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Calculating DMFT forces in ab-initio ultrasoft pseudopotential formalism

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2021-12-20 v2 Materials Science

Abstract

In this paper, we show how to calculate analytical atomic forces within self-consistent density functional theory + dynamical mean-field theory (DFT+DMFT) approach in the case when ultra-soft or norm-conserving pseudopotentials are used. We show how to treat the non-local projection terms arising within the pseudopotential formalism and circumvent the problem of non-orthogonality of the Kohn-Sham eigenvectors. Our approach is, in principle, independent of the DMFT solver employed, and here was tested with the Hubbard I solver. We benchmark our formalism by comparing against the forces calculated in Ce2_{2}O3_{3} and PrO2_2 by numerical differentiation of the total free energy, as well as by comparing the energy profiles against the numerically integrated analytical forces.

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@article{arxiv.2102.04756,
  title  = {Calculating DMFT forces in ab-initio ultrasoft pseudopotential formalism},
  author = {Evgeny Plekhanov and Nicola Bonini and Cedric Weber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.04756},
  year   = {2021}
}

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12 pages, 3 figures

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