The nonadditive kinetic potential is a key element in density-dependent embedding methods. The correspondence between the ground-state density and the total effective Kohn-Sham potential provides the basis for various methods to construct the nonadditive kinetic potential for any pair of electron densities. Several research groups used numerical or analytical inversion procedures to explore this strategy which overcomes the failures of known explicit density functional approximations. The numerical inversions, however, apply additional approximations/simplifications. The relations known for the exact quantities cannot be assumed to hold for quantities obtained in numerical inversions. The exact relations are discussed with special emphasis on such issues as: the admissibility of the densities for which the potential is constructed, the choice of densities to be used as independent variables, self-consistency between the potentials and observables calculated using the embedded wavefunction, and so forth. The review focuses on how these issues are treated in practice. The review is supplemented with the analysis of the inverted potentials for weakly overlapping pairs of electron densities-the case not studied previously.density embedding, density functional theory, electron density overlap
| I N TR ODU C TI ONThe nonadditive kinetic energy (T nad s ) and potential (v nad t ðrÞ) are key ingredients in numerical simulation methods exploring the density embedding strategy (see section 1.2). Both quantities are defined as functionals of admissible pairs of electron densities: where W s denotes a N-electron single-determinant trial wavefunction. Atomic units are used throughout this work.In practical applications, q A ðrÞ is the density corresponding to the wavefunction W emb associated with the embedded subsystem and q tot ðrÞ is electron density of the total system comprising the part represented by W emb and its "environment." Usually, explicit density functionals approximate the functionals v nad t ½q A ; q tot ðrÞ and/or T nad s ½q A ; q tot . Simulations and studies on model systems reported by several researchers revealed many cases where the currently known explicit density functionals fail (see section 1.2). These failures resulted in recent interest in an alternative -implicit -strategy to construct v nad t ½q A ; q tot ðrÞ (and T nad s ½q A ; q tot ) for arbitrarily chosen pairs of densities q A ðrÞ and q tot ðrÞ. Such constructions are based on the Levy correspondence [1] between the Kohn-Sham potential [2] and the electron density. This correspondence exists for admissible electron Int J Quantum Chem. 2018;118:e25410.