Relaxation of atomic orbitals in a plane-wave basis

2014 ◽  
Vol 89 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos L. Reis ◽  
José Luís Martins
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2004 ◽  
Vol 241 (10) ◽  
pp. R35-R37 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Evarestov ◽  
V. P. Smirnov ◽  
I. I. Tupitsyn ◽  
D. E. Usvyat

1995 ◽  
Vol 95 (10) ◽  
pp. 685-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Sanchez-Portal ◽  
Emilio Artacho ◽  
Jose M Soler
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Author(s):  
J. M. Pankratz

It is often desirable in transmission electron microscopy to know the vertical spacing of points of interest within a specimen. However, in order to measure a stereo effect, one must have two pictures of the same area taken from different angles, and one must have also a formula for converting measured differences between corresponding points (parallax) into a height differential.Assume (a) that the impinging beam of electrons can be considered as a plane wave and (b) that the magnification is the same at the top and bottom of the specimen. The first assumption is good when the illuminating system is overfocused. The second assumption (the so-called “perspective error”) is good when the focal length is large (3 x 107Å) in relation to foil thickness (∼103 Å).


Author(s):  
Xudong Weng ◽  
O.F. Sankey ◽  
Peter Rez

Single electron band structure techniques have been applied successfully to the interpretation of the near edge structures of metals and other materials. Among various band theories, the linear combination of atomic orbital (LCAO) method is especially simple and interpretable. The commonly used empirical LCAO method is mainly an interpolation method, where the energies and wave functions of atomic orbitals are adjusted in order to fit experimental or more accurately determined electron states. To achieve better accuracy, the size of calculation has to be expanded, for example, to include excited states and more-distant-neighboring atoms. This tends to sacrifice the simplicity and interpretability of the method.In this paper. we adopt an ab initio scheme which incorporates the conceptual advantage of the LCAO method with the accuracy of ab initio pseudopotential calculations. The so called pscudo-atomic-orbitals (PAO's), computed from a free atom within the local-density approximation and the pseudopotential approximation, are used as the basis of expansion, replacing the usually very large set of plane waves in the conventional pseudopotential method. These PAO's however, do not consist of a rigorously complete set of orthonormal states.


1997 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
GERALD LIPPERT ◽  
JuRG HUTTER ◽  
MICHELE PARRINELLO

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