[Wien] Optimization of hexagonal lattice

Laurence Marks L-marks at northwestern.edu
Mon Apr 2 16:53:08 CEST 2012


With PBE they normally are too large by a few percent. If it really matters
WC amd PBEsol are often better for lattice parameters, although they are
also slightly more covalent.

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Professor Laurence Marks
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 On Apr 2, 2012 9:28 AM, "Souheyla Mamoun" <mamoun_souheyla at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Dear all
>
> I try to get the optimized lattice parameters a and c of hexagonal
> structure with space group 161 R3c using both of the volume and c/a
> optimizations. My obtained results are not comparable (too great) to the
> experimental and theoretical data.
> Can you show me the procedure of optimization with relaxation, please?
>
>
> Souheyla
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