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Accurate Kohn-Sham auxiliary system from the ground state density of solids

Ayoub Aouina
Siyuan Chen
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Shiwei Zhang
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Lucia Reining

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The Kohn-Sham (KS) system is an auxiliary system whose effective potential is unknown in most cases. It is in principle determined by the ground state density, and it has been found numerically for some low-dimensional systems by inverting the KS equations starting from a given accurate density. For solids, only approximate results are available. In this work, we determine accurate exchange correlation (xc) potentials for Si and NaCl using the ground state densities obtained from Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo calculations. We show that these xc potentials can be rationalized as an ensemble of a few local functions of the density, whose form depends on the specific environment and can be well characterised by the gradient of the density and the local kinetic energy density. The KS band structure can be obtained with high accuracy. The true KS band gap turns out to be larger than the prediction of the local density approximation, but significantly smaller than the measurable photoemission gap, which confirms previous estimates. Finally, our findings show that the conjecture that very different xc potentials can lead to very similar densities and other KS observables is true also in solids, which questions the meaning of details of the potentials and, at the same time, confirms the stability of the KS system.
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hal-04178395 , version 1 (07-08-2023)

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Ayoub Aouina, Matteo Gatti, Siyuan Chen, Shiwei Zhang, Lucia Reining. Accurate Kohn-Sham auxiliary system from the ground state density of solids. Physical Review B, 2023, 107 (19), pp.195123. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.107.195123⟩. ⟨hal-04178395⟩
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