Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2004-11-09
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
13 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.71.035109
A grid-based real-space implementation of the Projector Augmented Wave (PAW) method of P. E. Blochl [Phys. Rev. B 50, 17953 (1994)] for Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations is presented. The use of uniform 3D real-space grids for representing wave functions, densities and potentials allows for flexible boundary conditions, efficient multigrid algorithms for solving Poisson and Kohn-Sham equations, and efficient parallelization using simple real-space domain-decomposition. We use the PAW method to perform all-electron calculations in the frozen core approximation, with smooth valence wave functions that can be represented on relatively coarse grids. We demonstrate the accuracy of the method by calculating the atomization energies of twenty small molecules, and the bulk modulus and lattice constants of bulk aluminum. We show that the approach in terms of computational efficiency is comparable to standard plane-wave methods, but the memory requirements are higher.
Hansen Lars B.
Jacobsen Karsten W.
Mortensen Jens Jorgen
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