By David J. Singh
With its severe accuracy and average computational potency, the linearized augmented airplane wave (LAPW) procedure has emerged because the ordinary in which density useful calculations for transition steel and rare-earth containing fabrics are judged. the second one variation of Planewaves, Pseudopotentials and the LAPW strategy offers an up to date, thorough and self-contained exposition of the 1st rules equipment for calculating homes of solids, particularly the "LAPW" technique and should make connections among this system and planewave pseudopotential methods. concept is mentioned, however the emphasis is on how useful implementation proceeds. moreover, the writer indicates destiny instructions for adapting the LAPW solution to simulations of advanced fabrics requiring huge unit cells. He does this by way of elucidating the connections among the LAPW technique and planewave pseudopotential ways and by means of displaying how Car-Parrinello kind algorithms will be tailored to the LAPW strategy. the hot version includes new sections on advancements during the last 10 years, together with for instance the LDA+U technique, non-collinear magnetism and the APW+LO strategy.
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1) T e S, where
The individual functions, which are labeled by G and consist of single planewaves in the interstitial matched to radial functions in the spheres, are the augmented planewaves, or APWs. If E^ were taken as a fixed parameter, rather than a variational coefficient, the APW method would simply amount to the use of the APWs as a basis. This would result in a standard secular equation (Eqn. 17; the APWs are not orthogonal so there would be a non-trivial overlap matrix, S). The solution of this secular equation would then yield the band energies and wavefunctions.
In the original CP procedure a global electronic mass, //, is used in the simulation. As mentioned, a careful choice of this mass is important in obtaining the electronic structure in a reasonable number of time steps. Payne etal. [138] recognized that it is neither necessary nor desirable to treat all the electronic degrees of freedom on the same footing. In fact, they showed that the integration of the equations of motion in a planewave basis yields harmonic oscillator solutions; the oscillator frequency, a;, depends on the wavevector, k + G, and for large wavevectors is proportional to |k + G|.
