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### Slater-type orbital

Slater-type orbitals (STOs) are functions used as atomic orbitals in the linear combination of atomic orbitals molecular orbital method. They are named after the physicist John C. Slater, who introduced them in 1930.[1]

They possess exponential decay at long range and Kato's cusp condition at short range (when combined as hydrogen-like atom functions, i.e. the analytical solutions of the stationary Schrödinger for one electron atoms). Unlike the hydrogen-like ("hydrogenic") Schrödinger orbitals, STOs have no radial nodes (neither do Gaussian-type orbitals).

## Contents

• Definition 1
• Differentials 2
• Integrals 3
• STO Software 4
• References 5

## Definition

STOs have the following radial part:

R(r) = N r^{n-1} e^{-\zeta r}\,

where

n is a natural number that plays the role of principal quantum number, n = 1,2,...,
N is a normalizing constant,
r is the distance of the electron from the atomic nucleus, and
\zeta is a constant related to the effective charge of the nucleus, the nuclear charge being partly shielded by electrons. Historically, the effective nuclear charge was estimated by Slater's rules.

The normalization constant is computed from the integral

\int_0^\infty x^n e^{-\alpha x} dx = \frac{n!}{\alpha^{n+1}}.

Hence

N^2 \int_0^\infty \left(r^{n-1}e^{-\zeta r}\right)^2 r^2 dr =1 \Longrightarrow N = (2\zeta)^n \sqrt{\frac{2\zeta}{(2n)!}}.

It is common to use the spherical harmonics Y_l^m(\mathbf{r}) depending on the polar coordinates of the position vector \mathbf{r} as the angular part of the Slater orbital.

## Differentials

The first radial derivative of the radial part of a Slater-type orbital is

{\partial R(r)\over \partial r} = \left[\frac{(n - 1)}{r} - \zeta\right] R(r)

The radial Laplace operator is split in two differential operators

\nabla^2 = {1 \over r^2}{\partial \over \partial r}\left(r^2 {\partial \over \partial r}\right)

The first differential operator of the Laplace operator yields

\left(r^2 {\partial\over \partial r} \right) R(r) = \left[(n - 1) r - \zeta r^2 \right] R(r)

The total Laplace operator yields after applying the second differential operator

\nabla^2 R(r) = \left({1 \over r^2} {\partial\over \partial r} \right) \left[(n - 1) r - \zeta r^2 \right] R(r)

the result

\nabla^2 R(r) = \left) = r^{n-1}e^{-\zeta r}Y_l^m({\mathbf{r}}).

The Fourier transform is[2]

\chi_{nlm}({\mathbf{k}})= \int d^3r e^{i{\mathbf{k}}\cdot {\mathbf{r}}} \chi_{nlm}({\mathbf{ r}})
=4\pi (n-l)! (2\zeta)^n (ik/\zeta)^l Y_l^m({\mathbf{k}}) \sum_{s=0}^{\lfloor(n-l)/2\rfloor} \frac{\omega_s^{nl}}{(k^2+\zeta^2)^{n+1-s}},

where the \omega are defined by

\omega_s^{nl}\equiv(-\frac{1}{4\zeta^2})^s\frac{(n-s)!}{s!(n-l-2s)!}.

The overlap integral is

\int \chi^*_{nlm}(r)\chi_{n'l'm'}(r)d^3r = \delta_{ll'}\delta_{mm'}\frac{(n+n')!}{(\zeta+\zeta')^{n+n'+1}}

of which the normalization integral is a special case. The starlet in the superscript denotes complex-conjugation.

The kinetic energy integral is

\int \chi^*_{nlm}(r)(-\frac{\nabla^2}{2})\chi_{n'l'm'}(r)d^3r = \frac{1}{2}\delta_{ll'}\delta_{mm'} \int_0^\infty dr e^{-(\zeta+\zeta')r} \left[ [l'(l'+1)-n'(n'-1)]r^{n+n'-2}+2\zeta'n'r^{n+n'-1}-\zeta'^2r^{n+n'} \right],

a sum over three overlap integrals already computed above.

The Coulomb repulsion integral can be evaluated using the Fourier representation (see above)

\chi^*_{nlm}({\mathbf{r}})=\int\frac{d^3k}{(2\pi)^3}e^{i{\mathbf{k}}\cdot {\mathbf{r}}} \chi^*_{nml}({\mathbf{k}})

which yields

\int \chi^*_{nlm}({\mathbf{r}})\frac{1}{|{\mathbf{r}}-{\mathbf{r}}'|}\chi_{n'l'm'}({\mathbf{r}}')d^3r = 4\pi \int \frac{d^3k}{(2\pi)^3} \chi^*_{nlm}({\mathbf{k}})\frac{1}{k^2}\chi_{n'l'm'}({\mathbf{k}})
= 8\delta_{ll'} \delta_{mm'} (n-l)! (n'-l)! \frac{(2\zeta)^n}{\zeta^l} \frac{(2\zeta')^{n'}}{\zeta'^l} \int_0^\infty dk k^{2l} \sum_{s=0}^{\lfloor (n-l)/2\rfloor} \frac{\omega_s^{nl}}{(k^2+\zeta^2)^{n+1-s}} \sum_{s'=0}^{\lfloor (n'-l)/2\rfloor} \frac{\omega_{s'}^{n'l'}}{(k^2+\zeta'^2)^{n'+1-s'}}

