[Pw_forum] Request about the "real" total energy
Nicola Marzari
marzari at MIT.EDU
Mon Oct 4 13:13:54 CEST 2010
Dear Steve,
Indeed, you are freezing the core electrons in a pseudopotential - if
atomic energies are
what you are interested in, use the ld1.x code.
Of course, plane waves are not really the best choice for Hartree Fock
calculations (use a
quantum chemistry codes) but if you are concerned about comparisons,
maybe you could look
at potential energy surfaces - e.g. the dissociation of a molecule, or
the frequency normal modes -
there you could compare Hartree-Fock within pw.x with other known results.
Still, there could be better choices to get acqainted with the code -
maybe browse, from the
q-e website, the lectures/videos/tutorials of the 2009 Santa Barbara school.
nicola
steve ndengué wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We have an enquiry about some results appearing in the output file of
> the pw.x run.
>
> We are trying to perform computations on isolated atoms to try to get
> a significance of the results given by the code. We have to recall
> that we are new users of QE. And as far as we know it is not too much
> indicated for such kind of computations but it is rather a first try
> to get some understanding on the "behaviour" of the code.
>
> So the problem is that when performing the computations on He for
> example we obtain the correct ground state energy up to the
> Hartree-Fock limit. But when applied to other atoms (Li, Na, Be, C,
> ...) the value obtained do not correspond at all to the known value.
>
> We thus have 2 questions:
>
> 1- Why is it that the level of refinement obtained is the Hartree-Fock
> limit; we may have expected a better accuracy? Is it linked to the use
> of pseudo-potentials?
> 2- What can we do to recover the correct (up to the Hartree-Fock limit
> at least) total energy for the other atoms?
>
> Sincerely Yours,
> On behalf of the
> Groupe de Structure et Dynamique des Atomes et Molecules
> Laboratoire de Physique Fondamentale
> Département de Physique
> Université de Douala.
>
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