Hi All

The pseudopotentials in QE are obtained using PZ /PW91/PBE etc schemes. When 
one pseudopotential is using PZ scheme that means one is referring to Perdew 
Zunger paper?? 'Self-interaction correction to density functional approximation 
for many electron system', in PRB, volume 23, 1981. That paper is for 
self-interaction corrected formalism. But in many posts in this forum I saw the 
answer as SIC is not implemented in PWSCF except the case of CP. Now I am 
confused about the pseudopotentials I am using. Are they SIC or not? Whenever I 
am using a pseudopotential with the name? *.pz-vbc.UPF I thought its referring 
to the above said paper and hence SIC.? Am I wrong? Is there any other Perdew 
Zunger paper for LDA which is referred? Please clarify. 


Thanking in advance
Regards

?
Padmaja Patnaik
Research Scholar
Dept of Physics
IIT Bombay
Mumbai, India
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