A STRAIGHTFORWARD METHOD FOR GENERATING SOFT TRANSFERABLE PSEUDOPOTENTIALS

被引:459
作者
TROULLIER, N
MARTINS, JL
机构
[1] Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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10.1016/0038-1098(90)90686-6
中图分类号
O469 [凝聚态物理学];
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070205 ;
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We present a simple procedure for generating first-principles norm-conserving pseudopotentials which are very soft and therefore have good convergence properties when used in plane-wave calculations of the band structure and total-energy of materials. Using diamond as a test case, we show that our pseudopotential is more efficient for plane wave calculations than the most commonly used pseudopotentials. © 1990.
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页码:613 / 616
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