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Information entropy as a measure of the quality of an approximate electronic wave function

✍ Scribed by Á. Nagy; Robert G. Parr


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
327 KB
Volume
58
Category
Article
ISSN
0020-7608

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✦ Synopsis


The Ghosh-Berkowitz-Parr macroscopic thermodynamic description of an electronic ground state is reviewed. The information entropy defined in this theory is calculated for several atoms using Hartree-Fock and double-zeta wave functions. It is shown that the information entropy is a measure of wave function quality provided that a particularly preferred definition of the local kinetic energy density is implied.