Binding energies of van der Waals complexes at non-equilibrium geometries

Author First name, Last name, Institution

Alya A. Arabi, Zayed University

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Chemical Physics

Publication Date

1-15-2020

Abstract

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. In density functional theory (DFT), many methods have been developed to accurately capture the dispersion interactions in weakly-bound systems. The focus, however, has been mainly on complexes at equilibrium geometries. The purpose of this study is to assess the performance of the functional PW86 + PBE + XDM on van der Waals (vdW) complexes at non-equilibrium geometries. The well balanced S66x8 database published by Hobza's group is used. This database includes 66 complexes at eight different separations ranging from 10% compression to 200% stretching with respect to the equilibrium geometries. The overall root mean square percent error (RMSPE) on this database using aug-cc-pVTZ is 14.58%.

ISSN

0301-0104

Publisher

Elsevier B.V.

Volume

529

First Page

110545

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

DFT, Dispersion, Non-equilibrium geometry, PW86 + PBE + XDM, S66x8, vdW complexes

Scopus ID

85073020002

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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