Ar

PAW-potentials:

name

valence electrons

frozen core electrons

default

8

10

8 valence electrons

Radial cutoffs and eigenvalues:

id

occ

eig [eV]

cutoff [Bohr]

3s

2

-24.282

1.60

3p

6

-10.269

1.60

s

0

2.930

1.60

p

0

16.942

1.60

d

0

0.000

1.60

The figure shows convergence of the absolute FCC-energy (blue lines) and BCC-FCC energy difference (orange lines) relative to converged numbers (plane-wave calculation at 1200 eV).

../_images/Ar.png

mode

E(FCC) [eV/atom]

E(BCC) [eV/atom]

E(BCC)-E(FCC) [eV/atom]

PW(ecut=1200)

-0.030

-0.029

0.001

FD(h=0.12,0.12)

-0.028

-0.028

0.001

LCAO(h=0.12,0.12)

0.460

0.461

0.001

Egg-box errors in finite-difference mode:

grid-spacing [Å]

energy variation [meV]

0.12

0.315

0.14

0.302

0.17

0.323

0.21

0.598