341 364 404 468 682 821 894 1178 1200
(26) (15) (2) (1) (42) (21) (2) (267) (180) (213) (388) (72)
LH-sifPW92 103 199 215 343 363 404 446 653 822 889 1173 1189
(25) (14) (3) (1) (45) (21) (3) (268) (180) (196) (410) (64)
LH-sirPW92 102 195 214 341 361 401 448 651 818 882 1165 1182
(25) (15) (3) (1) (44) (21) (3) (262) (174) (180) (391) (68)
LH646-SVWN 108 202 209 339 363 402 446 650 810 878 1157 1170
(24) (15) (4) (1) (49) (19) (3) (272) (179) (192) (447) (10)
LH670-SVWN 124 210 212 340 365 402 436 646 812 882 1157 1172
(24) (15) (3) (1) (48) (21) (3) (272) (181) (206) (452) (1)
a With def2-TZVP basis after optimization in C s symmetry ( tr ans isomer).
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T able 3.A.15 Computed vibrational frequencies (in tensities) for Ti 2 O 4 – . a
F unctional frequencies in cm − 1 (in tensities in km / mol)
B3L YP 60 106 132 167 248 295 346 499 684 698 938 970
(85) (321) (390) (27) (0) (140) (27) (1) (6) (214) (958) (2)
BHL YP 52 107 166 264 271 325 455 551 775 802 957 1014
(40) (23) (39) (0) (100) (5) (11) (263) (316) (311) (1137) (116)
BL YP35 60 116 166 258 260 323 458 532 749 771 943 989
(28) (26) (35) (64) (0) (3) (8) (192) (273) (182) (1079) (88)
M06 80 123 169 200 238 338 498 517 695 716 949 984
(23) (0) (28) (108) (0) (0) (66) (0) (0) (218) (1023) (0)
M06-2X 51 115 159 255 261 322 462 551 747 777 951 1009
(26) (25) (35) (74) (0) (4) (5) (259) (309) (313) (1091) (135)
PBE 71 132 165 246 248 338 494 516 662 664 913 937
(6) (0) (21) (0) (43) (0) (0) (207) (0) (162) (670) (0)
PBE0 76 124 168 252 258 332 479 491 735 741 953 986
(20) (32) (30) (38) (0) (22) (4) (30) (234) (33) (999) (71)
PBE0–1/3 70 124 168 260 263 336 472 543 754 777 958 1000
(22) (31) (34) (41) (0) (5) (6) (192) (265) (175) (1017) (121)
BMK 69 130 149 247 257 318 324 475 616 684 998 1036
(24) (22) (23) (0) (79) (16) (10) (278) (292) (247) (1106) (12)
CAM-B3L YP 67 120 165 258 259 329 464 546 751 775 952 995
(24) (28) (33) (53) (1) (4) (6) (213) (267) (202) (1049) (91)
ω B97X-D 80 133 174 263 267 335 456 551 739 768 957 998
(23) (27) (32) (49) (1) (4) (4) (270) (268) (236) (983) (127)
LH-sifPW92 87 132 175 267 268 329 458 540 750 764 950 993
(26) (25) (32) (45) (0) (6) (7) (190) (275) (161) (1043) (107)
LH-sirPW92 84 134 173 265 266 329 461 538 746 758 948 989
(28) (20) (31) (42) (0) (9) (6) (161) (266) (126) (1025) (99)
LH646-SVWN 84 127 174 265 265 327 445 534 743 761 938 982
(23) (28) (33) (56) (0) (4) (8) (221) (276) (186) (1008) (112)
LH670-SVWN 68 115 172 259 262 322 439 526 743 761 935 982
(26) (26) (34) (60) (0) (3) (8) (229) (283) (198) (1037) (108)
a With def2-TZVP basis after optimization in C s symmetry ( tr ans isomer).
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T able 3.A.16 Computed vibrational frequencies (in tensities) for Cr 2 O 6 – . a
F unctional frequencies in cm − 1 (in tensities in km / mol)
B3L YP 426 455 604 762 781 1006 1031 1044 1053
(1) (2) (148) (138) (41) (458) (154) (48) (402)
BHL YP 467 477 659 799 873 1040 1044 1121 1128
(1) (2) (236) (191) (239) (288) (280) (270) (388)
BL YP35 448 464 642 779 837 1036 1050 1082 1091
(0) (2) (204) (165) (162) (430) (244) (124) (396)
M06 423 467 571 777 783 1017 1030 1059 1065
(2) (1) (89) (6) (135) (440) (202) (72) (366)
M06-2X 459 461 645 772 848 1053 1056 1109 1114
(1) (1) (231) (188) (253) (402) (299) (167) (438)
PBE 397 437 490 727 729 961 995 998 1006
(7) (0) (0) (0) (104) (382) (0) (0) (438)
PBE0 438 470 627 788 812 1035 1054 1075 1082
(1) (2) (167) (147) (72) (472) (194) (65) (409)
PBE0–1/3 450 476 648 799 844 1053 1066 1099 1106
(0) (2) (197) (163) (141) (450) (246) (113) (407)
BMK 452 558 721 799 852 1128 1152 1169 1185
(0) (0) (202) (168) (174) (519) (260) (72) (453)
MN15 434 463 631 791 819 1053 1062 1093 1097
(0) (1) (170) (156) (81) (496) (223) (67) (408)
CAM-B3L YP 443 465 644 786 834 1049 1065 1090 1095
(0) (2) (199) (163) (137) (502) (206) (63) (441)
ω B97X-D 445 481 651 793 831 1034 1042 1075 1077
(0) (1) (190) (159) (123) (515) (226) (60) (430)
LH-sifPW92 445 464 627 791 814 1047 1061 1088 1091
(1) (2) (175) (161) (73) (510) (209) (59) (442)
LH-sirPW92 444 464 619 787 803 1039 1055 1079 1082
(1) (2) (161) (157) (51) (510) (190) (49) (443)
LH646-SVWN 445 454 621 779 808 1023 1037 1067 1074
(1) (2) (179) (160) (88) (446) (223) (106) (399)
LH670-SVWN 447 452 622 778 811 1022 1036 1067 1075
(1) (2) (184) (163) (101) (435) (232) (118) (396)
a With def2-TZVP basis after optimization in C 2 v symmetry . Only vibrations ab o v e
400 cm − 1 are sho wn.
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The idea of replacing the system-wide RS parameter b y a function is straightfor-
w ard in ligh t of the analogous global vs. lo cal h ybrid functionals. A first step w as
the non-self-consisten t implemen tation in com bination with LD A at SR and full
LD A correlation b y Krukau et al. 86 A full self-consisten t implementation within
this sc heme, ho w ev er, w as considered to o costly 166 and the concept has b een aban-
doned since then, despite promising first results.
This c hapter is the second of the tw o main topics of this work. It con tains the
deriv ation (Section 4.1), implemen tation (Section 4.2) and assessment (Section 4.3)
of self-consisten t energy calculations for LRSH exc hange functionals with common
ingredien ts from semi-lo cal functionals.
4.1 Theo retical Background
Applying the p osition-dep enden t RSF ω = ω ( r ) in the split Coulomb operator
from Eq. ( 2.2.24) yields
1
r 12
= erf ( ω ( r 1 ) · r 12 )
r 12
+ 1 − erf ( ω ( r 1 ) · r 12 )
r 12
. (4.1.1)
W e do not adjust the correlation functionals, therefore the X C energy is
E LRS
X C = E LR
X + E SR
X + E SL
C = ∫ ε LR
X + ε SR
X + ε SL
C d r . (4.1.2)
W e use XX in the LR regime and DFT functionals at SR. In the follo wing subsec-
tions, the energy terms and the con tributions to the KS matrix will b e deriv ed.
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4.1.1 Long-Range Exact Exchange
Here w e use the abbreviations φ 1
i = φ i ( r 1 ) , χ 1
µ = χ µ ( r 1 ) , and ω 1 = ω ( r 1 ) . The
error function is in tro duced to the repulsion in tegrals of the LR XX energy (cf.
Eq. ( 2.3.24))
E LR
X = − 1
2 ∑
ij ∫ φ 1
i φ 1
j ∫ φ 2
i φ 2
j
erf ( ω 1 r 12 )
r 12
d r 2 d r 1 ,
= − 1
2 ∑
µν κλ
D µκ D ν λ ∫ χ 1
µ χ 1
ν ∫ χ 2
κ χ 2
λ
erf ( ω 1 r 12 )
r 12
d r 2 d r 1 .
(4.1.3)
Applying the FDO (cf. Eq. (2.3.26)) yields
δ E LR
X
δ φ 1
i
= − ∑
j
φ 1
j ∫ φ 2
i φ 2
j
erf ( ω 1 r 12 ) + erf ( ω 2 r 12 )
r 12
d r 2 (4.1.4a)
− 2
√ π
δ ω 1
δ φ 1
i ∑
j k
φ 1
j φ 1
k ∫ φ 2
j φ 2
k exp ( − ω 2
1 r 2
12 ) d r 2 . (4.1.4b)
The first term originates from the deriv ation w.r.t. the MOs, and subsequen t re-
naming and regrouping. It is a non-lo cal LR XX p oten tial term (cf. Eq. ( 2.3.28b)).
As for LHs in Section 2.3.3, w e c hange in to the A O basis, calculate just the
term with ω 1 , and add the transp osed matrix for the KS matrix con tributions (cf.
Eqs. ( 2.3.14) and (2.3.29))
K erf
µκ = K erf
µκ + K erf
κµ , (4.1.5)
K erf
µκ = − ∫ ∑
ν λ
D ν λ χ 1
µ χ 1
ν ∫ χ 2
κ χ 2
λ
erf ( ω 1 r 12 )
r 12
d r 2 d r 1 . (4.1.6)
The last term in Eq. ( 4.1.4) stems from differen tiating the error function, where
the denominator r 12 is canceled b y factors of the c hain rule. Hence, the inner
in tegral con tains an o v erlap in tegral instead of the repulsion in tegral, adjusted
b y an exp onen tial function. These contributions to the KS matrix are lo cal and
m ultiplicativ e. They are similar those con taining the deriv ativ e of the LMF in
Eq. ( 2.3.28) and can b e treated together with the SL exc hange energy densit y .
