[Wien] total energy converting

Oleg Rubel oleg.rubel at Physik.Uni-Marburg.de
Mon Sep 11 13:01:33 CEST 2006


WIEN2k is an all electron code, while VASP is a pseudopotential code.
Therefore it makes no sense to compare total energies directly.

Regards,
Oleg Rubel

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On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, youcef bouhadda wrote:

> thank you for your replay
> in my last message i have send you a wrong value of
> energy with volume optimization, the right i have
> found the total energy: -277.826321 Ry (LiBH4 (pnma)),
> i still in confuse because in the work of Vajeeston
> and al(J.Alloys Compounds387(2005)97-104)using VASP
> they found another values, also Kang et al(Appl.
> Phys.Lett 87 (2005) they found -333.816 evper formula
> unit. i thank that i have a problem in converting the
> total energy from Ry to ev per formula unit.  Please
> show me how i can
> convert this energy to ev per formula unit.
> thank you again
> PS:you can find here the ploting of volum
> optimiszation. for the details ( lattice structure,
> enrgy parametre of calculation it will in my previews message
>
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