Alexander A. Ovchinnikov1
(
),
Jan K. Labanowski2
(
)
1Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden,
Germany.
2Ohio Supercomputer Center, Columbus, OH 43212-1163, USA
Theoretical design of new organic magnetic materials usually requires
that calculations of electronic structure and optimal geometry are
conducted for quite large poly radicals. Due to spin contamination,
conventional unrestricted density functional theory (UDFT) is a rather
crude tool for such studies. We have developed a simple modification
of the UDFT, which yields very reliable results for the ground state
spin of large poly radicals. This method was applied to calculation of
electronic structure and excitation spectra for various fragments of
a ferrocarbon-ferromagnetic phase of pure carbon- which has been synthesized
in many laboratories during the last decade.