<html><body>Dear Wien2k mailing list,<br><br>recently I've become interested in calculating XPS shifts for some TiO2-based compounds. For some initial testing I've took plain rutile and anatase, made a supercells around 100 atoms and calculated shifts of core O 1s state to get familiar with the process. I've tried two approaches: deltaSCF and the Slater's transition state as suggested for example here: http://www.mail-archive.com/wien%40zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg01128.html .<br>The Slater's transition state approach seems to work fine and the rutile O 1s state is predicted 0.38eV deeper than in the anatase, in accordance with experimental value (0.4eV [1]), however for deltaSCF approach I get completely different trend and the rutile O 1s state is predicted 1eV above anatase O 1s.<br>Since in all papers and tutorials I've read the both approaches should give very similar results, it is quite bothering me, why I'm getting this difference. Can anyone suggest a reason for this discrepancy? The cases were converged with respect to number of k-points as well as Rkm and the supercell size should also hopefully be enough... I've also tried LDA vs PBE, however the result were the same. <br>Any ideas?<br><br>Best regards<br>Pavel Ondračka<br><br>[1] Pfeifer, V., Erhart, P., Li, S., Rachut, K., Morasch, J., Brötz, J., … Klein, A. (2013). Energy Band Alignment between Anatase and Rutile TiO 2. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 4(23), 4182–4187. http://doi.org/10.1021/jz402165b<br></body></html>