title: Communication: Embedded fragment stochastic density functional theory.
abstract: We develop a method in which the electronic densities of small fragments determined by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) are embedded using stochastic DFT to form the exact density of the full system. The new method preserves the scaling and the simplicity of the stochastic DFT but cures the slow convergence that occurs when weakly coupled subsystems are treated. It overcomes the spurious charge fluctuations that impair the applications of the original stochastic DFT approach. We demonstrate the new approach on a fullerene dimer and on clusters of water molecules and show that the density of states and the total energy can be accurately described with a relatively small number of stochastic orbitals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Neuhauser
authors.affiliation: Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
authors.forename: Roi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baer
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, The Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
authors.forename: Eran
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rabani
mesh_terms: D037741:Fullerenes / Q000737:chemistry; D008956:Models, Chemical; D013269:Stochastic Processes; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D037741:Fullerenes; D014867:Water