The AM05 density functional applied to solids
- Author(s)
- Ann E. Mattsson, Rickard Armiento, Joachim Paier, Georg Kresse, John M. Wills, Thomas R. Mattsson
- Abstract
We show that the AM05 functional [Armiento and Mattsson, Phys. Rev. B72, 085108 (2005)] has the same excellent performance for solids as the hybrid density functionals tested in Paier et al. [J. Chem. Phys.124, 154709 (2006); 125, 249901 (2006)]. This confirms the original finding that AM05 performs exceptionally well for solids and surfaces. Hartree–Fock hybrid calculations are typically an order of magnitude slower than local or semilocal density functionals such as AM05, which is of a regular semilocal generalized gradient approximation form. The performance of AM05 is on average found to be superior to selecting the best of local density approximation and PBE for each solid. By comparing data from several different electronic-structure codes, we have determined that the numerical errors in this study are equal to or smaller than the corresponding experimental uncertainties.
- Organisation(s)
- Computational Materials Physics
- External organisation(s)
- Sandia National Laboratories, Universität Bayreuth, Center for Computational Materials Science, CMS, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Journal
- Journal of Chemical Physics
- Volume
- 128
- No. of pages
- 11
- ISSN
- 0021-9606
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2835596
- Publication date
- 2008
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103009 Solid state physics, 103015 Condensed matter, 103025 Quantum mechanics, 103036 Theoretical physics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/the-am05-density-functional-applied-to-solids(e225cdb6-5d8a-4a59-8fe3-598b80cf2555).html