[Wien] inst file editing
Peter Blaha
pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Sat Apr 1 10:32:27 CEST 2006
> I was just trying to optimise my cell to a volume smaller or equal to the
> experimental value. My derivations now are giving me a value ~ 0.02Ang larger.
> So I tried to reduce the core size to see if that would help.
> I would appreciate your suggestions on the best way of getting smaller
> optimised volumes for a FCC cell .
This ougth to be an "ab initio" method. Hopefully, what comes out is what
a particular DFT-functional gives. You must not fiddle around and make a
"bad" calculation, just to obtain better agreement with experiment.
PS: 0.02 Ang seems very close to exp., much better than you can expect in
most cases.
P.Blaha
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