Accurate Density Functional with Correct Formal Properties: A Step Beyond the Generalized Gradient Approximation
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We approximate the exchange-correlation energy of density functional theory as a controlled extrapolation from the slowly varying limit. While generalized gradient approximations (GGA’s) require only the local density and its first gradient as input, our meta-GGA also requires the orbital kinetic energy density. Its exchange energy component recovers the fourth-order gradient expansion, while its correlation energy is free of self-interaction error. Molecular atomization energies and metal surface energies are significantly improved over GGA, while lattice constants are little changed. [S0031-9007(99)08696-2]
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