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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 143, 期 24, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4937417
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0014437]
- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund [53674-DNI6]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0014437] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Density functional theory is often the method of choice for modeling the energetics of large molecules and including explicit solvation effects. It is preferable to use a method that treats systems of different sizes and with different amounts of explicit solvent on equal footing. However, recent work suggests that approximate density functional theory has a size-dependent error in the computation of the ionization potential. We here investigate the lack of size-intensivity of the ionization potential computed with approximate density functionals in vacuum and solution. We show that local and semi-local approximations to exchange do not yield a constant ionization potential for an increasing number of identical isolated molecules in vacuum. Instead, as the number of molecules increases, the total energy required to ionize the system decreases. Rather surprisingly, we find that this is still the case in solution, whether using a polarizable continuum model or with explicit solvent that breaks the degeneracy of each solute, and we find that explicit solvent in the calculation can exacerbate the size-dependent delocalization error. We demonstrate that increasing the amount of exact exchange changes the character of the polarization of the solvent molecules; for small amounts of exact exchange the solvent molecules contribute a fraction of their electron density to the ionized electron, but for larger amounts of exact exchange they properly polarize in response to the cationic solute. In vacuum and explicit solvent, the ionization potential can be made size-intensive by optimally tuning a long-range corrected hybrid functional. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
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