Electronic structures are fully determined by the exchange-correlation (XC) potential. In this work, we develop a new method to construct reliable XC potentials by properly mixing the exact exchange and the local density approximation potentials in real space. The spatially dependent mixing parameter is derived based on the derivative discontinuity of electron density and is first-principle. We derived the equations for solving the mixing parameter and proposed an approximation to simplify these equations. Based on this approximation, this new method gives reasonable predictions for the ionization energies, fundamental gaps, and singlet-triplet energy differences for various molecular systems. The impact of the approximation on the constructed XC potentials is examined, and it is found that the quality of the XC potentials can be further improved by removing the approximation. This work demonstrates that the derivative discontinuity of electron density is a promising constraint for constructing high-quality XC potentials.
Chemical potential, derivative discontinuity, fractional electrons, jump of the Kohn-Sham potential, atoms as thermodynamic open systems, and other (mis)conceptions of the density functional theory of electrons in molecules
Charged excitations made neutral: N-centered ensemble density functional theory of Fukui functions
Laboratoire de Chimie Quantique, Institut de Chimie, CNRS / Université de Strasbourg（斯特拉斯堡大学化学研究所量子化学实验室）；University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study（斯特拉斯堡大学高等研究院）