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Assuming that the RSF dep ends only on the densit y , the result w ould b e
K exp
µκ = − 2
√ π ∫ ∂ ω 1
∂ ρ χ 1
µ χ 1
κ ∑
ν λγ η
D ν λ D γ η χ 1
ν χ 1
γ ∫ χ 2
λ χ 2
η exp ( − ω 2
1 r 2
12 ) d r 2 d r 1 .
(4.1.7)
F or other quan tities lik e deriv ativ es of the densit y , this m ust b e adjusted accord-
ingly . Rephrasing (cf. Section 2.4.2) b oth expressions yields
K erf
µκ = − ∑
g ∑
λ X µg F λg A erf
κλg = − ∑
g X µg G erf
κg (4.1.8)
K exp
µκ = − ∑
g
∂ ω g
∂ ρ χ 1
µ χ 1
κ ∑
η λ F η g F λg A exp
η λg = ∑
g
∂ ω g
∂ ρ χ 1
µ χ 1
κ ∑
η F η g G exp
η g (4.1.9)
= − ∑
g
∂ ω g
∂ ρ χ 1
µ χ 1
κ E exp
g (4.1.10)
with the in termediate quantities
A erf
κλg = ∫ χ 2
κ χ 2
λ
erf ( ω g r g 2 )
r g 2
d r 2 , (4.1.11)
G erf
κg = ∑
λ F λg A erf
κλg , (4.1.12)
A exp
η λg = 2
√ π ∫ χ 2
κ χ 2
λ exp ( − ω 2
g r 2
g 2 ) d r 2 , (4.1.13)
G exp
η g = ∑
λ F η g A exp
η λg , (4.1.14)
E exp
g = ∑
η F η g G exp
η g . (4.1.15)
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4.1.2 Sho rt-Range Semi-Lo cal Exchange
The exact expression for the (global) LD A exc hange at SR has b een deriv ed (among
others) b y Gill, Adamson, and P ople, 105
E LD A
X = ∫ ε LD A
X d r = 3
4 ( 3
π ) 1/3 ∫ ρ 4/3 F LDA
X ( λ ) d r , (4.1.16)
F LD A
X ( λ ) = 1 − 2
3 λ [ 2 √ π erf ( 1
λ ) − 3 λ + λ 3 + (2 λ − λ 3 ) exp ( − 1
λ 2 )] , (4.1.17)
with the reduced RS parameter λ = ω / k F and the F ermi w a v e v ector k F = (3 π 2 ρ )
1
3 .
W e further use a GGA v arian t prop osed b y T oulouse, Colonna, and Sa vin, 167
E PBE
X = ∫ ε PBE
X d r = ∫ ε LD A
X F PBE
X ( λ ) d r , (4.1.18)
F PBE
X ( λ ) = 1 + κ − κ
1 + b ( λ ) s 2 / κ , (4.1.19)
where κ = − C ρ 4/3 / ε LDA
X is determined b y the Lieb-Oxford b ound with C =
1 . 6358 . 94 The parameter
b ( λ ) = − c 1 + c 2 exp ( λ − 2 )
c 3 + 54 c 4 exp ( λ − 2 ) , (4.1.20a)
c 1 = 1 + 22 λ 2 + 144 λ 4 , (4.1.20b)
c 2 = 2 λ 2 ( − 7 + 72 λ 2 ) , (4.1.20c)
c 3 = − 864 λ 4 ( − 1+2 λ 2 ) , (4.1.20d)
c 4 = λ 2 [ − 3 − 24 λ 2 + 32 λ 4 + 8 λ √ π erf ( λ − 1 )] , (4.1.20e)
has b een obtained from the second-order gradien t co efficien t for the SR exc hange
hole. This do es, ho w ev er, not reduce to the commonly emplo y ed PBE exc hange for
ω → 0 b ecause the constrain ts used here are differen t. By in tro ducing a constan t
prefactor C b = 2 . 5401 for b ( λ ) the resulting b ( λ → 0) = 7
81 can b e scaled up to the
“original” µ = 0 . 21852 . W e refer to the exc hange giv en b y the ab o v e equations as
sPBE, and the rescaled v ersion as oPBE.
W e c ho ose those t w o exc hange functionals (LD A and PBE) as the first targets
for our LRSH implemen tation, changing their constan t RS parameter in to an RSF.
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LRSH fo r LD A
The functional deriv ativ e results in partial deriv ativ es of the exc hange energy den-
sit y . If w e consider only the densit y , w e get for LD A
∂ ε LD A
X
∂ ρ = 3
4 ( 3
π ) 1/3 ( 4
3 ρ 1/3 F LDA
X + ρ 4/3 ∂ F LD A
X
∂ λ
∂ λ
∂ ρ ) , (4.1.21)
∂ F LD A
X
∂ λ = − 4
3 [ √ π erf ( 1
λ ) − 3 λ + 2 λ 3 + ( λ − 2 λ 3 ) exp ( − 1
λ 2 )] , (4.1.22)
∂ λ
∂ ρ = − 1
3 ρk F
∂ ω
∂ ρ + 1
k F
∂ ω
∂ ρ . (4.1.23)
But the (reduced) RSF ma y also dep end on other quan tities Q ∈ ( Q \ ρ ) , cf.
Eq. ( 2.3.16), implying
∂ ε LD A
X
∂ Q = 3
4 ( 3
π ) 1/3 ( ρ 4/3 ∂ F LDA
X
∂ λ
∂ λ
∂ Q ) , (4.1.24)
∂ λ
∂ Q = 1
k F
∂ ω
∂ Q . (4.1.25)
LRSH fo r PBE
The PBE functional builds up on the results from last section since ε LD A
X app ears
b oth explicitly in the in tegral of Eq. ( 4.1.18) and implicitly within κ (Eq. (4.1.19)),
th us all of those ma y dep end on Q ∈ Q through λ in ε LDA
X . The deriv ativ es are
∂ ε PBE
X
∂ Q = ∂ ε LD A
X
∂ Q F PBE
X + ε LD A
X
∂ F PBE
X
∂ Q , (4.1.26)
∂ F PBE
X
∂ Q = ( bs 2
κ + bs 2 ) 2 ∂ κ
∂ Q + ( κ 2 s 2
κ + bs 2 ) 2 ∂ b
∂ λ
∂ λ
∂ Q + ( κ 2 b
κ + bs 2 ) 2 ∂ s 2
∂ Q . (4.1.27)
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The deriv ativ e of b is a bit un wieldy:
∂ b
∂ λ = d 1
d 2
+ d 3 d 4
d 2
2
, (4.1.28a)
d 1 = − 2 λ − 3 ( − 7 λ 2 + 18 λ 4 ) e λ − 2 − 22 λ − 72 λ 3 + ( − 14 λ + 72 λ 3 ) e λ − 2 , (4.1.28b)
d 2 = 27 λ 2 d 5 e λ − 2 + 54 λ 4 ( 2 − λ 2 ) , (4.1.28c)
d 3 = − 11 λ 2 − 18 λ 4 + ( − 7 λ 2 + 18 λ 4 ) e λ − 2 − 2 , (4.1.28d)
d 4 = 54 λ − 1 d 5 e λ − 2 − 54 λd 5 e λ − 2 − 27 λ 2 d 6 − 216 λ 3 ( 2 − λ 2 ) + 108 λ 5 , (4.1.28e)
d 5 = 4 √ π λ erf ( λ − 1 ) − 6 λ 2 + 2 λ 4 − 3 , (4.1.28f )
d 6 = − 12 λ + 8 λ 3 + 4 √ π erf ( λ − 1 ) − 8 e − λ − 2 . (4.1.28g)
4.1.3 Range-Sepa ration F unction
The RSF ω is an in v erse length that screens the in terelectronic distance r 12 within
the error function. Therefore w e use the inv erse Wigner-Seitz radius 1/ r WS =
[ 4
3 π ρ ] 1/3 for the length scale. Starting from a gradien t expansion in previous w ork
b y Krukau et al., 86 the b est results w ere obtained with ω = β ∇ ρ
r WS . A more general
ansatz is obtained b y adding the reduced kinetic energy densit y t (cf. Eqs. ( 2.2.16)
and ( 2.2.20)) to the reduced densit y gradien t s ,
ω = C 0 + C 1 + C 2 · s + C 3 · t
r WS
, (4.1.29)
where C 0 through C 3 are adjustable parameters. This form allo ws for simpler
v arian ts to b e in v estigated as w ell, e.g. a constant ω = C 0 , or the truncated
gradien t expansion ω = C 1 · s / r WS men tioned ab o v e.
No w w e can tak e the deriv ativ e of the c hosen RSF w.r.t. the quan tities it dep ends
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on ( Q in Eq. (2.3.16)),
∂ ω
∂ ρ = C 1 ( 4 π
81 ρ 2 ) 1/3
− C 2
γ 1/2
(18 π ) 1/3 ρ 2 − C 3
π 1/3 γ
1296 1/3 ρ 5/3 τ , (4.1.30)
∂ ω
∂ γ = C 2
1
(144 π ) 1/3 ργ 1/2 + C 3
π 1/3
384 1/3 ρ 2/3 τ , (4.1.31)
∂ ω
∂ τ = − C 3
π 1/3 γ
384 1/3 ρ 2/3 τ 2 . (4.1.32)
4.2 Implementation
4.2.1 Calculating X C in xclrs()
The LRSH SCF subroutine xclrs() is similar to xclhyb() for LHs (Section 2.6.1).
