Does the derivative of the energy density functional provide a proper quantitative formulation of electronegativity?
Abstract
It is pointed out that the derivative of the energy density functional does not provide a valid local electronegativity measure, in spite of its appealing property of becoming constant for ground-state equilibrium systems.
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