[Wien] mBJ potential for molecules?

2010-08-02 Thread Ricardo Faccio
, 2010 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [Wien] mBJ potential for molecules? mBJ was designed for solids and it could well be that for a molecules the procedure to determine a proper c-value (average of grad rho/rho) does not work and you get unphysical values due to the vacuum region. In such a case I can

[Wien] mBJ potential for molecules?

2010-07-28 Thread Ricardo Faccio
Dear users I've been working on the isolated molecule catechol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catechol) in order to see how mBJ affects its HOMO-LUMO gap. The initialization and convergence at GGA-PBE level went fine, obtaining a energy gap of 4.0 eV in concordance with other DFT codes.