<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Prof. Marks,<br><br></div>I believe I am having to understand about the mentioned points:<br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span></div><br><div dir="auto">1) Why is your number for the band gap "wrong", whereas what someone else calculated with HSE is "right"?<br><br></div><div dir="auto">Ans: Maybe you want to ask me why the band gap from my calculations should be fine instead of HSE. If so, then I shall mention that hybrid calculations are already a well know approach to predict the band gap of inorganic systems.<br><br></div><div dir="auto">2) What is the purpose of optimizing internal and cell parameters?<br><br></div><div>Ans: To get the minimum forces on the system and by doing total optimization the system would be in the most stable ground state and can give accurate properties if the most suitable approach is applied!!<br> <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">3) Are the cell and internal parameters of PBEsol the same as what they should be with mBJ? What does "should be" mean here?<br><br></div><div>Ans: Yes, structure file is same for PBESol and mBJ. According to me you wanted to ask me whether I have applied any changes in mBJ calculation, like relaxation (which is not possible and I did not apply).<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I just did PBESol scf >> save_lapw case_scf>>> one scf cycle>> save_lapw mbjx_grr >>> spacified the mBJ approach and finally mBJ scf.<br><br><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">regards<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Bhamu<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 8, 2018 3:41 AM, "Dr. K. C. Bhamu" <<a href="mailto:kcbhamu85@gmail.com" target="_blank">kcbhamu85@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_-4756249324881572945quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="auto">No, I said the calculated gal is ~0.3eV less then the reported gap: HSE.
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<div dir="auto">I tested this on more than 10 systems and in each case obsessed this band gap discrepancy.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="m_-4756249324881572945elided-text">On Feb 8, 2018 3:05 PM, <<a href="mailto:tran@theochem.tuwien.ac.at" target="_blank">tran@theochem.tuwien.ac.at</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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A band gap of 0.3 eV is very small and a change of lattice constant may<br>
be enough to close the band gap.<br>
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On Thursday 2018-02-08 10:30, Dr. K. C. Bhamu wrote:<br>
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 10:30:29<br>
From: Dr. K. C. Bhamu <<a href="mailto:kcbhamu85@gmail.com" target="_blank">kcbhamu85@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [Wien] a note on lattice parameter optimization<br>
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Yes, I used PBESol followed by mBJ.<br>
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On Feb 8, 2018 2:28 PM, <<a href="mailto:tran@theochem.tuwien.ac.at" target="_blank">tran@theochem.tuwien.ac.at</a>> wrote:<br>
Hi,<br>
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Did you use mBJ to calculate the band gap in both procedures?<br>
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FT<br>
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On Thursday 2018-02-08 09:35, Dr. K. C. Bhamu wrote:<br>
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 09:35:08<br>
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Subject: [Wien] a note on lattice parameter optimization<br>
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Hello,<br>
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Using experimental lattice parameters(a Ang), I optimized the structure with two options.<br>
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1. Directly optimized the structure without min_lapw ... and the optimized lattice parameters are in the vicinity of Exp a (~0.01 Ang accuracy) and the calculated band gap (from mBJ2) is in agreement with reported value ~0.3 eV less.<br>
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2. First relaxed the structure and then optimized this relaxed structure (without min_lapw ....). In this case the optimized lattice parameters are reduced by ~0.05 Ang and the band gap vanished or largely reduced.<br>
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Why is the second way of doing band structure not working?<br>
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I tested it on many systems. In some case system became metal and in some cases band gap largely reduced when I used the fully relaxed structure for optimization.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Bhamu<br>
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