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    <p><font face="Times New Roman">In [1], it says:</font></p>
    <p><font face="Times New Roman"><i>In Refs. [77,82] we showed that a
          correct description of the band gap and electric-field
          gradient (EFG) in Cu2O could only be achieved with the hybrid
          functionals, while the results</i><i> </i><i>obtained with
          the LDA, GGA, LDA+U, and mBJ methods</i><i> </i><i>were
          qualitatively wrong.</i><br>
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    <p><font face="Times New Roman">In TABLE IV of [2], GGA (PBE) gap is
        0.53 eV.  In TABLE I of [3], mBJ gap is 0.82 eV.</font></p>
    <p><font face="Times New Roman">I'm not seeing a WIEN2k value reported
        for GGA+U, but maybe it is close to </font><font face="Times
        New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">the 0.79 eV gap (AMF, U
          = 8 eV) LDA+U calculation [2] or </font>the 0.67 eV gap (with
        U of 7 eV) GGA+U calculation by VASP [4].<br>
      </font></p>
    <p><font face="Times New Roman">The 0.53 eV, 0.82 eV, and 0.67 eV
        above round up to be approximately 1.0 eV, which is around the
        1.0 eV that you report.</font></p>
    <p><font face="Times New Roman">On the other hand, GGA+U+mBJ
        calculation may give </font><font face="Times New Roman"><font
          face="Times New Roman">1.60 eV [6].</font></font></p>
    <p><font face="Times New Roman">[1]
        <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_238321.pdf">https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_238321.pdf</a></font><br>
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    [2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_197400.pdf">https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_197400.pdf</a><br>
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    [3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_197196.pdf">https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_197196.pdf</a><br>
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    [4] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3231869">http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3231869</a><br>
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    [5] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4798706">http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4798706</a> <br>
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    [6] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4798706">http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4798706</a> (TABLE I)<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/18/2017 9:14 PM, halim said wrote:<br>
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      cite="mid:1032135989.947308.1503112490218@mail.yahoo.com">
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        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span
            id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2780">Dear Prof. Tran,</span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span><br>
          </span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span>Hi,</span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span><br>
          </span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span><br>
          </span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span
            id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2901">Thank you for your
            answer, I mean withing GGA, mBJ-GGA, and GGA+U, I found the
            energy gap around 1 eV.</span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span><br>
          </span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span
            id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2902">In principle the
            experimental gap is about 2 eV.</span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span><br>
          </span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span>Where is
            the problem?</span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span><br>
          </span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span>Thank you
            for your help.</span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span><br>
          </span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span>Yours
            sincerely,</span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span><br>
          </span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span>Halim Said</span></div>
        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span><br>
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        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503112316742_2781"><span>I a</span></div>
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              <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> Le Vendredi 18
                  août 2017 23h29, <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tran@theochem.tuwien.ac.at">"tran@theochem.tuwien.ac.at"</a>
                  <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tran@theochem.tuwien.ac.at"><tran@theochem.tuwien.ac.at></a> a écrit :<br>
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                <div dir="ltr">Hi,<br clear="none">
                  <br clear="none">
                  What do you mean by 1 eV? Does it mean that all<br
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                  gaps are at exactly 1.0 eV or in a range like 0.5-1.5
                  eV?<br clear="none">
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                  You can compare your results with those in these two
                  articles:<br clear="none">
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                    href="https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_197400.pdf"
                    target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_197400.pdf</a><br
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                  <a shape="rect"
                    href="https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_197196.pdf"
                    target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_197196.pdf</a><br
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                  Cu2O is a special case for which mBJ and GGA+U are not
                  really<br clear="none">
                  better than GGA.<br clear="none">
                  <br clear="none">
                  FT<br clear="none">
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                  On Friday 2017-08-18 21:42, halim said wrote:<br
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                  >Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 21:42:24<br clear="none">
                  >From: halim said <<a shape="rect"
                    ymailto="mailto:halim_said04@yahoo.fr"
                    href="mailto:halim_said04@yahoo.fr"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">halim_said04@yahoo.fr</a>><br
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                  >Reply-To: A Mailing list for WIEN2k users <<a
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                    ymailto="mailto:wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at"
                    href="mailto:wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at</a>><br
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                  >To: "<a shape="rect"
                    ymailto="mailto:wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at"
                    href="mailto:wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at</a>"
                  <<a shape="rect"
                    ymailto="mailto:wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at"
                    href="mailto:wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at</a>><br
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                  >Subject: [Wien] problem of energy gap within mBJ
                  <div class="yqt8474273657" id="yqtfd06810"><br
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                    >Dear Professor Peter Blaha, Tran and Wien2k
                    users,<br clear="none">
                    ><br clear="none">
                    >I have computed the energy gap for Cu2O by using
                    GGA, mBJ, and GGA+U, I got same energy gap of 1 eV.<br
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                    >In principle by using mBJ, the energy gap should
                    be increased close to expermimental value around 2
                    eV.<br clear="none">
                    >Why mBJ is giving same value as GGA and it is
                    not improved? even I tried GGA+U and the same
                    problem and no thing was changed for all
                    approximations.<br clear="none">
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                    >I would be thankful for your suggestion and
                    answer to solve the problem.<br clear="none">
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                    >Sincerely yours,<br clear="none">
                    ><br clear="none">
                    >Halim Said</div>
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