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Reply to 'Comment on "Extending Hirshfeld-I to bulk and periodic materials" '

Materials Science 2013-11-15 v1 Chemical Physics Computational Physics

Abstract

The issues raised in the comment by T.A. Manz are addressed through the presentation of calculated atomic charges for NaF, NaCl, MgO, SrTiO3_3 and La2_2Ce2_2O7_7, using our previously presented method for calculating Hirshfeld-I charges in Solids [J. Comput. Chem.. doi: 10.1002/jcc.23088]. It is shown that the use of pseudo-valence charges is sufficient to retrieve the full all-electron Hirshfeld-I charges to good accuracy. Furthermore, we present timing results of different systems, containing up to over 200200 atoms, underlining the relatively low cost for large systems. A number of theoretical issues is formulated, pointing out mainly that care must be taken when deriving new atoms in molecules methods based on "expectations" for atomic charges.

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@article{arxiv.1311.3558,
  title  = {Reply to 'Comment on "Extending Hirshfeld-I to bulk and periodic materials" '},
  author = {D. E. P. Vanpoucke and I. Van Driessche and P. Bultinck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.3558},
  year   = {2013}
}

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7 pages, 2 Tables, 2 figures