| Abstract
| - The bond length alternation (BLA), the highest-occupied−lowest-unoccupied (HO−LU) orbital energy gap,and the corresponding excitation energy are determined for trans-polyacetylene (PA) and polyyne (PY) usingdensity functional theory. Results from the Coulomb-attenuated CAM-B3LYP functional are compared withthose from the conventional BHHLYP and B3LYP hybrid functionals. BLA values and HO−LU gaps aredetermined using both finite oligomer and infinite chain calculations, subject to periodic boundary conditions.TDDFT excitation energies are determined for the oligomers. The oligomer excitation energies and HO−LUgaps are then used, in conjunction with the infinite chain HO−LU gap, to estimate the infinite chain excitationenergy. Overall, BHHLYP and CAM-B3LYP give BLA values and excitation energies that are larger andmore accurate than those obtained using B3LYP. The results highlight the degree to which excitation energiescan be approximated using the HO−LU gapsat the infinite limit, this approximation works well for B3LYP,but not for the other functionals, where the HO−LU gap is significantly larger. The study provides furtherevidence for the high-quality theoretical predictions that can be obtained from the CAM-B3LYP functional.
|