The structure can b e seen in T able 4.1. F or each blo c k of grid p oin ts the v alues and
deriv ativ es of the A Os are calculated in funct_2() . These are used to calculate
the electron densit y , its squared deriv ativ e, and τ ( ondes_3() ), as well as the
RSF ( rsf_1() , Eq. ( 4.1.29)) and F ( calc_ftg() , Eq. (2.4.3)). Then G erf and G exp
(Eqs. ( 4.1.12) and (4.1.14)) are determined in lrs_a() and used in get_exx()
to calculate b oth ε ex
X and E exp (Eqs. ( 4.1.3) and (4.1.15)). They are com bined
in lrs_1() with the RSF and its deriv ativ es to get the X C energy as w ell as
the op erator terms ( O , O ′ , O ′′ , cf. Section 2.6.1). As for LHs (Eq. (2.6.1)), the
op erators include the deriv ativ es of the SL quan tities Θ ∈ { ω , ε SL
X , ε SL
C } w.r.t.
Q ∈ Q (Eq. ( 2.3.16)). They are m ultiplied with the basis functions and their
deriv ativ es to get part of the KS matrix ( onf_3() ),
∂ Θ
∂ Q → 




O χ µ χ ν
O ′ ∇ χ µ χ ν
O ′′ ∇ T χ µ ∇ χ ν




 → F O
µν . (4.2.1)
The routine get_kmat() pro vides the other part, K erf , stemming from the sym-
metric m ultiplication of G erf with the basis functions (Eqs. ( 4.1.5) and (4.1.8)).
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T ogether they giv e the full X C con tribution to the KS matrix,
F X C = F O + K erf . (4.2.2)
T able 4.1 General flo w of information for subroutines regarding LRSH SCF (with-
out grid). See Section 4.2.1.
Subroutine Input Output
xclrs() D E X C , F X C
funct_2() χ , χ ′
ondes_3() D , χ , χ ′ ρ , ∇ ρ , τ
rsf_1() ρ , ∇ ρ , τ ω , ∂ ω
∂ Q
calc_ftg() D , χ F
lrs_a() F , ω G erf , G exp
get_exx() F , G erf , G exp ε ex
X , E exp
lrs_1() D , ω , ∂ ω
∂ Q , ε ex
X , E exp E X C , O , O ′ , O ′′
onf_2() D , O , O ′ , O ′′ , χ , χ ′ F O
get_kmat() χ , G erf K erf
4.2.2 Calculating A erf and A exp in lrs_a()
The structure of lrs_a() is sho wn in Algorithm 3. It is similar to numpot()
(cf. Section 2.6.2) but extended b ecause the RSF is used directly , whereas the
m ultiplicativ e LMF w as applied afterw ards. While the shell and primitiv e lo ops
are used as b efore, the grid p oin t lo op no w includes the preparation of the RSF
and the additional calculation of A exp (cf. Eq. ( 4.1.13)). It is an o v erlap in tegral
b et w een the primitiv es for atoms A and B , and a third, s -t yp e primitiv e at G with
the squared RSF as the exp onen tial co efficien t. W e apply the Gaussian pro duct
rule t wice, first to merge A and B to the center of c harge P , then P and G
to C . W e then use Gauss-Hermite quadrature (see Section 2.4.3) to calculate the
necessary o v erlap in tegrals for the shell types of A and B resulting in elemen ts
A exp
κλg .
The RSF is pro vided to lrs_v() as a “reduced mass”-lik e co efficient
1
α ω
= 1
α P
+ 1
ω 2 (4.2.3)
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and within the prefactor as √ α ω / α P , where α P = α A + α B as in Eq. (2.3.5). The
returned elemen ts A erf
κλg and A exp
η λg are summed up for all primitiv e pairs within the
shell pair and m ultiplied wi th F to get G erf
κg and G exp
η g (Eqs. (4.1.12) and (4.1.14)).
L I ← angular quan tum n um b er of I
L J ← angular quan tum n um b er of J
for primitive P I do
for primitive P J do
for grid p oint g do
ω 2 , α ω ← preparation of RSF ω
A exp ← o v erlap in tegrals for A , B and G with ω 2
A erf ← repulsion in tegrals via Bo ys functions with α ω
end
sum up o v er all primitiv es P J
end
sum up o v er all primitiv es P I
end
G erf ← m ultiply A erf ( L I L J ) with F
G erf ← m ultiply A erf ( L J L I ) with F
G exp ← m ultiply A exp ( L I L J ) with F
G exp ← m ultiply A exp ( L J L I ) with F
Algorithm 3: Algorithm to calculate elemen ts of G erf and G exp for a shell pair
I J .
Calculating V AB in lrs_v()
The subroutine lrs_v() is based on vspdf() presen ted in Section 2.6.3. The Boys
function part w as adjusted for LRSHs. Initially , the Gauss-R ys part w as remo v ed
but the necessary c hanges will b e explained here as w ell in prosp ect of future
implemen tations.
W e recall from Section 2.4.4 that the Coulomb in tegrals can b e describ ed as a
Bo ys function F 0 ( α P R 2
P G ) that is differen tiated w.r.t. the cen ter of c harge P with
co efficien ts E AB
tuv (Eq. ( 2.4.21)). F or RS this sc heme is up dated b y adjusting the
prefactor and the argumen t of the Bo ys function, yielding
V AB = 2 π
α P √ α ω
α P ∑
tuv
E AB
tuv
∂ t
∂ P t
x
∂ u
∂ P u
y
∂ v
∂ P v
z
F 0 ( α ω R 2
P G ) . (4.2.4)
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Due to the c hain rule the deriv ativ es of the Bo ys function in tro duces α ω (cf.
Eq. ( 4.2.3)) to the p olynomials in fron t it. It com bines with α P in E AB
tuv in suc h a
w a y that there is alw a ys a p o w er of α ω / α P equal to the order of the corresp onding
Bo ys function. F or example, the in tegral for t w o p x primitiv es (cf. Eq. (2.4.22)) is
V 110000 = 2 π
α P √ α ω
α P
K AB {( X P A X P B + 1
2 α P ) F 0
− α ω
α P [ ( X P B + X P A ) X P C + 1
2 p ] F 1 + α 2
ω
α 2
P
X 2
P C F 2 } .
(4.2.5)
This v anishes for small ω ,
lim
ω → 0 α ω = ω 2 = 0 , (4.2.6)
lim
α ω → 0 F n ( α ω R 2
P G ) = ∫ 1
0
s 2 n d s = 1
2 n + 1 , (4.2.7)
lim
α ω → 0 V 110000 = 2 π
α 3
P / α ω ∑
t
E AB
t 00
∂ t
∂ P t
x
F n ( α ω R 2
P G ) = 0 , (4.2.8)
and reduces to full XX for large ω ,
lim
ω →∞ α ω = α P , (4.2.9)
lim
α ω → α P
α ω
α P
= 1 . (4.2.10)
F or the implemen tation the subroutines vcl_??() used in vspdf() w ere copied
to lrs_v??() . The prefactor w as adjusted b y α ω / α P , the argumen t for the Bo ys
function calculation (i.e. in terp olation) w as c hanged to α ω R 2
P G and the result m ul-
tiplied b y α ω / α P to the p o wer according to the order of the Bo ys function. The
rest of the co de, including the do_??() routines, w ere k ept as is.
This limits the calculations with LRSHs up to f -t yp e shells for no w. One solution
w ould b e the extension of the giv en algorithm to higher angular quan tum n um b ers.
This gets, ho w ev er, more and more complex. As an alternativ e, one could resort
to the R ys sc heme and adapt vint() , whic h emplo ys a generic ansatz instead of
sp ecific routines for eac h case.
The necessary adjustmen ts are giv en here to prepare the extension of the curren t
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implemen tation to basis sets with higher angular quan tum n um b ers. F or that the
prefactor w ould c hange (cf. Eq. ( 2.4.13)), yielding
V AB = 2 K AB
√ π α P √ α ω
α P ∑
γ
w γ ∑
η
w η x i
A x j
B ∑
η
w η y k
A y l
B ∑
η
w η z m
A z n
B , (4.2.11)
as w ould the transformation of the co ordinates (cf. Eq. ( 2.4.14)), e.g.
x A = √ α P − α ω t 2
γ
α P
o x,η + α ω t 2
γ
α P
X GP − X AP (4.2.12a)
= √ α P + ( α P − α ω ) u γ
α 2
P (1 + u γ ) o x,η + α ω u γ
α P (1 + u ) X GP − X AP . (4.2.12b)
4.2.3 Calculating DFT Exchange in lrs_1()
Both enhancemen t factors, F LD A
X and F PBE
X (Eqs. (4.1.17) and (4.1.19)), are sub ject
to n umerical instabilities for small and large λ due to the exp onen tial and error
functions in conjunction with the higher p o w ers of λ . T o a v oid errors the Maclaurin
series expansion (i.e. a T a ylor series at zero)
f ( x ) ≈ ∑
m
1
n !
d n f ( x )
d x n     x =0
x n = ∑
n
f ( n ) (0)
n ! x n = ∑
n
c n x n (4.2.13)
w as applied for the functions themselv es (for small λ ) and for exp and erf (for
large λ ). The latter is p ossible b ecause the argumen t is the recipro cal of λ in b oth
functions.
T o estimate the deviation of those appro ximations and the n umerical problems
with double precision (64 bit) calculations, w e used the Python mo dule sympy 168
(v ersion 1.1.1) for results of arbitrary precision.
App ro ximations fo r the LD A Enhancement F acto r
F or the lo w er limit (small argumen ts) of F LD A
X only the co efficien ts for n ∈ [0 , 1 , 2 , 4]
are non-zero. The series giv es deviations b elo w 10 − 16 for 0 < λ < 0 . 15 . A t the upp er
limit (large argumen ts) the square within the exp onen tial and error functions (cf.
