1. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 161 PHY 752 Solid State Physics 11-11:50 AM MWF Olin 103 Plan for Lecture 16: Reading: Chapter 5 in GGGPP Ingredients of electronic structure calculations 1.Plane wave basis sets 2.Construction of pseudopotentials 3.Projector Augmented Wave (PAW) method

2. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 162

3. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 163

4. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 164

5. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 165 Some practical considerations in electronic structure calculations

6. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 166 Kohn-Sham equations (assuming “local” potential)  Strong motivation for the development of pseudopotentials

7. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 167 How can we construct a pseudopotential? Norm-conserving pseudopotentials

8. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 168

9. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 169 r (Bohr) rV(r) (Bohr * Ry Self-consistent full potential for C Local pseudopotential for C

10. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1610 Some details of pseudopotential construction from Troullier and Martins Atomic Kohn-Sham equation for all-electron potential (atomic (Hartree) units AE Corresponding atomic Kohn-Sham equation for pseudoptential PP

11. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1611 Conditions of AE and PP functions:

12. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1612 Benefit of these conditions  Pseudo-wavefunction accurately represents correct functional form in valence region  Kohn-Sham equations correctly solved at energy of reference state and its neighborhood

13. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1613 Troullier-Martins recipe Conditions to determine coefficients c n

14. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1614 Conditions on coeffients, continued:

15. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1615 r (Bohr) rV(r) (Bohr * Ry Self-consistent full potential for C Local pseudopotential for C Example of Troullier-Martin pseudopotential for C

16. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1616 Properties of pseudopotential and corresponding pseudo- wavefunctions  Correct logarithmic derivatives at energy E and at nearby energies Pseudopotential form in terms of polynomial p(r):

17. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1617 Construction energy E (Ry) L[P]

18. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1618 The construction ensures that  PS and AE have same log derivatives near E  What about other partial waves? (Non-local contributions to pseudopotential)

19. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1619 PAW representation of Kohn-Sham orbitals Evaluation of the energy of the system

20. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1620 Example of atomic basis and projector functions

21. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1621 Clever secret of PAW method; partitioning of planewave and one center contributions

22. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1622 Construction of atom centered basis and projector functions: rcrc r

23. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1623 Construction of atom centered basis and projector functions – continued (scheme developed by David Vanderbilt for ultra- soft pseudopotentials; for each l channel at at time):

24. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1624 Example for C r

25. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1625 Example for C -- continued

26. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1626 Example for C -- continued log derivatives for l=0 E

27. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1627 Example for C -- continued log derivatives for l=1 E

28. 9/30/2015PHY 752 Fall 2015 -- Lecture 1628 Example for C -- continued log derivatives for l=2 E