Embedding for bulk systems using localized atomic orbitals

Author(s)
Florian Libisch, M. Marsman, J. Burgdörfer, G. Kresse
Abstract

We extend projection-based embedding techniques to bulk systems to treat point defects in semiconductors and insulators. To avoid non-additive kinetic energy contributions, we construct the density partition using orthogonal subsets of orbitals. We have implemented our approach in the popular Vienna ab initio simulation package software package. We demonstrate its power for defect structures in silicon and polaron formation in titania, two challenging cases for conventional Kohn-Sham density functional theory.

Organisation(s)
Computational Materials Physics
External organisation(s)
Technische Universität Wien
Journal
Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume
147
No. of pages
7
ISSN
0021-9606
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4993795
Publication date
07-2017
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103025 Quantum mechanics, 103036 Theoretical physics, 103015 Condensed matter, 103009 Solid state physics
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
General Physics and Astronomy, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/54506306-d58c-499c-b49c-22a310773f20