These are either individually calculated with the law of residues or recursively as proposed by Cruz et al. (1978).[3]

## STO Software

Some quantum chemistry software uses sets of Slater-type functions (STF) analogous to Slater type orbitals, but with variable exponents chosen to minimize the total molecular energy (rather than by Slater's rules as above). The fact that products of two STOs on distinct atoms are more difficult to express than those of Gaussian functions (which give a displaced Gaussian) has led many to expand them in terms of Gaussians.[4]

Analytical ab initio software for poly-atomic molecules has been developed e.g. STOP: a Slater Type Orbital Package in 1996.[5]

SMILES uses analytical expressions when available and Gaussian expansions otherwise. It was first released in 2000.

Various grid integration schemes have been developed, sometimes after analytical work for quadrature (Scrocco). Most famously in the ADF suite of DFT codes.

## References

1. ^ Slater, J. C. (1930). "Atomic Shielding Constants".
2. ^ Belkic, D.; Taylor, H. S. (1989). "A unified formula for the Fourier transform of Slater-type orbitals".
3. ^ Cruz, S. A.; Cisneros, C.; Alvarez, I. (1978). "Individual orbit contribution to the electron stopping cross section in the low-velocity region".
4. ^ Guseinov, I. I. (2002). "New complete orthonormal sets of exponential-type orbitals and their application to translation of Slater Orbitals".
5. ^ Bouferguene, A.; Fares, M.; Hoggan, P. E. (1996). "STOP: Slater Type Orbital Package for general molecular electronic structure calculations".
• Harris, F. E.; Michels, H. H. (1966). "Multicenter integrals in quantum mechanics. 2. Evaluation of electron-repulsion integrals for Slater-type orbitals".
• Filter, E.; Steinborn, E. O. (1978). "Extremely compact formulas for molecular two-center and one-electron integrals and Coulomb integrals over Slater-type atomic orbitals".
• McLean, A. D.; McLean, R. S. (1981). "Roothaan-Hartree-Fock Atomic Wave Functions, Slater Basis-Set Expansions for Z = 55–92".
• Datta, S. (1985). "Evaluation of Coulomb integrals with hydrogenic and Slater-type orbitals".
• Grotendorst, J.; Steinborn, E. O. (1985). "The Fourier transform of a two-center product of exponential-type functions and its efficient evaluation".
• Tai, H. (1986). "Analytic evaluation of two-center molecular integrals".
• Grotendorst, J.; Weniger, E. J.; Steinborn, E. O. (1986). "Efficient evaluation of infinite-series representations for overlap, two-center nuclear attraction, and Coulomb integrals using nonlinear convergence accelerators".
• Grotendorst, J.; Steinborn, E. O. (1988). "Numerical evaluation of molecular one- and two-electron multicenter integrals with exponential-type orbitals via the Fourier-transform method".
• Bunge, C. F.; Barrientos, J. A.; Bunge, A. V. (1993). "Roothaan-Hartree-Fock Ground-State Atomic Wave Functions: Slater-Type Orbital Expansions and Expectation Values for Z=2–54".
• Harris, F. E. (1997). "Analytic evaluation of three-electron atomic integrals with Slater wave functions".
• Ema, I.; García de La Vega, J. M.; Miguel, B.; Dotterweich, J.; Meißner, H.; Steinborn, E. O. (1999). "Exponential-type basis functions: single- and double-zeta B function basis sets for the ground states of neutral atoms from Z=2 to Z=36".
• Fernández Rico, J.; Fernández, J. J.; Ema, I.; López, R.; Ramírez, G. (2001). "Four-center integrals for Gaussian and Exponential Functions".
• Guseinov, I. I.; Mamedov, B. A. (2001). "On the calculation of arbitrary multielectron molecular integrals over Slater-Type Orbitals using recurrence relations for overlap integrals: II. Two-center expansion method".
• Guseinov, I. I. (2001). "Evaluation of expansion coefficients for translation of Slater-Type orbitals using complete orthonormal sets of Exponential-Type functions".
• Guseinov, I. I.; Mamedov, B. A. (2002). "On the calculation of arbitrary multielectron molecular integrals over Slater-Type Orbitals using recurrence relations for overlap integrals: III. auxiliary functions Q1nn' and Gq-nn".
• Guseinov, I. I.; Mamedov, B. A. (2002). "On the calculation of arbitrary multielectron molecular integrals over Slater-Type Orbitals using recurrence relations for overlap integrals: IV. Use of recurrence relations for basic two-center overlap and hybrid integrals".
• Özdogan, T.; Orbay, M. (2002). "Evaluation of two-center overlap and nuclear attraction integrals over Slater-type orbitals with integer and non-integer principal quantum numbers".
• Harris, F. E. (2003). "Comment on Computation of Two-Center Coulomb integrals over Slater-Type orbitals using elliptical coordinates".

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