Cu

PAW-potentials:

name

valence electrons

frozen core electrons

default

11

18

11 valence electrons

Radial cutoffs and eigenvalues:

id

occ

eig [eV]

cutoff [Bohr]

4s

1

-4.609

2.20

4p

0

-0.698

2.20

3d

10

-5.039

2.00

s

0

22.603

2.20

p

0

26.513

2.20

d

0

22.172

2.00

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/Cu.png

mode

E(FCC) [eV/atom]

E(BCC) [eV/atom]

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

PW(ecut=1200)

-3.729

-3.697

0.032

FD(h=0.13,0.13)

-3.752

-3.714

0.038

LCAO(h=0.13,0.13)

-3.498

-3.475

0.023

Egg-box errors in finite-difference mode:

grid-spacing [Å]

energy variation [meV]

0.13

0.652

0.17

3.504

0.26

10.262