<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Thank you Tran<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I raised the question because of the follwing statement i found on the article: <br><br>RSC Adv. 2015, 5. 18391: DOI: 10.1039/c4ra16966b <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I came across a statement says " LDA usually overbinds solid and thus underestimates the lattice constant. However, for many layered materials where the van der Waals interactions play the important role for the equilibrium geometry, LDA accidently gives reasonable equilibrium structural parameters such as lattice constant and inter-layer distance" [ref 32]<br><br>[32] Philipp Haas, Fabien Tran, and Peter Blaha,
PHYSICAL REVIEW B79, 085104 2009.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Thanx for alerting me by the article: Testing several recent van der Waals density functionals for layered structures, <span>J. Chem. Phys. <span class="">141</span></span><span>, 074708</span><span> (2014)</span><span>;<br><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span>osama<br>================<br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br><br> </div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:16 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tran@theochem.tuwien.ac.at" target="_blank">tran@theochem.tuwien.ac.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">No. Formally, both LDA and GGA do not take into account van der Waals<br>
interactions. vdW interactions are taken into account only with more<br>
adanced functionals:<br>
<a href="http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/141/7/10.1063/1.4893329" target="_blank">http://scitation.aip.org/<u></u>content/aip/journal/jcp/141/7/<u></u>10.1063/1.4893329</a><br>
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On Mon, 9 Mar 2015, Osama Yassin wrote:<br>
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Dear Prof Blaha,<br>
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With reference to the paper<br>
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Calculation of the lattice constant of solids with semilocal functionals<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"></div>Philipp Haas, Fabien Tran, and Peter Blaha<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"></div>PHYSICAL REVIEW B79, 085104 2009 <br>
For layred metal dichalcogenides (e. g. WS2), does it sound correct if the<br>
difference between the lattice constants obtained by LDA and that obtained<br>
GGA is equivalent to the lattice contraction due to van der Waals forces?<br>
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Osama <br>
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science<br>
Taibah University, A-Madinah Al-Munawarh, K. Saudi Arabia<br>
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one<br>
could find fault.<br></blockquote></blockquote></div><br></div></div>