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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 133, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3483464
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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We propose a method for imposing an important exact constraint on model Kohn-Sham potentials, namely, the requirement that they be functional derivatives of functionals of the electron density p. In particular, we show that if a model potential v(r) involves no ingredients other than rho, del rho, and del(2)rho, then the necessary and sufficient condition for v(r) to be a functional derivative is partial derivative v/partial derivative del rho=del(partial derivative v/partial derivative del(2)rho). Integrability conditions of this type can be used to construct functional derivatives without knowing their parent functionals. This opens up possibilities for developing model exchange-correlation potentials that do not lead to unphysical effects common to existing approximations. Application of the technique is illustrated with examples. (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3483464]
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