The density of states and band gap of liquid water by sequential Monte Carlo/Quantum mechanics calculations

Electronic properties of liquid water were investigated by sequential Monte Carlo/Quantum mechanics calculations. The density of states (DOS) and HOMO-LUMO gap (E G) of liquid water have been determined by Hartree-Fock and Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. The quantum mechanical calculations were carried out over uncorrelated supermolecular structures generated by the Monte Carlo simulations. The DFT calculations were performed with a modified B3LYP exchange-correlation functional proposed by Abu-Awwad and Politzer which was parametrized to reproduce valence orbital energies in agr...