Eqs. ( 4.1.17) and (4.1.20a)) mean that only the ev en p o w ers app ear. W e mapp ed
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the co efficien ts according to those expansions up to 2 n = 18 and accomplished a
deviation of 10 − 16 for 4 < λ . In b et w een ( 0 . 15 ≤ λ ≤ 4 ) the plain formula w as
used with deviations up to 10 − 10 . The deriv ativ e of F LD A
X w as appro ximated in the
same w a y . The co efficien ts of all four series are giv en in T able 4.A.1.
App ro ximations fo r the PBE Enhancement F acto r
F or F PBE
X the inaccuracies lie within the function b ( λ ) . The lo wer ( 0 <λ< 0 . 04 )
and upp er limit ( 6 < λ ) w ere in principle applied as for F LD A
X . The lo w er limit w as
accomplished with terms of 0 ≤ n ≤ 6 and had a deviation b elo w 10 − 10 .
Because of the p olynomial division the upp er limit is not as compact as for LD A.
The series for the exp onen tial function w as truncated after n = 6 , for the error
function after 11 . The deriv ativ es w ere applied directly to those appro ximations.
Moreo v er, the deriv ativ e is less stable and requires an additional appro ximation
for 0 . 085 ≤ λ ≤ 0 . 6 . A minimax appro ximation 169 using Mathematica 170 in that
range yielded a function of the form
F PBE
X ≈ ∑
n =0
p n λ n / ∑
n =0
q n λ n (4.2.14)
with a maximal error estimate of 10 − 8 , whic h w e ev en tually used in the in ter-
v al [0 . 006 , 0 . 6] . The co efficien ts for all three cases can b e found in T ables 4.A.2
to 4.A.4.
4.3 Assessment
4.3.1 Optimizing the RSF
W e com bined the RSF from Eq. (4.1.29) with our LRSH-adjusted exc hange func-
tionals for LD A and PBE, together with standard correlation functionals VWN
and PBE, resp ectiv ely . With all four parameters adjustable we denote the cor-
resp onding functionals as LRS-SVWN, LRS-sPBE, and LRS-oPBE. T o compare
with global v ariations w e also defined GRS-SVWN, GRS-sPBE, and GRS-oPBE,
for whic h C 1 = C 2 = C 3 = 0 .
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T able 4.2 P arameters of separation sc hemes for SVWN and PBE, optimized for
AE6/11 and HTBH6, see text. Energies in kcal / mol.
F unctional C 0 C 1 C 2 C 3 MAE
GRS-oPBE 0 . 166 6 . 8
GRS-sPBE 0 . 559 3 . 9
GRS-SVWN 0 . 612 6 . 7
LRS-oPBE 0 . 000 0 . 252 0 . 000 0 . 000 4 . 5
LRS-sPBE 0 . 362 0 . 000 0 . 098 0 . 055 3 . 3
LRS-SVWN 0 . 160 0 . 000 0 . 264 0 . 149 3 . 7
The parameters w ere globally optimized by minimizing the MAE of t w o small
test sets via a m ulti-lev el single linkage (MLSL) algorithm. 171 The first test set,
AE6/11, includes atomization energies and is a subset of MGAE109/11. The sec-
ond, HTBH6, consists of barrier heigh ts for h ydrogen transfer reactions and is part
of the sup erset HTBH38/08. The optimized v alues w ere rounded to three decimal
places as giv en in T able 4.2.
The RSF s are depicted in Fig. 4.1 for carb on mono xide along the molecule axis.
All those RSF s ha v e maxima at the n uclei, i.e. there they mix in XX ev en at short
in terelectronic distances r 12 . The b onding and asymptotic regions feature small
v alues b elo w 0 . 5. The magnitude of the GRSH parameters decreases with SVWN >
sPBE > oPBE. The functions for b oth oPBE and SVWN feature relativ ely high
p eaks up to 3 . 0 at the n uclei, whic h are sharp er (i.e. steep er) for oPBE than for
SVWN or sPBE. The p eaks of sPBE are smaller (up to 1 . 5) and their steepness
resem bles those for SVWN. The RSF of oPBE lev els off to w ards zero in the outer
regions since the optimization reduced to the function ω = C 1
r WS , whic h dep ends
only on the densit y . The optimized RSF s for sPBE and SVWN, on the other
hand, approac h a constan t in the asymptotic region, due to the parameter C 0
and the C 2 s
r WS terms. This is ph ysically more meaningful as it ensures the correct
asymptotic deca y of the X C p oten tial through the remaining X C con tribution at
long range. Ov erall the RSF of sPBE sta ys ab out constan t with a sligh tly lo w er
v alue in the b onding region. F or SVWN the RSF b eha ves similarly but with lo w er
v alue, whic h is consisten t with the resp ectiv e base parameters ( C 0 = 0 . 160 for
SVWN, C 0 = 0 . 362 for sPBE). The lac k of distinct features may indicate that the
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Figure 4.1 T w o visualizations of optimized RSF s for carb on mono xide with oPBE
(top), sPBE (middle), and SVWN (b ottom); left: graph along the
b ond axis ( z ) with dotted global v alues; righ t: con tour plot in b ond
axis plane (white denotes v alues ab o v e 0 . 5).
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optimized RSF s are not y et sensitiv e enough for the electronic structure.
4.3.2 Computational Details
F or the assessmen t of the new functionals w e used subsets of the categories b asic
pr op erties and r e action ener gies from the large test set GMTKN30 29 with def2-
TZVP 18,19 basis sets. W e also included the subsets ABDE4, AE6/11, HA TBH6,
HTBH6, NSBH6, and UABH6 from the AECE test set, 23 whic h w as dev elop ed for
relev ance in catalysis. F or ABDE4 the 6-311+G(3df,2p) 4–14 basis sets w ere used,
MG3S 22 basis sets for the other subsets in AECE. F ollo wing the pro cedure of the
electron affinities (subset G21EA) outlined in [ 29], w e augmen ted the def2-TZVP
basis sets with diffuse s - and p -t yp e basis functions from aug-cc-pVTZ 15 (only
s -t yp e for h ydrogen) for that subset.
T o v erify K o opmans’ theorem, the HOMO energies w ere compared to the IPs
obtained as energy differences b et w een the neutral and the cationic sp ecies of
sev eral small systems from [ 172] and t w o hetero cyclic aromatic systems (p yridine
and p yrimidine). 173
T o gauge the p erformance of LRSH functionals for electronic eigen v alue sp ectra,
w e calculated the orbital energies for b enzene, p yridine and p yrimidine from the
IP test ab o v e. F or comparison w e adjusted our RS parameter in com bination with
the oPBE functional to eac h molecule according to the IP-tuning 173 pro cedure:
ω = 0 . 287 for b enzene, 0 . 312 for p yridine, 0 . 353 for p yrimidine.
All calculations w ere carried out using grid size 1 and an SCF conv ergence
threshold of 10 − 6 . The results are discussed in terms of (partly w eighted) MAEs
and MAXs.
4.3.3 Basic Prop erties and Reaction Energies (GMTKN30)
The largest test set considered in this w ork is GMTKN30, 29 whic h consists of
30 subsets group ed in to three categories. W e calculated the b asic pr op erties with
t w elv e subsets and the r e action ener gies with eigh t subsets, whic h are sho wn in
T ables 4.3 and 4.4. First, w e discuss a summary giv en b y the w eigh ted MAEs
(wMAEs) from T able 4.5 that are calculated according to [29, SI] for each cate-
gory and b oth categories together. Although w e fo cus mainly on the comparison
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T able 4.3 MAEs of b asic pr op erties subsets from the test set GMTKN30 and their
w eigh ted mean in kcal / mol.
F unctional
BH76
BHPERI
G21EA
G21IP
P A
SIE11
W4-08
MB08-165
wMAE
GRS-oPBE 5 . 4 5 . 8 6 . 5 4 . 1 3 . 8 8 . 3 7 . 7 12 . 1 8 . 4
GRS-sPBE 4 . 1 7 . 0 7 . 0 5 . 5 2 . 5 4 . 9 9 . 1 16 . 2 10 . 1
GRS-SVWN 6 . 1 16 . 3 5 . 9 14 . 2 2 . 9 7 . 1 12 . 9 15 . 6 12 . 4
LRS-oPBE 3 . 5 5 . 8 8 . 7 3 . 9 4 . 8 6 . 7 6 . 3 10 . 4 7 . 2
LRS-sPBE 3 . 1 5 . 1 7 . 4 4 . 3 1 . 7 4 . 8 7 . 2 12 . 1 7 . 8
LRS-SVWN 3 . 1 9 . 7 4 . 6 6 . 8 1 . 4 5 . 6 8 . 3 11 . 3 8 . 1
PBE 9 . 8 3 . 0 6 . 6 3 . 9 2 . 0 12 . 2 12 . 6 9 . 2 8 . 8
PBE0 4 . 6 2 . 2 8 . 7 5 . 3 2 . 6 11 . 2 4 . 8 9 . 2 6 . 5
T able 4.4 MAEs of r e action ener gies subsets from the test set GMTKN30 and
their w eigh ted mean in kcal / mol.
F unctional
AL2X
ALK6
BH76R C
BSR36
D ARC
DC9
G2R C
ISO34
ISOL22
NBPR C
O3ADD6
RES43
wMAE
GRS-oPBE 9 . 0 3 . 9 2 . 9 9 . 6 13 . 0 13 . 6 5 . 8 2 . 2 7 . 7 5 . 1 4 . 5 2 . 8 6 . 7
GRS-sPBE 1 . 4 1 . 3 3 . 3 3 . 2 16 . 4 16 . 5 10 . 9 3 . 2 7 . 4 5 . 2 9 . 3 0 . 9 5 . 5
GRS-SVWN 7 . 1 8 . 9 3 . 9 8 . 1 2 . 7 12 . 9 7 . 1 1 . 9 5 . 2 4 . 0 9 . 1 0 . 9 5 . 1
LRS-oPBE 6 . 7 3 . 4 2 . 4 10 . 7 8 . 8 13 . 0 4 . 8 1 . 9 6 . 2 3 . 7 1 . 6 2 . 7 6 . 0
LRS-sPBE 0 . 9 1 . 2 2 . 9 3 . 2 12 . 0 13 . 5 8 . 5 2 . 8 5 . 9 3 . 8 6 . 8 1 . 2 4 . 5
LRS-SVWN 9 . 1 10 . 5 3 . 1 7 . 5 8 . 0 11 . 0 3 . 0 1 . 5 5 . 4 4 . 8 3 . 9 1 . 6 5 . 1
PBE 4 . 0 2 . 3 4 . 2 6 . 6 6 . 0 10 . 3 7 . 4 2 . 0 6 . 8 2 . 6 4 . 4 3 . 7 5 . 1
PBE0 2 . 6 1 . 6 2 . 9 7 . 1 3 . 2 9 . 6 7 . 0 1 . 9 4 . 2 2 . 5 4 . 8 2 . 1 4 . 3
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T able 4.5 W eigh ted MAEs for subsets of categories b asic pr op erties (BP) and
r e action ener gies (RE) from the test set GMTKN30, and w eigh ted
mean in kcal / mol.
