Ionization potentials,electron affinities,electronegativities, and hardnesses of fractional charged atoms from the density-functional theory

The electron-correlation and self-interaction corrected generalized exchange local-spin-density functional theory with the Gopinathan, Whitehead, and Bogdanovic Fermi-hole parameters has been employed to give self-consistent field calculations for the quark atoms, the first- and second-order positive ions, and the first- and second-order negative ions of the quark atoms with fractional nuclear charges $ Z = N pm frac{1}{3} $ and $ Z = N pm frac{2}{3} $. A special technique to obtain the converged second-order negative ions is discussed. The first and second ionization potentials and electron affinities are calculated by the differences of the total energies between the ionized and nonionized systems and compared with the empirical inter-extrapolation results. The agreement between the present calculations and the inter-extrapolated results is excellent for the ionization potentials and reasonably good for the electron affinities of the quark atoms. Finally, the calculated ionization potentials and electron affinities are used in obtaining the electronegativities and hardnesses for these quark atoms.