Ni.10

PAW-potentials:

name

valence electrons

frozen core electrons

default

16

12

'10'

10

18

16 valence electrons

Radial cutoffs and eigenvalues:

id

occ

eig [eV]

cutoff [Bohr]

4s

2

-5.642

2.20

3p

6

-71.394

2.28

4p

0

-1.226

2.28

3d

8

-8.875

2.15

s

0

21.570

2.20

d

0

18.337

2.15

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/Ni.png

mode

E(FCC) [eV/atom]

E(BCC) [eV/atom]

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

PW(ecut=1200)

-7.288

-7.168

0.120

FD(h=0.13,0.12)

-7.296

-7.176

0.121

LCAO(h=0.13,0.12)

-6.871

-6.766

0.105

Egg-box errors in finite-difference mode:

grid-spacing [Å]

energy variation [meV]

0.13

0.096

0.17

0.407

0.25

2.840

10 valence electrons

Radial cutoffs and eigenvalues:

id

occ

eig [eV]

cutoff [Bohr]

4s

2

-5.641

1.80

4p

0

-1.226

1.90

3d

8

-8.875

1.80

s

0

21.570

1.80

p

0

25.986

1.90

d

0

18.337

1.80

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/Ni.10.png

mode

E(FCC) [eV/atom]

E(BCC) [eV/atom]

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

PW(ecut=1200)

-7.241

-7.123

0.117

FD(h=0.13,0.12)

-7.286

-7.163

0.122

LCAO(h=0.13,0.12)

-6.424

-6.338

0.086

Egg-box errors in finite-difference mode:

grid-spacing [Å]

energy variation [meV]

0.13

0.593

0.17

0.320

0.25

50.227