F unctional BP RE BP+RE
GRS-oPBE 8 . 4 6 . 7 7 . 6
GRS-sPBE 10 . 1 5 . 5 8 . 0
GRS-SVWN 12 . 4 5 . 1 9 . 1
LRS-oPBE 7 . 2 6 . 0 6 . 7
LRS-sPBE 7 . 8 4 . 5 6 . 3
LRS-SVWN 8 . 1 5 . 1 6 . 8
PBE 8 . 8 5 . 1 7 . 2
PBE0 6 . 5 4 . 3 5 . 5
b et w een global and lo cal RSHs and the differen t SR exc hange functionals, PBE 60,61
and PBE0 62,63 v alues are sho wn as a reference for standard GGA and GH func-
tionals. The widely used GH B3L YP ga v e generally w orse or similar results than
PBE0 in our tests.
The wMAEs confirm that the LRSH functionals are on a v erage sup erior to their
global coun terparts. In terestingly , the GRSH scheme with oPBE do es not impro v e
up on the paren t GGA functional. But LRS-oPBE is significan tly b etter than PBE
for b asic pr op erties and slightly w orse for r e action ener gies . When comparing global
and lo cal RSHs with the same SR exc hange energy densit y functional, the impro v e-
men t is most notable with LDA exc hange and correlation. PBE0 has the lo w est
a v erage wMAE in b oth categories, and in total (5 . 5 kcal / mol). F or the com bined
subsets, LRSH functionals p erform b est after that (6 . 3 kcal / mol to 6 . 8 kcal / mol).
The functionals with global RS parameters exhibit the highest wMAEs (up to
9 . 1 kcal / mol for GRS-SVWN), and PBE giv es an wMAE b et w een those t w o groups
(7 . 2 kcal / mol). F or r e action ener gies the LRSHs are esp ecially effectiv e with an
wMAE of 4 . 5 kcal / mol for LRS-sPBE close to that of PBE0 (4 . 3 kcal / mol). The
largest wMAE among the listed functionals b elongs to GRS-oPBE (6 . 7 kcal / mol).
PBE (5 . 1 kcal / mol) is comparable with the GRS-SVWN results. F or b asic pr op er-
ties oPBE exc hange seems more suitable than sPBE in an RSH scheme. With a
sligh tly higher wMAE of 7 . 2 kcal / mol than PBE0 (6 . 5 kcal / mol) LRS-oPBE p er-
forms second b est, follo w ed b y LRS-sPBE with 7 . 8 kcal / mol. In this category ,
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GRS-SVWN exhibits the highest wMAE (12 . 4 kcal / mol), follo w ed b y GRS-sPBE
with 10 . 4 kcal / mol and PBE with 8 . 8 kcal / mol.
The sligh tly w orse p erformance of RS functionals for b asic pr op erties as com-
pared to r e action ener gies is primarily due to the subset MB08-165 (decomp osition
energies of artificial molecules). Therein the MAEs range from 16 . 2 kcal / mol with
GRS-sPBE do wn to 10 . 4 kcal / mol with LRS-oPBE, whic h is still higher than PBE0
and PBE (b oth 9 . 2 kcal / mol). Nev ertheless, the go o d p erformance of LRS-sPBE is
additionally supp orted b y the fact that it yields the lo w est error for fiv e of the 20
subsets (AL2X, ALK6, BH76, BSR36, SIE11) and nev er the largest. While LRS-
SVWN also p erforms b est for fiv e subsets (BH76, G21EA, G2R C, ISO34, P A), it
yields the largest MAEs for t w o others (AL2X, ALK6). Six smallest MAEs are ac-
complished b y PBE0 (BHPERI, DC9, ISOL22, NBPR C, W4-08, MB08-165), t w o
eac h b y GRS-SVWN (D AR C, RSE43), GRS-SVWN (D AR C, RSE43), and LRS-
oPBE (BH76R C, O3ADD6). One should k eep in mind that in some cases the next
b est v alues are v ery close, so the total p erformance of a functional ma y b e go o d
despite a lo w n um b er of p eak p erformances. The size and w eights of the subsets
also v ary as seen in the o v erall wMAE p erformance discussed b efore.
It is notable that the GRSH functionals are sometimes b etter than their lo-
cal siblings. Within our GMTKN30 results this o ccurs six times with SVWN
(AL2X, ALK6, D AR C, ISOL22, NBPR C, RSE43), three times with oPBE (BSR36,
G21EA, P A), and t w o times with sPBE (G21EA, RSE43). This might b e due to
an o v ertraining effect of the four-parameter LRSHs to the quite small AE6/11
and HTBH6 test sets compared to the more rigid one-parameter GRSH. The out-
standing p erformance of PBE0 is probably caused b y the fixed 25 % XX admixture,
whic h is also done for some GRSH functionals at SR and should b e considered for
our LRSH functionals in future in v estigations.
4.3.4 AECE
A dditionally to the Grimme test set, w e assessed the LRSH functionals for the
AECE database 23 b y T ruhlar. It w as assembled as a small, represen tativ e set with
relev ance to catalysis and is th us of in terest for new functionals that are b y design
more flexible and should co v er a broad range of prop erties. W e ha v e omitted t w o
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T able 4.6 MAEs for the test set AECE (without transition metals) in kcal / mol.
F unctional ABDE4 AE6/11 HA TBH6 HTBH6 NSBH6 UABH6 Mean
GRS-oPBE 11 . 0 8 . 7 7 . 3 4 . 8 3 . 2 1 . 8 6 . 1
GRS-sPBE 1 . 7 6 . 1 4 . 3 1 . 7 5 . 4 3 . 0 3 . 7
GRS-SVWN 5 . 9 10 . 5 7 . 1 3 . 0 7 . 0 4 . 1 6 . 3
LRS-oPBE 9 . 1 5 . 1 4 . 4 3 . 9 1 . 0 1 . 6 4 . 2
LRS-sPBE 2 . 3 5 . 2 3 . 0 1 . 4 4 . 0 2 . 5 3 . 1
LRS-SVWN 7 . 5 5 . 5 1 . 9 1 . 9 3 . 4 2 . 4 3 . 8
PBE 3 . 9 15 . 1 13 . 7 9 . 3 7 . 0 2 . 9 8 . 7
PBE0 4 . 9 5 . 9 5 . 9 4 . 6 2 . 1 1 . 9 4 . 2
subsets con taining transition metal comp ounds, due to the curren t restriction of
our implemen tation up to f -functions (see Section 4.2). The results for the subsets
are sho wn in T able 4.6. Among the functionals tested in the original pap er, the
GRSH functional ω B97X-D 37 (MAE of 1 . 9 kcal / mol for our selection) w as one of
the b est along with the mGGA GH M06 56 (2 . 3 kcal / mol).
The LRSH functionals yield o v erall b etter results than the corresp onding GRSH
ones. One exception are the alkyl b ond disso ciation energies (ABDE4), where
the MAEs are sligh tly smaller with the GRSH v ersions of sPBE and SVWN.
F or these systems w e also observ e a significan t difference b et w een the t w o PBE
fla v ors. Also confirming our findings for the GMTKN30 subsets, all optimized RSH
functionals yield b etter results for barriers than for b ond energies. Again, this
ma y originate from the c hoice of training set. A ccording to the MAEs (T able 4.6)
it fa v ors a b etter description of barriers. Inv estigating larger training sets will
p ossibly resolv e this issue. Note that neither PBE nor its v ariations RPBE 66 or
revPBE, 65 whic h are p opular in catalysis, p erform v ery w ell for this data base. 23
Here PBE0 giv es also medio cre results, except for NSBH6 and UABH6. A differen t
exc hange functional at SR, e.g. based on the B97 sc heme, 42,43 should th us b e
considered in the future to add more flexibilit y to our functional form. LRS-sPBE
p erforms b est on a v erage with a total MAE of 3 . 1 kcal / mol, underlining the go o d
p erformance for the GMTKN30 subsets. W e also observ e a significant impro vemen t
with global and lo cal RSHs based on oPBE (6 . 1 kcal / mol and 4 . 2 kcal / mol) o v er
the paren t GGA (8 . 7 kcal / mol). W e should k eep in mind, how ev er, that t w o of the
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six test sets (AE6/11 and HTBH6) are exactly the training sets of our RSF s.
4.3.5 K o opmans’ Theo rem (IP)
F or molecular prop erties, the LRSH sc heme is clearly sup erior to the asso ciated
GRSHs. W e further in v estigate its p oten tial to replace optimal tuning of GRSHs to
sp ecific systems. While this pro cedure is particularly successful for the calculation
of quasiparticle sp ectra, the optimized parameters dep end hea vily on the system.
