Application of A Distributed Nucleus Approximation In Grid Based Minimization of the Kohn-Sham Energy Functional
Karthik A. Iyer, Michael P. Merrick, Thomas L. Beck
Abstract
In the distributed nucleus approximation we represent the singular nucleus as smeared over a smallportion of a Cartesian grid. Delocalizing the nucleus allows us to solve the Poisson equation for theoverall electrostatic potential using a linear scaling multigrid algorithm.This work is done in the context of minimizing the Kohn-Sham energy functionaldirectly in real space with a multiscale approach. The efficacy of the approximation is illustrated bylocating the ground state density of simple one electron atoms and moleculesand more complicated multiorbital systems.
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