Hyperpolarizabilities of closed-shell atoms and ions in the local-density approximation.
Hyperpolarizabilities of closed-shell atoms and ions in the local-density approximation.
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局域密度近似中闭壳原子和离子的超极化率。
DOI:
10.1103/physreva.34.3619
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发表时间:
1986
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通讯作者:
Subbaswamy
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作者:
Senatore;Subbaswamy
The local-density approximation (LDA) of density-functional theory is applied to the computation of static hyperpolarizabilities of rare-gas atoms. It is found that simple LDA predicts cubic hyperpolarizabilities ..gamma.. that are too large by approximately a factor of 2. It is argued that the excessive deformability of the electronic clouds in atoms predicted by LDA is an artifact of the way this approximation treats the tail of the electronic distribution. One of the causes for the poor performance of LDA in the tail region of an atom is ascribed to the presence in such a scheme of interactions of the electrons with themselves. Therefore, a modification of the LDA is considered in which self-interactions are subtracted. When applied to He, the method yields both linear and cubic dipole polarizabilities in reasonable agreement with experiments. The modified scheme is also applied to heavier rare gases and to some negative ions (H/sup -/, F/sup -/, Cl/sup -/). Difficulties that are encountered in dealing with atoms (ions) with more than two electrons are overcome by limiting the self-interaction corrections to the unperturbed atom problem. A systematic reduction of the discrepancies between the calculated static hyperpolarizabilities and those inferred from recent finite frequency measurements ismore » found.« less