<div dir="auto">My approach. You chose some valid set of experimental knowns, e.g. atomization energies of clusters, heats of formation, reactions using relevant atoms. You then vary the fraction to find the best fit. The value will only be "best" to about 0.05.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">An alternative that in a few cases worked surprisingly well (with -eece) is to minimize the forces using the experimental bulk positions, allowing for a lattice parameter change.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I do not consider fitting the band gap to be valid, as this is an excited state property. It is valid with +U as this is implicitly a quasi-excited method since it is defined via change in occupancy.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">---<br>Professor Laurence Marks<br>"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought", Albert Szent-Gyorgi<br><a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu">http://www.numis.northwestern.edu</a><br>Corrosion in 4D <a href="http://MURI4D.numis.northwestern.edu">http://MURI4D.numis.northwestern.edu</a><br>Partner of the CFW 100% gender equity project, <a href="http://www.cfw.org/100-percent">www.cfw.org/100-percent</a><br>Co-Editor, Acta Cryst A<br> </div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 23, 2017 07:36, "Wien2k User" <<a href="mailto:wien2k.user@gmail.com">wien2k.user@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span class="m_-7200932975362384524gmail-" id="m_-7200932975362384524gmail-result_box" lang="en"><span class="m_-7200932975362384524gmail-">In a recently published work using Hybrid Funtional I read that the authors have optimized the
</span></span><span class="m_-7200932975362384524gmail-" id="m_-7200932975362384524gmail-result_box" lang="en"><span class="m_-7200932975362384524gmail-"><span class="m_-7200932975362384524gmail-st">fraction of exact exchange
</span>but I did not understand how to choose its optimal value</span><br>
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My question is how to optimize the </span></span><span class="m_-7200932975362384524gmail-st">fraction of exact exchange (alpha)<em>.<br>
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