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Ionization potentials and electron affinities in the Perdew-Zunger self-interaction corrected density-functional theory.

Using a self-consistent implementation of the Perdew-Zunger self-interaction corrected (PZ-SIC) density-functional theory, we have calculated ionization potentials (IP) and electron affinities (EA) of first- and second-row atoms and a set of small molecules. Several exchange-correlation functionals were tested. IPs and EAs were obtained by two methods: as the difference in self-consistent field (SCF) energies of neutrals and ions (deltaSCF) and as negatives of highest-occupied orbital energies. We found that, except for local spin-density approximation, PZ-SIC worsens DeltaSCF IPs and EAs. On the other hand, PZ-SIC brings orbital eigenvalues into much better agreement with electron removal energies. The Perdew-Zunger SIC seems to over-correct many-electron systems; for molecules it performs worse than for atoms. We also discuss several common approximations to PZ-SIC such as spherical averaging of orbital densities in atoms.