Is it possible to calculate Exc with a combination of functional in VASP

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Is it possible to calculate Exc with a combination of functional in VASP

#1 Post by jingyun_ye4 » Tue Oct 19, 2021 3:10 pm

Hi,

I am reading a paper ( PHYSICAL REVIEW B 83, 045409, 2011) which use the a combination of revPBE+LDA+dispersion) to calculate the exchange-correlation energy via QUANTUM-ESPRESSO. I am wondering if it is possible to such calculation using VASP? Any hint or guidance are appreciated!

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In order to calculate adsorption energies and
properly take into account dispersive interactions, we use
the vdW-DF approach proposed by Dion et al.23,24 showing
transferability across a broad spectrum of interactions.25,26
In this method, the exchange-correlation energy functional
consists of three parts: (i) the exchange part of the revised
Pedrew-Burke-Ernzerhof (revPBE
) functional,27 (ii) the local
correlation part of the standard local density approximation
(LDA) functional,
and (iii) the nonlocal correlation part,
incorporating effective many-body density response and allowing treatment of dispersive interactions without any fitting
parameters.

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Re: Is it possible to calculate Exc with a combination of functional in VASP

#2 Post by martin.schlipf » Wed Oct 20, 2021 6:58 pm

There is a limited amount of these combinations that are available in VASP. I cannot comment on that particular work, though mixing LDA correlation with revPBE exchange seems strange and is not possible at the moment. What is implemented in VASP is a link to LIBXC for GGA functionals only, so you could check if there is a GGA functional that behaves close to this particular combination.

As for the dispersion correction: Here is a link to all the van der Waals functionals implemented in VASP.

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Re: Is it possible to calculate Exc with a combination of functional in VASP

#3 Post by fabien_tran1 » Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:40 am

Hi,

On this page vdW-DF it is explained how to use vdW-DF. "GGA = RE" corresponds to revPBE and with "AGGAC = 0.0000" you can turn off the GGA component of correlation (i.e., use LDA for correlation).

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Re: Is it possible to calculate Exc with a combination of functional in VASP

#4 Post by jingyun_ye4 » Tue Nov 16, 2021 2:10 am

Thank you, fabien. Yes, we figured it out as what you point out.

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