Orbital-free kinetic-energy density functionals with a density-dependent kernel

Abstract

We report linear-response kinetic-energy density functionals, which show significant improvement over the Wang-Teter, Perrot, Smargiassi-Madden, Wang-Govind-Carter functionals, yet still maintain $\mathcal{O}(N\mathrm{ln}N)$ scaling. Numerical tests show that these functionals, which contain a double-density-dependent kernel, can reproduce the Kohn-Sham results almost exactly for several aluminum bulk phases. We further show that with a sensible choice of the uniform background density, energies of formation for the low-index aluminum surfaces, where the density variations are very large, can be reproduced to within reasonable accuracy.