Accurate van der Waals coefficients from density functional theory

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The van der Waals interaction is a weak, long-range correlation, arising from quantum electronic charge fluctuations. This interaction affects many properties of materials. A simple and yet accurate estimate of this effect will facilitate computer simulation of complex molecular materials and drug design. Here we develop a fast approach for accurate evaluation of dynamic multipole polarizabilities and van der Waals (vdW) coefficients of all orders from the electron density and static multipole polarizabilities of each atom or other spherical object, without empirical fitting. Our dynamic polarizabilities (dipole, quadrupole, octupole, etc.) are exact in the zero- and high-frequency limits, and exact at all frequencies for a metallic sphere of uniform density. Our theory predicts dynamic multipole polarizabilities in excellent agreement with more expensive many-body methods, and yields therefrom vdW coefficients C 6, C 8, C 10 for atom pairs with a mean absolute relative error of only 3%.

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Tao, J., Perdew, J. P., & Ruzsinszky, A. (2012). Accurate van der Waals coefficients from density functional theory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(1), 18–21. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118245108

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