Improved hybrid functional for solids: The HSEsol functional

Author(s)
Laurids Schimka, Judith Harl, Georg Kresse
Abstract

We introduce the hybrid functional HSEsol. It is based on PBEsol, a revised Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof functional, designed to yield accurate equilibrium properties for solids and their surfaces. We present lattice constants, bulk moduli, atomization energies, heats of formation, and band gaps for extended systems, as well as atomization energies for the molecular G2-1 test set. Compared to HSE, significant improvements are found for lattice constants and atomization energies of solids, but atomization energies of molecules are slightly worse than for HSE. Additionally, we present zeropoint anharmonic expansion corrections to the lattice constants and bulk moduli, evaluated from ab initio phonon calculations.

Organisation(s)
Computational Materials Physics
Journal
Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume
134
No. of pages
11
ISSN
0021-9606
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3524336
Publication date
2011
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103009 Solid state physics, 103015 Condensed matter, 103025 Quantum mechanics, 103036 Theoretical physics
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/improved-hybrid-functional-for-solids-the-hsesol-functional(446932bd-01e6-4b57-a75e-d103e4e30370).html