Generalized gradient approximation adjusted to transition metals properties : Key roles of exchange and local spin density

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of computational chemistry. - 1984. - 41(2020), 30 vom: 15. Nov., Seite 2598-2603
1. Verfasser: Vega, Lorena (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Viñes, Francesc
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2020
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of computational chemistry
Schlagworte:Journal Article DFT PBE PBEsol exchange and correlation functional transition metals
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Zusammenfassung:© 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) and PBE adapted for solids (PBEsol) are exchange-correlation (xc) functionals widely used in density functional theory simulations. Their differences are the exchange, μ, and correlation, β, coefficients, causing PBEsol to lose the Local Spin Density (LSD) response. Here, the μ/β two-dimensional (2D) accuracy landscape is analyzed between PBE and PBEsol xc functional limits for 27 transition metal (TM) bulks, as well as for 81 TM surfaces. Several properties are analyzed, including the shortest interatomic distances, cohesive energies, and bulk moduli for TM bulks, and surface relaxation degree, surface energies, and work functions for TM surfaces. The exploration, comparing the accuracy degree with respect experimental values, reveals that the found xc minimum, called VV, being a PBE variant, represents an improvement of 5% in mean absolute percentage error terms, whereas this improvement reaches ~11% for VVsol, a xc resulting from the restoration of LSD response in PBEsol, and so regarded as its variant
Beschreibung:Date Revised 07.12.2020
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1096-987X
DOI:10.1002/jcc.26415