EFERMI = MIDGAP is not the default in v6.4.1?

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EFERMI = MIDGAP is not the default in v6.4.1?

#1 Post by alpinnovianus » Mon May 29, 2023 3:29 am

I just noticed that EFERMI = MIDGAP is not the default in v6.4.1, but EFERMI = LEGACY is.

this is not what is stated in this wiki.
wiki/index.php/EFERMI

Is there a specific reason why the default value was changed again?

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Re: EFERMI = MIDGAP is not the default in v6.4.1?

#2 Post by martin.schlipf » Tue May 30, 2023 8:20 am

Thank you for catching that. I fixed the wiki entry to correct that.

We reverted to the legacy behavior because for some materials EFERMI = LEGACY would yield different results than EFERMI = MIDGAP. The typical case is a semiconductor, where the user forgot to change the default ISMEAR. Then Methfessel-Paxton smearing is used, which has multiple possible solutions for the Fermi energy because it uses a non-monotonous function. In this cases, the new behavior would be preferred but we did not want to break backwards compatibility. Therefore we recommend to use EFERMI = MIDGAP.

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