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19.1.1 B86: X ${\alpha \beta \gamma }$

A. D. Becke,J. Chem. Phys. 84, 4524 (1986)

Divergence free semiempirical gradient-corrected exchange energy functional.


\begin{displaymath}
K=
\sum_s
-{\frac {c\rho_{s}^{4/3}\left (1+\beta\,\chi_{s}
^{2}\right )}{1+\gamma\,\chi_{s}^{2}}}
,\end{displaymath} (6)

where
\begin{displaymath}
c=\frac{3}{2}\left (\frac{3}{4\pi}\right )^{1/3}
,\end{displaymath} (7)


\begin{displaymath}
\beta= 0.0076
\end{displaymath} (8)

and
\begin{displaymath}
\gamma= 0.004
.\end{displaymath} (9)



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