Affiliation:
1. Institute of Physical Chemistry, Splaiul Independentei 202, 060041 Bucharest, Romania
2. Department of Physics, Ovidius University of Constanta, 900527 Constanta, Romania
Abstract
We obtained thorough insight into the capabilities of various computational methods to account for the ligand field (LF) regime in lanthanide compounds, namely, a weakly perturbed ionic body and quasidegenerate orbital multiplets. The LF version of the angular overlap model (AOM) was considered. We intentionally took very simple idealized systems, the hypothetical [TbF]2+, [TbF2]+ and [Tb(O2NO)]2+, in order to explore the details overlooked in applications on complex realistic systems. We examined the 4f and 5d orbital functions in connection to f–f and f–d transitions in the frame of the two large classes of quantum chemical methods: wave function theory (WFT) and density functional theory (DFT). WFT methods are better suited to the LF paradigm. In lanthanide compounds, DFT faces intrinsic limitations because of the frequent occurrence of quasidegenerate ground states. Such difficulties can be partly encompassed by the nonstandard control of orbital occupation schemes. Surprisingly, we found that the simplest crystal field electrostatic approximation, reconsidered with modern basis sets, works well for LF parameters in ionic lanthanide systems. We debated the largely overlooked holohedrization effect that inserts artificial inversion symmetry into standard LF Hamiltonians.
Funder
National Romanian Office for Research, UEFISCDI
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