Dear Sergey,

> I have more general question - it seems that whole idea to use U correction 
> if the system under study is metallic in plain DFT, and using DFT+U brings 
> the system to the correct ground state. The system I study is a MOF with Mn 
> atoms. It is already insulating (band gap ~1.8 eV from DFT), but I guess U 
> correction will increase band gap even more. I wonder if I really need to use 
> U correction. Unfortunately, the material is not well studied, and 
> experimental paper does not provide much information about electronic 
> structure - just geometry (cif) and ferroelectric properties are reported.


I am not familiar with DFT+U studies of MOFs, so I cannot comment much. 
Concerning DFT+U for band gaps, please see here: 
http://theossrv1.epfl.ch/Main/DFTHubbard


Greetings,

Iurii


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Dear Iurii, Lorenzo

Thanks for prompt reply.

I'll compare properties of the system I'm investigating, using both projection 
types.

I have more general question - it seems that whole idea to use U correction if 
the system under study is metallic in plain DFT, and using DFT+U brings the 
system to the correct ground state. The system I study is a MOF with Mn atoms. 
It is already insulating (band gap ~1.8 eV from DFT), but I guess U correction 
will increase band gap even more. I wonder if I really need to use U 
correction. Unfortunately, the material is not well studied, and experimental 
paper does not provide much information about electronic structure - just 
geometry (cif) and ferroelectric properties are reported.

Thanks,
 Sergey Lisenkov



26.08.2020, 12:14, "Timrov Iurii" <[email protected]>:

Dear Sergey,



As Lorenzo said, yes this is expected. Ab initio U depends on the Hubbard 
manifold, i.e. which projector functions are used (e.g. atomic, orthogonalized 
atomic, Wannier functions, you name it). So it is absolutely important to 
report in papers which projector functions were used for the calculation of U. 
In particular, this is why one should be very careful when comparing U values 
from different papers. There are also other factors that influence the value of 
U (pseudopotentials, oxidation state, functional, one-shot or self-consistent 
calculation). We have some papers in preparation on this topic, which hopefully 
would clarify a bit more these points. You can also check this web page: 
http://theossrv1.epfl.ch/Main/DFTHubbard



Greetings,

Iurii



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Dr. Iurii TIMROV
Postdoctoral Researcher
STI - IMX - THEOS and NCCR - MARVEL
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
+41 21 69 34 881
http://people.epfl.ch/265334
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 on behalf of Lorenzo Paulatto <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 10:59:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [QE-users] U calculation, different projection type

> Is it expected behavior?

Yes,
kind regards

> Thanks,
>   Sergey

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