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18.1.11 BW: Becke-Wigner Exchange-Correlation Functional

P. A. Stewart and P. M. W. Gill,J. Chem. Faraday Trans. 273,183 (1995)

Hybrid exchange-correlation functional comprising Becke's 1998 exchange and Wigner's spin-polarised correlation functionals.


\begin{displaymath}
K=
-4 c\frac{\rho_{\alpha}\rho_{\beta}}{{\rho}}\left (1+{\f...
...i_{s}^{2}}{1+6 \beta \chi_{s}{\text{
arcsinh}}(\chi_{s})}}
,\end{displaymath} (54)

where
\begin{displaymath}
\alpha=-\frac{3}{2}\left (\frac{3}{4\pi}\right )^{1/3}
,\end{displaymath} (55)


\begin{displaymath}
\beta= 0.0042
,\end{displaymath} (56)


\begin{displaymath}
c= 0.04918
\end{displaymath} (57)

and
\begin{displaymath}
d= 0.349
.\end{displaymath} (58)



P.J. Knowles and H.-J. Werner
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Jan 15, 2002