Re: [SIESTA-L] Treating of charged defects and pseudopotentials for ions

2005-05-09 Thread Paulo Cesar Piquini
Dear All, As far as I know, a good reference for this discussion is the article of Makov and Payne, Physical Review B 51, 4014 (1995). Paulo Piquini 2005/5/8, Andrei Postnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Many thanks to Riccardo Rurali and Emilio Artacho for their enlightening remarks about

Re: [SIESTA-L] Treating of charged defects and pseudopotentials for ions

2005-05-08 Thread Andrei Postnikov
Many thanks to Riccardo Rurali and Emilio Artacho for their enlightening remarks about calculations with net charge! Now that this topic is under discussion, I wonder (if anybody has experience) whether we should check the convergency vs. cell size only when comparing DIFFERENTLY charged systems,

Re: [SIESTA-L] Treating of charged defects and pseudopotentials for ions

2005-05-07 Thread Riccardo Rurali
Dear all, just a few minor remarks about the on-going discussion on charged systems. Then comes the charge of system. Whatever is provided in SIESTA is only for treating charged molecules or clusters, and don't be confused by the reference to SC, BCC and FCC in the corresponding section of

Re: [SIESTA-L] Treating of charged defects and pseudopotentials for ions

2005-05-06 Thread Andrei Postnikov
Hallo Konstantin, I think you mix up several things. The choice of pseudopot is one thing and a treatment of charged system is another. The pseudopot has nothing, or in a very indirect way if at all, to do with whether your system will be charged or not. In ideal case, the pseudopot is supposed

[SIESTA-L] Treating of charged defects and pseudopotentials for ions

2005-05-06 Thread Konstantin Rushchanskii
Dear SIESTA users, I'm trying to investigate the influence of charged defects on structural and electronic properties of some ferroelectric crystals. For this purpose I need to construct a pseudopotential for the Ni +2 ion. But I'm not sure in the way of choosing the valence and core states of