Title
Extending Hirshfeld-I To Bulk And Periodic Materials
Abstract
In this work, a method is described to extend the iterative Hirshfeld-I method, generally used for molecules, to periodic systems. The implementation makes use of precalculated pseudopotential-based electron density distributions, and it is shown that high-quality results are obtained for both molecules and solids, such as ceria, diamond, and graphite. The use of grids containing (precalculated) electron densities makes the implementation independent of the solid state or quantum chemical code used for studying the system. The extension described here allows for easy calculation of atomic charges and charge transfer in periodic and bulk systems. The conceptual issue of obtaining reference densities for anions is discussed, and the delocalization problem for anionic reference densities originating from the use of a plane wave basis set is identified and handled. (C) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1002/jcc.23088
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Keywords
Field
DocType
Hirshfeld, solids, pseudopotentials, atoms in molecules, ceria, diamond, graphite, graphene
Electron density,Plane wave,Computational chemistry,Chemistry,Atoms in molecules,Density functional theory,Basis set,Periodic graph (geometry),Electron,Pseudopotential
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
34
5
0192-8651
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.41
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Danny E. P. Vanpoucke141.53
Patrick Bultinck25711.34
Isabel Van Driessche330.79