La

PAW-potentials:

name

valence electrons

frozen core electrons

default

11

46

11 valence electrons

Radial cutoffs and eigenvalues:

id

occ

eig [eV]

cutoff [Bohr]

5s

2

-38.923

2.20

6s

2

-3.679

2.20

5p

6

-22.400

2.20

6p

0

-1.352

2.20

5d

1

-3.090

2.20

4f

0

-4.340

2.20

d

0

24.122

2.20

f

0

22.872

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/La.png

mode

E(FCC) [eV/atom]

E(BCC) [eV/atom]

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

PW(ecut=1200)

-4.752

-4.617

0.135

FD(h=0.13,0.12)

-4.751

-4.617

0.134

LCAO(h=0.13,0.12)

-3.840

-3.814

0.026

Egg-box errors in finite-difference mode:

grid-spacing [Å]

energy variation [meV]

0.13

0.813

0.15

5.508

0.19

0.999