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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 154, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0041008
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- DFG
- U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0019350, DE-SC0012575]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [DMR-1939528]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0019350] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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The new density functional approximation r(2)SCAN-D4 approaches the accuracy of hybrid functionals for general chemical applications while being as fast as generalized gradient approximations. It shows competitive errors of just 0.8% for main group molecules and outperforms hybrid functionals for transition metal complexes, with exceptional performance on chemical property databases.
We combine a regularized variant of the strongly constrained and appropriately normed semilocal density functional [J. Sun, A. Ruzsinszky, and J. P. Perdew, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036402 (2015)] with the latest generation semi-classical London dispersion correction. The resulting density functional approximation r(2)SCAN-D4 has the speed of generalized gradient approximations while approaching the accuracy of hybrid functionals for general chemical applications. We demonstrate its numerical robustness in real-life settings and benchmark molecular geometries, general main group and organo-metallic thermochemistry, and non-covalent interactions in supramolecular complexes and molecular crystals. Main group and transition metal bond lengths have errors of just 0.8%, which is competitive with hybrid functionals for main group molecules and outperforms them for transition metal complexes. The weighted mean absolute deviation (WTMAD2) on the large GMTKN55 database of chemical properties is exceptionally small at 7.5 kcal/mol. This also holds for metal organic reactions with an MAD of 3.3 kcal/mol. The versatile applicability to organic and metal-organic systems transfers to condensed systems, where lattice energies of molecular crystals are within the chemical accuracy (errors <1 kcal/mol).
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