Size-dependent polarizabilities and van der Waals dispersion coefficients of fullerenes from large-scale complex polarization propagator calculations

While the anomalous non-additive size-dependencies of static dipole polarizabilities and van der Waals C6 dispersion coefficients of carbon fullerenes are well established, the widespread reported scalings for the latter (ranging from N2.2 to N2.8) call for a comprehensive first-principles investiga...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of chemical physics 2021-02, Vol.154 (7), p.074304-074304, Article 074304
Hauptverfasser: Brand, Manuel, Ahmadzadeh, Karan, Li, Xin, Rinkevicius, Zilvinas, Saidi, Wissam A., Norman, Patrick
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Zusammenfassung:While the anomalous non-additive size-dependencies of static dipole polarizabilities and van der Waals C6 dispersion coefficients of carbon fullerenes are well established, the widespread reported scalings for the latter (ranging from N2.2 to N2.8) call for a comprehensive first-principles investigation. With a highly efficient implementation of the linear complex polarization propagator, we have performed Hartree–Fock and Kohn–Sham density functional theory calculations of the frequency-dependent polarizabilities for fullerenes consisting of up to 540 carbon atoms. Our results for the static polarizabilities and C6 coefficients show scalings of N1.2 and N2.2, respectively, thereby deviating significantly from the previously reported values obtained with the use of semi-classical/empirical methods. Arguably, our reported values are the most accurate to date as they represent the first ab initio or first-principles treatment of fullerenes up to a convincing system size.
ISSN:0021-9606
1089-7690
1089-7690
DOI:10.1063/5.0040009