[Wien] Why unit cell energy is same on increasing pressure ? and Band gap problem with pressure.
Stefaan Cottenier
Stefaan.Cottenier at UGent.be
Fri Jun 21 17:51:45 CEST 2013
> Your lowest energy is at 10GPa,
Ups.. I did not notice that, as I compared only the 0 and 30 GPa cases.
My guess about what has happened: GGA was used to determine the 4
volumes. While the table shows not the GGA energies but rather the GGA+U
energies.
If that guess is correct, then the advice is: be consistent and
determine the pressure at the same level of theory as you use for the
band gap. This holds at least for GGA+U, not as much for mBJ as the
latter is not a functional (no forces = no internal positions).
Stefaan
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