One-Body Energy Decomposition Schemes Revisited: Assessment of Mulliken-, Grid-, and Conventional Energy Density Analyses

摘要

We propose a new energy density analysis (EDA) that evaluates atomic contributions of all energy terms, i.e., the kinetic, nuclear-attraction, Coulomb, and Hartree-Fock (HF) exchange and density functional theory (DFT) exchange-correlation energies using the Muttiken-type partitioning. Although widely used DFT exchange-correlation functionals are nonlinear expressions in terms of density, they are decomposed into atomic contributions by focusing the linear part of the density. Numerical assessment on Mulliken-EDA, Grid-EDA, and conventional EDA has been carried out for the G2-1 set. Correlations between HF and DFT exchanges demonstrate that a consistent partitioning of all energy terms is essential for EDA. These numerical results confirm that the present Mulliken-EDA offers a more reasonable picture for the atomization process.