Dear fellows, I am swimming (but not diving yet) in the sea of hybrid functionals. I need to estimate bandgap corrections of a crystal made of benzene-like molecules. After some googling, I am almost at the same place, but looking to the HSE functional, and I tested the HSE and the TPSS with the example of silicon. I request a few advise, these are my dubts
1) Does the metaGGA functional TPSS improves the bandgap ? 2) What pseudopotential (i.e. what functional) can be used for a calculation with HSE? 3) What kind of pseudoptential are the CPBE*nlcc.RRKJ3 in EXX_example 4) I would appreciate a recommendation of a published benchmark on the performance of different functionals for the gap. Thanks -- Eduardo Menendez Proupin Departamento de Qu?mica Fisica Aplicada Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid 28049 Madrid, Spain Phone: +34 91 497 6706 On leave from: Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile URL: http://fisica.ciencias.uchile.cl/~emenendez "*Padece, espera y trabaja para gentes que nunca conocer? y que a su vez padecer?n, esperar?n y trabajar?n para otros, que tampoco ser?n felices, pues el hombre ans?a siempre una felicidad situada m?s all? de la porci?n que le es otorgada. Pero la grandeza del hombre est? precisamente en querer mejorar lo que es. En imponerse Tareas. En el Reino de los Cielos no hay grandeza que conquistar, puesto que all? todo es jerarqu?a establecida, inc?gnita despejada, existir sin t?rmino, imposibilidad de sacrificio, reposo y deleite. Por ello, agobiado de penas y de Tareas, hermoso dentro de su miseria, capaz de amar en medio de las plagas, el hombre puede hallar su grandeza, su m?xima medida en el Reino de este Mundo*". Alejo Carpentier, El reino de este mundo, (1949). "...man never knows for who he suffers and waits. He suffers and waits and works for peoples he will never meet, and who at the same time will suffer and wait and work for others who will also not be happy, as man always desires a happiness that is beyond the lot that he is given. But the greatness of man is precisely in wanting to improve what he is. In assigning himself Tasks. In the Kingdom of Heaven there is no greatness to conquer, for everything there is an established hierarchy, the unknown is unobscured, existence is without end, sacrifice, rest, and delight are impossibilities. Therefore, overwhelmed with hardships and Tasks, beautiful within his misery, capable of loving in the middle of calamity, man can only find his greatness, his full self-realization, in the Kingdom of this World." - Alejo Carpentier -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/pw_forum/attachments/20120926/a8985300/attachment-0001.htm
