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Comparison of Global and Local Adaptive Coordinates for Density Functional Calculations

Materials Science 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

A globally-adaptive curvilinear coordinate formalism is shown to be easily convertible to a class of curvilinear transformations locally optimized around atom sites by a few parameters. Parameter transferability is established for a demanding test case, and the results of the two methods are shown to be comparable. Computational efficiencies realized in the local method are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0008347,
  title  = {Comparison of Global and Local Adaptive Coordinates for Density Functional Calculations},
  author = {D. R. Hamann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0008347},
  year   = {2009}
}

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21 pages, 4 figures