Iron

Datasets:

name

valence electrons

frozen core electrons

default

8

18

8 valence electrons

Radial cutoffs and eigenvalues:

id

occ

eig [eV]

cutoff [Bohr]

1s

2

-6996.385

2s

2

-819.529

2p

6

-698.476

3s

2

-93.993

3p

6

-60.047

4s

2

-5.291

2.20

4p

0

-1.326

2.00

3d

6

-7.505

2.00

s

0

21.920

2.20

p

0

25.885

2.00

d

0

19.706

2.00

The figure shows convergence of the absolute energy (blue line) and atomization energy (orange line) of a Fe dimer relative to completely converged numbers (plane-wave calculation at 1500 eV). Also shown are finite-difference and LCAO (dzp) calculations at gridspacings 0.143 Å, 0.167 Å and 0.200 Å.

../_images/Fe.default.png

Egg-box errors in finite-difference mode:

grid-spacing [Å]

energy error [eV]

0.16

0.0042

0.18

0.0040

0.20

0.0065