학술논문

Analysis of the magnetic coupling in binuclear complexes. II. Derivation of valence effective Hamiltonians from ab initio CI and DFT calculations.
Document Type
Article
Source
Journal of Chemical Physics. 3/8/2002, Vol. 116 Issue 10, p3985. 16p. 3 Diagrams, 4 Charts, 5 Graphs.
Subject
*MOLECULES
*POLARIZATION (Nuclear physics)
Language
ISSN
0021-9606
Abstract
Most interpretations of the magnetic coupling J between two unpaired electrons rest upon simple valence models that involve essentially the ferromagnetic direct exchange contribution, K[sub ab], and the antiferromagnetic effect of the delocalization resulting from the interaction between neutral and ionic determinants, t[sub ab], whose energy difference is U. Ab initio valence-only calculations give very poor estimates of J, whatever the definition of the magnetic orbitals, and large CI expansions are required to evaluate it properly. It is, however, possible to define valence effective Hamiltonians from the knowledge of the eigenenergies and the eigenvectors of these accurate CI calculations. When applied to four different complexes, this strategy shows that spin polarization may change the sign of the direct exchange interaction, K[sub ab], and that dynamical correlation results in a dramatic reduction of the effective repulsion U. The present article also shows how K[sub ab], t[sub ab], and U effective parameters can be extracted from density functional theory (DFT) calculations and that the typical overestimation of J in DFT can be attributed to an excessive lowering of the effective on-site repulsion. © 2002 American Institute of Physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]