Re: [SIESTA-L] Question on VCA approach

2022-06-29 Por tôpico Alberto Garcia
Hi Roberto, The first reference is the closest in spirit, except that we incorporate the mix as the pseudopotential of a new "alchemical" species instead of keeping separate "pure" ghost atoms and using a weight factor for each. The second reference imposes extra conditions on the

[SIESTA-L] Question on VCA approach

2022-06-28 Por tôpico RCP
Dear developers, I'd like to know if there is a specific reference for the method of mixing pseudopotentials implemented in the VCA mixps utility. Are general refs. such as these two below suitable? L. Bellaiche & D. Vanderbilt, Phys. Rev. B 61(12), 7877 (2000) N.J. Ramer & A.M. Rappe, J.