Fully relativistic pseudopotentials

Fully relativistic pseudopotentials generated by the MBK (PRB 47, 6728 (1993)) scheme within LDA (CA19) and GGA (PBE19) which contain a partial core correction and fully relativistic effects including spin-orbit coupling.


• Ag_CA19.vps
• Ag_PBE19.vps

Pseudo-atomic orbitals

The number below the symbol means a cutoff radius (a.u.) of the confinement potential. These file includes fifteen radial parts for each angular momentum quantum number l (=0,1,2,3,4). The basis functions were generated by variationally optimizing the corresponding primitive basis functions in the single atom, the dimer molecule, and the FCC bulk. The input files used for the orbital optimization can be found at Ag_opt.dat , Ag2_opt.dat , and Agfcc_opt.dat . Since Ag_CA19.vps and Ag_PBE19.vps include the 4p, 4d, and 5s (17 electrons) as the valence states, the minimal basis set is Ag*.*-s1p1d1. Our recommendation for the choice of cutoff radius of basis functions is that Ag7.0.pao is enough for bulks, but Ag9.0.pao or Ag11.0.pao is preferable for molecular systems.


• Ag7.0.pao
• Ag9.0.pao
• Ag11.0.pao

Benchmark calculations by the PBE19 pseudopotential with the various basis functions

(1) Calculation of the total energy as a function of lattice constant in the fcc structure, where the total energy is plotted relative to the minimum energy for each case. a₀ and B₀ are the equilibrium lattice constant and bulk modulus obtained by fitting to the Murnaghan equation of state. The difference between Ag7.0-s2p2d2f1 and Ag7.0-s3p3d2f2 in the total energy at the minimum point is 0.0272 eV/atom. An input file used for the OpenMX calculations can be found at Agfcc-EvsV.dat . For comparison the result by the Wien2k code is also shown, where the calculation was performed by default setting in the Ver. 9.1 of Wien2k except for the use of R_MT x K_MAX of 12.



(2) Calculations of the band dispersion in the fcc structure, where the non-spin polarized collinear calculation with the lattice constant of 4.09 Ang. was performed using Ag_PBE19.vps and Ag7.0-s2p2d2f1, and the origin of the energy is taken to be the Fermi level. The input file used for the OpenMX calculations can be found at Agfcc-Band.dat . For comparison the result by the Wien2k code is also shown, where the calculation was performed by default setting in the Ver. 9.1 of Wien2k except for the use of R_MT x K_MAX of 12.





(3) Calculations of the Ag2 molecule with S=1, where Ag_PBE19.vps and Ag9.0-s2p2d2f1 or Ag9.0-s3p3d2f2 were used. The input files used for the OpenMX calculations can be found at Ag2.dat , Ag.dat , and Ag_CP.dat .


	Equilibrium bond length (Ang.)	Atomization energy (eV)	Atomization energy (couterpoise corrected) (eV)
Ag9.0-s2p2d2f1	2.605	1.719	1.715
Ag9.0-s3p3d2f2	2.597	1.735	1.728
Other calc.	2.58 a	1.82 a	-
Expt.	2.53 b	1.65 b	-

^a E.Yu. Zarechnaya et al., Comp. Mat. Sci. 43, 522 (2008).
^b J.R. Lombardi and B. Davis, Chem. Rev. 102, 2431 (2002).

Supplementary information for the GGA (PBE19) pseudopotential