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Projector augmented-wave method

Blöchl, P. E.·1994·Physical Review B

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An approach for electronic structure calculations is described that generalizes both the pseudopotential method and the linear augmented-plane-wave (LAPW) method in a natural way. The method allows high-quality first-principles molecular-dynamics calculations to be performed using the original fictitious Lagrangian approach of Car and Parrinello. Like the LAPW method it can be used to treat first-row and transition-metal elements with affordable effort and provides access to the full wave function. The augmentation procedure is generalized in that partial-wave expansions are not determined by the value and the derivative of the envelope function at some muffin-tin radius, but rather by the overlap with localized projector functions. The pseudopotential approach based on generalized separable pseudopotentials can be regained by a simple approximation.

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  • The PSP testing was performed in an automated fashion within the AiiDA infrastructure for reproducible computational science.

    “We consider up to eight (depending on the element) publicly available PSP libraries for the PBE functional [8] and test them with the PWscf and Phonon codes of the Quantum ESPRESSO (QE) distribution [9] in an automated fashion within the framework of the AiiDA [10] infrastructure for reproducible computational science.”
  • All tested PSP libraries are based on the PBE GGA exchange-correlation functional and include norm-conserving, ultrasoft, and projector-augmented wave pseudization approaches.

    “All the tested PSP libraries are based on the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) for the exchangecorrelation functional of Perdew, Burke and Ernzerhof (PBE) [8] and they include the three main pseudization approaches [12]: norm-conserving (NC) [13], ultrasoft (US) [14] and projector-augmented wave (PAW) [15].”

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Authors
Blöchl, P. E.
Affiliations
IBM Research - Zurich (CH)
Corresponding author
Blöchl, P. E.
Venue
Physical Review B
Published
1994-12-15
Volume
50
Issue
24
Pages
17953-17979
ISSN
  • 0163-1829 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-3795
OpenAlex
W1970127494
Cited by
92,732
References
61
Citations by year
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FWCI
13.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Physical review. B, Condensed matter (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Condensed Matter Physics › Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Thermodynamic and Structural Properties of Metals and Alloys
Keywords
projector augmented wave method, electronic structure calculations, pseudopotentials, ab initio molecular dynamics, Car-Parrinello method, Lagrangian formulation, partial wave expansion, transition metals, first-row elements

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