This w as sho wn for a selection of nine molecules, 172 where the optimal v alue of the
RS parameter v aries b et w een 0 . 25 for the largest molecule (an thracene) and 0 . 73
for the smallest (F 2 ). W e ev aluate the IP condition
ϵ HOMO = − IP = E ( N ) − E ( N − 1) (4.3.1)
with our previously optimized GRSH and LRSH functionals for the same set of
molecules and t w o aromatic hetero cycles (p yridine, p yrimidine), whic h w ere also
studied in the con text of photo electron sp ectra 173 with OT-RSH functionals. The
deviations b et w een the HOMO energies and the v ertical IPs from Δ SCF calcula-
tions
∆ IP = ϵ HOMO − [ E ( N ) − E ( N − 1)] (4.3.2)
for all elev en molecules are giv en in T able 4.7.
As exp ected for GGAs, the HOMO energies are consisten tly to o high (i.e. not
negativ e enough) for PBE. In tro ducing 25 % XX in PBE0 reduces the error for all
molecules in this test set. The functionals with global and lo cal RSHs are distinctly
b etter than PBE0 and PBE. The smallest MAEs are obtained with GRS-sPBE
(0 . 5 eV), LRS-sPBE (0 . 4 eV), and LRS-SVWN (0 . 3 eV). On a v erage the functionals
with LRSH p erform b etter than their GRSH coun terparts: with SVWN and oPBE
the MAE is reduced significan tly from 1 . 9 eV and 0 . 8 eV to 1 . 2 eV and 0 . 4 eV,
resp ectiv ely . LRS-sPBE impro v es up on the global sc heme by merely 0 . 1 eV, whic h
is similar to the v alues observ ed for the GMTKN30 subsets.
A general trend for sPBE (with t w o exceptions) and SVWN is a shift of the de-
viations to more p ositiv e v alues with LRSHs. GRS-sPBE and GRS-SVWN feature
solely (except for F 2 with the former) negativ e deviations (i.e. the HOMO energy
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4.3 Assessmen t
T able 4.7 Deviation from the IP condition, Eq. (4.3.2), for sev eral molecules and
functionals.
GRS LRS
oPBE sPBE SVWN oPBE sPBE SVWN PBE PBE0
CH2O 2 . 2 − 0 . 5 − 0 . 9 1 . 4 − 0 . 1 0 . 1 4 . 5 3 . 2
F2 3 . 9 0 . 2 − 0 . 4 1 . 5 0 . 6 0 . 3 6 . 0 4 . 3
H2O 3 . 2 − 0 . 2 − 0 . 7 2 . 2 0 . 3 1 . 0 5 . 8 3 . 9
HCOOH 2 . 1 − 0 . 7 − 1 . 2 1 . 1 − 0 . 4 0 . 0 4 . 4 3 . 0
N2 2 . 9 − 0 . 2 − 0 . 7 1 . 9 0 . 2 0 . 3 5 . 2 4 . 0
NH3 3 . 3 − 0 . 5 − 0 . 8 2 . 0 0 . 0 0 . 6 4 . 9 3 . 4
an thracene 0 . 3 − 0 . 7 − 0 . 9 0 . 2 − 0 . 8 − 0 . 5 2 . 0 1 . 7
naph talene 0 . 8 − 0 . 8 − 0 . 9 0 . 8 − 0 . 7 − 0 . 1 2 . 9 1 . 9
b enzene − 0 . 4 − 0 . 7 − 0 . 9 0 . 4 − 0 . 7 − 0 . 4 2 . 4 1 . 9
p yrimidine 1 . 1 − 0 . 7 − 0 . 7 0 . 6 − 0 . 3 0 . 0 3 . 3 2 . 1
p yridine 1 . 2 − 0 . 8 − 0 . 8 0 . 8 − 0 . 5 − 0 . 1 3 . 4 2 . 0
MAE 1 . 9 0 . 5 0 . 8 1 . 2 0 . 4 0 . 3 4 . 1 2 . 9
is more negativ e than the total energy difference), while their lo cal v ersions feature
mixed signs. In con trast, GRS-oPBE already has quite large p ositiv e v alues (esp.
for the small molecules), whic h are shifted do wn in the lo cal v arian t.
Concerning K o opmans’ theorem the RS and esp ecially the lo cal v arian t with
sPBE giv e quite go o d results, while its scaled sibling oPBE falls b ehind consider-
ably . Both PBE and PBE0 are at a disadv an tage, confirming the need for LR XX
for a b etter description of fron tier orbital energies.
4.3.6 Outer-V alence Electron Sp ectra
Our self-consisten t implemen tation of LRSH functionals allo ws the calculation of
electronic eigen v alues that are frequen tly used to sim ulate or complemen t exp er-
imen tal photo electron sp ectra. OT-RSHs in particular ha v e b een sho wn to yield
outer-v alence sp ectra of represen tativ e organic molecules with an accuracy com-
parable to G 0 W 0 results. 173,174 The tuning pro cedure of the RS parameter can b e
am biguous concerning the definition of the target function (band gap, pure IP-
tuning or K o opmans’ condition for the anion, neutral and cationic) as w ell as the
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c hoice of optimal parameters for op en-shell sp ecies. 175 It has further b een p oin ted
out that the lo w er v alence sp ectra are not necessarily w ell represen ted since the op-
timization pro cedure fa v ors the HOMO and similar orbitals while retaining larger
SIEs for the other orbitals. 113
F ollo wing the approac h used with OT-RSHs, w e appro ximated the outer-v alence
electron sp ectra b y applying Gaussian broadening to the calculated eigen v alues of
o ccupied orbitals. 173 Since LRS-sPBE w as so far the b est functional, its resulting
sp ectra for b enzene, p yridine and p yrimidine are sho wn in Fig. 4.2 in comparison
to the sp ectra with GRS-sPBE, the oPBE-based OT-RSH (OT-oPBE) and PBE0.
The sp ectra are not shifted. W e c hec k ed that OT-oPBE indeed fulfills the target
condition ∆ IP = 0 173 for the reference parameters (see Section 4.3.2), and that the
sp ectra resem ble those from [ 173], where they w ere sho wn to b e close to G 0 W 0 and
exp erimen tal ones. W e giv e them here as a guidance, considering that OT-RSH
functionals are curren tly the b est a v ailable option to calculate electronic sp ectra
in the KS framew ork.
F or all three systems, the LRS-sPBE sp ectra recreate the OT-oPBE shap e quite
faithfully but they are shifted do wn to more negative energies (ca. 1 . 0 eV for b en-
zene, 0 . 5 for p yrimidine). The resemblance decreases with the in tro duction of more
nitrogen atoms, whic h can b e seen most prominen tly for pyrimidine in the merging
of the t w o p eaks around − 11 eV and the increased gap at − 17 eV. With GRS-sPBE
the differences are more pronounced, starting with a further do wnshift in all sys-
tems (from 1 . 5 to 1 eV). F or p yridine the p eaks around − 11 eV app ear to switc h
places and the t w o p eaks in p yrimidine merge to one. In fact, the order of the
t w o HOMOs ( 11 A 1 and 1 A 2 ) in p yridine c hanges for b oth lo cal and global sPBE
in comparison with OT-oPBE. The sp ectrum at PBE0 lev el sho ws significan tly
less resem blance and is shifted to higher energies b y ab out 2 eV to 3 eV but non-
consisten tly as can b e seen for the p eaks around − 12 and − 9 eV (cf. OT-oPBE at
− 17 eV and − 11 eV).
Giv en the simple form of our LRSH functional, the o v erall agreemen t with the
sp ectra obtained from RSH functionals that are sp ecifically tuned to the systems
is remarkable, ev en more so considering that our parameters were optimized for
total energies rather than orbital energies. Apart from more sophisticated RSF s
and SR exc hange functionals, improv ed eigen v alue sp ectra ma y b e obtained b y
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4.3 Assessmen t
OT-oPBE LRS-sPBE GRS-sPBE
-18.0 -16.0 -14.0 -12.0 -10.0 -8.0
PBE0

OT-oPBE LRS-sPBE GRS-sPBE
-18.0 -16.0 -14.0 -12.0 -10.0 -8.0
PBE0

OT-oPBE LRS-sPBE GRS-sPBE
-18.0 -16.0 -14.0 -12.0 -10.0 -8.0
PBE0

Figure 4.2 Calculated outer-v alence electron sp ectra for b enzene (top), p yri-
dine (middle), and p yrimidine (b ottom) with Gaussian broadening
(FWHM = 1 . 0 eV for b enzene and 0 . 5 eV otherwise). Energy in eV.
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adding a fixed constan t p ercen tage of XX at SR, as inferred for the GMTKN30
tests.
4.4 Conclusions and Outlo ok
As an alternativ e to GH functionals with globally fixed admixture of XX, GRSH
functionals partition the Coulom b in teraction in SR and LR, mo difying the ex-
c hange functional in either or b oth ranges b y inclusion of XX. The ansatz of LH
functionals w as transferred to GRSHs b y replacing the constan t parameter with the
RSF ω for t w o functionals, the LD A exc hange (Slater) and the PBE v arian t (GGA)
b y T oulouse, Colonna, and Sa vin 167 denoted sPBE, whic h can b e made equal to
the original PBE b y adding a prefactor for the limit ω → 0 (oPBE). These RSH
exc hange functionals are com bined with unadjusted correlation functionals VWN
and the original PBE, resp ectiv ely . Our self-consisten t implemen tation emplo ys a
semi-n umerical in tegration sc heme based on Bo ys functions, limited up to f -shells
at this time. T o mitigate n umerical inaccuracies in b oth semi-lo cal functionals
they are appro ximated for small and large input v alues b y truncated series and a
minimax algorithm.
W e prop osed a generic RSF with a constan t parameter as w ell as a scaled dep en-
dence on the densit y , its gradien t, and the KS kinetic energy densit y , and optimized
it globally for t w o small test sets of atomization energies and barrier heigh ts, sep-
arately for the three functionals (LRSH) and their global v ersions (GRSH). The
resulting functionals w ere assessed for reaction barriers and relativ e energies in a
selection of sub test sets from GMTKN30 29 and AECE, 23 for K o opmans’ theorem
in a set of main-group molecules 172 as w ell as t w o hetero cyclic, aromatic systems. 173
F or the latter w e also compared outer electron sp ectra (from orbital energies with
Gaussian broadening) to repro duce OT-RSH results.
