Charge transfer excitation energies from ground state density functional theory calculations

Excitation energies from density functional perturbation theory

We consider two perturbative schemes to calculate excitation energies, each employing the Kohn– Sham Hamiltonian as the unperturbed system. Using accurate exchange-correlation potentials generated from essentially exact densities and their exchange components determined by a recently proposed method, we evaluate energy differences between the ground state and excited states in first-order pertu...

A long-range-corrected density functional that performs well for both ground-state properties and time-dependent density functional theory excitation energies, including charge-transfer excited states.

We introduce a hybrid density functional that asymptotically incorporates full Hartree-Fock exchange, based on the long-range-corrected exchange-hole model of Henderson et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 128, 194105 (2008)]. The performance of this functional, for ground-state properties and for vertical excitation energies within time-dependent density functional theory, is systematically evaluated, and o...

Excitation energies from time-dependent density-functional theory.

A new density-functional approach to calculate the excitation spectrum of many-electron systems is proposed. It is shown that the full linear density response of the interacting system, which has poles at the exact excitation energies, can rigorously be expressed in terms of the response function of the noninteracting (Kohn-Sham) system and a frequency-dependent exchange-correlation kernel. Usi...

Accurate Ground-State Energies of Solids and Molecules from Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory

Semilocal and hybrid density embedding calculations of ground-state charge-transfer complexes.

We apply the frozen density embedding method, using a full relaxation of embedded densities through a freeze-and-thaw procedure, to study the electronic structure of several benchmark ground-state charge-transfer complexes, in order to assess the merits and limitations of the approach for this class of systems. The calculations are performed using both semilocal and hybrid exchange-correlation ...