Semilocal Exchange Functionals With Improved Performances: The Modified Enhancement Factor For Two Dimensional Quantum Systems

Abstract: Semilocal exchange-correlation functionals are the most accurate, realistic and widely used ones to describe the complex many-electron effects of two-dimensional quantum systems. Beyond local density approximation, the generalized gradient approximations(GGAs) are designed using reduced density gradient as main ingredient. An enhancement factor is constructed using the inhomogeneity parameter of GGAs by taking care of the low and high density behaviors of it. Thus, the exchange energy functional proposed by making use of the aforementioned enhancement factor, significantly reduces the error compare to the previously proposed gradient approximations. Another enhancement factor and corresponding energy functional is also constructed using the inhomogeneity parameter originally introduced by Becke [J. Chem. Phys. 109, 2092 (1998)]. Comprehensive testing and performance of both the functionals are demonstrated with respect to the exact exchange formalism by considering two-dimensional parabolically confined quantum dots with varying particle number and confinement strength as a test case.