Self-consistent meta-generalized gradient approximation within the projector-augmented-wave method

Author(s)
Jianwei Sun, Martijn Marsman, Gabor I. Csonka, Adrienn Ruzsinszky, Pan Hao, Yoon-Suk Kim, Georg Kresse, John P. Perdew
Abstract

The Tao-Perdew-Staroverov-Scuseria (TPSS) meta-generalized-gradient-approximation (MGGA) and its revised version, the revTPSS, are implemented self-consistently within the framework of the projector-augmented-wave (PAW) method, using a plane wave basis set. Both TPSS and revTPSS yield accurate atomization energies for the molecules in the AE6 set, better than those of the standard Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) generalized-gradient-approximation. For lattice constants and bulk moduli of 20 diverse solids, revTPSS performs much better than PBE, and on average as well as PBEsol and Armiento-Mattsson (AM05), GGAs designed for solids. The latter two overestimate the atomization energies for molecules to an unacceptable degree. However, the revTPSS presents only a slight improvement over PBEsol for the prediction of cohesive energies for solids, and some deterioration with respect to PBE. We also study the magnetic properties of Fe, for which both TPSS and revTPSS predict the right ground-state solid phase, the ferromagnetic body-centered-cubic (bcc) structure, with an accurate magnetic moment.

Organisation(s)
Computational Materials Physics
External organisation(s)
Tulane University, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Journal
Physical Review B
Volume
84
No. of pages
12
ISSN
1098-0121
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.035117
Publication date
2011
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103018 Materials physics
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/408022f1-d519-4083-851d-dc89270a34f2