Despite the small training set and the (esp ecially for sPBE) unadjusted correla-
tion functional, the LRSH functionals fare quite w ell in comparison with the GGA
PBE or the GH PBE0, although the latter w as clearly more suited for GMTKN30
(less so for AECE). They also giv e similar orbital energies as sho wn for the outer
v alence electron sp ectra against a recreated OT-RSH for PBE (OT-oPBE), with-
out the need to adjust the prefactor for eac h system.
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4.A App endix
F urther dev elopmen t should include the extension to higher shells, e.g. b y adap-
tation of the Gauss-R ys/Gauss-Hermite implemen tation or the Obara-Saika algo-
rithm. 163 The recen t implemen tation of kno wn GRSH functionals in to T urb omole
could help in this, b y impro ving efficiency and the addition of more LRSH-based
exc hange and correlation functionals (e.g. using B97 42,43 ). In tegral screening tec h-
niques lik e S- and P-junctions should b e considered as w ell. Moreov er, larger train-
ing sets ma y yield more generally applicable v arian ts of the already implemen ted
LRSH functionals and giv e insigh t in to the influence of the distinct parts of the
functional on v arious prop erties. This should lead to more sophisticated RSF s. The
restriction to XX only at LR could b e easily mitigated in a first step b y mixing
in a constan t XX fraction to the SR functional part as w as done for some GRSH
functionals and is inspired b y the go o d p erformance of PBE0 for the GMTKN30
subsets. This can later b e complemen ted b y an RSF-dep endent con tribution of its
o wn, resulting in a three-fold partitioning. Lastly , the com bination of LRSHs with
LHs should b e considered as w ell.
4.A App endix
4.A.1 App ro ximations fo r LRSH F unctionals
T o circum v en t the n umerical instabilities of LRSH enhancemen t factors and their
deriv ativ es, appro ximations for differen t ranges of the argumen t w ere necessary
(see Section 4.2.3). W e used Maclaurin series (Eq. (4.2.13)) for the LDA factor
F LD A
X and its deriv ativ e (Eqs. ( 4.1.17) and (4.1.22)) with small, i.e. near-zero, ar-
gumen ts ( lower limit). Their co efficien ts are giv en in T able 4.A.1 as l (0)
n and l (1)
n . F or
large argumen ts ( upp er limit), the exp onen tial and error functions w ere appro xi-
mated b y suc h series instead, and inserted in to the original equations. This yielded
p olynomial equations with co efficien ts giv en as u (0)
− 2 n and u (1)
− 2 n − 1 in T able 4.A.1.
The same principle w as applied to the function b ( λ ) (Eq. ( 4.1.20a)) and its
deriv ativ e (Eq. ( 4.1.28a)) for the PBE-based SR exc hange functional. The co effi-
cien ts for small arguments are giv en as l (0)
n and l (1)
n in T able 4.A.2.
F or large argumen ts of b itself, inserting the Maclaurin series of exp and erf
yielded the quotien t of tw o ev en p olynomials u (0) / v (0) . Their co efficien ts are giv en
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T able 4.A.1 Co efficien ts for appro ximated F LD A
X and its deriv ativ e, with
∑ n c n x n , based on Maclaurin series up to degree n = 9 for near-
zero (lo w er) and large (upp er) argumen ts.
n 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
l (0)
n 1 − 4 √ π
3 2 0 − 2
3 0 0 0 0 0
u (0)
− 2 n 0 1
9 − 1
60
1
420 − 1
3240
1
27720 − 1
262080
1
2721600 − 1
4626720
1
2585520
l (1)
n − 4 √ π
3 4 0 − 8
3 0 0 0 0 0 0
u (1)
− 2 n − 1 0 − 2
9
1
15 − 1
70
1
405 − 1
2772
1
21840 − 1
194400
1
4626720 − 1
2585520
T able 4.A.2 Co efficien ts for appro ximated b from F PBE
X and its deriv ativ e, with
∑ n l n x n , based on Maclaurin series up to degree n = 6 and n = 5 ,
resp ectiv ely , with near-zero argumen ts.
n l (0)
n l (1)
n
0 7
81
56 √ π
243
1 28 √ π
243
16( − 18+17 π )
729
2 16( − 18+7 π )
729
8( − 207+56 π ) √ π
729
3 8( − 207+56 π ) √ π
2187
8 ( 2781 − 4320 π +896 π 2 )
6561
4 2 ( 2781 − 4320 π +896 π 2 )
6561
320 ( 837 − 666 π +112 π 2 ) √ π
19683
5 64(837 − 666 π +112 π ) √ π
19683
8 ( 28917+93960 π − 50688 π 2 +7168 π 3 )
19683
6 4 ( − 28917+93960 π − 50688 π 2 +7168 π 3 )
59049
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T able 4.A.3 Co efficien ts for appro ximated b from F PBE
X , with ∑ n u n x n / ∑ n v n x n ,
based on Maclaurin series for exp and erf up to degree n = 22 , with
large argumen ts. The deriv ativ es are used via the quotien t rule, see
Eq. ( 4.A.1).
n u (0)
n v (0)
n u (1)
n − 1 v (1)
n − 1
0 63
2 56 112
4 1931 7724
6 2604 15624
8 24738 197904
10 2695 43953 26950 439530
12 11935 126945 143220 1523340
14 64680 435330 905520 6094620
16 274890 1926540 4398240 30824640
18 808500 6486480 14553000 116756640
20 970200 14844060 19404000 296881200
22 17463600 384199200
in T able 4.A.3 as u (0)
n and v (0)
n . The deriv ativ e w as tak en directly from this appro x-
imation via the quotien t rule
∂ b
∂ λ ≈ u (1) − bv (1)
v (0) . (4.A.1)
Th us, the co efficien ts of these o dd p olynomials u (1) and v (1) are closely related to
the former ones and also giv en in T able 4.A.3
The deriv ativ e of b required an additional appro ximation around λ ≈ 0 . 07 . F or
this w e applied a minimax appro ximation 169 within 0 . 085 ≤ λ ≤ 0 . 6 , whic h yielded
the quotien t of t w o p olynomials, ∑ n p n λ n / ∑ n q n λ n , whose co efficients p n and q n
are listed in T able 4.A.4.
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T able 4.A.4 Co efficien ts for appro ximated deriv ativ e of b from F PBE
X , with
∑ n p n λ n / ∑ n q n λ n , using a minimax algorithm within 0 . 085 ≤ λ ≤
0 . 6 .
n p n q n
0 +0 . 20423336553555649 +1 . 0
1 − 0 . 41492105854350596 − 2 . 8894177391350542
2 − 0 . 35605859294397825 +3 . 6943201135864023
3 − 0 . 34138199734535602 − 1 . 7635611733984347
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The aim of this thesis w as the adv ancemen t of mo dern KS-DFT metho ds b y im-
plemen ting no v el approac hes for more flexible h ybrid functionals in to the quan tum
c hemical program pac kage T urb omole, and b y ev aluating these implementations
in n umerical computations.
One of the mo dern ansatzes is LH functionals 69 (Section 2.2.2), whic h use a
p osition-dep enden t LMF to determine the amount of XX com bined with appro x-
imate SL exc hange in order to mitigate the SIE, whereas widely-used GHs apply
a constan t fraction ev erywhere and are based on theoretical or empirical consid-
erations for the c hoice of that v alue. Building on prior efficien t implemen tations
of SCF 83 and linear-resp onse TDDFT, 84 the up-to-no w missing energy deriv ativ es
w.r.t. n uclear displacement, i.e. lo cal h ybrid gradien ts, 1 w ere deriv ed and imple-
men ted (Sections 3.1 and 3.2) using a semi-numerical Gauss-R ys/Gauss-Hermite
quadrature sc heme. Those gradien ts enable structure optimizations as w ell as the
(n umerical) calculation of vibrational frequencies but require additionally the ma-
trices A ′ , i.e. the (Cartesian) deriv ativ es of the repulsion in tegral A for XX. The
quadrature sc heme w as adapted to reuse in termediate in tegrals so that all neces-
sary matrix elemen ts are calculated together, for the cost of calling the in tegral
subroutines with an increased quan tum n um b er and more quadrature ro ots. This
sc heme w as complemen ted b y the addition of the S-junction and P-junction pre-
screenings 83 in order to skip the time-consuming ev aluation of some of the XX
repulsion in tegrals. The former relies on the diffuseness of basis functions and
their relativ e distances, 122 the latter on the pro duct of the densit y matrix and
basis functions.
Both screenings w ere ev aluated for linear alkanes and the three-dimensional
adaman tane to determine their effectiv eness for differen t thresholds (Section 3.3).
The sa vings for S-junctions are less pronounced (up to 7 %) for the insp ected c hain
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lengths compared to those for P-junctions (up to ab out 40 %) for a threshold of
10 − 5 . This setting leads to absolute deviations up to ca. 10 − 7 relativ e to the results
without junctions. F or the structure optimization of adamantane this threshold w as
optimal, yielding 28 % less computing time and a merely 10 − 2 kJ / mol deviation in
total energy . While the prefactor for the new implemen tation is higher in compari-
son with the mGGA GH TPSSh, the scaling is more fa v orable with increasing basis
set size b ecause of our semi-n umeric sc heme. In terms of accuracy , the LHGs w ere
ab out en par with GHs as tested for in teratomic distances on the test sets of main
group and 3 d transition metal molecules, and sligh tly w orse for frequency calcula-
tions on small main group molecules. In b oth cases w e used Slater exc hange and
VWN correlation in conjunction with LMF s dep ending on either the reduced KS
kinetic energy densit y (t-LMF) or the reduced electron densit y gradien t (s-LMF),
with a prefactor optimized for a small set of AEs and BHs.
