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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you very much for your kind and helpful reply.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Indeed, I can’t get the correct stability with PBE+U as claimed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ken<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Wien <wien-bounces@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at> on behalf of Peter Blaha <peter.blaha@tuwien.ac.at><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, August 25, 2023 at 11:48 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at <wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Wien] Optimized lattice constants using pbe+U<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hard to say without repeating the calculations, but:<br>
<br>
a) I see nothing wrong in your calculation setups/procedure<br>
b) I've seen previously VERY wrong PBE+U results using VASP in other <br>
cases. VASP potentials have been optimized for PBE (and probably for <br>
HSE), and those results are usually ok, but I don't know about PBE+U.<br>
c) At the time when the rutile/anatase stability problem came up, I let <br>
a student try if PBE+U could fix it. It did not do it. But this is long <br>
time ago.<br>
<br>
Maybe repeat one U value with a significantly larger RMT for Ti. Note <br>
that the Hubbard-U is applied only within the spheres in WIEN2k and <br>
since the Ti-3d states are not too localized, there might be an effect.<br>
<br>
Am 24.08.2023 um 17:55 schrieb Park, Ken:<br>
> Dear Wien2k experts,<br>
> <br>
> I have been studying the effect of the Hubbard U on various phases of <br>
> TiO2 using wien2k 23.2. I have observed that some calculated properties <br>
> are different from those reported in literature (mostly with <br>
> pseudopotential) and would like to get your suggestions to see if I have <br>
> made a mistake.<br>
> <br>
> For rutile TiO2 using pbe, my optimized lattice constants are a=4.648 Å <br>
> and c=2.966Å, which are close to the published result of 4.650 and 2.968 <br>
> [1]. However, after I added U= 6eV and ran the optimization, I obtained <br>
> a=4.655 Å and c=3.000Å, in contrast to a=4.687Å and c=3.042Å for U=5 eV <br>
> in [1].<br>
> <br>
> [1] <br>
> <a href="https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/135/5/054503/190719/DFT-U-calculations-of-crystal-lattice-electronic">
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> <br>
> So I performed a systemic study using U=3, 5, 8, 10 eV as in [1] and <br>
> obtained the following:<br>
> <br>
> U=3        a=4.650                c=2.985                vs U=3   <br>
>                 a=4.671                c=3.012 [1]<br>
> <br>
> U=5        a=4.649                c=2.995                 vs <br>
> U=5                   a=4.687                c=3.042 [1]<br>
> <br>
> U=8        a=4.652                c=3.011                vs <br>
> U=8                   a=4.709                c=3.081 [1]<br>
> <br>
> U=10     a=4.655                c=3.021                vs <br>
> U=10                a=4.725                c=3.108 [1]<br>
> <br>
> The lattice constant a is nearly constant or expanded very little <br>
> despite the increasing U whereas the constant c shows a similar increase <br>
> albeit by smaller amount. In rutile, c is the direction of the Ti-Ti <br>
> short chain.<br>
> <br>
> I have checked the band gaps and they are comparable with the reported <br>
> results.<br>
> <br>
> U=3        2.24 eV                 vs U=3                  2.15 eV [1]<br>
> <br>
> U=5        2.42 eV                 vs U=5                   2.3 eV  [1]<br>
> <br>
> U=8        2.72 eV                 vs U=8                   2.7 eV [1]<br>
> <br>
> U=10     2.98 eV                 vs U=10                2.92 eV [1]<br>
> <br>
> For your information, I have copied the input files case.inorb and <br>
> case.indm and the top portion of the structure file.<br>
> <br>
>    1  1  0                     nmod, natorb, ipr<br>
> <br>
> PRATT  1.0                    BROYD/PRATT, mixing<br>
> <br>
>    1 1 2                          iatom nlorb, lorb<br>
> <br>
>    1                              nsic 0..AMF, 1..SIC, 2..HFM<br>
> <br>
>     0.44 0.00        U J (Ry)   Note: you can also use U_eff = U-J and J=0<br>
> <br>
> -12.                      Emin cutoff energy<br>
> <br>
> 1                       number of atoms for which density matrix is <br>
> calculated<br>
> <br>
> 1  1  2      index of 1st atom, number of L's, L1<br>
> <br>
> 0 0           r-index, (l,s)index<br>
> <br>
> TiO2<br>
> <br>
> P                            2<br>
> <br>
>               RELA<br>
> <br>
>    8.788126  8.788126  5.669865 90.000000 90.000000 90.000000<br>
> <br>
> ATOM  -1: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.00000000<br>
> <br>
>            MULT= 2          ISPLIT= 8<br>
> <br>
>        -1: X=0.50000000 Y=0.50000000 Z=0.50000000<br>
> <br>
> Ti         NPT=  781  R0=0.00005000 RMT=    1.7800   Z:  22.00000<br>
> <br>
>                       0.7071068 0.7071068 0.0000000<br>
> <br>
>                      -0.7071068 0.7071068 0.0000000<br>
> <br>
>                       0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000<br>
> <br>
> ATOM  -2: X=0.30509790 Y=0.30509790 Z=0.00000000<br>
> <br>
>            MULT= 4          ISPLIT= 8<br>
> <br>
>        -2: X=0.69490210 Y=0.69490210 Z=0.00000000<br>
> <br>
>        -2: X=0.19490210 Y=0.80509790 Z=0.50000000<br>
> <br>
>        -2: X=0.80509790 Y=0.19490210 Z=0.50000000<br>
> <br>
> O          NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    1.6100   Z:   8.00000<br>
> <br>
>                       0.0000000-0.7071068 0.7071068<br>
> <br>
>                       0.0000000 0.7071068 0.7071068<br>
> <br>
>                      -1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000<br>
> <br>
>    16      NUMBER OF SYMMETRY OPERATIONS<br>
> <br>
> I optimized the structure with ‘runsp_lapw -p -orb -min -ec 0.00001 -cc <br>
> 0.0001 -fc 1’ (or smaller fc) using rkmax 9 (or 10 to check for <br>
> convergence) and default values such as k-mesh and gmax. I also used two <br>
> different ways to check the optimization: one varying volume and varying <br>
> c/a, and the second varying a and c. Both methods yielded the same or <br>
> consistent results.<br>
> <br>
> I am not sure if I have errored using pbe+U and if so, where, but I <br>
> would very much appreciate your advice.<br>
> <br>
> Sincerely,<br>
> <br>
> Ken Park<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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