PAW potential

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PAW potential

#1 Post by jan » Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:38 pm

Dear VASP experts,

I'm trying to understand the format of PAW potential files as part of study, rather than simply using them blindly. I would really appreciate you if any of you can explain the format of the PAW potential files, aside from top header lines .

For instance, I can find the following headers, but have no idea what grids
are used of what steps ,intervals, k-space or r-space, etc.
I was especially wondering about nonlocal parts of potentials, their orders, their grids.

(1) Error from kinetic energy argument (eV)
(2) local part
(3) atomic pseudo charge-density
(4)Non local Part: Reciprocal Space Part
Real Space Part
(5) PAW radial sets
augmentation charges (non sperical)
uccopancies in atom
grid
(6) aepotential
(7) core charge-density
(8) kinetic energy-density
(9) pspotential
(10)core charge-density (pseudized)
(11)pseudo wavefunction
(12) ae wavefunction

Thanks in advance,
Jan
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Re: PAW potential

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