Abstract
We present calculations of the total energy per unit cell for different bond alternations of the CC bonds bridging the distance between two aromatic rings in poly(para-phenylene vinylene) (PPV), using two different parametrizations of the energy functional in the local density approximation (LDA) and the ab initio Hartree-Fock (HF) method. For the application of correlation corrections to the HF results the system is already too large. We find that even simple LDA methods are reliable alternatives to the ab initio HF method for the calculation of potential surfaces in polymers with large unit cells. The results in turn can be used to determine parameters for model Hamiltonians necessary for theoretical studies of the dynamics of nonlinear quasiparticles in the polymers. We further present the LDA band structures of PPV together with their HF and correlation (many body perturbation theory of 2 nd order in Møller-Plesset partitioning, MP2) corrected counterparts. We find that the fundamental gap obtained is too large both with HF and with the correlation corrected band structure compared to experiment. However, we use only a modest correlation method and a small basis set, which already brings us to the limits of the computers available to us. The LDA gaps on the other hand are too small which, however, could be corrected with the help of self interaction corrections. None of the latter methods would lead to exceedingly large computation times.
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