Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 130, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3077939
Keywords
atomic moments; density functional theory; polarisability; potential energy functions
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Through some simple derivations, it is shown that the nonexpanded dispersion interaction energy between two molecules can entirely be written in terms of the densities and the exchange-holes of the monomers. Thus the suspicion of Becke and Johnson [J. Chem. Phys. 122, 154104 (2005)] that the dispersion energy might be related to fluctuating dipoles produced by the electrons and their accompanying exchange-holes is confirmed. However, it will be shown that the current asymptotic result for the dispersion energy is different from the Becke-Johnson model. Some preliminary results for the polarizabilities and dispersion coefficients of a few atoms and small molecules demonstrate that the approach described in this work might be useful to estimate response properties and long-range correlation energies of molecular systems in general.
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