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The full-potential linearized augmented-plane wave (FP-LAPW) method is well known to enable most accurate calculations of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of crystals and surfaces. The implementation of atomic forces has…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Max Petersen , Frank Wagner , Lars Hufnagel , Matthias Scheffler , Peter Blaha , Karlheinz Schwarz

We present an implementation of localized atomic orbital basis sets in the projector augmented wave (PAW) formalism within the density functional theory (DFT). The implementation in the real-space GPAW code provides a complementary basis…

We present a first-principles-based (second-principles) scheme that permits large-scale materials simulations including both atomic and electronic degrees of freedom on the same footing. The method is based on a predictive…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-08 Pablo García-Fernández , Jacek C. Wojdeł , Jorge Íñiguez , Javier Junquera

The projector augmented wave (PAW) method of Bl\"ochl linearly maps smooth pseudo wavefunctions to the highly oscillatory all-electron DFT orbitals. Compared to norm-conserving pseudopotentials (NCPP), PAW has the advantage of lower kinetic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Minh Nguyen , Tim Duong , Daniel Neuhauser

A new, very fast, implementation of the exact (Fock) exchange operator for electronic structure calculations within the plane-wave pseudopotential method is described in detail for both molecular and periodic systems, and carefully…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-12 Ivan Carnimeo , Stefano Baroni , Paolo Giannozzi

We make a gradient correction to a new local density approximation form of positron-electron correlation. Then the positron lifetimes and affinities are probed by using these two approximation forms based on three electronic-structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-25 Wen-Shuai Zhang , Bing-Chuan Gu , Xiao-Xi Han , Jian-Dang Liu , Bang-Jiao Ye

We have implemented the so called GW approximation (GWA) based on an all-electron full-potential Projector Augmented Wave (PAW) method. For the screening of the Coulomb interaction W we tested three different plasmon-pole dielectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Arnaud , M. Alouani

We present an efficient implemention of a non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) method for self-consistent calculations of electron transport and forces in nanostructured materials. The electronic structure is described at the level of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jingzhe Chen , Kristian S. Thygesen , Karsten W. Jacobsen

This study presents a novel optimisation technique for atomic structure calculations using the Flexible Atomic Code, focussing on complex multielectron systems relevant to $r$-process nucleosynthesis and kilonova modelling. We introduce a…

We present valence electron Compton profiles calculated within the density-functional theory using the all-electron full-potential projector augmented-wave method (PAW). Our results for covalent (Si), metallic (Li, Al) and hydrogen-bonded…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Makkonen , M. Hakala , M. J. Puska

We discuss our new implementation of the Real-space Electronic Structure method for studying the atomic and electronic structure of infinite periodic as well as finite systems, based on density functional theory. This improved version which…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 U. V. Waghmare , Hanchul Kim , I. J. Park , Normand Modine , P. Maragakis , Efthimios Kaxiras

First-principles molecular dynamics simulations based on density-functional theory and the projector augmented wave (PAW) technique have been used to study the structural and dynamical properties of liquid iron under Earth's core…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Alfe` , G. Kresse , M. J. Gillan

The purpose of this text is to give a self-contained description of the basic theory of the projector augmented-wave (PAW) method, as well as most of the details required to make the method work in practice. These two topics are covered in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-13 Carsten Rostgaard

A Projector Augmented Wave (PAW) atomic data file is needed to be generated for each element, and plays in the PAW method the role of the pseudopotential file for norm-conserving (NC) or ultra-soft (US) plane wave calculations. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-05 François Jollet , Marc Torrent , Natalie Holzwarth

The electronic band structures of two-dimensional materials are significantly different from those of their bulk counterparts, due to quantum confinement and strong modifications of electronic screening. An accurate determination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Tomáš Rauch , Miguel A. L. Marques , Silvana Botti

We present a general numerical approach to construct local Kohn-Sham potentials from orbital-dependent functionals within the all-electron full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (FLAPW) method, in which core and valence electrons…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-06 Markus Betzinger , Christoph Friedrich , Stefan Blügel , Andreas Görling

We present a fast and stable numerical technique to obtain the self-energy terms of electrodes for first-principles electron-transport calculations. Although first-principles calculations based on the real-space finite-difference method are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Tomoya Ono , Shigeru Tsukamoto

We describe the software package SPEX, which allows first-principles calculations of quasiparticle and collective electronic excitations in solids using techniques from many-body perturbation theory. The implementation is based on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-10 Arno Schindlmayr , Christoph Friedrich , Ersoy Sasioglu , Stefan Blügel

We provide accurate projected augmented wave (PAW) datasets for rare-earth (RE) elements with some suggested Hubbard U values allowing efficient plane-wave calculations. Solid state tests of generated datasets were performed on rare-earth…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-06 M. Topsakal , R. M. Wentzcovitch