Forces and atomic relaxations in the pSIC approach with ultrasoft pseudopotentials

Details Forces and atomic relaxations in the pSIC approach with ultrasoft pseudopotentials Forces and atomic relaxations in the pSIC approach with ultrasoft pseudopotentials

2011-12-05

arxiv.org/abs/1112.0965v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

11 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

We present the scheme that allows for efficient calculations of forces in the framework of pseudopotential self-interaction corrected (pSIC) formulation of the density functional theory. The scheme works with norm conserving and also with ultrasoft pseudopotentials and has been implemented in the plane-wave basis code {\sc quantum espresso}. We have performed tests of the internal consistency of the derived expressions for forces considering ZnO and CeO$_2$ crystals. Further, we have performed calculations of equilibrium geometry for LaTiO$_3$, YTiO$_3$, and LaMnO$_3$ perovskites and also for Re and Mn pairs in silicon. Comparison with standard DFT and DFT+U approaches shows that in the cases where spurious self-interaction matters, the pSIC approach predicts different geometry, very often closer to the experimental data.

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