Fully relativistic pseudopotentials

Fully relativistic pseudopotentials generated by the MBK (PRB 47, 6728 (1993)) scheme within LDA (CA19) and GGA (PBE19) which contain a partial core correction and fully relativistic effects including spin-orbit coupling.


• P_CA19.vps
• P_PBE19.vps

Pseudo-atomic orbitals

The number below the symbol means a cutoff radius (a.u.) of the confinement potential. These file includes fifteen radial parts for each angular momentum quantum number l (=0,1,2,3). The basis functions were generated by variationally optimizing the corresponding primitive basis functions in the single atom, the dimer molecule, and the BCC bulk. The input files used for the orbital optimization can be found at P_opt.dat , P2_opt.dat , and Pbcc_opt.dat . Since P_CA19.vps and P_PBE19.vps include the 3s and 3p state (5 electrons) as the valence states, the minimal basis set is P*.*-s1p1. Our recommendation for the choice of cutoff radius of basis functions is that P7.0.pao is enough for bulks, but P8.0.pao or P9.0.pao is preferable for molecular systems.


• P7.0.pao
• P8.0.pao
• P9.0.pao

Benchmark calculations by the PBE19 pseudopotential with the various basis functions

(1) Calculation of the total energy as a function of lattice constant in the bcc structure, where the total energy is plotted relative to the minimum energy for each case. a₀ and B₀ are the equilibrium lattice constant and bulk modulus obtained by fitting to the Murnaghan equation of state. The difference between P7.0-s3p3d2f1 and P7.0-s4p3d3f2 in the total energy at the minimum point is 0.014 eV/atom. An input file used for the OpenMX calculations can be found at Pbcc-EvsV.dat . For comparison the result by the Wien2k code is also shown, where the calculation was performed by default setting in the Ver. 10.1 of Wien2k except for the use of R_MT x K_MAX of 12.



(2) Calculations of the band dispersion in the bcc structure, where the non-spin polarized collinear calculation with the lattice constant of 3.08 Ang. was performed using P_PBE19.vps and P7.0-s3p3d2f1, and the origin of the energy is taken to be the Fermi level. The input file used for the OpenMX calculations can be found at Pbcc-Band.dat . For comparison the result by the Wien2k code is also shown, where the calculation was performed by default setting in the Ver. 10.1 of Wien2k except for the use of R_MT x K_MAX of 12.





(3) Calculations of a P2 molecule with S=1, where P_PBE19.vps, P9.0-s3p3d2f1, and P9.0-s4p3d3f2 were used. The input files used for the OpenMX calculations can be found at P2.dat , P_CP.dat , and P.dat .


	Equilibrium bond length (Ang.)	Atomization energy (eV)	Atomization energy (couterpoise corrected) (eV)
P9.0-s3p3d2f1	1.932	4.86	4.86
P9.0-s4p3d3f2	1.926	4.96	4.95
Other calc.	1.908 a	5.22 a	-
Expt.	1.894 b	5.09 b	-

^a F. Tran, R. Laskowski, P. Blaha, and K. Schwarz, Phys. Rev. B 75, 115131 (2007).
^b Taken from Ref.(a).

Supplementary information for the GGA (PBE19) pseudopotential