Describing van der Waals Interaction in diatomic molecules with generalized gradient approximations: The role of the exchange functional
- 15 November 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 107 (19), 7921-7925
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.475105
Abstract
Generalized gradient approximations have been used to calculate the potential energy curves for six rare gas diatomic molecules. Several generalized gradient approximations are found to provide a good description of binding in these diatomic molecules and show a significant improvement over the local density approximation in the prediction of bond lengths and dissociation energies. It is shown here that the behavior of an exchange functional in the region of small density and large density gradient plays a very important role in the ability of the functional to describe this type of van der Waals attraction.Keywords
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