M E Madjet et al 2001 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 34 L345 doi:10.1088/0953-4075/34/10/106
M E Madjet, Himadri S Chakraborty1 and Jan-M Rost
Show affiliationsWe find that for simple metal clusters a single-electron description of the ground state employing self-interaction correction (SIC) in the framework of local-density approximation strongly contaminates the high-energy photoionization cross sections with spurious oscillations for a subshell containing node(s). This effect is shown connected to the unphysical structure that SIC generates in ensuing state-dependent radial potentials around a position where the respective orbital density attains nodal zero. Non-local Hartree-Fock that exactly eliminates the electron self-interaction is found entirely free from this effect. It is inferred that while SIC is largely unimportant in high photon energies, any implementation of it within the local frame can induce unphysical oscillations in the high-energy photospectra of metal clusters pointing to a general need for caution in choosing appropriate theoretical tools.
33.80.Eh Autoionization, photoionization, and photodetachment
31.15.xr Self-consistent-field methods
31.15.E- Density-functional theory
36.40.Vz Optical properties of clusters
31.15.V- Electron correlation calculations for atoms, ions and molecules
Issue 10 (28 May 2001)
Received 7 March 2001
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