Gd

PAW-potentials:

name

valence electrons

frozen core electrons

default

18

46

18 valence electrons

Radial cutoffs and eigenvalues:

id

occ

eig [eV]

cutoff [Bohr]

5s

2

-49.740

2.20

6s

2

-4.126

2.20

5p

6

-27.264

2.20

6p

0

-1.333

2.20

5d

1

-2.532

2.20

4f

7

-8.689

2.20

d

0

24.679

2.20

f

0

18.522

2.20

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/Gd.png

mode

E(FCC) [eV/atom]

E(BCC) [eV/atom]

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

PW(ecut=1200)

-6.359

-6.364

-0.005

FD(h=0.12,0.11)

-6.382

-6.392

-0.010

LCAO(h=0.12,0.11)

-3.513

-3.570

-0.057

Egg-box errors in finite-difference mode:

grid-spacing [Å]

energy variation [meV]

0.12

12.732

0.14

2.960

0.17

5.676

0.23

3.622