On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Wenqing ZHANG wrote:

| Hi, there,
|
| Does anyone have experience with Se bulk with Siesta?

No, but with Se-based semiconductors. It seems essential to include
3d in the valence band for getting reasonable volume.
I use

Se ca nrl nc
ATM3      no_date   Troullier-Martins
4s 2.00  r= 1.89/4p 4.00  r= 1.99/3d10.00  r= 1.19/4f  .00  r= 1.49/

and acordingly for the basis (DZP seems to work fine). Hopefully this helps...

Andrei Postnikov

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