Yb

PAW-potentials:

name

valence electrons

frozen core electrons

default

24

46

24 valence electrons

Radial cutoffs and eigenvalues:

id

occ

eig [eV]

cutoff [Bohr]

5s

2

-54.928

2.20

6s

2

-3.920

2.20

5p

6

-27.426

2.20

6p

0

-1.107

2.20

5d

0

-0.667

2.20

4f

14

-3.009

2.20

d

0

26.544

2.20

f

0

24.202

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/Yb.png

mode

E(FCC) [eV/atom]

E(BCC) [eV/atom]

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

PW(ecut=1200)

-1.221

-1.232

-0.010

FD(h=0.13,0.12)

-1.279

-1.279

0.001

LCAO(h=0.13,0.12)

0.174

0.142

-0.032

Egg-box errors in finite-difference mode:

grid-spacing [Å]

energy variation [meV]

0.13

3.479

0.15

13.662

0.19

1.834