A fast doubly hybrid density functional method close to chemical accuracy using a local opposite spin ansatz

Igor Ying Zhang, Xin Xu, Yousung Jung, William A. Goddard

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Abstract

We develop and validate the XYGJ-OS functional, based on the adiabatic connection formalism and Görling-Levy perturbation theory to second order and using the opposite-spin (OS) ansatz combined with locality of electron correlation. XYGJ-OS with local implementation scales as N 3 with an overall accuracy of 1.28 kcal/mol for thermochemistry, bond dissociation energies, reaction barrier heights, and nonbonded interactions, comparable to that of 1.06 kcal/mol for the accurate coupled-cluster based G3 method (scales as N 7) and much better than many popular density functional theory methods: B3LYP (4.98), PBE0 (4.36), and PBE (12.10).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)19896-19900
Number of pages5
JournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume108
Issue number50
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Dec 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • ACM
  • DHDF
  • GGA
  • LDA
  • MAD

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