Moreo v er, the gradien t implemen tation w as used to optimize the structure and
calculate the vibrational frequencies of ten small, gas phase MV o xo systems con-
taining either main group or transition metal cen ters (Section 3.4). 2 The goal was
to find functionals that can distinguish b et w een differen t Robin/Da y MV classes 144
sim ultaneously , whic h can b e difficult since it requires v arying amoun ts of XX in
differen t systems for the description of lo calization/delo calization. As reference w e
used high-lev el coupled cluster b enc hmark data and exp erimen tal sp ectroscopic
results. The t-LMF with SVWN and a prefactor of b = 0 . 670 w as one of the b est-
p erforming in this study , along with the highly parametrized MN15 and the GRSH
functional ω B97X-D. Y et none of the tested functionals accomplished the correct
description in all test cases.
F or a b etter description, more sophisticated ingredien ts of the LMF ma y b e
necessary , e.g. the Laplacian or the Hessian of the density (Section 3.5). Suc h
additions w ould require further dev elopmen t of the accompanying gradien t sub-
routines, while for ingredien ts already in use (densit y , its gradien t, kinetic energy
densit y) an y new functional implemen tation can apply the gradien t as is. The
a v ailable co de can also b e built up on for further implemen tations lik e LHGs for
excited states. The extension to deriv ativ es of second order w.r.t. n uclear displace-
men t (Hessian) do es not seem w orth while at this time b ecause of the ev en larger
demands on memory and pro cessing for the new matrices from the second deriv a-
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tiv es of A . A sp eedup of the curren t gradien t algorithm could b e a first step in
that direction. One p ossible a v en ue to this is the adaptation of the Bo ys function
quadrature sc heme for lo w quan tum n um b ers as emplo yed for the SCF calculation,
although this implies a significan t rewrite of existing routines (full A ′ vs. half A ).
The Obara-Saika sc heme 163 ma y pro vide an efficien t alternativ e and reduce co de
rep etition b ecause of its use of recurrence relations. Because of the in tegration
grid, parallelization should b e straigh tforw ard and decrease the effectiv e run time
appreciably (while pro cessing time increases due to m ultiple pro cessors).
As a comp eting ansatz to GH and LH functionals, the GRSH functionals split
the Coulom b op erator in to LR and SR parts (most often) via an error function
and ma y mix in XX in either or b oth regions (Section 2.2.2). In analogy to the
LH approac h, the RS parameter can b e replaced b y a p osition-dep enden t RSF ω .
Preliminary in v estigations w ere promising 101 but had b een abandoned afterw ards.
As detailed in Section 4.1 w e deriv ed the necessary equations for the self-consisten t
implemen tation of LRSH functionals. The energy expression and KS matrix con-
tributions for LRSH functionals w ere subsequently implemen ted in to T urb omole.
F or the XX in tegrals, a sc heme with Bo ys functions up to f -shells w as adapted.
As SR exc hange, w e used LD A 105 and a v arian t of the GGA exc hange functionals
PBE 167 (sPBE). Numerical instabilities ha v e to b e considered for small and large
v alues of the RSF. W e circum v en ted them b y series expansions for small and large
argumen ts, and a minimax appro ximation for an in termediate in terv al.
The applied RSF dep ends on the electron densit y , its reduced gradien t and
the reduced kinetic energy densit y , including four scaling parameters. They w ere
optimized for LD A, sPBE, and oPBE (a mo dified sPBE, whic h reduces to the orig-
inal PBE 60,61 for ω → 0 ) separately for global (GRSH, one parameter) and lo cal
(LRSH, four parameters) test functionals on t w o small sets of AEs and BHs. They
w ere then assessed (Section 4.3) in a selection of sub test sets of GMTKN30 29 and
AECE 23 con taining AEs and BHs, where esp ecially LRS-sPBE ga v e go o d results
on a v erage (w eigh ted MAE of 3 . 1 kcal / mol for GMTKN30 without non-c ovalent
inter actions ). W e further tested ho w well the six functionals fulfill K o opmans’ IP
theorem for some small molecules and aromatic systems. Despite their optimiza-
tion against AEs and BHs, the functionals with sPBE and SVWN yielded go o d
results with sligh t impro v emen t for the LRSH v arian t (MAEs 0 . 4 eV and 0 . 3 eV,
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5 Conclusions and Outlo ok
resp ectiv ely). The rescaled oPBE fared w orse (1 . 2 eV), and b oth PBE and PBE0
are at a disadv an tage for this prop ert y (4 . 1 eV and 3 . 0 eV, resp ectiv ely). Finally ,
w e tested the global and lo cal v ersion of our so far b est-p erforming sPBE for the
outer electron sp ectra of three aromatic systems (b enzene, p yridine, p yrimidine)
b y visual comparison of their orbital energies with Gaussian broadening. The ref-
erence w as a rebuilt OT-RSH, i.e. our GRS-oPBE with an adjusted RS constan t
for eac h system to fulfill Koopmans’ theorem for the first IP . The resem blance
for LRS-sPBE w as v ery go o d but sligh tly shifted tow ards lo w er energies, whic h
increased with eac h additional nitrogen atom. The corresp onding GRSH sho w ed
an ev en larger shift, while the GH PBE0 ga v e pronounced shifts to w ards more
p ositiv e energies and less resem blance for the p eaks.
Ov erall the results are quite promising (Section 4.4), esp ecially considering the
simple form of our RSF and the optimization on small, sp ecific test sets. F ur-
ther dev elopmen t should consider more sophisticated RSF s as w ell as RS-adapted
exc hange and correlation functionals (e.g. using B97 42,43 ). The latter ma y b e sim-
plified b y the recen t implemen tations of GRSH functionals into T urb omole. Larger
training sets should prev en t an o v ertraining to sp ecific systems and could rev eal
some relations b et w een the LRSH ingredien ts and system prop erties, leading to
impro v ed RSF s. Also, training sets for Koopmans’ theorem (i.e. for IPs and EA)
should b e tested, giv en that OT-RSH functionals are a often used for these prop-
erties. While the curren t implementation only pro vides XX at LR, this could b e
amended in a first step b y a constan t fraction of XX at SR (GH / LRSH) and later
b y an SR implemen tation of LRSH of its o wn. A com bination of LH and LRSH
functionals should b e considered as w ell.
Prior to those extensions, ho w ev er, it is essen tial to eliminate the curren t lim-
itations. T o enable the calculation of higher shells than f , one ma y adapt the
Gauss-R ys/Gauss-Hermite sc heme used for LHG also for the LRSH calculations
as giv en in Section 4.2. A subsequent (or alternativ e) step could b e the usage of the
Obara-Saika algorithm men tioned ab o v e, esp ecially if it is planned for the LHG im-
plemen tation as w ell. F or efficiency , S- and P-junctions should b e straigh tforw ard
to implemen t.
In conclusion, t w o mo dern DFT metho ds hav e b een adv anced b y deriv ation,
implemen tation, and assessmen t of gradien ts for LH functionals, and SCF energies
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for LRSH functionals. First results w ere promising, and the new capabilities due
to the gradien t w ere used in a b enc hmark test set for MV systems, rev ealing one
of the LH functionals to giv e comp elling results alb eit not succeeding p erfectly
for all systems. Still, a lot can b e done b y increasing efficiency and extending to
y et una v ailable functionalit y . This w ork represen ts a stepping stone for suc h an
endea v or.
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Ic h mö c h te mic h zu allererst b ei meinem Betreuer Martin K aupp b edank en.
Er hat mic h mit einem Thema b etraut, das meinen Programmierin ter-
essen en tgegenkam, und regelmäßig Optimism us v erbreitet. Eb enso dank e
ic h meiner Men torin Hilke Bahmann , die mic h in wissensc haftlic hen und
Implemen tierungsfragen un terstützt und immer wieder b eruhigt und mo-
tiviert hat, w enn etw as nic h t so lief wie erw artet.
Ic h dank e sp eziell meinen Bürok ollegen üb er die Zeit ( Casp ar Schat-
tenb er g , T oni Maier , A nja Gr eif , Mattias Haasler ; und de facto Mar c
R eimann ) für eine angenehme Arb eitsatmosphäre mit Witz, gegenseitiger
Hilfe und Gelegenheit zur K on templation. F ür die Un terstützung b ei Lehre
und/o der W orkshop-Plan ung sei Johannes Schr aut , Seb astian Gohr , Simon
Gückel , Matthias Haasler , A lexey A rbuznikov und vielen w eiteren gedankt.
Bei organisatorisc hen, bürokratisc hen und tec hnischen Problemen gebürt
der Dank Nadine R e chenb er g , Heidi Gr auel , Ulrike Nie derb er ger und Se-
b astian K r aus . A uc h allen anderen Mitgliedern der A rb eitsgrupp e K aupp
dank e ic h für das freundlic he Miteinander in Seminaren und W orkshops,
b ei Mensab esuc hen, Grupp enaktivitäten und Kuc hengelagen.
Nic h t zu v ergessen seien all die Menschen, die in mir die Lieb e zum
Brettspiel en tfac h t hab en und den resultierenden Spieldrang füllen
m ussten: Martin Enke , Johannes Schr aut , R ob ert Mül ler , K olja Theilacker ,
T oni Maier , Matthias Haasler , Casp ar Schattenb er g , K ristin Pazina , Mar c
R eimann . Dank e für all den Spaß!
Jenseits der Arb eitsgrupp e mö c h te ic h Clemens K anzler und Mirko Stein
für die moralisc he Un terstützung und die not w endige Zerstreuung dank en.
Sc hließlic h gilt b esonderer Dank meinen Eltern R uth und R o ger Klawohn ,
die es mir ermöglic h t hab en, mein Studium in R uhe durc hzuführen. Eb enso
wie mein Bruder Seb astian Klawohn und meine Großeltern R osemarie und
W aldemar Klawohn hab en sie die Geduld b ei meiner Promotion nic h t v er-
loren und mir das Gefühl gegeb en, immer sic here Häfen für den Notfall zu
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