[Wien] Charged cell & Wien energy

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Wed Nov 30 08:27:31 CET 2005


I would NOT trust these energies either! 
There is no correction in E-tot for adding this background charge nor the 
global correction for charged cells (described in literature).

Use these charged cells only for "DOS" or core-level spectroscopy,...

> I've always had some reservations about using the energy number that comes out
> of a charged cell calculation for anything. Since I did not find this
> discussed anywhere on the list, maybe someone can educate me as to whether it
> is useful (with perhaps some corrections) or to be avoided like the plague.
> 
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