期刊
CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 360, 期 1-3, 页码 132-136出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2009.04.016
关键词
Shannon information entropy; Correlation energy; Discrete probability distribution; Natural atomic orbital
A new method to determine electron correlation energy is presented for atoms and molecules. This method is based on Shannon information entropy that is obtained by fractional occupation probabilities of natural atomic orbitals. It is indicated that the Shannon entropy increases as the number of electrons increases and thus can be considered as a possible measure for the electron correlation in atomic and molecular systems. For neutral atoms and singly charged positive ions we proposed an expression for correlation energy with explicit dependence on the Shannon entropy and atomic number. The obtained correlation energies have been used to compute the first ionization potentials of the ground state of the main group elements from hydrogen through krypton. The calculated ionization potentials are in reasonably good agreement with their corresponding experimental values. We also developed the additivity scheme to find a connection between Shannon entropy and molecular correlation energy. The estimated molecular correlation energies show an excellent agreement with those obtained by elaborate G3 method with R-2 = 0.990. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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