[Wien] LDA+U forces

Leonardo Pisani pisani at itp.uni-frankfurt.de
Tue Sep 28 16:35:00 CEST 2004


>
> Unfortunately, forces are not correct in LDA+U (nor with spin-orbit
> coupling). These terms have extra contributions to E-tot and thus also to
> dE/dR = -F


this means that optimization of atomic coordinates can be done within LDA+U 
only using an energy surface minimum criterion and not a zero-force criterion?




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