On Fri, 9 May 2008, Javier Antonio Montoya wrote:
javier, JAM> Thanks a lot, I would really appreciate if you can find your Pr pseudo, I am JAM> willing to take that risk. Same regarding the other ones, in case somebody JAM> already have them. The matter is that experimentally we already have the JAM> Raman and Infrared peak positions, plus the lattice constants, therefore, it JAM> will be pretty easy to decide whether or not the results make some sense and what paolo was pointing out is that you have a _fundamental_ problem. so even if you get a match, it will be by accident and not by design. what would that prove? only that you got lucky! yes, you want to match the experiment, but you want to match it for right reasons. i've seen this with uranium for example. it was giving reasonable results for some uranium oxide compounds at some lattice constant values but then it would just give complete crap at some others. JAM> then, to use them to support some microscopic analysis of the physics that JAM> is going on in our samples. Each material contains a single rare-earth JAM> element but it also contains oxygen and iron, I think there isn't a big risk so if you get crap for one element out of many (and i would not be so certain about iron either, that can be pretty nasty, too), how does that make your results better than if all elements would be doubtful. the only difference is that the error will be less obvious. JAM> on using the ones available from the repository in PWscf.org for those other JAM> two, therefore I just need to satisfy the NLCC, Van-US, PBE requirement also JAM> for the rare-earths in order to make them match. why? all you have to match is the functional! ...and as paolo had pointed out in some other mail, it looks like the vanderbilt type ultrasofts don't perform so well for "tricky" elements. it is definitely tricky to even get those potentials created with the vanderbilt code in a way they look reasonable to begin with. cheers, axel. JAM> JAM> Cheers, JAM> JAM> Javier. JAM> -- ======================================================================= Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey at cmm.chem.upenn.edu http://www.cmm.upenn.edu Center for Molecular Modeling -- University of Pennsylvania Department of Chemistry, 231 S.34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323 tel: 1-215-898-1582, fax: 1-215-573-6233, office-tel: 1-215-898-5425 ======================================================================= If you make something idiot-proof, the universe creates a better idiot.
